OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL. MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2013 THEME : EVIDENCES OF BROKENNESS. MEMORISE : If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Colossians 3 : 1. READ : COLOSSIANS 3 : 1 - 4. 1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 CHRONICLES 1 - 3. God created us to have and to exercise a free will. Consequently, we are capable of making choices and we are also responsible for the repercussion of those choices. It is possible to be partially or completely broken as a Christian. Being broken can affect very crucial aspect of the Christian life – your will, desires, tongue, focus and even your body. The reason many wives struggle with Gods command to submit to their husbands is because they have not been broken. To be broken, you may have to give up your will for Gods greater will. When Jesus yielded to Gods will to go to the Cross, it was a mark of being broken ( Luke 22 : 39 - 44 ). If you always want to have things your way, you are not broken. But when you get to a point where you are ready to insist on His will in all situations and subjugate yours, then you are broken. Unbrokenness has robbed many believers of Gods best gifts. Many sisters have rejected Gods will in marriage and ran with theirs. This will surely lead them into troubled waters. Are you ready to submit to His will in your job, marriage, career, ministry, etc? How about your desires which are closely linked with your will? Colossians 3 : 1 - 4 says the desires of a broken fellow, are heavenly. If you assess your personal prayer requests, what percentage is on worldly things and what percentage is on heavenly things? A broken fellow is Heaven-focused. He is out to please the Father and not himself. There is nothing he cannot part with for the Kingdom of God. A broken fellow has completely surrendered his whole body to the Lord ( Romans 12 : 1 ). He loves God so much that He cannot sin against God with his body. He is so much in love with God that he is ready to give his life for the sake of the Gospel – and joyfully so. Are you broken? Have you yielded your all on the altar of sacrifice? Have you subordinated your will to His?
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