OPEN HEAVENS(FRIDAY 17TH JANUARY, 2014)

THEME: THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

MEMORISE: And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. Acts 13:52

READ: John 14:16-17 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that
he may abide with you for ever;
17. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the
world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : EPHESIANS 4:17,
6:24 and PSALM 18:29-42

MESSAGE: Do you know that it is possible for a
man to become the house of God? 1
Corinthians 6:19 says: “What? know ye not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are
not your own?” You can be the temple where the Holy
Spirit lives. Your home can also become
the house of God, if for instance, you
have a house fellowship centre in your
house. From time to time, we find Paul
writing to someone and telling the person to greet the Church in his house.
If there is a Church in your house, you
can be sure that the Almighty God will
be there. Wherever God is, there will be
light there. Where light is, darkness
cannot stay. Whenever God comes to visit, He does not come empty handed.
When He is dwelling in your heart, you
can be sure that He will not come empty
handed. As a matter of fact, in 1
Corinthians 12:4-11, the Bible lists for us
at least 9 gifts that the Holy Spirit will bring along when He comes to dwell in
us. These gifts can be classified into
three groups: The Revelation gifts, The
Inspiration gifts and The Power gifts.
When you have these gifts available to
you at any moment, you will find out that it becomes easy for you to win
souls. In Acts 2:41, Peter preached one
sermon and he won 3,000 souls. I am
sure there are many Christians who will
be extremely happy if in one year they
are able to win 3,000 converts. By the time Peter preached his second sermon
in Acts 4:4, 5,000 souls were saved. Once the Holy Ghost begins to dwell in
you, you have the potential that
everyone you touch will receive a
healing, as it happened in Acts 3:1-8. If
the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you, the
heat coming out of you will be anointed like it was with Paul in Acts 19:11-12.
With this kind of power, you will be
able to tear into pieces every spiritual
lion, witch and wizard that wants to
attack you or your loved ones as was
the case with Samson in Judges 14:5-6. In the case of David, it was the anointing
of the Holy Spirit that made it possible
for him to kill two wild animals – a lion
and a bear, with bare hands (1 Samuel
17:34-36). When you are full of the Holy
Spirit, it becomes easy for you to live a holy life. You will just discover that
holiness is as easy as breathing. The
Holy Spirit will then begin to produce
His fruit in you. When you are full of the
Holy Spirit, people will begin to discover
certain new things happening in your life, patterned after Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law.” I pray that you will be baptized in the
Holy Spirit. Receive this baptism now in
Jesus’ Name.