Open Heaven 27 July 2018: [Friday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye
Preparing For Your Flight?
PREPARING FOR YOUR FLIGHT?– Friday July 27th 2018
Memorise: Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Read: 2nd Timothy 4:6-8 (KJV)
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Bible in one year: Nehemiah 7-8, Matthew 9:9-26, Hymn: Sing hymn 5
Message:-
“Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.”
2nd Peter 1:14

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.”
2nd Timothy 4:6

It is amazing to read the words of Peter and Paul in the above verses of scripture. They spoke of their impending deaths as though they were making preparations for a trip to a better country. Contrary to the common human response to issues relating to death, there is no trace of fear or anxiety in their words. We have important lessons to learn about death from these great apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Hebrews 9:27, the Holy Spirit spoke through Paul saying:

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”