Open Heaven Daily Devotional August 1, 2022
TOPIC: Victory Over Adversity
MEMORISE
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
Open Heaven Daily Devotional August 1, 2022, MESSAGE
Adversity may be a part of the system of this world, but my Daddy – the Creator of the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1) – is greater than every adversity. Adversities are seemingly insurmountable circumstances that are greater than the power of man. They are mountains that hinder the progress of a person, a family or a group of people. Some adversities can be so great that the fellow involved would feel there is no way out.
The Israelites faced this kind of adversity after they were delivered from slavery. Pharaoh and his army were coming behind and the Red Sea was right in front of them. The Israelites were afraid because, obviously, there was no way out. Humanly speaking, it was impossible to surmount such a situation.
Even Moses didn’t know what to do until he cried out to God. My Daddy – the Almighty God – made a way where there was no way. For the first time in the history of man, a great body of water parted and the children of God walked through that sea to the other side.
In the name of Jesus, I pray the Almighty God will deliver this kind of victory into your hands this day. This kind of unprecedented and unbelievable victory can only be found in Jesus Christ. The devil may raise storms around you, but Jesus Christ gives absolute victory over every insurmountable situation.
Many years ago, during one of The Holy Ghost Congresses in Nigeria, a woman cried out for help, asking me to pray because she was barren and her in-laws were not allowing her to enjoy peace in her home. I prayed for her and forgot about it. A year after this, I stood praying for people on a long line, and a woman stood before me.
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I asked her what she wanted, but she repeatedly said, “Jesus!” I was almost getting impatient. When I asked her again, she said “Jesus”, and explained to me that she was the woman I had prayed for a year before about barrenness. Right there before me, she was holding a child with her right hand and one with her left. May God give you this kind of victory today in Jesus’ name.
God gives victory over adversities to His children. If you are yet to surrender your life totally to Jesus Christ, now is the time to do so, and every adversity against you will fall, in the mighty name of Jesus.
PRAYER POINT: Father, please give me victory over every kind of adversity in my life, in Jesus’ name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Proverbs 21- 23
HYMNAL:
Hymn 13 – My hope is built on nothing less
