OPEN HEAVEN DAILY DEVOTIONAL DATE: FRIDAY APRIL 24TH 2026 THEME: DIVINE VISITATION II MEMORISE: Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us Luke 1:78 READ: Psalms 65:9-13 9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing. MESSAGE Years ago, I travelled to Port Harcourt, a city in the South-South region of Nigeria, to hold a crusade, and God specifically told me who I was to stay with. I obeyed the Lord, but I wondered why He chose this person because he was not a member of our church; we were just acquaintances, and I had many spiritual children l could have stayed with in that city. When I arrived at the fellow's home, he treated me like a king. He also introduced me to his children, and I got on very well with them. One of them clung to me closely, and I started calling him my friend. On the second day of the crusade, I was preparing to go to the crusade venue when my host drove in from his children's school. I saw his other children with him, but I didn't see the one I called my friend, so asked after him. To my shock, he replied, "Your friend is in the hospital, dying." He added that he would not have told me if l had not asked, because he saw that I was preparing to go to the crusade venue. Immediately, God told me, "This is why I asked you to stay here." I then said to him, "We will go to the hospital first. The crusade will wait." We went to the hospital, and I saw the boy sweating profusely even though he was completely naked in an air-conditioned room. I was told at that point that he had been poisoned in school. As I looked at the doctor, he signaled to me that there was no hope for the boy. Since God had earlier told me that He orchestrated my stay with the family for that reason, I simply said a short prayer and left for the crusade. After the crusade, I returned to the man's house, and as I was settling in, he drove in with my friend. He had been discharged from the hospital! Beloved, as you see in today's Bible reading, many good things will happen to you when God visits you. However, He cannot visit you and give you those good things if you have not given your life to Jesus Christ. If you are not yet born again, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and surrender your life completely to Him. When you do this, He will make you a part of His family and visit you with many tremendous blessings. KEY POINT When God visits His children, blessings follow. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 17-18 AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE HYMN 13: JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW 1 Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but he is strong. Refrain: Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so. 2 Jesus loves me he who died heaven's gate to open wide. He will wash away my sin, let his little child come in. 3 Jesus loves me, this I know, as he loved so long ago, taking children on his knee, saying, "Let them come to me." ‎PRAYER POINTS ON TODAY'S OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL, Friday 24th April, 2026- DIVINE VISITATION, PART 2 ‎ ‎PRAYER POINTS ‎✓Father, thank You for taking care of the earth and watering it, making it rich and fertile for human existence. Thank You for visiting the Earth at various seasons and times. ‎ ‎✓Father, thank You for visiting me with Your tender mercies and kindness. Thank You for the abundance of rains and sunlight that aids bountiful harvest of grain, because You have ordered it so. ‎ ‎✓Father, thank You for Your promise not just to visit me, but to abide with me till the end of time. ‎ ‎✓Father, please visit my family today and let Your blessings follow us all through the rest of our days on earth, in Jesus' name ‎ ‎✓Father, please visit me today and do not take Your presence away from me. Make me Your favorite son/daughter, and as I cling unto Your love, help me never to depart from Your will, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, You know all things and nothing catches You unaware, please visit me today and let every evil be averted in my family, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, please visit me today and overturn every medical report in my life; heal me of every sickness and diseases, and make me whole, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, please visit me today and overturn every hopelessness into mighty testimonies in every area of my life and family, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, please let there be a divine orchestration of men and women that will help me to fulfill my destiny in life, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, please visit me today and let good things begin to happen to me and my family, in Jesus' name. ‎ ‎✓Father, as many that are yet to be born again, please save them and let them be a part of Your family, and visit them with many tremendous blessings, in Jesus' name ‎ ‎✓Father, thank You for the life of Your son, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye. ‎ ‎Visit him with tremendous blessings across all areas of his life, in Jesus' name. Bless his children (biological and spiritual). Help him to continue to produce sons and daughters to Your glory, in Jesus name. ‎ ‎✓Father, bless Your son that You have been using to prepare these prayer points beyond measure, and all those who have been rebroadcasting them, in Jesus name. ‎ ‎✓Father, please let every challenge, hindrance and obstacle of getting these prayer points across to Your children, timely, and on daily basis be removed, in Jesus name. ‎ ‎✓Your Personal petitions. ‎(Philippians 4:6) ‎ ‎✓..In Jesus name I pray. ‎(John 14:13-14; 15:16) ‎ ‎#GodBlessOurNation