Open Heaven For Teens 25 October 2025 – For Your Own Good
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TOPIC: For Your Own Good (Open Heaven for Teens, 25 October 2025)
MEMORISE: If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. – Psalms 50:12
Also Read: Open Heaven 25 October 2025 – The Lord Is My Deliverer
BIBLE READING: 1 Samuel 15:16-23
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?
18 And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
MESSAGE:
If the richest man in the world gives you $100 and later tells you to loan him the money back because he needs it for something urgently, you will most likely give him immediately because he was the one who gave you the money in the first place, and you know that he can give you so much more. This is why l am surprised when I see people who refuse to pay their tithes. The God who instructed them to bring 10% of what they have is the one who gave them 100% of what they have in the first place. He even promised in Malachi 3:10 that if a fellow gives Him 10% of whatever He blesses him or her with, He will pour down a blessing into the fellow’s life that will be so big that it will overflow. If anyone still refuses to give Him 10% of what He has blessed him or her with, whose loss is it?
Obeying God’s instructions can be tough sometimes, but when you think carefully, you will realise that He owns everything you have, and it will become easier to obey Him. My dear child, has God given you a particular instruction that you are struggling to obey? Do not be like King Saul, who forgot his origin and ended up being disgraced, as we read in today’s Bible reading. I pray that God will strengthen you to always obey Him, in Jesus’ name.
KEY POINT:
When you obey God, you are doing yourself a favour.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Jeremiah 48:1-49:22, & 2 Timothy 4:1-22
HYMN 35: TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS
1 Tis so sweet to trust in
Jesus,
Just to take Him at His Word;
Just to rest upon His promise;
Just to know, “Thus saith the Him! Lord.”
Refrain
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
How l’ve proved Him o’er and o’er!
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!
2 O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to trust His cleansing blood;
And in simple faith to plunge me
‘Neath the healing, cleansing Hood!
Refrain
3 Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life and rest, and joy and peace.
Refrain
4 I’m so glad I learn’d to trust Thee,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend,
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.
Refrain
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.
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