OPEN HEAVEN 25 OCTOBER 2024 FRIDAY: THE FIG TREE
OPEN HEAVEN 25 OCTOBER 2024 MEMORISE: Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:2
OPEN HEAVEN 25 OCTOBER 2024 READ: Mark 11:12-20:
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
13 And seeing a fig tree afar
off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon:
and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of
figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus
went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought
in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the
seats of them that sold doves;
16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is
it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of
prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
18
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might
destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished
at his doctrine.
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
OPEN HEAVEN 25 OCTOBER 2024 MESSAGE
In
today’s Bible reading, Jesus was hungry and went to get some figs from a
fig tree nearby but unfortunately, He did not find any. Jesus cursed
the tree, and it dried up.
Even
though it was not the season for figs, meaning that it was natural for
the tree not to have fruits at that time, Jesus still cursed it.
You
may think that Jesus was being unfair to the tree, but He was sending a
message to us with that act. You must never wait for the right
conditions before you begin to bear fruits for your Master.
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4
If God has given a believer an assignment, he or she should work towards it whether the conditions are right or not.
If such believers keep waiting for the right conditions, they will never achieve their goals or fulfil their destiny.
If
you keep observing the wind, you will not sow, and if you have already
sown, if you keep observing the clouds, you will not reap.
You must set out to bear fruit even when the conditions around you do not suggest that you should.
When
I became the General Overseer of RCCG, I got many promises from God
apart from the covenant that God had with my Father in the Lord about
the church’s great future.
All the
conditions surrounding the church at that time were not palatable. We
did not even have enough money to pay the General Overseer’s salary, not
to talk of getting money to establish parishes around the world or
hosting large meetings where millions of people will gather.
Even
though the conditions did not look right, I still set out to do the
things that God called me to do. When we moved to Redemption City, we
did not have money to pay labourers to build the auditorium, not to talk
of building a city.
I worked
every night with other members of the church to build the first
auditorium. Today, everyone can see the city that God promised us.
Beloved, if you wait for perfect conditions before you bear fruit, you will be just like that fig tree,
and I am quite sure that you don’t want to end up like it because Jesus
said in our memory verse for today that any branch in Him that does not
bear fruit will be cut off.
OPEN HEAVEN 25 OCTOBER 2024 KEY POINT:
There is no excuse for failing to bear fruits.
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