Daily Devotional: Breaking Limitations | Open Heavens
17/7/2015
Open Heavens Daily Devotional written by Pastor E.A.
Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God.
Topic: BREAKING LIMITATIONS – Friday July 17, 2015
Memorize:
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too
hard for me? -Jeremiah 32:27
Read: Isaiah 40:6-8
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God
shall stand for ever.
MESSAGE:
Your ability to perform well depends largely on the power and
resources available to you. Every human being will be faced with
the reality of insufficient resources in the face of a pressing need
at one point or the other. Hence, economists advise us to forgo
certain alternatives, and draw up a scale of preference on our
needs. Man’s limitations have caused the introduction of certain
words and phrases into our vocabulary, such as: impossible,
cannot, too late, irreversible, etc. All these reflect our state of
human limitation and incapacity. Even God recognises man’s
limitations. Psalm 103:14 says:
“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are
dust.”
Our natural frailty and limitation is exposed in today’s Bible
reading, where man is described as grass that withers easily. Also,
Bildad the Shuhite describes man as a frail worm in Jobs 25:6:
“How much less man, that is a worm? And the son of man,
which is a worm?”
It is therefore evident that as long as we are confined within our
natural sphere, human beings remain seriously limited.
However, God is not limited. He declared in Jeremiah 32:27 thus:
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?”
Since He owns the Heavens and the earth and everything in them,
and because He has all power, He is able to do all things. He does
not accommodate limiting words in His vocabulary like men do.
How then can we break the yoke of limitation in our lives? It is by
being connected to the only One who cannot be limited. When
such a link is in place, whatever cannot limit God cannot limit
you. What cannot stop God cannot stop you. This is because you
have become a partaker of the divine nature (2nd Peter 1:4). But
you must renew your mind to walk in this reality. To this end, it is
necessary to re-examine your vocabulary and delete all limiting
words from it. You are what you think; your mindset determines
your reality. Many people who had the potential of reaching great
heights in their lifetime were stopped by their wrong belief system
and limited mindset. You would be amazed to know that what
witchcraft cannot stop cannot be stopped by the limiting thoughts
you hold about yourself. Beloved, from now on, do not limit
yourself. Rather, believe everything God says about you and
confess it. Speak God’s Word over that impossible situations, and
you shall see it change to conform to your confessions.
Prayer Point:
Father, in everyway, I have limited myself, I release myself from it
today in Jesus Name.
Bible in one year: 2 Chronicles 18:28-20:37, Luke 23:44-24:12
17/7/2015
Open Heavens Daily Devotional written by Pastor E.A.
Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God.
Topic: BREAKING LIMITATIONS – Friday July 17, 2015
Memorize:
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too
hard for me? -Jeremiah 32:27
Read: Isaiah 40:6-8
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God
shall stand for ever.
MESSAGE:
Your ability to perform well depends largely on the power and
resources available to you. Every human being will be faced with
the reality of insufficient resources in the face of a pressing need
at one point or the other. Hence, economists advise us to forgo
certain alternatives, and draw up a scale of preference on our
needs. Man’s limitations have caused the introduction of certain
words and phrases into our vocabulary, such as: impossible,
cannot, too late, irreversible, etc. All these reflect our state of
human limitation and incapacity. Even God recognises man’s
limitations. Psalm 103:14 says:
“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are
dust.”
Our natural frailty and limitation is exposed in today’s Bible
reading, where man is described as grass that withers easily. Also,
Bildad the Shuhite describes man as a frail worm in Jobs 25:6:
“How much less man, that is a worm? And the son of man,
which is a worm?”
It is therefore evident that as long as we are confined within our
natural sphere, human beings remain seriously limited.
However, God is not limited. He declared in Jeremiah 32:27 thus:
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?”
Since He owns the Heavens and the earth and everything in them,
and because He has all power, He is able to do all things. He does
not accommodate limiting words in His vocabulary like men do.
How then can we break the yoke of limitation in our lives? It is by
being connected to the only One who cannot be limited. When
such a link is in place, whatever cannot limit God cannot limit
you. What cannot stop God cannot stop you. This is because you
have become a partaker of the divine nature (2nd Peter 1:4). But
you must renew your mind to walk in this reality. To this end, it is
necessary to re-examine your vocabulary and delete all limiting
words from it. You are what you think; your mindset determines
your reality. Many people who had the potential of reaching great
heights in their lifetime were stopped by their wrong belief system
and limited mindset. You would be amazed to know that what
witchcraft cannot stop cannot be stopped by the limiting thoughts
you hold about yourself. Beloved, from now on, do not limit
yourself. Rather, believe everything God says about you and
confess it. Speak God’s Word over that impossible situations, and
you shall see it change to conform to your confessions.
Prayer Point:
Father, in everyway, I have limited myself, I release myself from it
today in Jesus Name.
Bible in one year: 2 Chronicles 18:28-20:37, Luke 23:44-24:12
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