RETURN TO GOD- Open Heaven devotional by Pastor E.A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: NUM 25 - 27

RETURN TO GOD

Sunday, March 21, 2010

MEMORIZE: “Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up” (Hosea 6:1)

READ: Hosea 6:1-3

To avoid famine, you need to be acquainted with the One who can prevent or deliver you from any famine; Receive His Word and live by that Word. Your daily steps should be routed along God’s Written and Spoken Word. Joshua 1:8 stresses the need to meditate on God’s Word by day and night. This means that the Word should pervade your thought life. Many believers read or study the Bible but never think on it.

They are quite unlike Mary who always pondered on the Word (Luke 2:19,51). If you can find time to think on the Word by day, solutions to the challenges of the day will easily come to you. And if you think on it by night, you will have victory over activities of darkness in the spirit realm. No wonder the one who meditates on the Word makes his or her way prosperous. Through meditation on God’s Word, you make God your focus both day and night. Every challenge by day or night will have the Word to contend with. You can be assured of a resounding victory.

“Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up” (Hosea 6:1). Another step toward avoiding a famine is by returning to God. Have you strayed from the path of righteousness? Or has your disobedience already landed you in a famine? Then it’s time to return to God and be built up. The walls of fire that had crumbled will be rebuilt. The peace and joy you have lost will be restored.

Do you know that one act of disobedience can trigger famine? If Isaac had failed to sow in Gerar during famine or had gone to Egypt, he would have become a victim of famine. There are some people who are finding it difficult to get new contracts because they failed to distribute the profit of their last contract as instructed by God.

Some people are going through a famine of God’s Word: In the past, they heard God’s voice frequently and clearly but because they disobeyed Him on a particular assignment or issue, they now go to other people to tell them what God is saying. Are you in any of such situations? God is about to restore you. Repent and return to God today. His love and mercy is reaching out to you now.


ACTION POINT:
Ask God to take away the famine of God’s Word from the Body of Christ. Father, in any way I have triggered a famine, help me to terminate it.