Topic: Choose Your Approach [Teens Open Heavens 30, April 2018]
Memorise: By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. – Proverbs 25:15
Read: Colossians 4:1-6 (KJV)
1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Bible In One Year: 2 Samuel 23-24, Luke 22:31-53
MESSAGE:
Pride and anger are very terrible things that shouldn’t be allowed in the life of a child of God. An example of someone who pride and anger almost destroyed is Naaman, Pride is a terrible thing; it is a blindfold that veils the mind of its host. Naaman could have died a leper if not for his servant who advised him correctly.
Approach is important in communication. You may have a good idea, but if it is not presented well, your idea may not be taken seriously. Do your ideas in class always get turned down by the teacher? Do your friends often reject your suggestions? Maybe it is time to choose a better approach to presenting your ideas.
When presenting an idea or a suggestion, never be too forward or aggressive. Whatever it is you are presenting, do it with humility and not with the intention to put anybody down in any way. Make sure that you know quite much about what you are talking about. And once you are done, always thank the person you presented the idea to for his/her time.
Key Point: Approach is a platter on which ideas are served. If it is enticing, the idea will be accepted. But if it is repelling, no matter the idea on it, it will be rejected.
If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Teen Open Heavens Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye’’
Hymn 13
1. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is the love of God flowing through you?
Are you telling the lost of the Savior?
Are you ready His service to do?
Chorus:
Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
Make me a channel of blessing today.
2. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Are you burdened for those that are lost?
Have you urged upon those who are straying
The Savior who died on the cross?
3. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is it a daily telling for Him?
Have you spoken the word of salvation
To those who are dying in sin?
4. We cannot be channels of blessing
If our lives are not free from known sin;
We will barriers be and a hindrance
To those we are trying to win
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.
