OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL: SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH 2025

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TOPIC: LET THE WORD DWELL IN YOU   MEMORISE:  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16   READ : John 15:4-7 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.   MESSAGE The Bible says in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “The Scripture went further to say, in verse 14 of the sa...
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OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL : SATURDAY OCTOBER 29TH 2022

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TOPIC:  NO LOVE WITHOUT DISCIPLINE 

MEMORISE:  
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Proverbs 13:24

READ: Proverbs 3:11 -12

11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

MESSAGE
If you want God to love you, then He will discipline you. The more He loves you, the more He will discipline you. God loves children who bear fruits (win souls), very specially, so He said that any tree that bears fruit, He will prune: 

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

The purpose of pruning and discipline is to make you bear more fruits and become even greater in the realm of the Spirit.

If God disciplines you whenever you do something wrong, you should rejoice because it means that you are special to Him and He wouldn't leave you to be destroyed. However, if you are doing something wrong and God is silent about your wrong-doing, you should run to Him and cry for mercy because it most likely means that He has left you for destruction. This often happens when He had warned a person severally but the person didn't listen. We see an example of this in Hosea 4:17 which says:

Ephraim joined to idols: let him alone. 

Romans 1:28 also says:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient:

If you stole but weren't caught, fornicated but everything seems to be going normal, run to God for mercy because He has probably left you in the hand of the devil. Don't continue in your sin because there was no repercussion or chastisement; cry to Him for mercy. Tell Him you are sorry and ready to forsake sin. He saw what you did and the fact that He is acting as if He didn't see it should send you on your knees begging for mercy if you don't want to be destroyed. 

KEY POINT
If you sin and God is silent, you are already losing your place as His beloved child; cry to for mercy.

BIBILE IN ONE YEAR: Luke 7-8

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE 

HYMN 3: DEEPER DEEPER IN THE LOVE OF JESUS

1  Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.

o    Refrain:
Oh, deeper yet, I pray,
And higher every day,
And wiser, blessed Lord,
In Thy precious, holy Word.
 
2  Deeper, deeper, blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,
And His perfect will.

3  Deeper, deeper! though it cost hard trials,
Deeper let me go!
Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,
Let me fruitful grow.

4  Deeper, higher, every day in Jesus,
Till all conflict past,
Finds me conqu’ror, and in His own image
Perfected at last.

5  Deeper, deeper in the faith of Jesus,
Holy faith and true;
In His pow’r and soul exulting wisdom
Let me peace pursue.

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