OPEN HEAVEN 4 May 2025: Lights, Camera, Action 1

Open Heaven 4 May 2025: Lights, Camera, Action 1

MEMORISE: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

READ: Psalm 139:13-17

For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!

Read Yesterday’s Open Heaven Devotional Here

When I got born again over 50 years ago, I had many questions because I was an academic.

As a baby Christian, I had a lot of questions, and I believe my pastor would probably have gotten tired of me if I had asked all of them.

I had questions like, “Is it true that God knows the end from the beginning?

If yes, did He know that Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit?

If He knows the end from the beginning, then He should have definitely known that Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit.

If He knew that they were going to eat the forbidden fruit, why did He plant it?

If He planted it, and they ate it as He knew they were going to, why was it an issue?”

I had many such questions, and eventually, I turned to God and said, “Daddy, You see my heart; You know I am not issuing You queries.

I just want to understand Your word better. Can You please answer these questions?”

Finally, I got an answer from God. learnt from Him that the whole world is a stage, and all of us are actors, just as Shakespeare, an English poet, had written.

There is a play written by the Almighty God Himself, and this is why Hebrews 10:7 says in reference to Jesus:

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Acts 15:18 says, “Known unto God are all His works, from the beginning of the world.”

Before you were born, God wrote a play, and you and I are to be actors in it.

He is the Executive Producer, Producer, and even the Director, and we must follow His instructions to be able to function properly and play our parts according to His design and desire.

You can rest assured that His plans for you are great.

Today’s memory verse says that God’s thoughts towards you are those of peace and not evil to bring you to an expected end in Him.

Beloved, God has a great plan for your life, and He intends for you to fulfil it so you can enjoy His peace.

However, you must follow His script as it is contained in His word. Trust and obey His word, and He will bring you to a glorious end.

OPEN HEAVEN 4 MAY 2025 ACTION POINT: Glory awaits you if you live your life strictly according to God’s word.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 17-19

Open Heaven 4 May 2025