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OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL
DATE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1st 2026
TOPIC: DEALING WITH DEMONIC REPRESSION
MEMORISE
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. (Isaiah 49:24-25)
READ: Judges 6:1-6 (KJV)
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
MESSAGE
When a fellow is repressed, the devil sits on the fellow and pushes him or her down. An oppressed person remains stagnant, but a repressed person declines steadily. The devil not only prevents a repressed fellow from rising, but he steadily destroys the fruits of the person’s previous efforts.
In today’s Bible reading, the Israelites offended God, and He handed them over to the Midianites for seven years. The Midianites would allow the Israelites to plant and care for their plants, but as soon as it was time for harvest, they would come in their multitudes to wipe out all the harvest. When the devil represses a person, he causes that fellow to work hard for something and then attacks and leaves the fellow worse off than when he or she started.
Repression destroys all of a fellow’s efforts to increase. Some people make lots of money but cannot account for how they spend it. It is as though they have bags with multiple holes that steadily leak away their resources and progress. Even when they make a lot of money, they remain in debt. When I was younger, an incident happened in our village. A rich man used his riches to forcefully take away a piece of land that belonged to another person. The other person said, “No problem. Even though I don’t have the money to fight you in court, we will see.” The rich man started building on the land, but the man he grabbed the land from did not say a word. The day the building was roofed, the original owner of the land went at night to plant a charm in the building, and by the next day, there were cracks in every corner of the building. The cracks were so bad that the rich man had to pull down the entire building. He tried to erect a building on the land several times, but cracks kept appearing. As a result, he wasted a lot of resources without achieving his goal.
Beloved, if the devil has been repressing you in any form, I decree today that, whether it is your fault or not that the enemy has been pushing you down, it is your year of jubilee. I pray that the fire of God will descend and deliver you from any form of repression that might be in your life, in Jesus’ name. God’s plan is for you to increase and move from glory to glory, and this will be your portion, in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER POINT
Father, please let Your fire destroy any form of repression that might be in my life, in Jesus’ name.
AUTHOR: Pastor E. A. Adeboye
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Leviticus 14 – 15
HYMN 15 – PASS ME NOT, O GENTLE SAVIOUR
1. Pass me not, 0 gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
CHORUS
Saviour, Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling; Do not pass me by.
2. Let me, at Thy throne of mercy,
Find a sweet relief; Kneeling there in deep contrition, Help my unbelief.
3. Trusting only in Thy merit
Would I seek Thy face
Heal my wounded, broken
spirit, Save me by Thy grace.
4. Thou, the spring of all my
comfort, More than life to me.
Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Whom in heaven but Thee.
