OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL

DATE: THURSDAY 28TH DECEMBER 2017

THEME:  PREVENTING FORNICATION


MEMORISE:
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:2


READ: 1 Corinthians 7:1-9

7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.


MESSAGE:

Yesterday, the Lord spoke to us about His intention for Christian homes not just to add to the population of the earth through procreation, but to produce children that meet heaven’s specification of godly seed, who will represent God everywhere they go and obey Him to the letter. May your home produce such godly seed in Jesus’ Name! Another reason why God established the institution of marriage is to prevent fornication. 1 Corinthians 7:2 says,

“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

This scripture speaks of the need for husband and wife to be intimate so as not to fall into the pit of sexual immorality. It is common in some homes today for the wife to deny her husband of intimacy just because he has not fulfilled certain requests she made, or for the husband to deny his wife intimacy because he is not happy with her. This is at variance with God’s expectations and an abuse of the purpose of sexual intimacy. It is wrong to use sex as a tool for punishing your spouse. People should learn to isolate issues and not mix them up. Neither the husband nor the wife has the power to deny sexual intimacy except it is a temporal arrangement, for the purpose of prayer and fasting, and this must be by mutual consent. Denial of sexual intimacy is viewed as fraud from God’s perspective (1 Corinthians 7:4-5).


Both the wife and the husband should strive towards fulfilling the godly sexual desires of their spouse. This is necessary because it is one way the couple will be protected from the hawks outside their home. It is only a foolish woman who will give conditions for intimacy. When you starve your spouse of intimacy, you expose him to external dangers and temptations. Some women who are married to pastors and ministers of God take it for granted that their husband can never go out of their matrimonial homes, and as a result they begin to deny them sexual intimacy at will. Going by recent realities, such women may get the shock of their lives! There are those who use spirituality as basis for starving their spouse. I don’t suppose such people can be more spiritual than Apostle Paul, who wrote the admonition in 1 Corinthian 7:4-5. Some of these people are almost always fasting and praying. Please control your fast before you cause irreparable damage to your home.


PRAYER POINT:
Father, uproot every spirit of immorality causing married people in my local assembly to be unfaithful to their spouses.


BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Ecclesiastes 4-7
Malachi 1                                                                                                     


AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE


HYMN 16: GOD GIVE US CHRISTIAN HOMES

1.      God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the Bible is loved and taught,
Homes where the Master’s will is sought,
Homes crowned with beauty Your love has wrought;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

2.      God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the father is true and strong,
Homes that are free from the blight of wrong,
Homes that are joyous with love and song;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

3.      God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the mother, in caring quest,
Strives to show others Your way is best,
Homes where the Lord is an honored guest;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

4.      God give us Christian homes!
Homes where the children are led to know
Christ in His beauty who loves them so,
Homes where the altar fires burn and glow;
God give us Christian homes;
God give us Christian homes!

��� *LET US PRAY* ���

.. _*Thursday, December 28, 2017*_

*PRAYER POINTS*:- _PREVENTING FORNICATION._

1. *THANKSGIVINGS* .

2. *INTERCESSIONS/SUPPLICATIONS.*

3. *PRAYERS FROM OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL:*

----- Father, i thank you because *YOU ARE A GREAT GOD*

*_---- Father, I thank you for saving me and for the salvation of my soul....._*

*_---- Father, I Thank You for the message in today's OPEN HEAVENS Devotional....._*

*_---- Father, I thank You for Your purpose of establishing the institution of marriage........_*

*_---- Father, I thank you for my marriage and other Christian Marriages all over the world,..._*

*_---- Father, in Your power, please keep my marriage from breaking down, in Jesus Name......_*

*_----Father, please uproot every spirit of immorality causing married people in our churches to be unfaithful to their spouses, in Jesus name......._*

*_------Father, in your love and power, please put an end to every conflicts in the home front , in Jesus name......._*

*_---- Father, please heal all broken homes all over the world, in Jesus name;......_*

4. *PERSONAL PRAYERS AND OTHER PRAYERS REQUESTS:*
-- (John 16:23 - 24,
-- LUKE 18:1,
-- MATT 7:7 - 8 )......

---- FATHER, I thank you for the answers, for in *JESUS MIGHTY* Name I have Prayed.

Prayer Points on Today's Open Heavens: (Thursday, December 28, 2017) - PREVENTING FORNICATION

1.Thank you, Father, for your love, grace and mercy, that have kept me from January, till now.

2.Thank you, Father, for all the marital battles that you have fought and won on my behalf.

3.Father, in anyway, l have fallen short of your glory, please, have mercy and forgive me, in Jesus' name.

4.Father, let me never use sex as a weapon to punish my spouse, in Jesus' name.

5.Father, uproot every spirit of immorality causing married people in my local assembly to be unfaithful to their spouses, in Jesus' name.

6.Father, give me the grace, to control my sexual appetite, no matter the situation, that I may find myself, to avoid, defiling, your holy temple, which is my body, in Jesus' name.

7.Father, as many, who are looking unto you, to settle down maritally, please, provide for them and help them to locate, their divine partners, to avoid, formication, in Jesus' name.

8.Father, let there be love, peace and mutual respect, between husband and wife, in every Christian home, in Jesus' name.

9.Father, the consequences of the sin of fornication or adultery, are grave; please, give me the grace to avoid them like plague, in Jesus' name.

10.Father, arise, and scatter, every plan of Satan to scatter my home and marriage, in Jesus' name.

11.Father, strengthen, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the author of the open heavens daily devotional and general overseer of RCCG, physically and spiritually, and uphold him, by your right hand of righteousness, till the end, in Jesus' name.

12.Your Personal petitions.
( Philippians 4:6)
13.In Jesus' name I pray.
(John 14:13-14; 15:16)
14.Thank you Father for answered prayers.
(1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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