How God Uses Your Job To Provide For You

“And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19 ESV)

What do you put your security in?

If you put your security in your bank account, your job, or your investments, that means you are an insecure person, because you can lose all of those things.

You have to put your security in something that cannot be taken from you — God! If you want God’s blessing in your life, you have to depend on God’s wealth and not your own.

Here’s what the Bible says about God’s wealth: “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19 ESV).

Your job shouldn’t be your security. Your job is a channel, but God is your source. If you understand this, you’ll have so much less stress in your life. Let me say it again: Your job is a channel, but God is the source of your supply.

If you were to turn on the faucet in your kitchen and no water came out, what would you do? Would you say, “Oh my! The world has run out of water! There’s no water coming out of the faucet, so there must not be any left in the whole world”?

Of course not. You’d know the problem is not with the source. There’s plenty of water in the world. The problem is the channel; it’s gotten blocked one way or another.

If one channel gets blocked in your life and the faucet stops working, God can turn on another faucet just as easily. If God closes a door in your life, He can open another door. And if another door closes, He can open a window, and you can crawl through it.

God is not limited to your ability and capacity. Your job is a channel. If you think that your job is what keeps you financially secure, you’re going to be insecure your entire life. You’ve got to understand that God is the source of your supply, and you can depend on him to know exactly what you need and give it to you.

Jobs may come and go. Bank accounts rise and fall. Economies go up and down. Stock markets can go bull or bear. It doesn’t matter!

You can trust in God’s wealth for your security.

Talk It Over

• When you put your trust in God’s wealth, how does it affect the way you handle your finances?

• Has a faucet been turned off in your life recently? How will you show God that you trust him for your financial security?

• What do your investments and finances reveal about your priorities in life?

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Remember!

“Put Me in remembrance….” (Isaiah 43:26NKJV) 

We live in a world of challenges and turmoil. But, as believers, we are rooted and grounded in the person of Jesus Christ, the anchor of our soul.

To keep things in perspective, we need to remember what God’s Word says:

Remember: The whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

Remember: Great and marvelous are the works of the Lord.

Remember: Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Remember: He must increase, and I must decrease.

Remember: All the promises of God find their fulfilment in the person of Jesus Christ.

Remember: Come boldly to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find help in the time of need.

Remember: Prayer and the supply of the Spirit will deliver us, empower us, heal us, and reveal God’s will for us.

The KingdomNomic practitioner puts God and his promises in remembrance throughout the day.

Today, ask yourself:

In what ways will I put God and his promises in remembrance today?

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While You’re Waiting, God Is Working!

"I trust the LORD God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer." (Micah 7:7 CEV)

The Bible is clear that there are seasons in life, and one of the seasons that God talks about again and again is the season of waiting.

While you’re waiting, God is working. Don’t think that the season of waiting means that God has stopped working. He’s just taking you through that season because he’s using the time to work in your circumstances for your good.

You’re going to spend a lot of life waiting. If you don’t figure out how to trust God while you’re waiting, you’re going to spend a lot of your life not trusting God.

God is never in a hurry. He’s eternal! He is watching; he is working. He is seeing how and when you will trust him as you’re waiting. You’re saying, “When, Lord? When is it going to happen?” And God’s saying, “You can trust me with this.”

The problem with waiting is that our human nature and our culture say, “Don’t wait! Get things as quickly as you can.”

That’s the way our culture is wired, but it goes against God’s blessing in our lives because God’s blessing comes through these times of waiting. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “[God] has set the right time for everything” (TEV).

You might be in a time of waiting. Maybe it’s for school to end. Maybe it’s for a man or a woman to come into your life. Maybe it’s for a marriage to happen or a baby to come. And you may be frustrated with how slowly things are happening. We’ve all been there.

There’s a promise in the Bible that tells you not only that God is working but also how God is working, and you need to claim it while you’re in your time of waiting: “I am the LORD, and when it is time, I will make these things happen quickly” (Isaiah 60:22 NCV).

That’s how God worked when he sent Jesus into this world. The world waited thousands of years for Jesus to come the first time. And he came at just the right time.

We’ve been waiting 2,000 years now for Jesus to come again. When is he going to come again? At just the right time — God’s time. That’s when he’s going to come.

You need to apply this to your time of waiting and remember that a delay is not a denial. When you think God is saying “No,” he may just be saying, “Not yet. Will you keep trusting me through this?”

Micah 7:7 says, “I trust the LORD God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer” (CEV).

That is the kind of faith that God blesses.

Culled from Daily Hope With Rick Warren

4 Ways Prayer Slays The Giant

“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties.”– John R. Mott

While wishing for God to do His Wonders or to provide a job opportunity that

you desperately need,why don't you just simply Pray.It is a Symbol Of Faith in your Creator.Prayers solves problems, work miracles, heals ,restores and sets free. !Here are some of the ways Prayer Helps us,see below.

• Prayer Helps In Seeking the God of the Storms

Jesus rebuked the storm, and the storm had to submit since He is also the Creator ,God. (Mark 4:39). Whatsoever He says, all of nature must obey. That is what we must remind ourselves when we face the giants of life in the form of difficulties. Just think of what God says in His Word: “Is anything too hard for the LORD” (Gen. 18:14a)? He often repeats this same phrase throughout the Bible: “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me” (Jer. 32:27)? The obvious answer to that rhetorical question is no! To God, everything is small.

• Prayer Communicates the Believers Heart

Have you ever felt at a loss for words when praying? You’re certainly not alone because this happens to many believers, but thankfully the Spirit of God can help us, as Paul writes, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God” (Rom. 8:26-27). If you can’t pray or say it, groan it because the Spirit of God searches our hearts to intercede for us and to pray “according to the will of God.”

• Prayer Shows Our Reliance Upon God

Ever felt completely helpless against a problem? God would say, “Good. Now you can rely on Me.” God doesn’t want us to fight our own battles, but He wants to fight them for us. When Joshua was leading Israel and they faced insurmountable odds, God said, “Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you” (Deut. 3:22). Previously, God had reassured Israel, “The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes” (Deut. 1:30). Imagine that! God goes before them. If God will fight for us, then it’s time to drop the gloves and let God be glorified in this battle because who can ever be against God?

• Prayer Helps Us Trust in God

Trusting in God is revealed in the way that we face problems. I know of some people who are going through some very hard times right now, yet they still love the phrase “I praise You in this storm.” The psalmist knew this very well when he wrote, “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust” (Psalm 91:2), as did Nahum, “The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him” (Nahum 1:7).

Conclusion

You cannot overcome the giants in your life. Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties, for He is sovereign over nature. He is aware of our unutterable words in prayer and wants us to rely on Him alone, and we know from experience that we can trust Him. Now we must let go and let God be God.Try Praying to your Heavenly Father today,He alone knows what you want and where the shoe is pinching you the most.Try Him Today.

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God Is for You

“But the angel reassured them. ‘Don’t be afraid!’ he said. ‘I bring you good news that will bring joy to all people.’” (Luke 2:10 NLT, second edition)  Knowing God is for you will change your whole perspective on life. You’ll stop thinking of God as someone looking down from Heaven, ready to yell “Gotcha!” any time you mess up. God is for your success in life; he created you for a purpose, and he wants you to succeed. It is God, your Creator, who will measure your success in life and no one else. This is extremely good news! It means you don’t need to be afraid of God, because God is for you. Yet some people are so afraid of God they get nervous just talking about him. Do you know why? They feel guilty, and then they start thinking, “If I get close to God, he’s going to lecture me. He’s going to remind me of all the things I’ve done wrong, and then I’ll feel even worse!” Nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus said, “I did not come into the world to condemn it, but to save it.” Jesus was saying, “I didn’t come to scold you; I came to save you.” And if God is for us, who can be against us? Jesus came to save us, not to scare us. That’s why when the angel was telling the shepherds about the birth of Jesus, the first thing he said is, “Don’t be afraid!”   In fact, when God sends a message to people in the Bible, it’s not unusual for the first words to be: “Don’t be afraid.” There are 365 messages from God in the Bible that begin with a phrase like, “Fear not!” In other words, every single day of the year, you can read a message from God that says, in effect, “You don’t need to be afraid. I am for you; I am with you; I love you.” God is for you! Credit:Daily Hope Ministries

Spiritual Maturity Never Ends ...It Continues...

“Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28 TLB)

We are commanded to serve God. Jesus was unmistakable: “Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28 TLB).

For Christians, service is not something to be tacked onto our schedules if we can spare the time. It is the heart of the Christian life. Jesus came “to serve” and “to give” — and those two verbs should define your life on Earth, too.

Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe. Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

The old comparison between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea is still true. Galilee is a lake full of life because it takes in water but also gives it out. In contrast, nothing lives in the Dead Sea because, with no outflow, the lake has stagnated.

The last thing many believers need is to go to another Bible study. They already know far more than they are putting into practice. What they need is serving experiences in which they can exercise their spiritual muscles.

Serving is the opposite of our natural inclination. Most of the time we’re more interested in “serve us” than service. We say, “I’m looking for a church that meets my needs and blesses me,” not “I’m looking for a place to serve and be a blessing.” We expect others to serve us, not vice versa.

But as we mature in Christ, the focus of our lives should increasingly shift to living a life of service. The mature follower of Jesus stops asking, “Who’s going to meet my needs?” and starts asking, “Whose needs can I meet?”


Talk It Over

• What has God been teaching you lately? How have you expressed it through ministry?
• What do you think: are you more interested in being served by or serving in your church? Why?
• How does service make believers stand out in the world?

WHICH RIGHTEOUS MAN DO YOU WANT TO BE?

Genesis 24:1

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

The Bible says that Abraham was righteous. But do you know that his nephew Lot was righteous too? (2 Peter 2:7–8) Yet, both men lived very different lives. Although they both lived under God’s grace some 400 years before the law was given, Abraham was very blessed, whereas Lot lost a lot!

Both men had large herds and flocks.

When their herdsmen started quarreling over space, Abraham took the initiative to make peace. He even let Lot pick the lands that he wanted. Both men were righteous, but one was more gracious than the other.

Lot picked the well-watered plain of Jordan, where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were. He dwelt there and pitched his tent as far as Sodom. Eventually, he lived in Sodom. Now, Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible represent a sinful lifestyle.

Some Christians think, “Since I am righteous by faith and under God’s grace, I can live a sinful lifestyle.”

Well, let’s learn from Lot. He first saw Sodom, then his feet walked toward it and finally he went into it. I like what a great man of God said: “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.” What did Lot end up paying?

He was captured when four kings plundered Sodom and Gomorrah. And even after Abraham rescued him with the help of God, he did not learn his lesson. He went back to Sodom. Some Christians live from one bail-out to another. God delivers them from, say, debt, and they go right back to borrowing money or gambling! Sodom and Gomorrah were eventually destroyed. Lot escaped with only the clothes on his back and even lost his wife in the process.

Beloved, you are the righteousness of God in Christ. When you truly understand what Jesus did to make you the righteousness of God, it will cause you to fall out of love with sin and fall in love with God. Then, it will not be hard to have a heart for God, as Abraham did, and like Abraham, be blessed in all things!

Thought For The Day

As the righteousness of God in Christ, choose to live a life that pleases God, and like Abraham, you will be blessed in all things.

God Bless You.

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