OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.

DATE: TUESDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2016

THEME: SPIRITUAL ADULTERY FORBIDDEN!

Memorise:

For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. Isaiah 54:5

Read: Hosea 2:2-5

2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

MESSAGE

The relationship between God and His human creatures could be likened to the relationship between a husband and his wife. God, who instituted marriage, patterned the relationship in marriage after His relationship with His people. This is why spiritual adultery is severely punished from time to time in the history of man and his interaction with his Maker.
"And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim... And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies." Judges 2:11, 13-14

God is jealous, like a man could be jealous over the relationship of his wife with another man, when his human creatures follow other gods besides Him (Exodus 20:5). The spiritual adultery which the children of Israel committed is vividly illustrated in the relationship between Hosea and Gomer his professional harlot-turned wife. The patience of Hosea with Gomer who was always going back to her whoredom like a dog that goes back to its vomit also illustrates God's patience with His people who court with the people of the world. The bond becomes stronger when someone at the altar of repentance, betroths himself or herself to Jesus Christ, the original Bridegroom. The Bible says:
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15

Our Lord Jesus Christ also said that our love cannot be possibly shared between God and ephemeral things of this world. He said:
"No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13

Serving God and mammon is spiritual adultery, punishable by rejection and shame. The Bible says:
"Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst." Hosea 2:2-3

Beloved, beware of spiritual adultery. Stick to Jesus Christ, the Lover of your soul and He will do you good.

Prayer Point

Father, please forgive me of any spiritual adultery I might have committed against You and our spiritual matrimony. For Christ's sake, please do not reject me.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Micah 5-7
Psalms 87

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE

HYMN 5: OH SPREAD THE TIDING ROUND

Oh, spread the tidings ’round, wherever man is found,
Wherever human hearts and human woes abound;
Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound: The Comforter has come!

Chorus:
The Comforter has come,
The Comforter has come!
The Holy Ghost from heav’n,
The Lord’s dear promise giv’n;
Oh, spread the tidings ’round,
Wherever man is found,
The Comforter has come!

2. The long, long night is past, the morning breaks at last;
And hushed the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o’er the golden hills the day advances fast!
The Comforter has come!

Chorus:

3. Lo, the great King of kings, with healing in His wings,
To every captive soul a full deliv’rance brings;
And through the vacant cells the song of triumph rings:
The Comforter has come!

Chorus:

4. O boundless love divine! how shall this tongue of mine
To wond’ring mortals tell the matchless grace divine
That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine!
The Comforter has come!

Chorus.

Prayer Points on Today's Open Heavens, ( Tuesday, October 25th, 2016) - SPIRITUAL ADULTERY FORBIDDEN!
1.I acknowledge and worship you my Father, for, you are the Lord of hosts, my Redeemer, the Holy One of lsrael, the God of the whole universe.
2.Thank you Father for all your visible and invisible blessings in my life.
3.Thank you Father for your mercies that endureth forever, over my life.
4.Father, in anyway, l have fallen short of your glory, have mercy and forgive me.
5.Father, in anyway l have been involved in spiritual adultery, in word, in thought and in my action, please, have mercy and forgive me.
6.Father, in anyway, l have shared your glory with any man or idol, please, have mercy and forgive me.
7.Father, please, forgive me and remove, shame, reproach and afflictions, from my life.
8.Father, let me never forget your blessings nor, forsake you to go and serve other gods, again.
9.Father, grant unto me the grace to serve and do your Will till the end, in Jesus' name.
10.Father, arise, now, and deliver me from the hands of my strong enemies and tormentors.
11.Father, in your anger, always remember mercy.
12.Your Personal Petitions.(Phil 4:6)
13.In Jesus' name I pray.(John 15:16)
14.Thank you Father for answered prayers. (1 Thes 5:18).
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