DAY 3 . RCCG NATIONAL PRAYER AND FASTING 2021
STREAM 1(1st 21 Days)
WEDNESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2021
PREAMBLE: We give glory to God for another season of fellowship with the almighty God through the RCCG 2021 National Prayer and Fasting. The Lord has always demonstrated his love towards his church through the evidences of great and mighty testimonies received year in year out. This new season of flying in restoration will usher in greater testimonies than has ever been recorded in Jesus name.
The First round of this year’s fast has been dedicated to Thanksgiving as directed by Holy Spirit through our father in the Lord Pastor E.A Adeboye.
TEXTS: Psalms 100:5; Ezra 3: 11; Psalms 95:1-3; Psalms 7:17; Psalms 9:1-4;
Lam. 3: 22-23; Colossians 3:15-17.
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2021
1. Father we thank you because you are the God of possibilities. Ps 147:7-8
2. Father thank you for commanding redemption for us. Ps 107:2, Ps 119:9
Read Open Heaven Wednesday 13th January 2021 Devotional Message By Pastor E.A. Adeboye
TOPIC: MCY: Self-Sufficience
MEMORISE:
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” – (John 15:5)
READ: Judges 16:20-21 (KJV)
20. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
21. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
MESSAGE:
The ‘S’ in our equation for Resistance in the “Mathematics of Christ in You” (MCY) stands for Self-Sufficiency (If you do not understand, kindly refer to the devotionals of January 11 and 12). Most times, what many people call self-sufficiency is purely reliance on their flesh rather than God. In Daniel 4:28-37, we see how this attitude got Nebuchadnezzar into trouble. He said “Is this not Babylon that I built?” As a result, God sent him to eat grass in the forest for seven years to prove to him that all he had was from Him. By the time he came back, he acknowledged God as the Most High who rules in the affairs of men.
Today’s Bible reading tells the story of Samson. This man had defeated an entire army with the jaw bone of an ass. He was really strong. Unfortunately, he did not realise that this strength was not from him but from God. I know this because if you look through the feats he had accomplished, you would see everything starting with “And the spirit of the Lord came upon Him” (Judges 14:6, Judges 14:19, Judges 15:14). One day, after God’s Spirit had left him, he said “I will arise and go out as at other times before” (Judges 16:20) but he was put to shame. It does not matter how gifted or skilful you are, without God, you are no different from the sand in the beach.
Many a time, when we listen to the testimonies of some people, we still see them glorifying ‘self’. They take the shine off God and put it on their efforts. In Philippians 3:3-7, Paul had been talking so much about himself until something warned him “Be careful”, and he quickly added in verse 7
“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.” Proverbs 3:5-6 says:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
You want God to live in you and operate through you? Then, you must not lean on your own understanding. You must get to the point where you can say that it is in Him that live, move and have my being (Acts 17:28).
We should always remember the words of Apostle Paul in (2 Corinthians 3:5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is God;
KEY POINT:
You are nothing without God.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Genesis 21-24
Thank you and God bless for reading RCCG 2021 Fasting And Prayer Points Guide for 13 January 2021 Day 3 and Open Heaven 13th January 2021
