RCCG OPEN HEAVENS TODAY 25/09/2018

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

 
DATE: TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2018


THEME: MULTIPLY


MEMORISE:

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28


READ:      Deuteronomy 28:1-14

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:


2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

8 The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.


MESSAGE 

A major characteristic of every living thing is growth. A child that was born 5 years ago now looks like a 5 year old child, this is only normal. If an orange tree you planted four years ago is now yielding fruits this is also normal. You don’t need a miracle to grow, it is just natural. Multiplication on the other hand is a special thing. God did not tell us to grow, He told us to multiply. Other people may be growing, but we as children of God must multiply because it is a command from God. You may be wondering “How can I begin to multiply?” Notice that when God told His children to multiply in Genesis 1:28, it was a time when there was no sin and they had constant fellowship with Him.
The simple secret to multiplication is to live holy and to have God with you. Psalm 22:3 says that God inhabits the praised of His children. If you want God to be with you always, then you should live a lifestyle of giving praise to Him.

Many years ago, I was preparing for a three-day program. While I was in my prayer room, I was praying to God saying “Lord, heal the sick today, show forth your power and do mighty miracles.” Suddenly I heard God respond sharply to me, and He said “Keep quiet! What about all the miracles I have done in the past? Have you thanked me for them?” My response to Him was ” Lord I’m sorry, thank You for all the miracles you have done for us; now today heal the sick, and perform great miracles…” He suddenly cut me short again, saying “keep quiet!
I don’t want to hear any request from you for the next three days; all I want you to do is to praise Me.” This was very difficult for me because my mind was set on having the people who would be attending the program receive their miracles. I struggled with the instruction but I obeyed. After the program was over, God told me to tell my people to prepare; He said that we had been experiencing increase in our church, but that from that time forward we would be experiencing multiplication, and that has been our story ever since. Do you want to multiply? Learn to praise God regularly, and avoid sin. Taking Solomon as a case study, when he became king, he feared the Lord and kept away from sin. His only desire was to rule the people according to God’s will. There was even a time he sacrificed twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep, all just to worship God (2 Chronicles 7:5). In 2 Chronicles 2:1, he determined to build a house for God and spared no expenses at all in building this house for God. All the while, he kept multiplying. He multiplied so much that silver and gold were like stones in his kingdom (2 Chronicles 1:15). However, the moment his heart turned away from the things of God, the anointing for multiplication dried up, so that by the end of his reign, he was taxing the people heavily just so that he could maintain his lifestyle.


 Determine today to stay away from sin and stay in the place of worshipping God and your multiplication will be unending.

KEY POINT:

God multiplies those who live a lifestyle of holiness and praise to Him.


BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 4-6, Mark 13:3-23

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE 

HYMN 6: HYMN 6: A NEW THING
 (Tune: There shall be showers of Blessing)
1. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because GOD will do new things
Sinners will soon be forgiven
Prodigals will come home soon. 

Chorus:
Shout Halleluyah

Because God will do new things
Rivers in desert now flowing
Halleluyah  to our king.

2. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
Sickness and sorrow will be gone
Bondage will be forgotten. 

3. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
The barren will be fruitful soon
Failure will be forgotten


4. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
Poverty will be forgotten
Stagnancy will soon be gone.

5. We will soon shout Hallelujah
Because God will do new things
To all miracles are given
There shall be celebrations

6. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
Many will have testimonies
Of prayers answered fully

7. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
One of us will chase a thousand
Two will conquer ten thousands.


8. We will soon shout Halleluyah
Because God will do new things
Songs of praises we will sing
Halleluyah to our King.

RCCG OPEN HEAVENS BY PASTOR ADEBOYE

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

DATE: SUNDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2018


THEME:  AN ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.


MEMORISE:

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.  Mark 11:25


READ:     Revelation 12:10-11

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.


MESSAGE 


As revealed by today’s Bible reading, the devil is the “accuser of the brethren”. It is unfortunate that some people ignorantly possess this attribute of the devil. How can a person be an accuser of the brethren without knowing it? The answer is simple: when you refuse to forgive those who wronged you, you are passively accusing him or her as an evil doer. The practical implication of refusing to forgive those who have wronged you is that you become a prosecuting witness against a brother or sister. You are therefore on the side of the devil in heaven’s court litigating against your own brethren. It’s therefore wise to heed the words of Jesus in Mark 11:25:


“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in  heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Many professing children of God find it difficult to forgive. One wonders if such people have ever experienced the joy of forgiveness from God or man before. Unfortunately for them, the fellow they are accusing in their heart may not even know about it, or may even have settled their case with God, thereby obtaining forgiveness and justification through the Blood of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:11, Hebrew 12:24). For this reason, Romans 8:34 asks a rhetorical question and answers it saying:

“Who is he that condemneth? Is it Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”



May you not be found guilty of working against Christ’s ministry of intercession through unforgiveness. 

Beloved, who are you directly or indirectly accusing relentlessly? Of course, he or she might have wronged you; nevertheless, the Lord is saying that you should forgive the fellow. Once you do, he or she is no longer an offender to you, and so, no accusation originates from you anymore. The reward for this is revealed in Matthew 5:7 which says:


“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.”

The good news today is that the God who is asking us to forgive and forget has demonstrated the same towards us when He through Christ forgave our sins. Have your sins been forgiven? If you have not experienced the joy of forgiveness, confess your sins today and you will receive the mercy of God without measure.


PRAYER POINT:

Father, please forgive my known and unknown sins, and teach my heart to forgive others in Jesus’ Name.


BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Songs of Solomon 5-8

Mark 12:13-27


AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE 


HYMN 15: NEARER MY GOD TO THEE.

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness comes over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!


There let me see the sight, an open Heaven;
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!

Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee!

DEPRESSION IS A SILENT KILLER

"Depression" is the silent killer I wanna talk about today. 
It has claimed lots of lives, it has destroyed a lot in the human body, it has scattered and rendered many homes useless.

Depression is that wicked end time disease that is causing a lot of violence and unending bitterness. Depression has turned many good boys to bad devils and many good girls to wicked witches.
 Depression has on its own sent people from a high level standard of living to paupers and beggars. Depression has stolen a lot of dreams and shattered a lot of destinies.

Depression has turned first class products to mere mad fellows on the streets. Depression turns a young promising chap to a street wondering vagabond. Depression will make a young flourishing girl look like an old woman whose been farming all her life, depression will turn a young high school boy an armed robber. Yes depression has taken a whole lot from humanity and its time to rise up and fight depression out of our lives and live joyfully again. Depression is what made king Saul to sort after David's life, depression is what made King David to rent his clothes and behave like a mad man, depression is what made Sampson to kill lots of souls at his death,depression is what had made Lucifer to keep hunting for souls that will join him in hell fire, depression is what made Eli to give up the ghost when he heard the news of his sons death, depression is what pushed Cain to kill Abel, depression is what made Judah's Iscariot to commit suicide, the list is endless, you can add yours in your mind, as you read the article and meditate.
Depression is another word for destruction( this is a definition from Gracedfavour's dictionary). It all depends on how depression hits you, that will determine when it finally destroys you, it hits some people like a car accident that claims life immediately(like in Eli's case),it hits some people like an incurable disease which delays before it kills them e.g cancer n AIDS. Depression in whatever form it creeps into your life is coming for just one mission, which is to destroy and kill you.
Depression is a sin, ( for the wages of sin is death) Romans 6;23, Depression is a thief and it comes just to steal, kill and destroy ( Jon10:10, depression is an enemy to humanity, it attacks both the old and the young.  Depression has turned joy to pain, it has turned peace to war, it has turned love to violence, it has turned friendship to bitterness,envy,jealousy and hatred. Depression beclouds the mind and blocks the brain, it doesn't allow people to view life from a positive angle , it keeps breeding and multiplying negativity, it plants fear over every thing and deposits inferiority in the human brain. Depression is bad because it doesn't just make you fight others, it makes you fight yourself. 
Depression as it is, causes heart burn, headache,indigestion,stomach ache,liver blockage, heart failure,kidney failure,varicose and spider veins, skin aging, affects the vision, causes cancer,heart attack,chest pain, asthma,severe psychological and mental derailment, various skin diseases, ulcer,infertility,poor erection, low sperm count, migraines,stroke,epilepsy,suicide, etc.....the list is actually endless, name as many diseases as possible, contact your doctor about it, and they will tell you its actually linked to depression; Having said all these, I want you to have a time out with yourself, try yo list out endless reasons why depression crept into your life, so that you can get ready to send it pa king, same way it came in, its not something to own or keep or have, discard it immediately and get your free God given life back. Yes.....its your life and you have the right to live it joyfully, happily and enthusiastically.

CAUSES OF DEPRESSION
 Now the causes of depression are endless, just like the endless ways in which it attacks the human body.
1) Depression could come because of failure to achieve a particular goal, or normal failure in school, or even failure in life, the more you try, the more you fail, never give up.....once your time clicks,you'll start ticking and overcoming.
2) Depression could come as a result of separation, either from spouse, from parents, from.relatives, friends, church members, community etc ....whatever may be the case, brace-up and show the world that you're a God-carrier, therefore you birth Joy. 
3) Depression could come as a result of heartbreak , either from spouse,lover,close friend, children's disappointment, death of a loved one. Dice-up and give yourself a treat, you deserve the best, life is one, get ready to live it to the fullest, with or without anyone. You don't need a backup to live your life.
3) Depression could come as a result of negligence and rejection, don't let that bother you, fill in Jesus in every vaccum in your life, you'd heart, your soul and your spirit.Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.John14:6a.
4) Depression could be manipulated into your life by enemies who wanna destroy you, when once you site it, please wake up, rush to a fast food, buy yourself a plate of icecream and chicken lap or wing, enjoy it with potato chips n ketchup , exercise more often by speaking in tongues like you're mad and that yoke of depression will be broken.

FIGHTING DEPRESSION
1) Let Jesus Christ into your heart, confess Him as your Lord and personal Saviour.

2)Give yourself regular treats to the cinema,to the park, to an eatery,to a music or comedy concert, attend lots of ceremonies etc....to keep yourself off some thoughts.

3) Take a work, hang out with friends,watch movies,read books, video yourself dancing in front of a mirror lolzzzz.....do lots of stuffs you felt where abnormal, but are absolutely OK for your health. Learn to cook new dishes, engage your friends in a football discussion, talk about movie stars, sleep for at least 8-10 hrs daily, over the weekends have 6-12hrs of sleep, until you're free from depression.
4) learn to forgive ,even before you're hurt by anyone. Let life go easily around you.
5) Make friends with little kids and with the elderly ones. 

Make sure you exercise regularly .
See you at the top. Good luck to you, as you take out time to send depression packing from your life forever.


Feel free to drop questions and contributions in the comments section, or send an email to gracedlyfavoures@gmail.com
You're free to refer a friend for counseling and advice.

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OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR E.A.ADEBOYE, 24/08/2018

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

DATE: FRIDAY 24TH AUGUST 2018


THEME: AN AGENT OF MIRACLES

MEMORISE:

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 


Mark 16:17-18
READ: Matthew 10:1-8

1) And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;


3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

MESSAGE
We need to fully comprehend what our Lord meant when He said “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). More often than not, we think of giving as being limited to material things, and so we lose sight of the fact that we can also give spiritual blessings to others and make spiritual impact. The early apostles realized this truth and that was why Peter and John were not intimidated by their financial limitation (Acts 3:6). They gave from the spiritual deposits God placed in their lives. One of the attributes our Lord Jesus Christ bestowed upon His early disciples was the ability to perform miracles, and we should not be different. They were specifically commissioned by the Lord to go perform miracles. Matthew 10:7-8 says:

“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.”
It is a thing of unspeakable joy to receive a miracle. After I gave my life to Christ, the first notable benefit I received from God was victory over malaria that had hitherto plagued my life almost every month. The first month I did not fall sick was a month of celebration in my family. However, the joy of this cannot be compared to the joy I had the day the Lord first performed a miracle of healing through me. I almost jumped out of the window for joy when a dumb child spoke after I prayed for healing. Ever since then, the Lord has made this a continuous experience in my ministry. Countless miracles that may sound unbelievable have been performed by Him through our ministry. You cannot imagine the joy experienced by an agent of miracles, after God uses him or her to put smiles in the faces of several thousands of women who had been called barren. Many times, some my children would organize a dinner or luncheon for me, not only because they want to be generous to me, but because of the miracles that would follow from the encounter. I am full of joy when this happens. My prayer is that you also will become an agent of miracles today in Jesus’ Name. All you need to do is to surrender your life to Jesus and leave the rest to Him. He knows how He turned a fisherman into a fisher of men and an agent of miracles (Matthew 4:18-19, Acts 5:14-15). He also knows how He turned a person who was a danger to the Church into an apostle, whose apron could cast out demons (Acts 19:11-12). If you desire to graduate from being a consumer to an agent of performing miracles, He will fulfill the desire of your heart. Only believe!


PRAYER POINT:

Father, please make me a channel of blessings and miracles in Jesus’ Name.

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR E.A.ADEBOYE,14TH AUGUST 2018

TOPIC:  MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP 

Memorise: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1st Corinthians 3:6

Read: 2nd Corinthians 8:1-15

1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

4 Praying us with much in treaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

7 Therefore, as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

Bible in one year: Psalm 1-8, Matthew 20:1-19

Hymnal: Sing hymn 12

MESSAGE:

One thing that interests me very much about our Father in Heaven is that He loves collaboration. In the beginning, He demonstrated this attribute when He wanted to created man in His image (Genesis 1:26). He summoned the opinion of the Godhead, because the man to be created must bear resemblance to them all. After creating man, He went ahead to share some of His responsibilities with him, which was one of the reasons why He created man in the first place. All through history, God has been working in partnership with man on earth. When He would destroy the earth due to the proliferation of evil, He found Noah as a worthy instrument to partner with in warning people of the impending doom and building an ark of salvation (Genesis 6). When the salvation of mankind was to be activated, God saw a worthy vessel in a young virgin called Mary. God partnered with her and she surrendered her womb for His use (Luke 1:26-38). When Christ came, He quickly summoned some people with whom he worked until He went to the Cross, and He commissioned them to continue from where He stopped after His ascension into heaven (Mark 3:14-19, Acts 1:6-9). These examples show that God’s use of partnership in carrying out His divine agenda is established. I pray that the Almighty God will open your eyes today to see how important you are in His plans.

Paul got the inner workings of God’s principle of multilateral partnership right. In today’s memory verse, he explained that he might plant and Apollos might water, but the increase only comes from God. In other words, the success of the divine agenda is the collective responsibility of God and His human partners, especially in the area of soul-winning. Our Lord Jesus Christ also made this clear in John 15:4-5. To win the whole world for Christ requires a multilateral partnership with each and every one of us playing our part. Those who are given to preaching should continue to preach, and those called to ministration should do so as unto the Lord. Those who have the privilege of staying on their secular jobs should know that the purpose is to finance the work of the full-timers, while full-timers should not see themselves as being more spiritual than those who God has kept in secular jobs to bring meat into His storehouse. At the time of reward, it shall be as decreed in 1st Samuel 30:24:

“… but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.”

All that is required of you is faithfulness is your given area of stewardship.

Prayer Point – Open Heaven 14 August 2018

Father, please unite Your Church and drive away the spirit of division, so that we might unite for exploits.

TODAY'S HYMN:

LIFE, AND LET IT BE

Take my life, and let it be

Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;

Take my moments and my days,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands, and let them

move

At the impulse of Thy love;

Take my feet and let them be

Swift and beautiful for Thee,

Swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice, and let me sing

Always, only, for my King;

Take my lips, and let them be

Filled with messages from Thee,

Filled with messages from Thee.

Take my sliver and my gold;

Not a mite would I withhold;

Take my intellect, and use

Every power as Thou shalt choose

Every power as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will, and make it Thine;

It shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart; it is Thine own;

It shall be Thy royal throne,

It shall be Thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour

At Thy feet its treasure-store.

Take myself, and I will be

Ever, only, all for Thee,

Ever, only, all for thee

Prayer Points For Today’s Open Heaven 14 August 2018 – Multilateral partnership

1.Thank you Father for freely giving me all things.

2.Thank you Father for giving me things so precious that money cannot buy, like safe journey, divine health and even, the breath of life itself.

3.Father, let your mercy override every judgement of sin in my life.

4.Father, give me the grace not only to hear from you, but also to act on your instructions.

5.Father, let an end come to every unprofitable struggle and toil, in my life, today, in Jesus’ name.

6.Father, I surrender the boat of my life for yourd use, please, possess me by your Holy Spirit to reach multitudes for you.

7.Father, you are the God that controls times and seasons, as I wait on you with my gifts, sacrifices and service, please, give me unprecedented breakthroughs, in Jesus’ name.

8.Father, before the end of this month, please, give me a mouth watering miracle, that cannot be hidden.

9.Father, let every spirit of stinginess that has shut the doors of breakthroughs against me, be consumed by your fire.

10.Father, release upon my life the spirit of giving.

11.Father, please, make me an active, committed, loyal and dependable ally and partner, in this divine partnership business.

12.Father, as I continue to wait upon you for divine direction and instructions, let your name be glorified in my life and ministry.

13.Your Personal petitions. (Phil 4:6)

14. In Jesus’ name I pray. (Jn 15:16)

15.Thank you Father for answered prayers.(1 Thes 5:18).

OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR E.A.ADEBOYE , 30/06/2017

TOPIC: MEEK BUT MILLITANT



 MEMORISE:  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 
2Timothy 4:7

Is it possible to be meek and militant at the same  time?

To be meek is to do what other people want without imposing your own opinion. It is having the power to act but refusing to use it to oppress others. Being militant on the other hand means to use force or pressure to achieve your goals . How is it possible for a Christian to be meek and militant at the same time?

Our Lord, as part of the sermon on the Mount, clearly thought us that it is a blessed thing to be meek.(Mathew 5:5). In his letter to the Galatians , Apostle Paul also declared hat meekness is a part of the fruit of the spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23). Our Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated meekness when He was arrested in the Garden of Gethsamane. Hear what He said in (Mathew 26:53-54), When He was about to be arrested : 

  "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father , and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"


This same Jesus tells us that there are times when we need to be violent .In Mathew 11:12 He said : 

    "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence , and the violence take it by force."

Paul further expounded on this truth, telling us the reason why we are in battle and providing the guidelines for how to shield and prepare ourselves for this violent warfare. In Ephesians 6:12, He wrote: 
  "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities , against powers,against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."


The beautiful Swan which vigorously paddles away under the water to stay afloat is vowed as one of the most graceful animals on water because it appears calm on the surface . Our Christian life needs to emulate the posture of the Swan. In the Spirit realm, we need to display all the militancy that is needed to secure us a place in heaven and push the agenda of the kingdom of our God on earth. At the same time, in the physical realm, the fruit of the Spirit -meekness-must be visible in our lives.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1Chronicles 18-20
Acts 20:1-16
HYMNAL: Sing Hymn 16