THE IMPORTANT FACTOR – Sunday September 24 2017
Memorise:
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
pre-eminence . Colossians 1:18
6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
6:34 Take
therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought
for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
MESSAGE:
First
thing first, so the saying goes.
As a believer in Christ, when you come
before God’s presence, the most important person is not you but Him.
Also, unlike most of us believe, at God’s Throne of Grace, the most
important thing is not your requests, but rather the worship you offer
to Him. if you fail to get this right, and you fail to adjust your
approach and attitude to reflect this truth, you will always have issues
with God. Do you know that every time you approach God’s presence, it
is like facing a test? Believe it or not, when you come before God,
there are two crucial people at that meeting: God and you. One of these
two must take pre-eminence. Similarly, God has a need and you also have a
need; one of these two needs must be more important.
“But seek ye first kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:33
The
scripture tells us about a divine order that must be followed.
It also
talks about God’s need and man’s need. It tells us that God has already
provided for all of man’s needs. In other words, God already has all you
would ever need at anytime in your life. For you to receive them, all
that He requires from you is to simply meet His needs. Give Him what He
wants. Put Him first and your needs last. Give Him quality thanks,
praise and worship. When you follow Heaven’s protocol, you will easily
receive a favourable answer to your requests. God expects you to come
before His presence with thanksgiving, praise and worship, leaving your
request as the last thing. Do you know that one way to know how
important something really is to you us to measure the amount of time
you give to it? When you pray for one hour and you use 50 minutes of the
time presenting your requests, you are telling God that you and your
request are more important than Him and His desires. How do you think
this makes God feel? In any case, He has already expressed His thoughts
about this in 1st Samuel 2:30d, where He said:
“For them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.”
Also,
what you focus on becomes magnified. If you focus on your problems,
they will be enlarged, but if you focus on God and on what He wants, He
will be magnified to the extent that your problems will fade into
insignificance. By the time you eventually remember them, you would
discover that they have been swallowed up by His Almightiness, leaving
you with the answer to your prayers.
Key Point
If you make God your priority, He will make you His priority.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons 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.
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