Saturday 15 October 2011

OPEN HEAVENS


READ: MALACHI 3:1-12
There are windows in heaven. These are divine outlets for releasing God’s blessings to the needy. However, it is possible for these windows to be closed. When heaven’s windows are closed, there will be no miracle. Again, when the windows of heaven are shut, there will be no rain (physical, spiritual, financial, etc). When there is no rain, rivers begin to dry up (1 Kings 17:1,7). When this happens, it follows that there will be starvation. When a city is besieged with no food allowed in, it is another way of saying the windows of heaven have been shut against that city. I pray that the windows of heaven will not be shut against you. When the windows of heaven are opened, rain begins to fall. Each time God opened the windows of heaven in the Scriptures, it was to rain down blessings. The only exception was during the time of Noah when God rained down water to wipe away the sinners. In Exodus 16:4, God said He would rain down bread from heaven for the children of Israel. Psalm 78:3-25 says that when god opened the windows of heaven He rained down on the children of men the food reserved for angels. He rained down classified blessings, as it were. Spiritual blessings can also be rained down from heaven. Whose report do you wish to believe? The Lord’s or the world’s report? You may choose to believe the report of the economist or the newspaperman. Isaiah 53:5 declares that by His stripes we were healed. This is not the doctor’s report. This is the Lord’s report. Remember that it does not make sense that the blood shed about 2000 years ago will make us whole. However, it is true. I know that by His stripes, I am healed. The Bible says, in Romans 10:8-10: “But what does it say? The word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe i your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.” You can open the heavens through your confession. Your mouth can open the heavens. Speak the word today and your miracle is sure.
MEMORIZE: JEREMIAH 33:3 –Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.