Open Heaven 28 March 2023 Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye

TOPIC: In The Beginning Was The Word [28 Tuesday, March 2023] 

  MEMORISE: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” – John 1:1 (KJV) 

  READ: John 1:1-10 (KJV) 

 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 

 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 

 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 

 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

  BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 19-21 

  MESSAGE: The simple statement, “In the beginning was the Word…” is pregnant with many meanings. One of those meanings is that before anything that exists now ever existed, the Word was already existing. In other words, He saw the beginning of everything else since all things were made by Him (John 1:3). The day you dedicate your new house, that is the beginning of your dwelling in that house, but the day you laid the foundation of the house was also another beginning. When the architect began to draw the plan of the house was another beginning while the day you – the Landlord – conceived the idea to build a house was also another beginning all together. 

 Humanly speaking, the day your Father and mother met together to produce you is another beginning of the house, because if you were not born, you would not have thought of building that house. Jeremiah 1:4-5 says that before God formed you, He knew you. Thus that house of yours started in the mind of God long before you were born. God had in His plan a house that you were going to build even before you were born. Thus, no matter what it is that exists, it has its root in God. This is good news for children of God because since He was in the beginning of everything and everything was made by Him, then everything is controlled by Him – The Word. 

Therefore, when you simply speak the word of God into any situation, you gain control over it. Before the mountains were brought forth, He has been God (Psalm 90:1-2). This is why Mark 11:22-24 says that if you have faith, you can speak to any mountain and it will move.

 For example, if the mountain of sickness wants to bring you down, you uproot it with the word of God in Isaiah 53:5 that by Jesus’ stripes you are healed. 

If it is the mountain of failure, then you uproot it with the word in Deuteronomy 28:13 that says you shall be the head and not the tail.

 If it is the mountain of poverty threatening you, then you tell it the word in 2 Corinthians 8:9 that Jesus was made poor that you may be rich. The Word will grant you all-round victory in Jesus’ name.

  ACTION POINT: Search out what the Word says about that mountain in your path and begin to declare it in faith. 

  Open Heavens 2023 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.