OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL 📖📖📖 BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE DATE:- Thursday, October 01, 2015. TOPIC:- HOLD THE FORT

📖📖📖 OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL 📖📖📖
BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

DATE:- Thursday, October 01, 2015.

TOPIC:- HOLD THE FORT

MEMORISE:
Holding forth the word  of life; that I may  rejoice in the day of  Christ, that I have not  run in vain, neither  laboured in vain. . . Philippians 2:16

READ:- Philippians 2:12-16
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain

BIBLE IN ONE .YEAR:
Leviticus 23:9-25:7
1Corinthians 14:6-25

MESSAGE:
Without controversy, the salvation that Jesus Christ  has brought to mankind is free and for anyone  who will receive Him. The way to receive this
salvation is revealed to us in Romans 10:9:

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth  the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart  that God hath raised him from the dead, thou  shalt be saved!'

Have you confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord? Do you believe  in your heart that God raised Him from the dead? Have you  asked that your sins might be washed away by His blood? If  you have done these, congratulations, you have received the  free gift of salvation. However, you need to know that the  salvation you have received is the beginning of a process that  will culminate in your living eternally with God in Heaven,  with a transformed body which death and sin have no power  over (1Corinthians 15:50-56). This is the same type of body  our Lord Jesus Christ resurrected with and has right now in  glory (1John 3:2). It is at the event where this transformation  will take place, referred to as the rapture, that the ultimate  experience of the salvation in Christ Jesus will be revealed  and received by you. Apostle Paul speaks of this in Hebrews 9:28, while Apostle Peter further expounds on it in 1Peter 1:5:

"Who are kept by the power of God through  faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in  the last time!'

While awaiting the revelation of the ultimate experience of  salvation, the devil, the world and the flesh will work to derail  the salvation experience you have received by trying to lead  you back to the sins you have been saved from. That is why  Jesus in Matthew 24:13 says:

"But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved!'

You therefore need to endure and not give in to them. You  need to continue living in the reality of the salvation from sin  which you have received by enforcing your victory over sin. If  you return to your former sins, you will not partake of the  ultimate salvation experience which shall be revealed and  received at the appearing of Christ. Enforcing your victory  over sin everyday involves a lot of work. It involves the use of  God's word against temptations, the renewing of your mind,  praying for grace and fasting to keep the cravings of your body  under check. Apostle Paul refers to this work in Philippians 2:12. The Lord wiII sustain you as you work at it to the end in  Jesus' Name.

PRAYER POINT:
Father, grant me grace to  keep at the work  required to sustain my  salvation in Jesus' Name.