OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 SUNDAY: HANDLING CRITICISMS
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 MEMORISE: Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Hebrews 12:11
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 READ: Proverbs 15:31-32
31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Silence every voice of discouragement and spite, and focus on God’s purpose for my life. God bless you as you engage, share these messages, prayers and declarations.
Today’s Powerful Confession: I confess today, I embrace wisdom, correction, and godly counsel with humility, and I turn every criticism into a stepping stone for God’s glory in my life, in the mighty name of Jesus. Somebody Shout Hallelujah!
Prayer Points For Open Heavens 29 December 2024
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 MESSAGE
A lot of people think that being a leader means that whatever they say or do is final and should not be questioned.
If you are making any progress in life, criticisms will definitely come.
When The Redeemed Christian Church of God was just a small church with headquarters in a small corner of Ebute-metta, no one criticised us.
Now that we have branches all around the world, criticisms come in from everywhere. This is a sign of growth, and rather than being sad about it, l am happy that we have grown.
Some people will criticize you out of love because your success means a lot to them. Some will criticize you out of spite because they are envious of you and want you to fail.
Either way, your attitude to criticism is what will determine if you will succeed or fail.
Proverbs 1:5-7 says: A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Beloved, be open to suggestions from your subordinates or people who you consider younger or less experienced than you.
When they tell you that you are not doing something right, listen to them without getting defensive or aggressive.
If you grumble and sulk for days because you were criticized, you need to speak to yourself so that you can last.
No matter what people say about you, you must never give the impression that you are above correction.
Moses was the anointed one who was called by God. He spoke to God mouth to mouth (Numbers 12:8), yet the solution to the challenge he had in ministry was with his father-in-law who did not have the same intimacy with God as he did.
You may be the head of your home, Chief Executive Officer or pastor, but that does not mean you know it all.
Believe me, every criticism is an opportunity for you to become a better person. If you take it well, you will become better.
The choice is yours. Some of the decisions we made that helped us become better were responses to criticism.
I know some of the critics meant harm, but God used them to show us how to do things better, and we are growing stronger for it.
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 KEY POINT
Always see criticism as an opportunity to grow, not an opportunity to fight the critic.
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 HYMN19:
ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME
OPEN HEAVEN 29 DECEMBER 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Revelation 18-19
Good 👍
Thank you, Lord God Almighty for your words this day and please, Lord God Almighty give me, my wife, my children, grandma and my entire household the grace and enablement to handle/react to criticism/comment or correction positive to the glory of God Almighty in Jesus Mighty Name, amen.
Great one.
Hallelujah
Amen!!
More grace and anointing sir iJN.
My own concern is how the body of Christ will obey God,follow Jesus’ examples as the apostles,do God’s work as it is written without adding anything that will favour us.
There some denominations that provide food in God’s house as God has commanded in Mal 3:10 but some denominations refuse because of greed.
If we refuse to obey God in anything and refuse to follow Jesus Christ’examples, sorry we can not be true soldiers of Christ at all.
May God send the fire of revival iJN.
God bless you sir for continuously replying to the messages. The prayers you type has been an inspiration and quickens me to pray too
Dear Lord, thank you for word this morning. Please give us the grace to be humble always and never feel like we are above corrections in Jesus name, amen and amen in Jesus name 🙏
Amen
Hallelujah I am blessed by this message
Amen 🙏
Rock of Ages cleft for me and my family. Amen.
Thank you, Lord, for the message of today and the grace to see the last Sunday in the month of December 2024. To God be the glory honor and adoration. Thank you, Lord, for your protection and provision for me and my children’s families and entire family members, friends, and loved ones, my neighbors My Father, please grant the grace to embrace correction and Godly counsel in the name of Jesus’s Amennnn. Lord, my Father please help mo turn all the criticism into stepping stone to get better by the grace of God! Amennnn.l. My Father, please grant me faith… Read more »