Welcome to the Open Heavens TEENS Devotional Review for 3rd September 2020

Dealing with Serpents
Luke 10:18-21

The Eagle is a royal bird, that flies higher than other birds.
The Eagle’s nest is also highly placed but snakes try to get there so they can feast on the Eagle’s eggs
Like the Eagle’s nest , God has placed you as a believer in Christ (Colossians 3) and set you above all principalities and powers which are agents of the devil.

Eph.2.6 – and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Serpents represents the Devil and it’s agents.

Despite your highly seated position, the devil may try to bring temptations your way as he did to Jesus(Matthew 4:1-4) but you can use you authority By the WORD of God
James 4:7… Resist the devil and he will flee from You.

You cannot resist the devil in sin, that’s why it also said first Submit to God.

Dear Child of God, you can overcome the world because Christ has overcome.(John 14:28)

Store the Word of God in your heart and it will be a defence against Serpents.

Summary: Use the Sword of the Spirit(the word) against Serpents

Good morning with God’s love
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Be intentional to Help spread the love to someone dear believer

For you are His Expression,
His Loving Letters
Alive2Christ//Alive2Love

THEME: THE BETTER OPTION

MEMORISE: l 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. Acts-20:35

BIBLE READING: Acts 20:32-35

32. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
33. l have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
34. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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.

MESSAGE:
It is a good thing to be blessed, it is however a better option to be a blessing.
Paul knew this secret, that’s why in spite of the fact that he was very busy in doing God’s work; spreading the gospel across national boundaries, he still had to work so that he could fend for himself and also be a blessing to the weak and poor. When God blesses you, He does so not just for yourself but so that you can share what you have with others. You are from a rich home not to oppress the poor or bully them.
God blessed your family so that you can give to the poor, so that you can share your provisions or foodstuffs with them. The beautiful clothes you have should not decorate your wardrobe until you’re tired of seeing them, they should be given to the poor. How beautiful will it be if you can visit the motherless babies homes on your birthday to share things with them rather than make merry with your rich friends?.

ACTION POINT:
Today, give something good to someone whom you know doesn’t have as much as you do.

HYMN: IS YOUR LIFE A CHANNEL OF BLESSING?

1. Is your life a channel of blessing?
   Is the love of God
   flowing through you?
   Are you telling the lost of the Saviour?
   Are you ready His service to do?

Chorus:
Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
Make me a channel of blessing today.

2. Is your life a channel of blessing?
   Are you burdened for
   those that are lost?
   Have you urged upon
   those who are straying,
   The Saviour who died on the cross?
3. Is your life a channel of blessing?
   Is it daily telling for Him?
   Have you spoken the word of salvation
   To those who are dying in sin?
4. We cannot be channels of blessing
   If our lives are not free from all sins;
   We will barriers be and a hindrance
   To those we are trying to win.

BIBLE READING IN ONE YEAR:
Proverbs 12; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31
AUTHORS: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE
PASTOR (MRS) FOLU ADEBOYE

Welcome i the Open Heavens TEENS Devotional Review for 3rd September 2020

Dealing with Serpents
Luke 10:18-21

The Eagle is a royal bird, that flies higher than other birds.
The Eagle’s nest is also highly placed but snakes try to get there so they can feast on the Eagle’s eggs
Like the Eagle’s nest , God has placed you as a believer in Christ (Colossians 3) and set you above all principalities and powers which are agents of the devil.

Eph.2.6 – and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Serpents represents the Devil and it’s agents.

Despite your highly seated position, the devil may try to bring temptations your way as he did to Jesus(Matthew 4:1-4) but you can use you authority By the WORD of God
James 4:7… Resist the devil and he will flee from You.

You cannot resist the devil in sin, that’s why it also said first Submit to God.

Dear Child of God, you can overcome the world because Christ has overcome.(John 14:28)

Store the Word of God in your heart and it will be a defence against Serpents.

Summary: Use the Sword of the Spirit(the word) against Serpents

LifeWire You are not too dirty for God to accept!
You may have a past that's bad but He is still rich in mercy and grace,

Happy New month Beloved!

It’s a September to remember!

May we be strengthend more and more to be a source of help and blessing to others.
ABBA Loves You.

“The Grace of the Lord Jesus and the Love of God and communion of the Holy Spirit be with you, Amen.

Grace, peace and
Welcome to the open Heavens Devotional Review for 31st August 2020

THE ENEMY WITHIN
Galatians 5:16-22

1 Corinthians 9:27 but I train like a champion athlete. I subdue my body and get it under my control, so that after preaching the good news to others I myself won’t be disqualified.

Many people think man’s greatest enemy is the devil,but that’s not true. Man’s greatest enemy is self.

What’s Self?
Self refers to the natural sinful human nature that was passed down from Adam, who rebelled against God’s Government.

It’s the nature that drives every man to sin.
Self contradicts the ways of the Holy spirit.
The Passion Translation Galatians 5:17-18 For your self – life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit and hinder him from living free within you! And the Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your old self – life from dominating you! So then, the two incompatible and conflicting forces within you are your self – life of the flesh and the new creation life of the Spirit. But when you are brought into the full freedom of the Spirit of grace, you will no longer be living under the domination of the law, but soaring above it!

When a man gives his life to Christ, he has the grace of God to live above sin and self.

This only happens when you submit under the government of the Holy Spirit in your heart.
Romans 8:1 the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus frees us from the law of sin and death.
Submit to the desire of the Holy Spirit and say no to sin. ( Titus 2:11-14)

For we are His Expression,
©Living Letters
(Alive2Christ//alive2HisLove)

Grace and peace and welcome to the open Heavens Devotional Review, for August 30th 2020.

Topic: HANDLING TEMPTATIONS

Text: James 1:12-15
James 1:12 If your faith remains strong, even while surrounded by life’s difficulties, you will continue to experience the untold blessings of God! True happiness comes as you pass the test with faith, and receive the victorious crown of life promised to every lover of God!

James 1:13-15 When you are tempted don’t ever say, “God is tempting me,” for God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he is never the source of temptation. Instead it is each person’s own desires and thoughts that drag them into evil and lure them away into darkness. Evil desires give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully mature it can murder you! (The Passion Translation)

Temptations are mere arousals to sin.
It’s the situation where you are drawn by a lust.(James 1:3)

Temptations are don’t just happen, but it is a situation where you are tested in an area of lust.

How do I overcome lust?
*** Submit to the discipline of the spirit of God (He will help you.)
[Romans 6:13-14]

*** Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. (But on the Love of God) The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but from the world.( 1 John 2:15-16)

Don’t offer your body to sin but set your consciousness to righteousness

*** Don’t give room for the opportunity. Be principled and flee every appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22)

For we are His Expression, His Living Letters
(Alive2Christ//alive2Love)

#Think on these things series 2.

TRUSTING GOD
Matthew 6:26 “Look at all the birds—do you think they worry about their existence? They don’t plant or reap or store up food, yet your heavenly Father provides them each with food. Aren’t you much more valuable to your Father than they? The Passion Translation

DEAR BELIEVER,

The life of the believer was never one to be lived in worry.
Many times, the devil brings situations to us that seem.to confound your understanding. He still goes to come and go counsel, suggesting  ways you can overcome the challenge.

Many times our undoing is in following his counsel and /or walking by natural sight.

At times this counsel, may look harmless but alas, If we choose to follow His pattern we are prone to failure… for there’s a way that seems right to men but leads to death.( Proverbs 14:30)

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Jesus told his disciples, Don’t allow worry room in your heart.

Maintain a heart posture of prayer and thanksgiving that embraces the peace of God

Speak to your heart and soul it shall be well. Matthew 6:26

“Say to the Righteous It shall be well with you you shall eat the fruit of your work”  Isaiah 3:10

Ecclesiastes  8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

“Righteousness is the greatest security for every man”

“`Never compromise your stand as the Righteous…

Even when things looks contrary. It’s in these times of test we are tried and refined (James 1:3)

DON’T COMPROMISE HIS WORD/INSTRUCTIONS🙌
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Luke  6:47,48 KJV

All things work together for the good of the that love the Lord and for them who are the called according to him purpose.(Romans 8:28)

God’s plans towards you are good thoughts.(Isaiah 29:11)

TAKE His love  PERSONAL dear Believer,

Never forget, “you  are more than a conqueror despite the challenge through HIS LOVE TO YOU”

#SignOfAbundance #Elijah HAS BROKEN THROUGH
©#You are His Expression_ His Living Letters, (#alive2Christ)`

DANGERS OF IDLENESS
Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-7

Idleness is staying without doing anything useful. It involves a great deal of spending resources yet not accomplishing any productive goal.

It was never intended for man to be idle, in the beginning God, the creator put man I the Garden at the East of Eden and told him to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)

So there’s work you should be doing per time.

1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…

Idleness they say is the devil’s workshop because if you’re not working on productive things, the devil takes advantage of you, because he comes to steal, kill and destroy…

We saw how He did this to David and others in the past …This disadvantage can only be recovered by God’s mercy and grace.
Christ Jesus on the other hand wants us enjoy #Eternal life (a life knowing the Father experientially) and invest in this life daily. (Gal. 6:5, Jn 10:10; 17:3)

What are you investing your time in?
Set your heart to understanding what God’s will(per time/season of your day/life and do it.
…Take full advantage of every day as you spend your life for his purposes. 17 And don’t live foolishly for then you will have discernment to fully understand God’s will.  Ephesians 5:16b, 17
(The Passion Translation)

@alive2Christ//alive2Love

#welcome to today’s Open Heavens Devotional Review, August 20th 2020

Today’s Topic is
SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
Acts 28:1-6

In the world today,
We are in the days where
We have many people who are professors of different degrees and it seems everything can be explained by the internet.

All this is prophesied to occur in these days. But there are situations and cases that cannot be answered naturally but are a proof of Spiritual things.

Ephesians  6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, _but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places._

Spiritual activities are very real, even though they can’t be seen by the physical eyes because this realm was created by God who is a Spirit in the beginning. (Genesis 1:1, Hebrews 11:3).
That’s why you need to be born again, so you can see rightly(John 3:3’8)

The Lord Jesus himself made us understand that the devil who is a spiritual being exists and has a measure of influence in natural things like sickness, death in the Earth today.
John 10:10
1 John 3:8…
For this purpose the son of man comes, to destroy the works of the devil

All these influences which are linked to sin are a major spiritual factor that affects every human being and robs him or her of access to a relationship with God, but Christ Jesus died to destroy that influence on the devil on humanity

And this is life eternal that they might know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ who you have sent Jn17:3

Jesus Christ is the true wisdom for life, He wants you to enjoy eternal life which makes you experientially know God.

#JesusIsCallingforyou