Open Heaven For Teens – 9 October 2025 Daily Devotional Message By Pastor E.A Adeboye And Pastor (Mrs) Folu Adeboye
Open Heaven For Teens – 9 October 2025 TOPIC: Are You Godly Or Religious
MEMORISE
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy 4:8
SCRIPTURE READING
2 Timothy 3:5
Open Heaven For Teens – 9 October 2025 MESSAGE
Religion and godliness are two separate things. Religion is a fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by several persons or sects, while godliness is having the nature of God as an individual. If, for example, someone goes to church regularly and still curses or abuses people, he or she is religious but not godly. Also, if a teenager gives to the poor often yet commits fornication or cheats in his or her academic exams, such a teenager is not godly but only religious.
Jesus described the Pharisees and scribes in His days as religious people because they could not recognise Him as the Messiah they had been expecting. They followed the laws of Moses to the letter and antagonised all His words and actions. They also did not believe in Christ’s message of love and mercy; rather, they believed that no sinner must go unpunished (John 8:1-5). They paid attention to looking and acting holy rather than being genuinely holy.
My dear child, if you fast, pray, go to church, give offerings, pay tithes, and dress decently but find it difficult to forgive and show love to people, you are not godly; you are merely practising religion.
KEY POINT
True godliness is exhibiting the nature of God.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Jeremiah 12:1-14:10 1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8
HYMN 44
DEEPER, DEEPER IN THE LOVE OF JESUS
1. Deeper, Deeper In The Love Of Jesus
Daily Let Me Go;
Higher, Higher In The School Of Wisdom,
More Of Grace To Know.
Refrain:
Oh, Deeper Yet, I Pray,
And Higher Ev’ry Day,
And Wiser, Blessed, Lord,
In Thy Precious, Holy WorD.
2. Deeper, Deeper! Blessed Holy Spirit,
Take Me Deeper Still,
Till My Life Is Wholly Lost In Jesus,
And His Perfect Will. [Refrain]
3. Deeper, Deeper! Tho’ It Cost Hard Trials,
Deeper Let Me Go!
Rooted In The Holy Love Of Jesus,
Let Me Fruitful Grow. [Refrain]
4. Deeper, Higher, Ev’ry Day In Jesus,
Till All Conflict Past,
Finds Me Conqu’ror, And In His Own Image
Perfected At Last. [Refrain]
Open Heaven For Teens Devotional Guide written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye & Pastor (Mrs.) Folu Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries (Open Heaven For Teens )