Open Heaven For Teens 14 March 2021 – Honour Your Mother

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TOPIC: Honour Your Mother [Open Heaven for Teens 14 March 2021]

MEMORISE: A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. Proverbs 15:20

READ: Proverbs 1:8-9

8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 23-25, Mark 14:51-72

MESSAGE:

It is so unfortunate that many children respect their fathers but show disrespect to their mothers because they feel that the mother is always accessible and friendly unlike the fathers who are usually inaccessible and tough. This ought not to be because mothers really labour on their children. Whenever you disrespect your mother, you make her sad. In addition to that, you disobey God because the Bible says in Ephesians 6:2:

“Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;”

Note that in the Bible passage above, you are not to honour only your father but also your mother. You must never disrespect your mother because she has a role to play in your journey to greatness. As powerful as Jesus was, He never disrespected His mother. When she requested a favour from Him at the marriage ceremony at Cana, He granted her request even though it was not yet His time to perform a miracle. He did it because He didn’t want to disobey her. Are you obedient to your mother?

ACTION POINT:
Appreciate your mother with a gift and kind words today and if you have been disobedient to her, ask her for forgiveness.

HYMN 11: IN CHRIST ALONE MY HOPE IS FOUND

1. In Christ alone my hope is found,
   He is my light, my strength, my song,
   This Cornerstone, this solid Ground
   Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
   What heights of love, what depths of peace
   When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
   My Comforter, my All in All
   Here in the love of Christ I stand.
2. In Christ alone! Who took on flesh
   Fullness of God in helpless babe
   This gift of love and righteousness
   Scorned by the ones He came to save
   Till on the cross as Jesus died
   The wrath of God was satisfied
   For every sin on Him was laid
   Here in the death of Christ I live.
3. There in the ground His body lay
   Light of the world by darkness slain
   Then bursting forth in glorious Day
   Up from the grave He rose again
   And as He stands in victory
   Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
   For I am His and He is mine
   Bought with the precious blood of Christ.
4. No guilt in life, no fear in death
   This is the power of Christ in me
   From life’s first cry to final breath
   Jesus commands my destiny
   No power of hell, no scheme of man
   Can ever pluck me from His hand
   Till He returns or calls me home
   Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.

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.