Open Heaven Daily Devotional 25 Oct 2024
TOPIC: The Fig Tree
READ: Mark 11:12-20 (KJV)
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
MEMORISE
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John 15:2
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Luke 11-12
Open Heaven Devotional 25 Oct 2024 MESSAGE
In today’s Bible reading, Jesus was hungry and went to get some figs from a fig tree nearby but unfortunately, He did not find any. Jesus cursed the tree, and it dried up.
Even though it was not the season for figs, meaning that it was natural for the tree not to have fruits at that time, Jesus still cursed it.
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4
If God has given a believer an assignment, he or she should work towards it whether the conditions are right or not.
If such believers keep waiting for the right conditions, they will never achieve their goals or fulfil their destiny.
If you keep observing the wind, you will not sow, and if you have already sown, if you keep observing the clouds, you will not reap.
You must set out to bear fruit even when the conditions around you do not suggest that you should.
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When I became the General Overseer of RCCG, I got many promises from God apart from God’s covenant with my Father in the Lord about the church’s great future.
Even though the conditions did not look right, I still set out to do the things that God called me to do. When we moved to Redemption City, we did not have money to pay labourers to build the auditorium, not to talk of building a city.
I worked every night with other members of the church to build the first auditorium. Today, everyone can see the city that God promised us.
Beloved, if you wait for perfect conditions before you bear fruit, you will be just like that fig tree, and I am quite sure that you don’t want to end up like it because Jesus said in our memory verse for today that any branch in Him that does not bear fruit will be cut off.
