OPEN HEAVENS BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE- MONDAY 27TH JULY 2015. TOPIC: STAGNANCY IS NOT YOUR PORTION.

OPEN HEAVENS BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE-
MONDAY 27TH JULY 2015.

TOPIC: STAGNANCY IS NOT YOUR PORTION.

MEMORISE:
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and
overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 28:2.

READ: John 5:2-9.
2.Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a
pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches.
3.In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the
water.
4.For an angel went down at a certain season into
the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then
first after the troubling of the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever disease he
had.
5.And a certain man was there, which had an
infirmity thirty and eight years.
6.When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith unto
him, Wilt thou be made whole?
7.The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no
man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the
pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down
before me.
8.Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and
walk.
9.And immediately the man was made whole, and
took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day
was the sabbath.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: EZRA 4:1-6:12 and JOHN
5:19-47.

MESSAGE
On the 20th of July, we looked at the states of
progress represented by retrogression and
repression. One lesson we must learn is that
sometimes, repressive forces are not necessarily
interested in taking over the harvest of their victims;
rather, all they want to do is to ensure that all the
labour and
efforts of their victims are wasted, so that they can
mock and laugh them to scorn (Judges 6:3-16).
Every repressive force seen and unseen that ℓ̊§
interested in wasting all your honest efforts shall be
destroyed by the fire of the Holy Ghost in Jesus'
Name.
Moreover, another state of progress is stagnation.
This is a state of standstill. In this state, there is no
forward or upward movement. The fellow operating
in this state remains on the same spot in spite of
his or her efforts. In a situation of stagnancy, effort
does not count, because Ȋ̝̊̅† appears there is some
invisible rope tying the victim to the same spot. In
our Bible reading, we
read about a man who was sick for 38 years. This
man was operating in a state of stagnancy. He was
at the pool of Bethesda waiting for an angel to stir
up
the water. He was waiting for a once-a-year
miracle available to just one person. The
unfortunate thing is that he was not alone. There
was a crowd also waiting to take this same chance.
As a result, he kept on waiting for
several years! There are some people who are so
full of hope at the beginning
of a year, but at the end of that year, they realise
that they are still at the same spot. When I was
schooling at the University of Lagos, there was a
particular student who had been there for eight
years, but he never went
beyond year one. He kept changing from one
faculty to the other and from one department to
another. We met him there and left him there. Have
you been
stagnant? Are all your efforts futile? Have you been
so long on the same spot? The Lord will intervene in
your situation today! The Lord will turn things
around
for your good. I rebuke every force keeping you on
the same spot. Whatever is tying you down is
destroyed now. That miracle that your stagnant
situation is
trying to deny you is released to you now in Jesus'
Name.

PRAYER POINT:
I command every spirit of stagnancy keeping me
and family on the same spot, in the Name of Jesus Christ, pack your load and leave now!