SEEDS OF DESTINY: SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2020 – LIVING IN ETERNITY CONSCIOUSNESS AND APPRECIATION TO GOD
Let everything you do revolve around your relationship with God. Let your business transactions revolve around your relationship with God. Anything that does not have God as the centre, let it go.
SCRIPTURE: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Don’t forget yourself in this world because you are not of this world; you are passing through this world to your home in heaven.
We started a journey in our previous studies by exploring wisdom for daily living. Yesterday, we saw that it is wisdom for you to give your best to whatever you do, and that you must live wisely and invest your time profitably.
Today, we shall be looking at more wisdom for daily living:
1. Live with eternity consciousness.
Don’t forget yourself in this world because you are not of this world; you are passing through this world to your home in heaven. Live with eternity consciousness (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).
Let everything you do revolve around your relationship with God. Let your business transactions revolve around your relationship with God. Anything that does not have God as the centre, let it go.
Sometime ago, a lady came under pressure to commit immorality with a man in an organization in exchange for a job she was seeking. She was so desperate for a job that she succumbed to this temptation and got the job eventually. But she never realized that it was just the beginning of continuous compromise. After she got the job, she had to keep sleeping with the man, now her boss, in order to keep the job. You see, whatever you compromised to get, you must also compromise to keep. If the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3).
When some people want to compromise, they say things like: “Let us keep God aside. Please forget about church matter first”. This is not right. You only ruin your life if you live like this. What God did not give you, God cannot keep for you. The way you get a thing is how you will keep it. If you get it by spirituality, you will keep it by spirituality; and if you get it by carnality, you will maintain it by carnality. So, don’t forget yourself in this world. Know who you are – a child of the Kingdom passing through this earth. This world is not our home; we are just passing through it. So, robe everything you do with your relationship with God.
2. Appreciate God at the end of the day for a fruitful day.
If you follow your schedule for the day, appreciate God for a fruitful day; identify particularly, the things which you are appreciating God for. Confirm in the course of your appreciation that the day was not wasted (Psalms 103:1-2). Confirm the profitability of the day by the various things you were able to see from the Scriptures.
When you do this, you will live maximally.
Remember this: Don’t forget yourself in this world because you are not of this world; you are passing through this world to your home in heaven.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Live daily in the consciousness of eternity.
2. Refuse to forget yourself in this world.
3. Robe everything you do around your relationship with God.
4. Live in appreciation to God daily.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for showing me the pathways for living in wisdom. I receive the grace to live in the consciousness of eternity, and appreciate You daily, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: WISDOM FOR DAILY LIVING.
QUOTE: And as we appreciate Him, He will move us to the next level. Culled from “21 FOOLISH THINGS PEOPLE DO” by Dr Paul Enenche.
DAILY READING: Joel 2-Amos 1
AMAZING FACT: Ants are officially the world’s smartest insects and have a whopping 250,000 brain cells.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: The Spirit of God breathe upon you continually, the consciousness of eternity in Jesus’ Name.
