The Open Heaven 22 December 2025 devotional for today is CONDUCTORS OF THE ANOINTING 2.
This is a daily devotion written by Pastor E. A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
OPEN HEAVEN 22 DECEMBER 2025 TODAY DEVOTIONAL
TOPIC: CONDUCTORS OF THE ANOINTING 2
MEMORISE:
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Job 17:9
READ: Psalms 24:1-5:
1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
RCCG OPEN HEAVEN 22 DECEMBER 2025 TODAY MESSAGE
Yesterday, I mentioned that the hands are conductors of the anointing upon a believer’s head. What a believer does with his or her hands can determine how the Holy Spirit will operate.
In Exodus 17:8-13, when Moses lifted up his hands on a hilltop, Israel prevailed over their enemies; however, when he became tired and dropped his hands, Israel started losing. In Exodus 14:21- 28, Moses’ hands did something extraordinary; He stretched his hand over the sea, a strong east wind blew, and a way was created where there was none before. The east wind is another reference for the Holy Spirit in the Bible. This means that a believer’s hands can determine how the Holy Spirit moves.
In 1981, after I had just become the General Overseer of RCCG, I travelled to Ifewara, my hometown in South-West Nigeria. Then, there was no direct road linking Ife, a major city in the South-West region, to Ifewara. To get to Ifewara, one would have to take a route through llesha, a smaller city within the region, making it an extra 70-kilometre journey.
When I eventually got to my hometown, I told my people to make a request to God, and they asked for a motorable road linking Ifewara to Ife. I asked them where exactly they wanted the road to be built, and they pointed it out. I lifted my hand and said, “In the name of Jesus, let there be a road.”
Six months later, the government decided to build a road from Ife to Ifewara. There was no logical or political reason to do so, and they didn’t build it to get votes because it was during a military regime; they built it because God found a hand that He could use to create a way where there was none.
Beloved, God needs your hands to perform great miracles on the earth. Psalm 24:4 says that only those who have clean hands can ascend unto the Lord’s hill. Are your hands clean enough for God to use? Can He use them as channels to do His will on earth? You must not put your hands into anything that has an appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22).
Don’t use your hands to give or collect bribes; it will grieve the Holy Spirit. Don’t use them to engage in fornication or doctor figures to illegally enrich yourself; that will also grieve the Holy Spirit. Make your hands available and usable to God so that He can do mighty works through them.
PRAYER POINT
Father, my hands are available for Your use now and always.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
1 Peter 1-5; 2 Peter 1-3
HYMN 7: I AM THINE O LORD.
OPEN HEAVEN DEVOTIONAL 22 DECEMBER 2025 COMMENTARY
MEMORISE: Job 17:9
“The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.”
This verse links moral purity with increasing spiritual strength and steadfastness. “Clean hands” symbolize a life free from guilt, corruption, and unethical action. This cleanliness is not a passive state but an active condition that empowers the believer to “hold on” and grow stronger—implying that purity is the conduit for enduring power and progress.
BIBLE READING: Psalms 24:1-5
This psalm establishes the qualifications for standing in God’s holy place and being a vessel of His blessing:
v.1-2: God’s Absolute Ownership – All the earth and its fulness belong to Him.
v.3: The Penetrating Question – “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?” Access to God’s presence and power is conditional.
v.4: The Non-Negotiable Conditions – “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” This defines holiness in terms of action (hands), intention (heart), worship (soul), and speech.
v.5: The Promise – “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” Clean hands and a pure heart are the channel for receiving and distributing divine blessing.
The Consecrated Conductor: Clean Hands for Divine Use
Building on yesterday’s teaching, Pastor E.A. Adeboye now focuses on the condition of the hands that conduct God’s anointing. The devotional powerfully argues that our hands are not neutral tools; they are moral instruments that either facilitate or frustrate the Holy Spirit’s operation. Clean hands become divine instruments for creating ways where there are none.
1. The Sovereignty of the Hands: How They Govern the Spirit’s Flow
The Moses Principle (Exodus 17:8-13):
Moses’ uplifted hands were not a magical gesture but a posture of intercession and dependence that determined the course of a national battle. His physical weariness directly affected the spiritual outcome. This shows that our physical acts of faith (prayer, praise, obedience) create the spiritual atmosphere for God’s intervention.
The Creative Authority (Exodus 14:21-28):
When Moses stretched his hand over the Red Sea, he was acting on God’s command. His obedient hand became the point of contact for the “strong east wind”—the Holy Spirit—to execute a creative miracle. The believer’s obedient hand can signal the Spirit to move in ways that defy natural laws, creating pathways through impossible situations.
2. The Testimony of the Created Way: A Road from Faith
The Natural Impossibility:
The lack of a direct road was a geographical and political obstacle, isolating the town. The request of the people aligned with God’s desire for connectivity and progress for His people.
The Prophetic Act:
Daddy Adeboye’s lifted hand and decree (“let there be a road”) was not a prayer begging God, but a command releasing the creative authority vested in a clean, obedient vessel. He acted as God’s vice-regent on earth, using his hand to “pull down” a heavenly blueprint.
The Sovereign Fulfillment:
The government’s unexplained action—without logical, political, or electoral motive—is a classic hallmark of divine intervention. God used the clean, anointed hands of His servant to orchestrate circumstances in the natural realm. The hand created a demand on heaven, and heaven moved earthly authorities to comply.
3. The Imperative of Clean Hands
The Access Requirement (Psalm 24:3-4):
You cannot ascend to God’s hill (place of intimacy and authority) or stand in His holy place (minister effectively) with defiled hands. Clean hands are a prerequisite for being a conduit of blessing (v.5).
What Defiles the Hands:
The devotional specifies:
- Bribery (giving or receiving): Corruption that perverts justice and integrity.
- Fornication: Sexual impurity that violates the temple of the Holy Spirit.
- Fraud (“doctor figures”): Dishonest gain and deception.
Such actions “grieve the Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 4:30), creating a spiritual short-circuit that halts the flow of anointing.
The Positive Charge (1 Thessalonians 5:22):
We are commanded to “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” Clean hands avoid not only evil but anything that looks like it, maintaining a spotless testimony and an unobstructed connection to God.
4. The Outcome: Stronger and Stronger
The Promise of Increasing Strength (Job 17:9):
A life of clean hands is not a life of weakness, but of accumulating strength. Each act of integrity, each refusal to compromise, fortifies the believer’s spiritual authority and increases their capacity to be used for “greater works” (John 14:12).
Usable to God:
The ultimate goal is to have hands that God finds “available and usable.” This means hands ready for prayer, ready for service, ready to heal, ready to give, and ready to be lifted in prophetic authority.
How to Cultivate and Maintain Clean Hands
1. Daily Examination and Confession:
Use Psalm 139:23-24 as a daily prayer. Allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any defilement in action or motive. Confess and repent immediately to keep short accounts with God (1 John 1:9).
2. Establish Boundaries of Integrity:
Set non-negotiable rules for yourself regarding money, sexuality, and speech. Decide in advance that your hands will not touch what is unclean, even if opportunity arises.
3. Use Your Hands Positively for God:
Counteract the potential for defilement by actively using your hands for holiness: lift them in worship, lay them on the sick in prayer, open them in generous giving, employ them in diligent work.
4. Seek Accountability:
Have a trusted spiritual friend or leader who can ask you the hard questions about your conduct in business, relationships, and private life. Transparency is a guardian of purity.
Warning: The Grieving of the Spirit
To use anointed hands for unclean purposes is a profound contradiction that saddens the Holy Spirit. It is like using a surgeon’s sterilized scalpel to handle garbage. The instrument becomes contaminated and unfit for its sacred purpose until cleansed. Continued defilement leads to a loss of power, a withdrawn anointing, and ineffectiveness in ministry.
Conclusion: Lifted Hands, Cleansed for His Use
Pray this:
“Holy God, whose eyes are too pure to behold iniquity, search my hands and my heart. Forgive me for every act that has defiled my hands. Wash me thoroughly, and create in me a clean heart. I consecrate my hands to You today—may they be instruments of righteousness, lifted in prayer, stretched out in faith, and used only for Your glory. Make them a channel through which Your Spirit moves to create ways where there are none. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
Action Steps:
- Conduct a ‘Hands’ Audit: Write down the primary activities your hands are engaged in each week (work, hobbies, interactions). Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight any that compromise cleanness.
- Perform a Prophetic Act: Identify an “impossible” situation (a broken relationship, a financial dead-end, a health issue). Lift your clean hands over it and speak God’s word with authority, believing for a creative miracle.
- Study the Consequences: Read about the defiled hands of Gehazi (2 Kings 5:20-27) and the clean hands of Daniel (Daniel 6:10). Note the starkly different outcomes.
Remember: Your hands are your point of contact with the world. They can either transmit God’s creative power or spread the contamination of sin. Clean hands are not weak; they are the strong, authorized instruments of the Almighty.
“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting” (1 Timothy 2:8). Lift up holy hands. Let them be your offering, your weapon, and God’s tool on earth.
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