Open Heavens 30 December 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Of Seasons

Topic: Of Seasons — Saturday 30, December 2017

Memorise: A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; – Ecclesiastes 3:4

Read: James 5:1-6 (KJV)

1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Bible in One Year: Ecclesiastes 11-12, Solomon 1-3, Malachi 2:17-3:15, Hymn: Sing Hymn 6: Deeper, Deeper

Open Heavens 28 December 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Preventing Fornication

Topic: Preventing Fornication — Thursday 28, December 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 Corinthians 7:1-9 (KJV)

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

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

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

4 The 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.

5 Defraud 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.

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

7 For 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.

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

9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Open Heavens 27 December 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Heaven’s Specs

Topic: Heaven’s Specs — Wednesday 27, December 2017

Memorise: And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. – Malachi 2:15

Read: Malachi 2:14-15 (KJV)

14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Bible in One Year: Ecclesiastes 1-3, Zachariah 14:10-21, Hymn: Sing Hymn 16: God Give Us Christian Homes

Open Heavens 25 December 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Who Do You Seek?

Topic: Who Do You Seek? — Monday 25, December 2017.

Memorise: And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. – Matthew 28:5

Read: Matthew 2:1-11 (KJV)

1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,

6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.

8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.

9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

Open Heavens 16 December 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – What Of Your Vows?

Topic: What Of Your Vows? — Saturday 16, December 2017.

Memorise: Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. - Ecclesiastes 5:5

Read Ecclesiastes 5:1-6 (KJV)

1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Bible in One Year: Revelation 14-16, Zachariah 3, Hymn: Sing Hymn 16: God Give Us Christian Homes!

Open Heavens 15 December 2017: Friday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Good From Evil

Topic: Good From Evil — Friday 15, December 2017.

Memorise: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; -  2 Corinthians 4:17

Read: John 16:4-7 (KJV)

4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Bible in One Year: Revelation 11-13, Zechariah 1:18-2:13, Hymn: Sing Hymn 4 – Through The Love Of God Our Saviour

Open Heavens 14 December 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Paul Was Truly Yorked

Topic: Paul Was Truly Yorked — Thursday 14, December 2017.

Memorise: Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. -  Acts 21:13

Read: Acts 21:7-14 (KJV)

7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.

8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.

9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

Bible in One Year: Revelation 7-10, Zechariah 1:1-17, Hymn: Sing Hymn 14 – Take My Life

Open Heavens 13 December 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – All Secrets Shall Be Uncovered

Topic: All Secrets Shall Be Uncovered — Wednesday 13, December 2017.

Memorise: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. -  Romans 2:16

Read: Luke 12:1-3 (KJV)

1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Bible in One Year: Revelation 3-6, Haggai 2:10-23, Hymn: Sing Hymn 6 – Deeper, Deeper

Open Heavens 9 December 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Stop The Pretence!

Topic: Stop The Pretence! — Saturday 9, December 2017.

Memorise: Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: – 1 Timothy 1:5

Read: 1 Timothy 1:5-9 (KJV)

5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Bible in One Year: Psalm 120-134, Zephaniah 2:13-3:8, Hymn: Sing Hymn 6 – Deeper, Deeper

Open Heavens 7 December 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Eroding God’s Honour?

Topic: Eroding God’s Honour? — Thursday 7, December 2017.

Memorise: A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? – Malachi 1:6

Read: Malachi 1:6-8 (KJV)

Open Heavens 6 December 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – What Do You See?

Topic: What Do You See? — Wednesday 6, December 2017.

Memorise: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. – Habakkuk 2:1

Read: Habakkuk 2:1-3 (KJV)

1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Bible in One Year: Psalm 108-112, Habakkuk 3, Hymn: Sing Hymn 7 – O Jesus, I Have Promised

Open Heavens 28 October 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Poverty or Riches?

Topic: Poverty or Riches? — Saturday 28, October 2017.

Memorise: The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. – Proverbs 22:7

Read: 2 Corinthians 8:7-9 (KJV)

7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Bible in One Year: Hebrews 5-8, Hosea 3-4, Hymn: Sing Hymn 10 – There Shall Be Showers Of Blessing

Open Heavens 27 October 2017: Friday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – The Essence of Spiritual Office

Topic: The Essence of Spiritual Office — Friday 27, October 2017.

Memorise: And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; – Ephesians 4:11

Read: Ephesians 4:8-14 (KJV)

8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Open Heavens 23 October 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – His Thoughts Towards You

Topic: His Thoughts Towards You — Monday 23, October 2017.

Memorise: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD– Isaiah 55:8

Read: Isaiah 55:8-13 (KJV)

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Open Heavens 18 October 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Hope In These Last Days

Topic: Hope In These Last Days — Wednesday 18, October 2017.

Memorise: I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. – John 14:18

Read: Joel 2:28-32 (KJV)

8 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Bible in One Year: Ephesians 2-4, Daniel 9:3-15, Hymn: Sing Hymn 1 – My Faith Looks Up To Thee

Open Heavens 14 October 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – One With God Is A Majority

Topic: One With God Is A Majority — Saturday 14, October 2017.

Memorise: And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. – 2 Kings 6:16

Read: 2 Kings 6:8-17 (KJV)

8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.

10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.

11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?

12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

Open Heavens 11 October 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Be Of Good Cheer

Topic: Be Of Good Cheer— Wednesday 11, October 2017.

Memorise: A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. – Proverbs 15:13

Read: Matthew 14:23-27 (KJV)

23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.

25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.

27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

Bible in One Year: 1 Corinthians 15-16, Daniel 5:13-28, Hymn: Sing Hymn 4 – Through The Love Of God Our Saviour

Open Heavens 10 October 2017: Tuesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – I Shall Not Be Poor

Topic: I Shall Not Be Poor — Tuesday 10, October 2017.

Memorise: All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him. – Proverbs 19:7

Read: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 (KJV)

9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

Bible in One Year: 1 Corinthians 12-14, Daniel 5:1-12, Hymn: Sing Hymn 10 – There Shall Be Shower Of Blessing

Open Heavens 5 October 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Occupy Till He Comes

Topic: Occupy Till He Comes — Thursday 5, October 2017.

Memorise: Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. – John 15:2

Read: Luke 19:11-13 (KJV)

11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.

Bible in One Year: Romans 14-16, Daniel 3:8-23, Hymn: Sing Hymn 13 – Wonderful Story Of Love

Open Heavens 20 September 2017: Wednesday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Give First

Topic: Give First — Wednesday 20, September 2017.

Memorise: I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. – Psalm 13:6

Read: 1 Chronicles 16:2-3, Acts 20:35 (KJV)

2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

Acts 20:35:

35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Bible in One Year: Ezra 9-10, Ezekiel 44:1-14, Hymn: Sing hymn 10 – There Shall be Showers of Blessing