Open Heaven For Today 2024: Daily Devotional

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Open Heavens 21 November 2024

3 Keypoints From: Decree Good Over Your Children

  • Some children can be naughty (Proverbs 22:15), however, the way you respond to their behaviour will determine whether those children will turn out good or become worse. (Job 22:28)
  • There is power in your tongues and this power is even more potent over your children because they came into the world through you. (Genesis 27:18-33)

  • “You will account for every word you speak over your children, and whatever they become will reflect on you also. Speak blessings over your children at all times.

    Memorise: And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. (Mark 10:16)

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    3 Keypoints From: Your Spiritual Father

  • If you claim to have a spiritual father, you must do something to prove it. If you are disobedient to your spiritual father, you are not his true child.
  • If you don't sow anything, either in the form of service or material resources, into the life of your spiritual father, God will not recognise that relationship. (2 Kings 3:11)
  • There are blessings that come from the heart of your father; such blessings can never be reversed. (Genesis 27:33-37)

  • “Do what will make your spiritual father so willing to bless you that, even if what you ask for is beyond his control, he will commit God to give it to you. (2 Kings 2:9-15)

    Memorise: For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. (1 Corinthians 4:15)

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    3 Keypoints From: The Future You

  • If your children make the same mistakes you made, you have not done a good job of teaching them. It is where you stop that they should start from.
  • If you are a good man (Proverbs 13:22), the inheritance you will leave for your children will exceed money. Majorly wisdom, influence, a good name, properties...
  • You must train the ones who will carry on from where you stop.

  • Reflection: How much are you investing in the 'future you'?”

    Memorise: Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget thy things which thine eyes have seen, and lest thy depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; (Deuteronomy 4:9)

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    3 Keypoints From: Wisdom

  • People who do not heed the cry of wisdom usually suffer the consequences of being foolish, and it may be too late by the time they realise it. (Proverbs 1:20-33)
  • If you want to be wise, the place to start from is to fear God (Psalm 111:10) and prove that you fear Him; by departing from evil (Proverbs 16:6)
  • Because wisdom is the correct application of knowledge, the limit o your wisdom will be how limited you are in knowledge; Also learn something new every day.

  • “If a fellow does not have a relationship with God (who gives wisdom: Daniel 2:20-22) he or she cannot get wisdom. You must first accept Jesus Christ (the wisdom of God 1 Corinthians 1:24) as your Lord and Saviour, then simply ask Him for wisdom.”

    Memorise: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7)

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    3 Keypoints From: Cover Not Your Sins

  • The reason God always had mercy on David is that he never tried to cover his sins; rather, he would confess them to God. (1 Chronicles 21:1-16)
  • Covering your sins will land you in destruction. When you do something wrong, don't try to keep up appearances. (1 Samuel 15:20-29)
  • Your Christian life is not about publicity, it is more of a personal relationship with the King of kings.

  • “Confess your sins and plead with God for mercy, while you repent genuinely. When you do that, He will have mercy on you, but if you cover your sins, you are risking His total rejection.”

    Memorise: He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. (Proverbs 28:13)

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    3 Keypoints From: Friend Of God?

  • Many people claim to be God’s friends, but from their reaction when it comes to giving to God, you will realise that they are not.
  • A friend gives to his or her friend without him or her asking. Are you really a friend of God?
  • Real friends of God will not wait until an announcement is made for offerings to be made to God before giving to Him.

  • “Those who are always happy to give to God, and who don’t need to be cajoled or asked before they do so, always enjoy abundant blessings. God sees them as His genuine friends, so He also doesn’t wait for them to ask before giving to them.

    MEMORISE: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. (Genesis 14:20)

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    3 Keypoints From: Be Merciful

  • Many people ask God for mercy, but when God looks into their lives and sees that they don't show mercy to others around them, He withholds His mercy. (Galatians 6:7)
  • When you are mercify, you are doing good to yourself, but if you are cruel, you are hurting yourself because cruelty will only rob you of the mercies of God. (Proverbs 11:17)
  • You cannot say you love God and hate your neighbour (1 John 4:21). If you decide not to love your neighbour, you're telling God that you don't need His love.

  • “If you sow mercy into the lives of others, you will reap mercy. However, if you decide to sow unforgiveness, then do not complain when you reap unforgiveness. (Job 4:8)

    Memorise: Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (Matthew 5:7)

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    4 Keypoints From: Committing God

  • If you can find what God's word says about what you want and align yourself with it, He will be committed to doing His part.
  • Promotion comes from God (Psalm 75:6-7), He decides whom to raise and whom to bring down (1 Samuel 2:7-8). Yet you can get God to promote you (fulfilling His word) by being humble. (1 Peter 5:6)
  • If you are diligent in your business, you will stand before kings (Proverbs 22:29). Hence, to get to the very top and bear rule, you must add diligence to your humility. (Proverbs 12:24).
  • The devil knows that God will not go against His word, so he tempts you into committing sin, and accuses you before God. (Revelation 12:10)

  • “Never give the devil the opportunity to use God's word against you, rather, use God's word to your favour by always praying and doing according to His will.”

    Memorise: I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2)

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    3 Keypoints From: Love For God

  • No matter how big a fellow has now become, he or she is still nothing before God. If a person is too big to dance for Him, God can decide to show that fellow how small he or she really is.
  • It is not so much about dancing; rather, it is about heart of a man after God has raised him. David's love for God increased as he went higher, while Saul's love reduced as he went higher. Which of these two are you?
  • If a believer's love for God is reducing, such a believer is not far off from offending Him, and that might result in God rejecting the fellow. (Philippians 1:9-10)

  • Prayer Point: Father, please let my love for You abound more and more every day, in Jesus' name.”

    Memorise: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (Matthew 22:37)

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    4 Keypoints From: The Meaning Of Life

  • Man may pursue a variety of personal objectives, amass wealth, achieve success in one field or the other, or gain pleasure in something, but will soon discover that that they are all momentary and unsatisfying without Christ.
  • No matter how rich you become, money doesn't satisfy (Ecclesiastes 5:10). In Christ, you have everything you need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).
  • At the end of the day, what people need to gain the joy that they seek is to satisfy the burning desire to connect with their maker, the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • It will profit you nothing if you gain the whole world and lose your soul (Matthew 16:26). Make Christ your top priority; Don't trade Him for money or anything else.

  • “The worst thing about hell is not the unquenchable fire and undying worms that will torture its occupants (Mark 9:48); it is the external separation from God and the regret of choosing to continue in sin despite hearing several messages of God's salvation.”

    Memorise: And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35)

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    3 Keypoints From: Impossible Prayers (2)

  • There is a popular saying that an opportunity, once lost, can never be regained. The fellow who said that did not put God in the equation.
  • God can restore the unrestorable and reverse the irreversible. With Him, nothing is impossible. (Ezekiel 37:1-11)
  • All you have to do is cooperate with Him as He guides you on what to do for the loss to be restored.

  • What you have lost could be more serious. If you have lost your first love for Christ, and the passion and love that you had for Him at the beginning seems to have died, God will restore your love for Him today, in Jesus' name.”

    Memorise: But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (Matthew 19:26)

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