Open Heaven For Teens – 29 November 2025 Daily Devotional Message By Pastor E.A Adeboye And Pastor (Mrs) Folu Adeboye
Open Heaven For Teens – 29 November 2025 TOPIC: GOD GETS ANGRY
MEMORISE
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life…
Psalms 30:5
SCRIPTURE READING
1 Samuel 3:11-14
11 And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle. 12 At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end. 13 For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[a] and he failed to restrain them. 14 Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
Open Heaven For Teens – 29 November 2025 | MESSAGE
Today, I want to establish that even though God is love, He can be provoked to anger and punish those who offend Him. A good example is found in today’s Bible reading, where Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas, offended God. God had waited patiently for them to repent but when He saw that they constantly reproached Him through their actions, He brought His judgment upon them.
Beloved, you must understand that even though we serve a loving God, He is also a Consuming Fire. A Yoruba adage says, “The same teeth a dog uses to play with its puppy is the same teeth it uses to bite the puppy when it does wrong.” In the same vein, God will not fail to chastise His children when they go wrong.
My dear child, God loves you, but He will get angry when you take His mercy for granted and start misbehaving. Today’s memory verse says that His anger is for a moment, which means that when a fellow genuinely stops sinning, God’s anger will stop, and He will relate with the fellow as if he or she never sinned.
KEY POINT
Do not take God’s love for granted; He is also a Consuming Fire.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Isaiah 51:1-53:12, Ephesians 5:1-33
HYMN 60
MOST ANCIENT OF ALL MYSTERIES
1 Most ancient of all mysteries,
Before Thy throne we lie;
Have mercy now, most merciful,
Most holy Trinity.
2 When heav’n and earth were yet unmade,
When time was yet unknown,
Thou in Thy bliss and majesty
Didst live and love alone.
3 Thou wert not born; there was no fount
From which Thy Being flowed;
There is no end which Thou canst reach;
But Thou art simply God.
4 How wonderful creation is,
The work which Thou didst bless,
And O what then must Thou be like,
Eternal loveliness!
5 O listen then, most pitiful,
To Thy poor creature’s heart:
It blesses Thee that Thou art God,
That Thou art what Thou art.
6 Most ancient of all mysteries,
Still at thy throne we lie;
Have mercy now, most merciful,
Most holy Trinity.
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)