GROOMING EMPOWERED YOUTH OUTREACH

Topic:   LEADERSHIP AND ANOINTING [Wednesday June 4, 2014] Memorise: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.   Psalm 23:5b Bible in a Year:   Exodus 27-28; Psalm 119:17-32 Read:   2 Samuel 5:1-3 1  Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.  2  Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.  3  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. Message: Some people hide under the fact that they have been previously anointed, and by this, pre-suppose that they do not need any further anointing. The truth is that God gives extra anointing to those whom he wants to give ext...

OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL- 03/06/2014 Topic: FIGHTER’S QUALIFICATION [Tuesday June 3, 2014] Memorise: And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Luke 3:9 Bible in a Year : Exodus 25-26; Psalm 119:1-16 Read: John 15:1-6 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and ...

Topic:  WHY EXPECTATIONS FAIL [Monday June 2, 2014] Memorise : The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him .  Nahum 1:7 Bible in a Year:   Exodus 22:16-24:18; Psalm 118 Read:   Jeremiah 29:1-13 Message: Some expectations don’t come to pass and there are reasons for that. It is a painful experience to see your expectation fail. When expectation is based on assumption, it will fail ( Deuteronomy 1:42-44 ). Great expectations are founded on God’s promise. By simply assuming that you will succeed in certain businesses just like others, you are setting yourself up for failure. Some Christians invest their money into projects without God’s approval, only to have their expectation for dividends fail. Basing your expectation in marriage on physical qualities like beauty, good stature and good physique will surely lead to failure ( 1 Samuel 16:6-7 ). Elements of physical beauty can be misleading ( Proverbs 31:30...

Open Heavens 2014: Friday May 30, Daily Devotion Topic: POOR & PRECIOUS [Friday May 30, 2014] Memorise: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Psalm 40:17 Bible in a Year: Exodus 15-16; Psalm 115 Read: Psalm 40:14-17 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Message : Social stratification based on financial status is more pronounced than any other type of stratification in modern society. The wealthy and the poor coexist in all nations of the ...

Topic:   THE WISDOM OF MEN [Wednesday May 28, 2014] Memorise: Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. Deuteronomy 1:39 Bible in a Year:   Exodus 10:21-12:42; Psalm 113 Read:   Genesis 2:15-17 15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.  16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Message: In the beginning, God generously permitted man to eat from every herb bearing seed and from every tree bearing fruit. In  Genesis 2:17  however, God commanded him to avoid eating from the tree of the k...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Open Heavens Daily Devotional 2014: Tuesday May 27 2014 Topic:  THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE [Tuesday May 27, 2014] Memorise: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   1 Corinthians 2:14 Bible in a Year: Exodus 9:1-10:20; Psalm 112 Read:   1 Corinthians 2:12-16 12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  15  But he that is spiritual judgeth a...

Monday, 26 May 2014 Topic:   BE FRUITFUL Memorise: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 Bible in a Year: Exodus 6:14-8:32; Psalm 110-111 Read:  Genesis 1:27-28 27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Message: In  Genesis 1:28 , “Be fruitful” is presented both as a commandment and a blessing. The blessings that God bestowed on humanity in this passage can therefore be regarded as the source from...