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The Topic of Open Heavens for 12th
May 2023 Is “Divine Help III”
MEMORISE: Matthew
19:26
But
Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with
God all things are possible.
READ: 2 Chronicles
20:1-25
It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and
the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against
Jehoshaphat to battle.
2 Then
there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude
against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in
Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
3 And
Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed
a fast throughout all Judah.
4 And
Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
5 And
Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of
the Lord,
before the new court,
6 And
said, O Lord God
of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the
kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so
that none is able to withstand thee?
7 Art not
thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy
people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
8 And
they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name,
saying,
9 If,
when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we
stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,)
and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
10 And
now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest
not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned
from them, and destroyed them not;
11 Behold,
I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou
hast given us to inherit.
12 O our
God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company
that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
13 And all
Judah stood before the Lord, with
their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14 Then
upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the
son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation;
15 And he
said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king
Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto
you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the
battle is not yours, but God’s.
16 To
morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and
ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand
ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with
you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against
them: for the Lord will
be with you.
18 And
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord,
worshipping the Lord.
19 And the
Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the
Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God
of Israel with a loud voice on high.
20 And
they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa:
and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your
God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
21 And
when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went
out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for
his mercy endureth for ever.
22 And
when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set
ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were
come against Judah; and they were smitten.
23 For the
children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir,
utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the
inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
24 And
when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the
multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none
escaped.
25 And
when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found
among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels,
which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and
they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
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OPEN
HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY
God
can help you even when the odds against you are overwhelming. When He decides
to, He will show the odds that He is still the All- Sufficient God. In Isaiah
43:13, the Almighty God says no one can hinder Him when He decides to work. In
other words, it doesn’t matter how many forces are at war against you; when God
decides to help, nothing can stop Him.
In
Daniel 3, when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were to be thrown into the fiery
furnace, the furnace was heated seven times more, yet the only people who died
were the soldiers who threw the boys inside. The people thrown right into the
furnace came out alive. In Judges 15:11-15, the Bible says that Samson’s
relatives handed him over to the external enemies, but by the end of the day, a
thousand of these enemies were dead while the rest fled.
It
doesn’t matter how many enemies you are dealing with; God will help you deal
with them all, in Jesus’ name. My God is the One who makes a way where there is
no way, so when it looks like there is no way out, God can still make a way.
One day while I was abroad, I was told that one of my spiritual sons was in the
hospital, suffering from an advanced case of cancer.
Humanly
speaking, his case was completely hopeless. I went to visit him at the hospital
on a Saturday and prayed for him. By the following Wednesday, my son was
discharged completely whole. The beauty of that story is that every other
person who had been in the ward when I prayed for him was also discharged.
There was also this case of a lady that had been told by doctors that she had a
99.99% chance of dying from a particular disease.
I
couldn’t go to the hospital at that time, so I prayed on a handkerchief instead
and sent it to her. God used the remaining 0.01% that the doctor left out to
save her life. She wrote a book titled, ‘Rescued from the Jaws of Death’,
testifying of her divine healing. I don’t know how hopeless your case seems to
be; everyone may have even given up on you, but I decree that God will make a
way for you today, in Jesus’ name.
Bible in one year: 2
Chronicles 17-20
Hymn 5 Blessed
Assurance