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THE WORD GUIDES II

on 06/12/2026 by Pst E.A Adeboye

Memory verse
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
Psalm 32:8 · KJV
Today's reading — Genesis 22:1-12▾
(1) And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. (2) And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (3) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. (4) Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. (5) And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you, (6) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. (7) And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? (8) And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (9) And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. (10) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. (11) And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. (12) And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

When I became the General Overseer of RCCG, many people saw me as an upstart and decided to make things difficult for me. I joined the church in 1973 and suddenly found myself leading people who had been in the church since its establishment in 1952. Many people were not comfortable with me being their leader, and they were determined to see me fail. They thought I used my academic degrees to manipulate the founder of the church to make me his successor. Every council meeting we held then was hellish because they criticised every single thing I did. In one of those meetings, I was struggling to explain myself, but God told me not to say anything until I heard from Him. One day, during one of our usual ‘rough’ council meetings, the Lord said to me, “Tell them that every idle word that a man shall speak, he will give account of it.” I obeyed God, and that day marked the last time I had a rough time during council meetings. Beloved, may you hear from God today and receive clear instructions on what to do at every point in your life, in Jesus’ name.

God’s word is a guide. It shows us not only what to do but how to do it. In Luke 5:4-6, the Bible tells us of how Peter toiled all night, and afterwards, the Lord’s word came to him, and he was told exactly what to do to catch a multitude of fish. Jesus said to him, “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” When Peter obeyed this instruction, he caught so many fishes that his net broke. Beloved, God knows where your breakthrough is. He knows where you need to throw your net and what you need to do to move to the next level. The guidance you need is in His word.

Many Christians do not understand certain things because they have not truly encountered God’s word. In today’s Bible reading, when God instructed Abraham to sacrifice the son he had waited decades for, he obeyed. He knew that he wasn’t the one who created the boy and that God, who gave Isaac to him, could raise him from the dead. 

Beloved, if you want to continue enjoying the guidance that God’s word provides, you must never place anything above Him, not even things you received through His instructions. People who do not trade God for anything will always enjoy His guidance.

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Open Heavens daily devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, published by RCCG.