Open Heaven Devotional Message For 17 October 2025
RCCG OPEN HEAVEN DEVOTIONAL TODAY OCTOBER 17TH, 2025
Read Today’s RCCG Open Heaven Daily Devotional written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG. May the Lord bless you as you.
Open Heaven Devotional Message For 17 October 2025
TOPIC: WHOM TO MARRY
MEMORISE: “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” – (Matthew 7:20)
READ: 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 (KJV)
MESSAGE: Today’s Bible reading says that you should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; hence, Christians should not get married to unbelievers. If Christians get themselves yoked in marriage with unbelievers, thinking they can change them, they are only deceiving themselves. People who refuse to change before marriage hardly ever change after marriage. It is also important to note that being nice or courteous is not the same thing as being born again.
As a child of God, you are standing on God, the Solid Rock. An unbeliever, on the other hand, is standing on miry clay. When you are standing on a rock, and you are holding somebody who is standing on miry clay, the chances are very high that the fellow standing on miry clay will cause you to either stumble or fall completely because he or she is standing on slippery ground. This is what happens with many believers who think they can change their unbelieving partners. Their partners will, more often than not, cause them to stumble and fall, and they might end up losing their faith in the process. The Bible says in (1 Corinthians 10:12): “…let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”
Also, Christians who are not yet married should not marry people who stubbornly refuse to listen to corrections and make necessary changes in their actions or behaviours. The Bible says in Proverbs 15:32: “He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.” If you are a Christian who is not yet married, don’t marry someone who doesn’t have an authority figure that he or she listens and submits to. Anyone who does not listen to anybody or submit to anyone will not listen to you either.
Also, it is not advisable for a believer to marry an immature Christian. It is better for a believer to marry someone who has attained a level of spiritual maturity and is constantly growing so they can sharpen each other.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. (Proverbs 27:17)
If you are not yet married, do not marry a carnal Christian because such a fellow’s attachment to the things of the world rather than spiritual things can also cause you to stumble and fall.
Beloved, marrying the right person is like experiencing heaven on earth. However, if a fellow marries the wrong person, he or she will experience hell on earth.
KEY POINT:
Christians who are not yet married should be careful of whom they marry.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Mark 10-11
HYMNAL:
Hymn 28 – Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah
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