Open Heaven 19 September 2026 Today Devotional & Commentary

In life, the end of anything must be given more attention than its beginning. I am the son of a farmer, who was so poor that poor people called him poor. For the first 18 years of my life, I didn’t own any shoes, but God has transformed me into someone who is celebrated all over the world today.

Child of God, what is essential in life is not how your life began, but how it progresses and ultimately ends. No matter how rough your past may have been, you must forge ahead and not allow it to weigh you down. If you were a terrible sinner, for instance, you must note that you are now born again, and you must not think that God cannot use you like He is using others. Your former nature is gone; you are born again, and you are a new person altogether (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Some may have believed that Elisha had already reached his peak as a prosperous farmer in 1 Kings 19:12, out in truth, God’s greater purpose for his life had only just begun. When the hand of the Lord came upon him, he became a renowned prophet with access to kings, nations, and economies. When you truly walk with Jesus, your past achievements will pale in comparison to the glory God will reveal through you. 2 Corinthians 3:1-18 discusses the ministry of condemnation and the ministry of righteousness. Here, Paul was comparing Moses’ ministry with Jesus’ ministry. Although Moses’ ministry was temporary, it was still described as glorious, but its glory was nothing compared to the eternal and enduring glory of Jesus Christ.

Whatever glory you think you have experienced in your life up until now pales in comparison to what God has in store for you.

Beloved, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain when you surrender to Jesus. In Acts 2, after the Holy Spirit came upon Peter and the other apostles, he preached the gospel and warned his listeners to save themselves from the corrupt generation in which they lived (Acts 2:40). I also urge you to save yourself from this corrupt generation. Just as those who heard Peter received his word gladly and were baptised (Acts 2:41), I encourage you to receive this word gladly. I pray that the Almighty God will keep leading you from glory to glory, in Jesus’ name.

KEY POINT

No matter how your past has been,
God has designed a glorious end for you.

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OPEN HEAVEN DEVOTIONAL 19 SEPTEMBER 2026 COMMENTARY

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,” writes the Preacher in Ecclesiastes 7:8.

Today’s Open Heavens message shares a timeless spiritual truth: in life, we must pay far more attention to how a matter ends than how it begins.

No matter where you are starting from today, Daddy wants you to know that your current struggles are not your final destination.

1. A Testimony of Shoe-less Beginnings
To prove that God is the master of turnaround, Pastor Adeboye shares his own humble beginnings. He reminds us that he was born to a farmer who was so desperately poor that even other poor people looked at his family and classified them as poor. In fact, for the first 18 years of his life, Daddy did not own a single pair of shoes.

Yet, God did not look at his shoe-less feet to determine his destination. Today, that same boy from a poor farming village is celebrated all over the world. Your background may be humble, your start may be late, or your resources may be scarce, but your past does not have the power to veto God’s glorious future for you.

2. Breaking the Limits of Your Past
Stop letting your past weigh you down. Perhaps you have made terrible mistakes, or you feel that your past sins disqualify you from being used by God. But the scripture reminds us that when you are born again, your former nature is gone and you are a brand-new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Pastor points us to Elisha, who spent the early part of his life as a prosperous farmer (as mentioned in 1 Kings 19:12). Humanly speaking, Elisha had probably reached his career peak. But when God’s hand came upon him, his true, glorious purpose began. He was transformed into a renowned prophet with direct access to kings, nations, and entire economies.

If you truly walk with Jesus, even your greatest past achievements will look small compared to the enduring glory He wants to reveal through you. Daddy compares this to the temporary glory of Moses’ ministry; though it was glorious, it completely paled in comparison to the eternal, enduring glory of Jesus Christ.

Relating This to Your Everyday Life
It is incredibly easy to look at your life today and feel discouraged. You might look at your bank account, your career, or your family and think, “Is this all my life will ever be?” You might feel like you are starting behind everyone else.

To help us understand this divine progression, let us look at two scriptures not mentioned in the devotional:

Haggai 2:9: “The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former…” God has a track record of saving His best wine for last. Your latter days are spiritually programmed to be more glorious than your former days.
Philippians 3:13-14: Apostle Paul tells us to forget those things which are behind and reach forward to those things which are ahead. You cannot run a successful race looking in the rearview mirror.

Life Example:

Think of a tiny, rough seed buried deep in the dark dirt. To an observer, the seed looks dirty, forgotten, and dead. But that dark, messy beginning is not the seed’s grave; it is its planting. Given time, water, and sunlight, that tiny seed erupts into a massive, fruit-bearing tree that shades and feeds thousands.

Your current “buried” season is just your planting phase. Do not despise your small beginnings, because God has programmed you for a massive increase (Job 8:7).

Action Steps

Stop Remembering the “Former You”: Draw a line under your past. If you are born again, actively refuse to let old sins, failures, or family limitations dictate your identity today.
Cultivate Patience over Pride: Ecclesiastes 7:8 reminds us that “the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit”. Trust God’s timing. Do not use prideful or sinful shortcuts to force a breakthrough before your “due season.”
Receive the Word Gladly: Just as the crowd in Acts 2 received Peter’s message gladly and was baptized, make a conscious decision to receive God’s promise of a glorious end with joy and active faith.

Prayer Points

Father, I thank You with all my heart because You are the Alpha and the Omega, and I praise You because my latter end is programmed to greatly increase, in Jesus’ name.
Lord, let Your mercy silence every voice of my past failures, mistakes, and sins that is trying to hold me back from stepping into my future, in Jesus’ name.
Father, give me the grace and patience to endure my planting season, knowing that my harvest will be exceedingly glorious, in Jesus’ name.
Lord, let Your mighty hand come upon me today; elevate my career, business, and ministry beyond my human qualifications, just as You elevated Elisha, in Jesus’ name.
Father, deliver me and my family from the negative spiritual patterns of our family background; turn our poverty into a global testimony of Your grace, in Jesus’ name.
Lord, let Your Holy Spirit saturate me daily, taking me from one level of glory to an even higher level of righteousness and power, in Jesus’ name.
Father, let every beautiful expectation and dream You have placed in my heart be fully realized, and do not let my glory be cut off, in Jesus’ name.

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Open Heaven 19 September 2026 Today Devotional & Commentary