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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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!