Open Heaven For Teens 4 October 2022 – Friendship I

TOPIC: Friendship I [Open Heaven for Teens 4 October 2022]

MEMORISE: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel. Proverbs 27:9

READ: Proverbs 18:24

24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ephesians 6:1-24, Isaiah 29-30

MESSAGE:

No man is an island of knowledge. Therefore, friendship with good people is very important. In fact, there are some levels you may not attain unless you have good friends. Many persons have become great by reason of their association. As a teen, you need to make friends with good people or like minds so that you can be as good as they are. No wonder an adage says, Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are.

How do you make friends? You need to first know who you are before you make friends. This is important because your friends must understand your person and vice versa. Otherwise, you’d always misunderstand one another and this might lead to envy, gossip and unnecessary quarrels. For you to know yourself, you need to understand your temperament. According Tim LaHaye, who wrote the book ‘Why you act the way you do’, there are four temperaments: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine. Read the book and know which temperament is yours.

KEY POINT:

Friendship is sweet when there is understanding.

HYMN: Nearer, My God

1. Nearer, my God, to Thee,
   nearer to thee!
   E’en though it be a cross
   that raiseth me,
   still all my song shall be,
   nearer, my God,
2. Though like the wanderer,
   the sun gone down,
   darkness be over me,
   my rest a stone;
   yet in my dreams I’d be
   nearer, my God, to Thee; (2ce)
   nearer to Thee!
3. There let the way appear,
   steps unto heaven;
   all that Thou sendest me,
   in mercy given;
   angels to beckon me
   nearer, my God, to Thee; (2ce)
   nearer to Thee!
4. Then with my waking thoughts
   bright with Thy praise,
   out of my stony griefs
   Bethel I’ll raise;
   so by my woes to be
   nearer, my God, to Thee; (2ce)
   nearer to Thee!
5. Or if, on joyful wing
   cleaving the sky,
   sun, moon, and stars forgot,
   upward I fly,
   still all my song shall be,
   nearer, my God, to Thee; (2ce)
   nearer to Thee!

Daily Devotional for Teen’s guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.