Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020 – God’s Sandpaper

Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020 – God’s Sandpaper

Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020: [Saturday] – God’s Sandpaper

GOD’S SANDPAPER – Saturday January 25th 2020

Memorise: Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grevious: neverthesless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Hebrews 12:11
Read: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (KJV)

9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Open Heaven for Today 24 January 2020 – Ambassadors of Christ

READ – PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY’S OPEN HEAVENS 24TH JANUARY 2020

Bible in one year: Genesis 38-40, Hymn: Sing hymn 25
MESSAGE:-
When a carpenter is working on a piece of furniture, he has a picture of what he wants the finished work to look like.
Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020 – God’s Sandpaper

He puts in a lot of effort to make the piece of wood into what he has in mind, and if it is not smooth as he wishes, he smoothens it to the desired state with some sandpaper. Jesus Christ is our carpenter and He has a picture of what He wants us to be as He works on us; however, every now and then, we exhibit certain behaviours which can hinder His ultimate plan, so He employs the sandpaper (a person or situation) to smoothen us out. The experience, however, is always painful as noted in today’s memory verse but it is for our own good. If a piece of wood being sandpapered could expressed itself, it would scream in pain, but the beauty of the outcome will make it worthwhile. Hebrews 12:6 clarifies this:

Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020: [Saturday] – God’s Sandpaper
“For whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth.”

When God wants to smoothen you out, He will put someone in your life as a piece of sandpaper, until you are well-polished. Your sandpaper could be your boss in the office or your pastor in Church. despite their harshness, see the sandpaper in them. There is probably a behaviour that God wants you to shed or acquire from working with that boss or pastor.
Open Heaven for Today 25 January 2020 Saturday: Key Point

The most frequent piece of sandpaper I have seen God use on people is their spouse. He knows that you can resign in an office or leave a church, but your contract with your spouse is for life. So, He often uses our spouses to smoothen us out. The problem with most people however, is that instead of submitting to the process of change and becoming better, they choose to fight their spouses. Its no wonder many have remained on one spot for very long. Yield to change. Listen to what your God-fearing spouse is trying to correct in your behaviour – it is for your own good. If your allow yourselves to be smoothened by each other, you would advance fast in life and your home would be a better place to raise your children in. Your latter Years would also be more pleasurable.

Key Point
The faster you let the sandpaper do its work, the better for you.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.