Open Heaven For Today 28 April 2024: [Sunday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye — Give Thanks
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Open Heaven For Today 28 April 2024 TOPIC: Give Thanks
MEMORISE: "O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever". Psalms 136:1
READ: Psalms 100:1-5 (KJV)
1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 3-4
Open Heaven For Today 28 April 2024 MESSAGE:
The reason Solomon was extremely grateful to God in 2 Chronicles 1:6-12 is that he realised that he didn’t deserve to be king.
His father was an adulterer and his mother an adulteress. His father was also a murderer who murdered his mother’s first husband.
How could God pick the fruit of such a union and make him king?
Solomon indeed had every reason to be grateful.
If you look at your life closely, you will also see that you don’t deserve many of the things that God has given to you, including your life.
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I think you should really give Him thanks.
When people see me dancing in agbada at least once a year to praise God in my mother tongue, many of them do not understand.
The day I asked God how He could choose the product of a sinful relationship like Solomon to be king, He also asked me, “Is your mother the first wife of your father?”
I had no more questions because, based on the circumstances surrounding my birth, I don’t deserve to be called to pastor His sheep.
I am always grateful to God because to whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48).
Even the fact that I am here in this world is something to be grateful for.
My mom had made up her mind that she wasn’t having any more children because she already had as many girls as she wanted and a boy.
However, the boy died, and people begged her to give birth again. She agreed, and I was born.
Coming from that background, and also considering all the sins I had committed before giving my life to Christ, it is a privilege that God could save a soul like mine and make me a pastor.
So, I know why I dance and sing praises to my God.
When we say, “Let us thank God,” those who feel that they deserve everything they have don’t see the importance.
For some of them, they believe God chose them because He had no choice and so, they don’t bother.
However, for some of us, we know where we are coming from and the things we survived.
I grew up amongst scorpions, snakes, and all sorts of wild animals, and was surrounded by witches, wizards, and the rest.
For me to have survived in that kind of environment, I cannot keep quiet when it is time to thank God. Will you do the same?
Open Heaven For Today 28 April 2024 Action Point
Throughout today, just keep thanking God for all that He has done for you.
Open Heaven For Today 28 April 2024 HYMN 18: Praise To The Lord The Almighty
1. Praise to the Lord,
the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is
thy health and salvation:
Join the great throng
psaltery,organ and song
sounding in glad adoration!
2. Praise to the Lord,
who over all he gloriously reigneth:
Borne as on eagle-wings, safely
his saints, He sustaineth.
Hast thou not seen
How all thou needest hath been
Granted in what He ordaineth?
3. Praise to the Lord,
who doth prosper thy way and defend thee;
Surely his goodness and mercy
shall ever attend thee;
Ponder anew, What the Almighty can do,
Who with His love doth befriend thee
5. Praise to the Lord!
Oh, let all that is in me adore Him!
All that hath breath, join with
Abraham’s seed to adore Him!
Let the Amen, sum all our praises again;
Now as we worship before Him.
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