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<\/a><\/div>\nTOPIC: WHO\u2019S YOUR
\nDADDY?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nMEMORISE: 1
\nCorinthians 4:15<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cFor
\nthough ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many
\nfathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\nREAD: 2 Kings
\n3:11-12 (KJV)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n11. But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
\nthe LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
\nIsrael\u2019s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which
\npoured water on the hands of Elijah.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n12. And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with
\nhim. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to
\nhim.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: <\/span><\/b>Isaiah 59-63<\/span><\/p>\nMESSAGE:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nThese days, people just call anyone Daddy in the church, and not
\nnecessarily out of respect as it is done in the Yoruba culture. You need to be
\ncareful who you call your father; Apostle Paul told the church in Corinth that
\nthey have only one father but many instructors, as seen in our memory verse for
\ntoday.<\/span><\/p>\nI miss the good old days when we all used to call each other Bro or Sis.
\nThe choice of who you call your father has a lot to do with your destiny. In
\nour Bible reading for today, the only introduction that Elisha needed was that
\nhis Father-in-the-Lord was Elijah and Jehoshaphat immediately concluded that
\n\u201cThe word of the Lord is with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nFirst, you cannot be greater than your father, at least not while he is
\nstill alive. Luke 6:40 says:<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe
\ndisciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his
\nmaster.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\nWhoever your father is sets a limit to how far you can go in life. This
\ninformation alone is enough to make you careful with respect to whom you refer
\nto as My Father-in-the-Lord.<\/span><\/p>\nSecondly, anointing flows from the head downwards, so if you don\u2019t check
\nthat the character of whoever you make your head is very good, well, he could
\nbe passing a dangerous anointing to you. It is from my Father (Pa Josiah
\nAkindayomi) that I learnt that holiness is the master key; it is from him that
\nI learnt discipline. His anointing was not the kind that you use to extort
\nmoney from congregants, it was not the kind that needed a special concoction
\nfor it to work. I inherited the pure anointing of God from him.<\/span><\/p>\nIt is not wise to choose a Father-in-the-Lord by yourself; ask God who
\nyour father should be. Your destination in life will determine whom you should
\nunderstudy. The affluence, eloquence and large congregation of a man does not
\nnecessarily make him fit to father you. My Father-in-the-Lord had none of those
\nthings. He was illiterate, yet God told me to submit to him. Today, I give God
\nthe glory that Pa Josiah Akindayomi was my Father-in-the-Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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REFLECTION: <\/span><\/b>Let God choose a
\nFather-in-the-Lord for you. Don\u2019t call everyone Daddy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Open Heavens Daily Devotional guide was written by\u00a0Pastor E.A. Adeboye<\/span> <\/span>the
\nGeneral Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical
\nchurch in the world.<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n
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