Open Heavens June 9, 2008

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Heb. 1-4
KEEPING DISTANCE?
MEMORIZE: "And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;" (Genesis 18:17) READ: Genesis 18:16-19 If your relationship with God has not gone beyond being a servant, you cannot access divine secrets. If you are dull of hearing, the information you needed to change your life and that of others will remain in Heaven. When we get to Heaven, many believers will lament when they see the heap of divine information that could have led them to their promised land. Pay whatever price that is required today, and become a custodian of divine mysteries! “Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off” (Luke 22:54). After Jesus was arrested, Peter still followed the Lord but from a distance. Another reason divine secrets elude believers is because of keeping away from the Lord. The distance is not necessarily physical. You can be physically present in church, but spiritually absent, when your heart is somewhere else. Even though some believers are hardly absent from various church meetings, their hearts however are far flung from God. So close, yet so far. Judas Iscariot was very close to the Lord. They ate and slept together. As the treasurer he was contacted regularly, yet his heart was thousands of miles away from Jesus. If you want to receive divine information, your heart must be where He is. Distance could also be physical. If you keep away from the gathering of God’s people, it will be difficult for God to entrust you with heavenly mysteries. During a sermon, if your heart and spirit are paying maximum attention, God could open your eyes, or ears, or both to divine information that the preacher does not know. One well delivered revelation gives birth to several others. If the pastor is sharing a revelation received from the study of God’s Word, you could suddenly access several others. If a revelation is incapable of delivering more revelations, it may be immature. Keeping a distance from the Word of God, keeps you far from divine secrets. Similarly, according to Colossians 3:1-3, if you are not interested in heavenly things, you may not receive heavenly secrets. Psalm 37:4 says you should make God the focus of your interest. If you are interested in God, you would want to know Him, and what interests Him. Also, you would want to please Him. How close are you to God? Can God confide in you? Bridge every existing gap between you and God today! ACTIONPOINT: Pray in the spirit for three hours today. And note the divine secrets that Heaven will release to you