You must part with something- Daily devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 John 1-2
YOU MUST PART WITH SOMETHING Monday, November 29, 2010
MEMORIZE: “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live” (Prov.15:27) READ: Prov. 15:25-27 A price must be paid to enter into your unlimited greatness. You must be prepared to part with what you have in exchange for what you need. Why many who are asking for certain blessings cannot have them yet is because they are not prepared to pay the price. The widow of 2 Kings 4:1-8 parted with her only bottle of oil before she could enter into her financial harvest. She also parted with her human reasoning and accepted God’s mathematics even when she could not understand it. She completely relied on the Lord. Have you parted with those things you are holding so dearly to? As long as you cling to that only ‘bottle of oil’, and your human calculations, you may never access your desired breakthrough. A certain poor widow who catered for 17 people attended one of our meetings one day and the Lord said that someone was about to receive three breakthroughs: The first one was entirely for God; the second would be shared 50/50 between the recipient and God, while the third would be for the recipient. On receiving what she believed was the first breakthrough, this widow came to me and handed over the money saying that she was the one the Lord spoke about in the meeting. A bit scared, especially considering her enormous responsibility as a result of the death of her husband, I told her she was not the one the Lord spoke about and that she needed all she could get to enable her cater for her large family. But she insisted saying if I did not receive that one, I would hinder her from the second and third. Eventually I received the money and encouraged her faith. Not long after, she got both the second and third breakthroughs according to the word of the Lord and her faith. She became a director of one of the biggest banks in Nigeria. You have to part with something. Be prepared to make a sacrifice. What hinders many is greed. People do not only manifest greed towards fellow men but also towards God. For instance, it is sheer greed for a believer not to be able to pay his or her tithe. God provides you an income and says ‘Bring a tenth for me to sustain or renew your blessing while you keep the rest’, yet many because of greed and tight-fistedness refuse and at the end scatter their blessing. Part with that thing and enter into your next level of greatness! ACTION POINT: When God speaks and you keep refusing to obey, a time comes when you would no longer be sensitive to His voice and He will no longer speak to you. Obey His voice today!  N.B Is God speaking to you about sponsoring www.10millionexercisebooks.com? Don't resist, join us today.