Producing the Sons of God by Pst E.A Adeboye

📖📖📖 Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖 By Pastor E.A Adeboye Date:- Thursday, June 11, 2015. Topic:- PRODUCING CHILDREN OF GOD Memorise: So then faith cometh by  hearing, and hearing by  the word of God. Romans 10:17 Read: 1John 3:1-3 1. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Bible in one year: 1Kings18:41-20:25 Luke 6:24-45 Message: Children of God are produced by the power in the  Word of God. The reason why it seems genuine  children of God are scarce nowadays despite the  increase in the number of churches and increase in church  attendance is because the Church is suffering from a famine  of the genuine Word of God. It is by faith that we become  genuine children of God. However, this faith does not come  by the wisdom of man; neither does it come by the  philosophical sayings of the learned or the motivational  words of orators. 1Corinthians 2:4-5 says: "My speech and my preaching was not  with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in  demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the  wisdom of men, but in the power of God" The world, especially devotees of certain religions, still  wonder up till now how it is-possible for a human being to  claim that he or she is a child of God. Such people look at  divine paternity with the mind of the flesh, and so they  cannot understand or accept the mystery of adoption which  empowers us to become sons of God through Christ Jesus.  Even to us who have been conferred this prestigious status of being children of God, it is still a mystery. John the beloved expressed this mystery with awe in 1John 3:1 "Behold, what manner of love the Father  hath bestowed upon us, that we should be  called the sons of God: therefore the world  knoweth us not, because it knew him not" The Word of God came to Mary and produced the Son of  God, when she had not known any man (Luke 1:30-35). This  is a template for us. The mystery of divine adoption lies in the  Word of God. For us to produce children of God from  children of disobedience, we need to expose them to the  undiluted Word of God that will produce the required faith for their adoption. Romans 10:17 says: "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" We should therefore follow the pattern of the early apostles,  who produced children of God through the Word of God.  We see this manifested in Acts 4:4: "Howbeit many of them which heard the  word believed; and the number of the men  was about five thousand" Key point: There is power in  numbers. For the kingdom of God to be firmly established on earth, there  must be a tremendous increase in the number of  God's children.