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Keep God First

Posted on by Uplifting Christ

Misplaced priority is real. There people who seem to get everything right but when you observe closely, you would notice that they are missing the main thing. They fail to Keep First Things First.

What are the First Things in your Life?

In 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey talked about the importance of putting First Things First in our lives. That is Highly Effective People focus on what is truly important (first) in their lives. Our inability to do that leads to waste of resources, including time.

In our lives, considering the brevity of it, keeping God First would put every other thing in right perspective because He preordained our days and knows how to orchestrate us to where He destined us to be.

3 Reasons You should Keep God First:

  1. He is your Creator:
    • God is your manufacturer and knows how you can optimize the gifts he placed in you. He also knows how to make you efficient and effective with respect to TIME. Instead of trying to figure things your own, by tight scheduling yourself, create space for Him to Operate in your life
  2. He knows where you are going
    • More like setting your navigation system before setting off for a journey. It directs your path and tells you “You have reached your destination” when you get to your destination. This is man-made device.
    • God directs your path to the final destination He planned before your birth. When He leads, your path is cleared and your destination is certain. You can say like Jesus said that “It is Finished” Or like Paul “I have finished the race“
  3. You will be rewarded
    • One beautiful thing about God is that He rewards those who keep Him First in their lives.
    • Matthew 6: 33 (TLB) says “he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to.”
    • “Delight yourself in the Lord, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4, AMP)

Enjoy Your God First SEASON. You would never regret you did. Be blessed

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR HIS KINGDOM?

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His KingdomFor I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.

God’s plans for you this year is to prosper you and to give you hope and the future you seek. I believe there would be no more struggle this year in Jesus’ Name. The scripture says Faith without deeds is dead. This means that unless faith produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. The truth is God has plans for you but you wouldn’t be able to enjoy these benefits if you don’t put your faith to work.

I believe there are many things you want from God this year. I will encourage you to pray about them, believe you have received them, and they will be yours. Mark 11:24. God will supply all your needs this year but let me ask you this question;

What are you doing for His Kingdom this year?

So often we focus on our needs. God give me this and that but we forget to do what He wants from us. He wants us to reach out to lost souls. There are so many people out there who don’t know the eternal consequences for their actions. How many souls are you going to win for His Kingdom? How many people would you cloth? How many people would you feed? How many homeless would you provide shelter? How many people would you save from Hell? In Matthew 6:33, Jesus said “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.”

Friend, Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. Matthew 7:13. The souls for whom Christ died are on their way to eternal destruction. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4 NLT. This has made our task urgent and important. We must win them for Christ. If you bring the one next to you, and I bring the one next to me, in no time at all we will have them all. So let us win them one by one in 2013.