Open Heaven 18 December 2021 – Contentment And Godliness
Open Heaven 18 December 2021: [Saturday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – Contentment And Godliness
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Heaven 18 December 2021 TOPIC: Contentment
And Godliness
MEMORISE:- Better is a dry
morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. Proverbs 17:1
READ: Timothy 6:6-11 (KJV)
6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7. For we brought nothing into this world, and it
is certain we can carry nothing out.
8. And having food and raiment let us be therewith
content.
9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation
and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
destruction and perdition.
10. For the love of money is the root of all evil:
which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
11, But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 12:1-17, Jeremiah 13:1-27,
Jeremiah 14:1-22, Jeremiah 15:1-21, Jeremiah 16:1-21
Open Heaven 18 December 2021 MESSAGE:
One virtue lacking in many 21st Century Christians is contentment and this affects godliness as well. 1 Timothy 6:6 says But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Unfortunately, many Christians these days are living in a constant state of discontent. Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 says no amount of money can satisfy those who love riches.
Moreover,
the more material things you acquire, the more responsibility you have to
maintain them. Many rich people cannot sleep well because they are too
conscious of those who might steal from them
I
am sure you can point to numerous people who are enriching themselves
illegitimately, acquiring ill-gotten wealth. There are people who loot the
treasury of their countries, carting away billions into foreign bank accounts.
What
good have these billions done to their physical bodies, not to talk of their
souls? It is pure vexation of the spirit, according to King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:14.
Open Heaven 18 December 2021 – OPEN HEAVEN FOR TODAY
However,
a labourer who has contentment always has a good appetite to eat the modest
food available and sleeps like a baby after the day’s work, whereas the rich
without contentment will not sleep thinking of how to accumulate more riches
and what to do to preserve it.
This is why many of such people are chronically stingy suspecting everyone around them to be a cheat. A rich man in a city in Nigeria wanted to give me all his houses so that I would pray for him to be able to sleep.
I
told him to keep his houses because my sleep is more important to me than a
thousand houses that were built with ill-gotten wealth.
Do
you want to enjoy life in abundance? Seek the Lord today. He said: “.. I am
come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” “John 10:10”
A
person who is content is the richest fellow in the whole world. You can become
content if you are godly. To be godly is to be compliant with the dictates of
the unchanging word of God.
It is good to be ambitious, to want bigger and better things
for yourself. However, be careful not to desire material prosperity at the
expense of your spiritual growth.
Open Heaven 18 December 2021 KEY POINT:
Father,
please give me godliness and its twin -contentment, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Open
Heaven 18 December 2021 HYMN: STANDING
ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY KING
1. Standing
on the promises of Christ my king, through eternal ages let his praises ring;
glory in the
highest, I will shout and sing,
standing on
the promises of God.
CHORUS
Standing,
standing, standing on the promises of God my Savior; standing, standing,
I’m standing
on the promises of God.
2. Standing
on the promises that cannot fail, when the howling storms of doubt and fear
assail, by the living Word of God I shall prevail,
standing on
the promises of God.
3. Standing
on the promises of Christ the Lord, bound to him eternally by love’s strong
cord,
overcoming
daily with the Spirit’s sword,
standing on
the promises of God.
4. Standing
on the promises I cannot fall, listening every moment to the Spirit’s call,
resting in my
Savior as my all in all,
standing on
the promises of God.
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