Open Heavens Daily Devotional Messages, By Pastor E.A Adeboye.

Open Heavens 29 December 2017: Friday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Excellent service or eye-service?

Posted: 25 Dec 2017 02:43 PM PST

EXCELLENT SERVICE OR EYE-SERVICE? - Friday December 29^th 2017

Memorise: "Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of

God from the heart;" Ephesians 6:6

Read: Ephesians 6:5-8 (KJV)

^6:5Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

^6:6Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

^6:7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

^6:8Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

open-heavens-open-heaven-29-december-2017-friday

Bible in one year: Ecclesiastes 8-10, Malachi 2:1-16, Sing Hymn 14

MESSAGE:

"For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men for if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ"

Galatians 1:10

God's expectation concerning your service towards His kingdom and your service in your workplace is that in both cases, you serve with the mindset of one serving God and not man. He expects you to render excellent service and to serve without hypocrisy. rccg open heaven. One mark of hypocritical service is the desire to please men rather than God. A hypocritical worker is more concerned about entering and remaining in the good books of his or her superiors but really does not care whether God is pleased or not. You will commonly find eye-service in such people. Eye-service is service rendered only when the employer is watching. Eye-service is unacceptable to God, especially in His vineyard, and for this reason, the Holy Spirit warns us against it in Ephesians 6:6, saying:

"Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;"

In the sight of God, a fellow given to eye-service is a hypocrite. open heaven.When such people do some work for God, it is not from their heart. They are not bothered about the work being done in line with God's will. All they are concerned about is being seen to be 'doing something' by their superiors. They love to be praised by their Pastor or supervisor as being dutiful, diligent and supportive, but is that the record that God has of them?

If you love the praise of men more the commendation of God, you do not yet know what it is to serve the Lord. The truth is, work or service rendered with eye-service will definitely miss heaven's mark, and runs the risk of losing heaven's rewards! This. How faithful are you to God and His work? Also, how faithful are you to your employer and the objectives for your jobs? Eye-service is characterized by deception, lies and pretense. open heaven 26 December 2017 . If you work in this way, your service is unto the leader whose favour you seek and not unto Christ. You cannot serve Jesus Christ and still have the target to please men. Colossians 3:22 says your service should be backed by the fear of God. If you truly love fear God, you will serve Him and do whatever He asks you do, whether your superiors are there or not. If you still see traces of eye-service in your life, repent and turn a new leaf today.

Prayer Point:

Father, deliver your Church from eye-service and inspire us to serve you truly.

Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
iOpenHeavens is the electronic version of the Hard Copy. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC.

Sing Hymn 14

TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE

Verse 1:

Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;

Let them flow in endless praise.

Verse 2:

Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for thee.

Verse 3:

Take my voice and let me sing
Always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.

Verse 4:

Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose.

Verse 5:

Take my will and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne.

Verse 6:

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.

Open Heavens 28 December 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – Preventing fornication.

Posted: 25 Dec 2017 02:08 PM PST

PREVENTING FORNICATION - Thursday December 28^th 2017

Memorise: "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every

woman have her own husband." 1 Corinthians 7:2

Read: 1^st Corinthians 7:1-9 (KJV)

7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

^7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

^7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

^7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

^7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

^7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

^7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

^7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

open-heavens-open-heaven-28-december-2017-thursday

Bible in one year: Ecclesiastes 4-7, Malachi 1, Sing Hymn 16

MESSAGE:

Yesterday, the Lord spoke to us about His intention for Christian homes not just to add the population of the earth through procreation, but to produce children that meet heaven's specification of a godly seed, who will represent God everywhere they go and obey Him to the letter. May your homes produce such godly seed in Jesus' Name! Another reason why God established the institution of marriage is to prevent fornication. 1^st Corinthians 7:2 says,

"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

This scripture speaks of the need for husband and wife to be intimate so as not to fall into the pit of sexual immorality. It is common in some homes today for the wife to deny her husband intimacy just because he has not fulfilled certain requests she made, or for the husband to deny his wife intimacy because he is not happy with her. Open Heaven for today. This is at variance with God's expectation and an abuse of the purpose of sexual intimacy. It is wrong to use sex as a tool for punishing your spouse. People should learn to isolate issues and not mix them up. Neither the Husband nor the Wife has the power to deny sexual intimacy except it is a temporal arrangement, for the purpose of prayer and fasting, and this must be by mutual consent. Denial of sexual intimacy is viewed as fraud from God' perspective (1^st Corinthians 7:4-5).

Both the wife and the husband should strive towards fulfilling the godly sexual desires of their spouse. This is necessary because it is one way the couple will be protected from the hawks outside their home. It is only a foolish woman who will give conditions for intimacy. When you starve your spouse of intimacy, you expose him to external dangers and temptations. Some women who are married to Pastors and ministers of God take it for granted that their husbands can never go out of their matrimonial homes, and as a result, they begin to deny them sexual intimacy at will. open heaven. Going by recent realities, such women may get the shock of their lives! There are those who use spirituality as basis for starving their spouses. I don't suppose such people can be more spiritual than Apostle Paul, who wrote the admonition in 1^st Corinthians 7:4-5. Some of these people are almost always fasting and praying. Please control your fast before you cause irreparable damage to your home.

Prayer Point:

Father, uproot every spirit of immorality causing married people in my local assembly to be unfaithful to their spouses.

SingHymn16

GOD GIVE US CHRISTIAN HOMES

Verse 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

Thy love hath wrought;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

Verse 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 joyful with love and song;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

Verse 3:

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

Verse 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!