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Open Heaven For Teens 24 April 2023 – Your Approach Matters
TOPIC: Your Approach Matters [Open Heaven for Teens 24 April 2023]
MEMORISE: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Psalms 100:4
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READ: Psalms 100:1-4
1 (A Psalm of praise.) Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
MESSAGE
To enter God’s presence, you must follow Heaven’s protocol; don’t just crash in. Let your heart and your mouth be filed with thanks for all that God in your life, family and for your loved ones. When you approach God for your needs, let Him first hear your thanksgiving, follow that with quality praise and worship, and then your requests can come last.
Thanksgiving and praises should take more of your time, not your requests. This is also proven in Matthew 8:1-3 when the leper reverenced God first before making his request.
Just like the Yoruba adage says,” If you give thanks for yesterday’s favour, you will receive another one.” When you show gratitude for a kind gesture done to you in the past, you are likely to get another one. It is the same with God; don’t make another request without thanking Him for previous favours (blessings). Always enter His gates with thanksgiving.
KEY POINT
To get answers to your requests, follow Heaven’s protocol from now on.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 17-18
HYMN 10 – Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven
- Praise, my soul, the King of heaven;
To His feet your tribute bring.
Ransom’d, heal’d, restor’d, forgiven,
Who like thee His praises should sing?
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Praise the everlasting King! - Praise Him for His grace and favor
To our fathers in distress.
Praise Him, still the same as ever,
Slow to chide, and swift to bless.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Glorious in His faithfulness! - Father-like He tends and spares us; Well our feeble frame He knows.
In His hands He gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Widely yet His mercy flows! - Angels, help us to adore Him; Ye behold Him face to face.
Sun and moon, bow down before Him,
Dwellers all in time and space.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Praise with us the God of grace!
Daily Devotional for Teen’s guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.
