Open Heaven Daily Devotional 3 Dec 2024
TOPIC: The Purpose Of Your Hands
READ: Matthew 12:9-13 (KJV)
MEMORISE
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
Revelation 4:11
Open Heaven Daily Devotional 3 Dec 2024 Message
The Most High God does not do anything without a purpose, so, everything He created has a purpose. In the same way, every part of your body was made for a purpose. Our memory verse for today tells us that we were created for His pleasure. God sent you into this world to give Him pleasure. Every part of your body was created specifically to give pleasure to God. Today, I will start teaching why God made every part of the human body, and I will begin with the hands.
Psalm 47:1 says: O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. One of the main reasons your hands were created is to clap for God. In Mark 3:1-5, Jesus Christ healed the man with the withered hand, even though the synagogue leaders didn’t want Him to heal on the Sabbath day. God did not create the hands to be withered; the hands are meant to clap for Him.
This was why, even though the man with the withered hand did not ask Jesus for healing, it was essential to Jesus that the man’s hand be made whole.
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There are people whose hands do not look withered physically, however, when a fellow’s hands cannot achieve as much as they used to, they can be considered to be withered. Also, when a fellow cannot spend as much as before, or when he or she cannot get certain things done as before, the fellow’s hands can be said to be withered. When a person’s hands are withered, he or she cannot be joyful, and when the person is not joyful, he or she will not be able to clap. I decree today, that if you have a withered hand, it will be restored, in Jesus’ name.
If God has ensured that your hands do not become withered, then you will be ungrateful if you do not clap for Him in worship. If a fellow is ungrateful to God for His goodness and blessings, his or her hands are in danger of becoming withered. An ungrateful person is indirectly asking for his or her hands to be withered.
Beloved, I implore you to take a minute to think about all of the great and mighty things that God has done for you, and how great and powerful He is. Henceforth, always focus your thoughts on His goodness and clap for Him in thanksgiving and praise with all of your strength.
ACTION POINT: Think about God’s goodness daily and clap for Him with all your strength.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Corinthians 5-9
HYMNAL Take my life, and let it be
1 Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
2 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.
3 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.
4 Take my silver 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.
5 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.
6 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.
