OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15TH 2026

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TOPIC: ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN   MEMORISE :  To the weak became I as weak, that l might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means Save some. 1 Corinthians 9:22   READ : 1 Corinthians 9:19-23  19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.   MESSAGE I once went to a church to preach and was told that I couldn't enter the auditorium with my shoes on be...
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OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY 13th FEBRUARY 2021.

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TOPIC:  SPIRITUAL ADULTERY.

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 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;
 
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.
 
4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
 
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 man can be likened to that of a husband and his wife. Paul confirms this when he enjoined husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church (Ephesians 5:25). This is why God punishes anyone caught in spiritual adultery. For example, He punished the Israelites in Judges 2:11,13-14:
 
“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.”
 
Just like a man could be jealous over the relationship of his wife with another man, when we serve other gods besides Him, God becomes very jealous (Exodus 20:5). The spiritual adultery committed by the children of Israel can be likened to the relationship between Hosea and Gomer- a professional harlot-turned-wife. The patience of Hosea with Gomer (who was always going back to her horedom like a dog that goes back to its vomit) also illustrates God's patience with His people who court the friendship of the world.
 
1 John 2:15 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."
 
Our love cannot be shared between God and the temporary things of this world. Jesus confirms this in Luke 16:13, where 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."
 
Attempting to love God and the world at the same time will lead to rejection and shame (Revelation 3:15-16).
 
Beloved, beware of spiritual adultery, as it would only lead to eternal damnation. Stick to Jesus Christ, the Lover of your soul.
 
PRAYER POINT:
Father please forgive me of any spiritual adultery I might have committed against You. I promise to remain faithful to You until the very end.
 
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Leviticus 19 -21
 
AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE 
 
HYMN 14:  JESUS MY LORD, MY GOD MY ALL.
 
Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all!
How can I love Thee as I ought?
And how revere this wondrous gift,
So far surpassing hope or thought?
 
Refrain:
Sweet Sacrament, we Thee adore!
Oh, make us love Thee more and more.
Oh, make us love Thee more and more.
 
2. Had I but Mary's sinless heart
With which to love Thee, dearest King,
Oh, with what ever fervent praise,
Thy goodness, Jesus, would I sing!
 
3. Thy Body, Soul and Godhead, all!
O mystery of love divine!
I cannot compass all I have,
For all Thou hast and art is mine!
 
4. Sound, then, His praises higher still,
And come, ye angels, to our aid;
For this is God, the very God
Who hath both men and angels made!

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