Open Heaven For Teens – 19th August 2025 Daily Devotional Message By Pastor E.A Adeboye And Pastor (Mrs) Folu Adeboye
TOPIC: Be Consecrated To God
MEMORISE
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. – Daniel 1:17
SCRIPTURE READING
Daniel 1:1-7 (Common English Bible)
1 In the third year of the rule of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar came to Jerusalem and attacked it. 2 The Lord handed Judah’s King Jehoiakim over to Nebuchadnezzar, along with some of the equipment from God’s house. Nebuchadnezzar took these to Shinar, to his own god’s temple, putting them in his god’s treasury.
3 Nebuchadnezzar instructed his highest official Ashpenaz to choose royal descendants and members of the ruling class from the Israelites— 4 good-looking young men without defects, skilled in all wisdom, possessing knowledge, conversant with learning, and capable of serving in the king’s palace. Ashpenaz was to teach them the Chaldean language and its literature. 5 The king assigned these young men daily allotments from his own food and from the royal wine. Ashpenaz was to teach them for three years so that at the end of that time they could serve before the king. 6 Among these young men from the Judeans were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 7 But the chief official gave them new names. He named Daniel “Belteshazzar,” Hananiah “Shadrach,” Mishael “Meshach,” and Azariah “Abednego.”
Open Heaven For Teens – 19th August 2025 MESSAGE
One of the reasons God opens international doors for young believers is so that they can be good ambassadors of Christ in foreign lands. In today’s Bible reading, Daniel found himself in a strange land as a slave but chose not to eat the royal delicacy he was offered.
Unlike some teenagers who might have been confrontational and landed themselves in trouble, Daniel simply applied wisdom by appealing to the king’s right-hand man to serve him and his friends from Judah a different meal. As God would have it, they found favour before the man who gave them the benefit of doubt, and after ten days, the positive results became glaring.
My dear child, you must come to a point in your consecration to God where you will purpose in your heart not to defile yourself with “the portion of the king’s meat or wine.” Whatever is not inspired by God’s word or the Holy Spirit should be avoided.
KEY POINT
Always remember that you are an ambassador of Christ, and you must not defile yourself with worldly trends.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Esther 4:1-7:10 1 Corinthians 12:1-26
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:
O 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! Though 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