OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.THE WAY OUT

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 2015.

THEME : THE WAY OUT.

MEMORISE : Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:
freely ye have received, freely give.
MATTHEW 10 : 8.

READ : MATTHEW 10 : 5 – 8.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye
have received, freely give.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : LEVITICUS 10 – 11 AND 1 CORINTHIANS 7 : 17 – 40.

Our Lord Jesus Christ has many names and titles. The purpose of these names is
to enlighten the eyes of our understanding to the reality of His person. One of
such names is The Way. In John 14 : 6, the Lord Jesus revealed this truth about
Himself to us :
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me.”

What does the Lord mean when He says He is the Way? If you need to get to a
location and you are at a loss on how to get there, the wise thing to do is to
ask people at your current location the way out of where you are in order to
get to where you wish to go. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Way out of the
unpleasant situation you are in presently. He is also the Way into the new
location of your choice. The Bible reveals Jesus as the Way out of sickness
( 1Peter 2 : 24 ). In Acts 9 : 32 – 35, Peter visited some believers living in Lydda
and met Aeneas who had been bedridden for eight years. He simply introduced
him to Jesus Christ, and Aeneas followed the Name of Jesus out of sickness
into divine healing and health.

The Name of Jesus is also the Way out of death ( Acts 9 : 40 – 41 ). Our Bible
reading shows that the sick, the lepers and the dead can follow the pathway of
Jesus out of their circumstances. Anyone who has an appointment with death
can be delivered by following the Name of Jesus, because Jesus is the way out
of any situation having to do with death. Some 276 sailors, soldiers and
prisoners were lost at sea for fourteen days and faced sure death in the hands
of a violent hurricane called Euroclydon ( Act 27 : 12 – 44 ).

For fourteen days, their souls were overwhelmed with the fear of death and
they could not eat anything. They all would have died but for the presence of
Paul who bore the Name of Jesus amongst them. The Lord sent His angel to Paul
to show them the way of escape from the clutches of death.

The Lord showed them that their salvation depended on them remaining in their
sinking ship which was at the mercy of the winds ( Acts 27 : 31 ) The pathway
that goes through Jesus led them through the valley of the shadow of death,
and not one soul among them was lost ( Acts 27 : 44 ). Do you have an early
appointment with death that agents of darkness have fixed for you? In the
Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that appointed with death is cancelled! Has
sickness drawn you so close to death? In the Name of Jesus, you shall not die
but live! You shall recover in Jesus’ Name.

PRAYER POINT :
Father, quieten every storm that wants to deliver death to my life, family,
business or ministry now, in Jesus’ Name.

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