OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 FRIDAY – WIVES, BUILD YOUR HOME

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 MEMORISE:
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. – (Proverbs 14:1)

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 READ: 1 PETER 3:1-6 (KJV)

1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 MESSAGE WITH HYMN, PRAYER POINTS, DAILY DECLARATIONS AND BIBLE READING

READ – TODAY’S DAILY DECLARATIONS 9TH AUGUST 2019 FRIDAY

READ – PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY’S OPEN HEAVENS 9TH AUGUST 2019 FRIDAY

READ – OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TEENS 9 AUGUST 2019

In His wisdom, the Holy Spirit has chosen to speak to wives in today’s devotional. Please note that he is speaking to wives and not just women.

Obviously, not all women are wives. However, every wife is first a woman before becoming a wife. Are you a woman trusting God to change your status from single to married?

I pray that God will grant you your good heart desires in this season in Jesus’ Name. In God’s kingdom, only wives are given the assignment of building homes, not mistresses or “bed-partners”.

READ – PRAYER POINTS FOR OPEN HEAVENS 8TH AUGUST 2019

In other words, a mistress or bed-partner does not have the divine grace to build a godly family. With divine wisdom, a woman develops into a wife who builds her home.

This wisdom comes through the fear of God which dwells in every woman who has received Jesus into her heart. (Proverbs 9:10, Revelation 3:20).

Jesus is the embodiment of God’s wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:24), and in this age of enlightenment, it takes Jesus in the heart of a woman to do all that the Holy Spirit instructs in today’s Bible reading.

Godly wives are distinguishable by their chastity and general attitude to life, which is a product of the fear of God they possess and not necessarily because of the fear of their husbands. READ – DAILY DECLARATIONS 8TH AUGUST 2019

It is a wise thing for a wife to build her home; only a foolish person will pull down the house he or she lives in. Many women who have pulled down their home are now roaming the “street of life”.

Although, they may pretend that all is well, they are actually hurting and nursing regrets over their past actions.

Sadly, many of such women are now encouraging naive wives to act against the interest of their homes so that they can become their companions in misery. No wonder the Holy Spirit warns in (1 Timothy 4:7), saying:

“But refuse profane and old wives’ fable, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.”

Some years ago, my daughter started having problems in her marriage, and she asked me to counsel her.

I discovered that she was getting carried away by her academic achievements, because she has bagged a PhD like her husband. READ – OPEN HEAVEN 8TH AUGUST 2019

So, I told her to be submissive to her husband if she really wants to have a home. This suggestion was so ridiculous to her that she reminded me that she had a PhD like her husband!

I said to her, “No problem, since your PhD can solve your marital challenges, go ahead and apply its philosophical principles to build yourself a happy home.”

She got the message and began to yield to her husband. Before long, peace, joy and progress returned to her home.

My prayer for someone reading this devotional today is that your troubled home will receive peace and unspeakable joy in Jesus’ Name. Be wise and invite Jesus into your home today and you will be glad you did.

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 PRAYER POINT: READ – PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY’S OPEN HEAVENS 9TH AUGUST 2019 FRIDAY

Father, give me Your wisdom to build my home according to Your pattern, in Jesus’ Name.

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 HYMNAL: HYMN 16 – GOD GIVE US CHRISTIAN HOMES

1. God, give us Christian homes!
Homes where the Bible is loved and taught
Homes where the Master’s will is sought
Homes crowned with beauty Thy love hath wrought
God, give us Christian homes
God, give us Christian homes.

2. God, give us Christian homes!
Homes where the father is true and strong
Homes that are free from the blight of wrong
Homes that are joyous with love and song
God, give us Christian homes
God, give us Christian homes.

3. God, give us Christian homes!
Homes where the mother in queenly quest
Strives to show others Thy way is best
Homes where the Lord is an honoured guest.
God, give us Christian homes
God, give us Christian homes.

4. God, give us Christian homes!
Homes where the children are led to know
Christ in His beauty who loves them so
Homes where the altar fire burn and glow
God, give us Christian homes
God, give us Christian homes.

OPEN HEAVEN 9 AUGUST 2019 BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 SAMUEL 6-7, EZEKIEL 31:10-18

CHAPTER 6
1 And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: