Open Heaven Daily Devotional 15 June 2023
TOPIC: Be Spiritually Minded
MEMORIZE
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded ts life and peace.
Romans 8:6
BIBLE READING 2 Chronicles 16:1-14
Open Heaven Daily Devotional 15 June 2023 MESSAGE
Some people find it difficult to trust God. They would rather put their trust in things that they can see than in the Lord that they cannot see. Many times, it is because we feel we are intelligent and our intelligence has helped us in the past so we want to be able to use it for everything.
I once went to minister the Holy Ghost baptism to a group of people; the uneducated ones were baptised almost as soon as the ministration started, but the educated ones were looking around, trying to understand how the baptism would come. These were doubting Thomases.
Thomas was a man who would not believe until he saw with his eyes. John 20:29 says, “Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
Apostle Paul also said: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. – (2 Corinthians 4:18)
Where you look to when you are in need of help is where your faith lies. For example, David said he would look up to the hills from whence came his help – the Lord (Psalm 121:1-2). If you look to man, then your faith lies in man. If you look to your money, then that is where your faith lies.
God can use either to meet your need, but you are to look to God and God alone. God is displeased when you have faith in anything or anyone else but Him. Hebrews 11:6 says without faith it is impossible to please God. Until you take your eyes off the physical and set them on Him in the Spirit, some things will remain out of your reach.
In our Bible reading for today, Asa found it difficult to look to God for his healing even when physicians had failed him. This is a stronghold of the devil that must be broken. If you study your Bible diligently, pray without ceasing, and fellowship regularly with other believers, you would soon begin to see how the spiritual controls the physical.
Spend more time with God than you do with man and that stronghold of dependence on physical things will be broken.
OPEN HEAVEN 15 JUNE 2023 ACTION POINT: Put your trust in God, He is the only One that can help you.
BIBLE READING IN ONE YEAR: PSALMS 56-61
OPEN HEAVEN 15 JUNE 2023 HYMN
