Title: It’s Your Choice
Memorize: I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; Deuteronomy 30:19 (Nkjv)
Bible Reading: Genesis 13:5-18 (Nkjv)
5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.
6 Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”
10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.
11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.
12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward;
15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.
16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
18 Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.
Message:
Several years ago, I suddenly started feeling feverish with pains all over my body, so I lay in bed.
Then, I started listening to a recorded message on healing. The preacher said, “All you need to do now is to claim your healing.”
I was not convinced enough, but the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “It is because you want to be sick.”
So, I struggled to get dressed and go to Church because my body was not willing.
When I got to the Church, the pastor said we should all stand up and dance, then I told myself, “This man wants to kill me today.”
I held on to the bench and danced. After a while, I felt the urge to use the toilet; by the time I walked from the toilet back to the church, all the symptoms had disappeared.
On my way back, the Holy Spirit said, “You are what you decide to be.” Since that day, I decided the devil would never knock me down again.
My child, what you have today is dependent on what you decided yesterday.
The free will God has given you has tremendous power over your life. Therefore, choose wisely because whatever you decide is what you will be.
Key Point:
Make wise decisions.
HYMN 8 – LEAD US HEAVENLY FATHER, LEAD US
1. Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
O’er the world’s tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
For we have no help but Thee,
Yet possessing every blessing
If our God our Father be.
2. Saviour, breathe forgiveness o’er us;
All our weakness Thou dost know;
Thou didst tread this earth before us,
Thou didst feel its keenest woe;
Lone and dreary, faint and weary,
Through the desert Thou didst go.
3. Spirit of our God, descending,
Fill our hearts with heavenly joy,
Love with every passion blending,
Pleasure that can never cloy;
Thus provided, pardoned, guided,
Nothing can our peace destroy.
OPEN HEAVENS FOR TEENS 1 APRIL 2024 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 18:1-20:20 Luke 9:28-50
AUTHORS: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE
PASTOR MRS FOLU ADEBOYE