OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL...

 

DATE: SUNDAY NOVERMBER 19TH 2017

THEME: LISTEN TO ELDER      


Memorise:

 

“I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.”                            Job 32:7

                                                                                                                                               

 

Read: 1 Peter 5:1-5

 

5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

 

 

Message:

 

One way of avoiding mistake is to learn from the experience of those who have gone ahead of you in faith, business, career or family life. If you learn from the fall of other, you will not meet with the same tragic end that befell them. This is why you need to listen to the advice of elders. Piglets are expected to learn from the mother pig. For this reason, Job 32:7 says,

 

                “I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.”

 

It is also commonly said that experience is the best teacher. There are several things you will be taught from the school of life when you listen to what the elders the Lord has placed around you have to say. There is a Nigerian proverb says, “A child may have as many cloth as an elder, but he cannot have as many rage as he.” Learn from those who have trod on the path you are walking on.

 

I had the opportunity of delivering a sermon at the wedding of the daughter of a country’s president not too long ago. I observed that both the girl and her husband were highly educated. I therefore said to them, “Looking at you, I can tell you are both brilliant people, but you are just starting a journey into marriage, a journey I have been engaged in for about 47 years, and as a result, I have one or two things to teach you”. It is very important that you listen to your elders. Are you newly married? I have two equations to keep you going- one: love is blind, and two: marriage is a miracle-worker with special anointing for opening blind eyes. When you solve these two equation simultaneously, the answer you will get is this: Love is blind but marriage will open its eyes.

 

Beloved, never shun the advice of an elder! Apart from your biological elders, your pastors and senior pastors are also elders. Except when they ask you to veer off the path of righteousness, please listen to them and follow their good advice. If you have a godly, humble heart, it will be easy to listen to elders. Can you believe that some people do not listen to their elders because they want to be in-charge of their lives? They erroneously believe that if they listen to elders, they will lose control of their lives. Righteous elders will want to guide you on God’s holy path and ensure you reach your goal. Be wise today!

 

 

Prayer Point:

 

Father, thank you for all the elders in the body of Christ; please use theom to provide righteous counsel for our youths, so that together we can all make Heaven

 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:

  

Psalm 17-21

 

Amos 9    

 

                                                                                                             

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

 

 

HYMN 16:   GOD GIVE US CHRISTIAN HOME!

 

 

1.       God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the Bible is loved and taught,
Homes where the Master’s will is sought,
Homes crowned with beauty Your love has wrought;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

2.       God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the father is true and strong,
Homes that are free from the blight of wrong,
Homes that are joyous with love and song;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

3.       God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the mother, in caring quest,
Strives to show others Your way is best,
Homes where the Lord is an honored guest;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

4.       God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the children are led to know
Christ in His beauty who loves them so,
Homes where the altar fires burn and glow;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

��� *LET US PRAY* ���

.. _*SUNDAY, November 19, 2017*_

*PRAYER POINTS* :- _LISTEN TO ELDER._

1. *THANKSGIVINGS* .

2. *INTERCESSIONS/SUPPLICATIONS.*

3. *PRAYERS FROM OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL:*

----- Father, i thank you because *YOU ARE THE ANCIENT OF DAYS.*

*_---- Father, I thank you for saving me and for the salvation of my soul....._*

*_---- Father, I thank you for the grace to be alive, today;......_*

*_---- Father, I thank You because You are the only wise God;......_*

----- *Father, thank you for all the elders in the body of Christ; please use theom to provide righteous counsel for our youths, so that together we can all make Heaven, in Jesus' Name._*

----- *_Father, please grant unto me listening ears to the Elders, in Jesus' Name._*

----- *_Father, please help me to always be humble enough to seek Elders advice at all times, in Jesus’ Name......_*

*_Father, please grant unto me the wisdom to handle every situation that comes my way, in Jesus' Name......_*

4. *PERSONAL PRAYERS REQUESTS:*
-- (John 16:23 - 24,
-- LUKE 18:1,
-- MATT 7:7 - 8 )......

---- FATHER, I thank you for the answers, for in *JESUS MIGHTY* Name I have Prayed.

Prayer Points on Today's Open Heavens: (Sunday, November 19th, 2017) - LISTEN TO ELDERS

1.Thank You, Father, for all the elders in the Body of Christ; please use them to provide righteous counsels for our youths, so that together we can all make Heaven.

2.Thank you, Father, for the priceless experience and wisdom that you have made available to me, in the course of my service and walk with you, that have kept me standing in faith, till today.

3.Father, in anyway, l have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus' name.

4.Father, give me a submissive, teachable, humble and a contrite heart, in Jesus' name.

5.Father, give me the grace to honour and respect elders, in your church, wherever I find them, in Jesus' name.

6.Father, help me never to Lord it over your flock, or cause any of the young ones, in your church to stumble, in Jesus' name.

7.Father, empower me to learn from other people's mistakes and misfortunes, rather than wait, to experience them, myself, in Jesus' name.

8.Father, let me be well rooted, grounded and built up in you, lest, I be carried away by vain philosophies and deceit of men, in Jesus' name.

9.Father, let the upsurge of false teachings and doctrines, on salvation, tithe, etc, currently in circulation, in your church, die a natural death, and let the truth stand and prevail, in Jesus' name.

10.Father, arise, scatter, and visit every source of attack on your church, with brimstones and with fire, in Jesus' name.

11.Father, release more of your grace upon Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the author of the Open Heavens devotional and general overseer of RCCG; let his light shine before men, that, they may see his good works, and glorify you, our Father, in heaven, in Jesus' name.

12.Your Personal petitions.
( Philippians 4:6)
13.In Jesus' name I pray.
(John 14:13-14; 15:16)
14.Thank you Father for answered prayers.
(1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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