PLANNING YOUR END? - Open heavens devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

Hi, Today's topic is all about planning. Do you remember the topic 'Planning like God?' This is the continuation if you will call it that. Start planning till the end. Please enjoy and don't forget to forward to a friend. Be a blessing today Ayo BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ps 25 - 27
PLANNING YOUR END? Wednesday, September 22, 2010
MEMORIZE: “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase ” (Job 8:7) READ: John 2:1-11 One lesson we can learn about God and timing is that He sometimes reserves His intervention in a life, family or situation to the last moment of an era, age, year, month, week, day, hour or second. This is why you must never lose hope of God’s intervention when a service is coming to an end or when a year or day is coming to an end. Quite a number of people have benefited from God’s last moment blessings. In the marriage in Cana of Galilee, after their wine ran out, God gave His best.(John 2:1-11). God sometimes deliberately reserves His best for the last. A particular brother had a close walk with God. He would come and discuss with him for a long time and then leave. During several visits, the Lord made him some beautiful promises which he thought would be fulfilled immediately. Along the line, he went through a period of difficulties for over 12 years. It was some 20 years after, God’s promises began to manifest effortlessly in his life. There are promises of prosperity that may not be fulfilled until the beneficiary is over 40 or 50 years. Never give up your hope for a change. Your change could meet you during the last moments of your life. Some people who are battling with poverty today will spend the latter end of their lives in prosperity. “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase” (Job 8:7). How you start a thing is important but how you end it is even more important. Many believers plan on starting their Christian walk but never plan how to end it. Starting big but ending small is a disaster. It is not a crime to start small. It is not a crime to start that business with a few hundreds or thousands of naira. God is used to starting something big in a small, insignificant way. It doesn’t matter if you are unknown at the start. But God expects you to end up in a big way. When Jesus was born, only a few shepherds and wise men from the East knew of His value but when He died on the Cross, the whole world could not but know and relate with Him to get saved. God has a plan for your latter end. He wants you to end well because He is the Ending. As you continue on that project, plan or business, make sure the One who can give you a great ending is right with you. And that person is Jesus Christ. How are you ending your life? ACTION POINT: A wise man is one who not only plans his beginning but also his ending. Do you have plans for your last moments on earth?