OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: FRIDAY 1st MAY 2015.......

THEME: A NEW BEGINNING OF
PROSPERITY
MEMORISE: This month shall be
unto you the beginning of months:
it shall be the first month of the
year to you. Exodus 12:2.
READ: EXODUS 12:33-36
33 And the Egyptians were urgent
upon the people, that they might
send them out of the land in haste;
for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in
their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did
according to the word of Moses; and
they borrowed of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people
favour in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they lent unto them such
things as they required. And they
spoiled the Egyptians.
MESSAGE:
When the Almighty God grants a
new beginning to an individual or a
nation, it could be a new beginning
of prosperity. Imagine the Hebrew
nation which for over four hundred
years had been at the mercy of their
Egyptian rulers, coming out of Egypt
as millionaires simply because the
Almighty God decided to grant them
a new beginning. I pray for you that
this month shall be to you as the
first month of the year in
astonishing prosperity in Jesus’
Name.
How did the Lord do this for the
Israelites? The Bible says that He
gave them favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that the Egyptians gave
them whatever they asked for. The
treasures of the Egyptians were
transferred to them without them
having to shoot an arrow. The Bible
in Proverbs 16:7 says:
“When a man’s ways please the
LORD, he maketh even his enemies
to be at peace with him.”
This scripture sums up the
experience of the Israelites.
Whenever God makes a
pronouncement, we shall learn to
take Him at His word. Sometimes,
this is easier read about than
practised. Imagine how difficult it
would have been for the Israelites to
believe that before daybreak after
the night of the Passover. They
would cross over from poverty to
prosperity.
“Be glad then, ye children of Zion,
and rejoice in the LORD your God:
for he hath given you the former
rain moderately, and he will cause to
come down for you the rain, the
former rain, and the latter rain in
the first month” Joel 2:23.
For this beautiful prophecy to come
to pass in your life, some spiritual
conditions must be met. Prior to this
prophecy, the Lord demanded that
his people turn to Him with all their
hearts: with fasting, weeping and
mourning (Joel 2:12-13). He asked
them to rend their hearts and not
their garments, and return to Him.
We can deduce from this narrative
that the poor condition that a lot of
people find themselves in today is
caused by their spiritual poverty.
Some people live in abject poverty
because their lifestyle has turned
God, who should bless them, into
their enemy. Here is the good news:
when this great God turns a life
around onto godliness, he also
changes the physical condition of
the fellow concerned.
Settling the issue of poverty was one
of the reasons why Christ came (2nd
Corinthians 8:9). In the Name of
Jesus Christ, I welcome you to your
new beginning of prosperity. Only
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
repent of your sins.
PRAYER POINT:
Father, in your infinite mercy,
banishe poverty from every area of
my life in Jesus’ Name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ruth 1-2 and
Mark 1:1-28
AUTHOR: Pst E. A. ADEBOYE.