Open Heaven 18 December 2021 Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye –Topic: CONTENTMENT AND GODLINESS 

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Open Heavens 2021
Date: 2021-12-18
Topic: CONTENTMENT AND GODLINESS

Memory Verse: Proverbs 17:1 – Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Bible Reading: 1 Timothy 6:6-11

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. 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.

Also Read: Open Heaven 17 December 2021 –Topic: THE HABITATION OF THE LORD 

Hymn: Standing On The Promises Of Christ My King
Points: Father, please give me godliness and its twin – contentment, in the mighty of Jesus.
Bible in one year: Jeremiah 12, Jeremiah 13, Jeremiah 14, Jeremiah 15, Jeremiah 16

Title: Standing on the Promises of Christ our King.
Chorus: Standing, Standing,
Standing on the promises of
God my Saviour
Standing, Standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God..

  1. Standing on the promises of Christ our King,

Thro’ eternal ages let His praises ring:
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.

  2. Standing on the promises that can-not fail,

When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail
By the living word of Go I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.

  3. Standing on the promises I now can see

Perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me;
Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,
Standing on the promises of God.

  4. 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.

Open Heavens 2021 Daily Devotional 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. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC.