OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Rejecting Negative Prophecies 2
MEMORISE: "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people,
Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I
have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go
up unto the house of the Lord". 2 Kings 20:5
READ: Joshua 6:26 (KJV)
26 And Joshua adjured them at
that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and
buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his
firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
READ: 2 Kings 2:20-21 (KJV)
20 And he said, Bring me a new
cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
21 And he went forth unto the
spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the
Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death
or barren land.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Daniel 4-5
MESSAGE:
Yesterday, I talked about rejecting negative prophecies from false
prophets. However, sometimes, a real prophet can prophesy something that you
are not comfortable with. God sometimes tells us things just for our
information; at other times, it is so that we can do something about them. How
then do you reverse negative prophecies if you receive them?
Like Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:1-11, the first thing you can do is to
cry to God to reverse the prophecy. If He listens, He will send the same
prophet back to you with a new prophecy. Secondly, you can get a prophet with a higher anointing to cancel
the negative prophecy. This is what the people of Jericho did in today’s Bible
reading. Joshua had placed a curse on the land, but Elisha was able to cancel
the decree that Joshua made because he had a double portion of the anointing.
Years ago, a man told me that he met a prophet when he was 44
years old who told him all that would happen to him for the next 40 years and
that he would die at 84. He said that everything the prophet told him
had come to pass, and it was now two weeks to his 84th birthday. I asked if he
wanted to serve God, and he said, “Yes,” so I told him that he will live.
He insisted that everything the prophet told him had come to pass,
but as a higher prophet, I replied that as long as he was willing to serve God,
he would live until he was ready to die. A few weeks before his 100th birthday,
he sent for me and said that he was ready to go; he died a few days before
turning 100. Sometimes, negative prophecies can come to you directly from God,
either in a dream, trance, or even in an audible voice.
In such instances, you can meet a prophet who is closer to God
than you and ask him to help you plead with God to change it. Years ago, a
wealthy man, who had just given his life to Christ and had been of tremendous
help to me in fulfilling God’s work, had a dream where God told him to put his
house in order because it was time for him to be called home.
He came to me, and I said, “No!” I told him, “Don’t worry, I will
discuss it with my Daddy.” I told God, “Lord, I still need this man here,
please don’t take him yet.” God answered me, and the man lived.
KEY
POINT
Negative
prophecies, even when genuine, can be reversed.
© 2024 Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by
Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God, one of the largest evangelical Churches in the world, and also the
President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.