Open Heaven 24 May 2023

Open Heaven Topic:

SUBMIT TO GOD

Memory Verse:

John 4:34 – (KJV)

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

Bible Reading: 

Matthew 8:5-9 (NIV)

⁵ When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.

⁶ “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”

⁷ Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”

⁸ The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

⁹ For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

Open Heaven 24 May 2023 Message

Submission is different from cooperation Cooperation is when you work together with someone to achieve a mutually desired goal.

Submission on the other hand, is when you want something totally different from what the other fellow wants, but because you have to submit, you do what he or she asks you to.

One who submits to God is that fellow who will do whatever God says — whether it is logical or not, convenient or not. Those who put their own wishes aside and just say, “If this is what God says, that is what I will do”.

Once the devil knows you are that submissive to God, when you begin to resist him, he will flee. James 4:7 says: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

The devil knows those who are 100% submissive to God. Those who will do whatever God says even if they have to die doing it. On the other hand, he knows those who are submissive to their bellies or their sexual drive; those who are lovers of the world and those who are in it.

It is only when your submission to God is complete that you can have the authority to revenge any disobedience (2 Corinthians 10:6). If you want to resist the devil so that he will flee from you, then you have to be completely submissive to God. Who you submit to determines how much authority you have.

The commissioner of works submits to the governor of his state; he does not have as much authority as the minister of works who submits to the president.

In Matthew 8:9, the Centurion said, “For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it‘.

When you are truly submissive to God, then He gives you some of His authority so that once you speak, the devil trembles and flees. Some of those troubles the devil is causing in your life can be stopped once you submit to God.

Open Heaven Hymn: 

What Can Wash Away My Sin

Open Heaven Point:

Put aside your own desires and submit completely to God’s will.

Bible in One Year:

Nehemiah 11, Nehemiah 12, Nehemiah 13