OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL: TUESDAY , DECEMBER 6TH 2016- LOVE: AN ANTIDOTE FOR DEATH

Memorise: We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 1st John 3:14
Read: 1st John 3:9-11 (KJV)
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Bible in one year: Exodus 22:16-24:18, Psalms 118

AS REVEALED BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE IN TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL

1. The first attribute that becomes noticeable in a genuinely born-again child of God is the love for God and humanity.
2. God loves to fellowship with man and this has been so from the very beginning. God created man to fellowship with Him; this is the major reason why He created us in His image. He enjoyed coming to meet and fellowship with Adam in the cool of the day.
3. Enoch walked with God for at least 300 years! The fellowship was so intense that death could not touch him. God had to call him to glory to continue the fellowship there
4. Indeed, love is an antidote for death, if you truly love God and obey His commandments, death will be far away from you.
5. God wants to be intimate with you. Open yourself and your whole household to God, and create time for regular fellowship with Him today.

SHORT REFLECTION BY THE LIGHT POINTERS

Love is one of the most important characters that must be evident in any one who has been saved through Christ Jesus. Probably, that is why it’s the first in the list of the fruit of the spirit according to Galatians 5:22, out of the nine fruit of the spirit, love carries huge importance and without it, all other gifts or fruits are useless. Just as Apostle Paul stated ” If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing”.1Corthians 13:1-3 ESV and the last verse of that chapter says ” So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Brethren, the love of God is paramount to the survivor of our faith and hope in Christ. Blessed be God for our father in the Lord Pastor E. A Adeboye for the great insight in today’s devotional. May he continually increase in strength and grace in Jesus’ name.
HYMN
1 When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,
and the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;
when the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,
and the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
Refrain:
When the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder,
when the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
2 On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise,
and the glory of His resurrection share;
ahen His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies,
and the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. [Refrain]
3 Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun;
let us talk of all His wondrous love and care;
then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done,
and the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there. [Refrain]

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