OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL – SATURDAY – 28/12/2013 – BROKENNESS BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL

SATURDAY – 28/12/2013

BROKENNESS
BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

MEMORY VERSE
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalm 38:8

READ
2 Corinthians 5:18-21

2 Corinthians 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

MESSAGE
In your relationship with God, one place you need to get to is the place of brokenness. To be broken is to have some form of injury that makes the object less than a whole. In spiritual parlance, it is to break or subdue the flesh in order to be more profitable to the Kingdom of God. Why do you need to be broken? You need to be broken in order to put the flesh where it belongs. Until you get to the point of brokenness, your life will operate in the body, soul spirit order of priority, which means that the body will be in control of the spirit. In 1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul says,

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

If you fail to subdue your body, it will disgrace you when you least expect.

Another reason for brokenness is that it helps you to lose grounds which God will occupy. That is, it creates room for God. The more broken you are, the greater the space the Spirit can fill up within you. Brokenness also helps us to be true ambassadors of Christ  making us to represent Him as we should. 2 Corinthians 5:20 says,

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Without being broken, most believers would put off others who were about to enter the Kingdom. Take for instance, the fellow who is insulted by an unbeliever and retaliates. How could such a believer ever hope to win that soul to Christ? If you are not broken, it may be difficult to see the fruit of the Spirit manifesting in you. Are you broken? To what extent are you allowing the flesh? What measures have you put in place to subdue the flesh? From today, ask God to break you, and fill you with His fullness.

KEY POINT

If God breaks you, He will mould you to fit into His mould, but if you are not broken, you will maintain your old mould

POSSIBILITY!!!