Open Heaven Daily Devotional 5 January 2025

TOPIC:  Whom God Calls

READ: Proverb 6:6-11
⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

⁷ Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

⁸ Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

MEMORISE
Not Slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Romans 12:11

Open Heaven Daily Devotional 5 Jan 2025 MESSAGE

Some people claim to have been called by God, but when you look closely, you will realise they are only going into ministry because they failed at everything else. Today, I will discuss what God looks for in people he calls into service.

Anyone who will receive the call of God cannot be lazy. God does not call lazy people, that fellow is useless to himself or herself. When you look at everyone God called in the Bible, you will discover they were all busy people. Jesus called Peter after he had fished all night – lazy people don’t work all night. When Elisha received the call of God through Elijah, he was on the farm ploughing with twelve yokes of oxen before him ( 1 King 19:19)

God works with the principle he stated in Luke 16:10: He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

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If you are not faithful in the earthly work that you are doing now. God will not commit souls into your hands. Jesus asked in Mark 8:36, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shallgain the whole world and lose his own soul?” In other words, He was saying that just one human soul is more valuable than the entire world. Therefore, souls are too precious for Him to commit into the hands of a lazy person.

God is not lazy. Jesus Christ said in John 5:17 that His Father works, and He works too. Since Amos 3:3 says that two cannot work together except they agree, then you cannot work with God if you are lazy.

People who are lazy and want to serve God In ministry are people who want to eat without working; this is totally against the will of God. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says that those who do not work should not eat. After God created man, the first thing He gave him was work.

And the Lord God took the man., and out him into the gardenof Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15

The scripture above shows how important work is to God. Beloved, the next time you see lazy people claiming that God has called them into ministry, stay away from them because God does not call Lazy people.

KEYPOINT: God does not call lazy people.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 18-20

HYMN ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

1. Onward Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See, His banners go!

Refrain:
Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!

2. At the name of Jesus
Satan’s host doth flee;
On then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise:
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise! [Refrain]

3. Like a mighty army
moves the church of God;
Brothers, we are treading
where the saints have trod;
We are not divided;
all one body we,
One in hope and doctrine,
one in charity. [Refrain]

4. Crowns and thrones may perish,
Kingdoms rise and wane;
But the Church of Jesus
Constant will remain.
Gates of hell can never
’Gainst the Church prevail;
We have Christ’s own promise,
Which can never fail. [Refrain]

5. Onward, then, ye people!
Join our happy throng;
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph song.
Glory, laud and honor
Unto Christ, the King;
This through countless ages
Men and angels sing. [Refrain]