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T opic: Watch that Backsliding [ Thursday April 30, 2015] Memorise :  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. - Proverbs 14:14 Read:   John 6:66-69 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve , Will ye also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Bible in one Year:   Judges 20-21, Matthew 28 MESSAGE: Backsliding does not happen suddenly. It’s a process that occurs over a period of time, during which a person becomes lax in his thought life and begins to entertain from the path of light to the ways of evil from which one was once saved. There are many prodigal sons and daughters today who have forsaken their first love in the pursuit of materialism. Many workers in the vineyard of God...

O📖📖📖 Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖 By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:– Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Topic:- RESTITUTION Memorise: And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. Luke 19:8 Read: Luke 19:1-10, 19:1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 19:2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. 19:3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. 19:4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. 19:5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.  19:6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. 19:7 And when they saw it, they...

O📖📖📖 Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖, By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:- Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Topic:- CHOOSE TO BE SANCTIFIED Memorise: And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1Corinthians 6:11 Read: 1Thessalonians 5:22-24, 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. Bible in one year: Judges 16:23-18:31, Mathew 27:15-44 Message: It is the express will of God that every believer is sanctified (1Thessalonians 4:3). For us to become vessels unto honour, fit for the Master’s use, we have to be fully sanctified (1Timothy 2:21). To be sanctified is to be separated unto the process of becoming like Jesus Christ inn character (2Corinthians 3:18). Sanctificatio...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E .A Adeboye. Date: – Monday, April 27, 2015. Topic:- THE BENEFITS OF SALVATION 2 Memorise: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Ephesians 1:22-23 Read:-Ezekiel 36:24-30 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall b...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E .A Adeboye. Date: – Sunday, April 26, 2015. Topic:- THE BENEFITS OF SALVATION 1 Memorise: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Read: Isaiah 25:8-9, 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Bible in one year: Judges 12:14, Matthew 26:47-68 Message: Salvation is a package full of benefit cutting across the three spheres of human existence: the spirit, the soul and the body (1Thessalonians 5:23). When you experience salvation, the life force of God is released to ...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:– Saturday, April 25, 2015. Topic:- JESUS THE SAVIOUR Memorise: And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 Read: John 3:16-18, 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Bible in one year: Judges 10-11, Matthew 26:26-46 Message: The number-one treasure of the Church is Jesus Christ. Through Him, all things consist (Colossians 1:17). He is the Almighty who no one can make mightier; He is the richest one who no one can make richer. The earth and it...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:– Friday, April 24, 2015. Topic:- SIN: CONSEQUENCES & CURE Memorise: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23 Read: Ezekiel 18:20-24, 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away f...

Open Heavens Devotional  By Pastor E. A Adeboye. Date : –Thursday, April 23, 2015. Topic : - SECRETS OF ANSWERED PRAYERS Memorise :  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7 Read: John 16:23-27, 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh , when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 16:26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. Bible in one year:  Judges 6:36-8:28,...

OOpen Heavens Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye. Date:– Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Topic:- SOWING BEFORE REAPING Memorise: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 Read: Galatians 6:7-10, 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Bible in one year: Judges 5:1-6:35, Matthew 25:14-30 Message: Our God is great. Not only is He great, He is the greatest. He possesses all wisdom, riches and glory. The plan of God and His delight is for you to prosper (3 John 2). Prosperity here implies abundance,...

Topic: Jesus: The Wisdom of God [Monday April 20, 2015] Memorise:  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; -  1 Corinthians 1:23 Read:   1 Corinthians 1:21-24 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Bible in One Year:   Judges 3:7-4:24 and Matthew 24:36-25:13 MESSAGE: When wise men from the East discovered the phenomenon that indicated the birth of Jesus, they abandoned everything they were doing and commenced an immediate search for Him ( Matthew 2:1-2 ). These were noble men who were feared and highly respected. They were of the priestly...

Topic: The Kingdom of God on Earth [ Monday April 20, 2015] Memorise :  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. -  Matthew 6:10 Read:   Matthew 6:9-10 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Bible in One Year:   Judges 1:1-3:6 and Matthew 24:15-35 MESSAGE: The nature of our expectations from God directly depends on His promises to us. Some promises of God may sound incredible, but He is always committed to bringing them to pass. If your expectation does not agree with His promises, you may forfeit its fulfilment . Our God is good and gracious. He does many things to prove His divine power. There are times when God unravels some mysteries to make us believe and know absolutely that His plan and purpose for us cannot be compared to our current struggles and toils. This is why every child of God must pray the kingdom of Go...

oOpen Heavens Devotional ByPastor E .A Adeboye. Date:- – Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Topic:- RESPECT THE ANOINTING Memorise: Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Psalm 105:15 Read: 1Samuel 24:1-6, 24:1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi. 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. 24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. 24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that ...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye . Date : – Monday, April 13, 2015. Topic : - THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS Memorise : For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 Read: Acts 5:1-11, Bible in one year: Joshua 10:16-12:6, Matthew 20:1-28 Message: In our Bible reading, we find a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, who were gravely judged and punished because they lied. Just like this couple, there are some Christians who gave God 5% of their income and label it as tithe . Galatians 6:7 says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Anyone who changes the word of God is a son of perdition, and the end of such is not to be desired. Jesus Christ said that all the people given to Him by God, He did not lose anyone except the son of perdition (John 17:12). At the time He made this statement, Judas Iscariot was still going around as a disciple. However...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E .A Adeboye. Date:– Friday, April 10, 2015. Topic:- RAPTURABLE Memorise: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1Corinthians 15:52 READ: 1Thessalonians 4:13-17, 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clou...

Open Heavens Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye . Date : – Thursday, April 09, 2015. Topic : - THE WISE & THE FOOLISH Memorise : Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1Thessalonians 5:22. Read: Judges 16:15-21; Bible in one year: Joshua 1-3, Matthew 17 Message: Imagine you are driving on an unfamiliar road, and you see a sign that reads “narrow bridge ahead”. As soon as you see this sign, you have gained the knowledge that there is a narrow bridge in front of you. What you choose to do with this knowledge will determine whether you are wise or foolish. If you are wise, you will slow down immediately. If you ignore the sign and increase your speed, you are foolish. This illustrates the state of many lives. Wisdom is the correct application of knowledge. When you begin to apply knowledge correctly, you will reach your goal. Fools always end badly even if they start well. The wise builds, while the foolish pulls down (Proverbs 14:1). All the things that happened to generat...

Open Heavens Devotional 📖📖📖, By Pastor E .A Adeboye. Date:– Wednesday April 08, 2015. Topic:- BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES Memorise: And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. Number 20:12 Read: 2Kings 5:25-27, 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. 5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. Bible in one year: Malachi 1-4, Matthew 16:13-...