What is your motivation? Is it having expensive homes, fancy cars, and other toys? Is it having notoriety, fame, or power? Pursuit of such status and material things should never be a Christian’s primary motivation. In your life, some form or level of them will come as a blessing or reward. Yet, you must remember they could serve as an aim for temptation to be introduced to your mind by the devil and his demon allies in order to get you to prioritize these temporal things as more important than intimacy with Jesus Christ. Succumbing to pursuit of these things as the priority for your life and activities will inevitably cause you to be ill-equipped to mentally and emotionally handle higher levels or amounts of them, with godly humility and meekness. Pursuit of such things without following biblical instruction and the Holy Spirit’s leading will cause you to make alliances with the wrong people, businesses, and/or endeavors in order to try and get more of them and the prestige they seem to point to on earth.
However, you will be truly blessed and rewarded only when you keep your focus continually on the main priority of your life on earth, which is being intimate with the LORD and pursuing His will for your life by helping lead people to Him, so the Word, written and spoken, can help draw their hearts to Himself and learn to obey everything He commanded. This motivation seen and made real via subsequent, consistent activity brings you to a place of having more than enough to carry out ministry and steward possessions far beyond what the average person gets to work with.
No matter what vocation, avocation, recreation, or pleasure time you currently have or ever hope to have, you must stay focused on the main mission we are instructed to carry out in the bible (being a good steward of the manifold blessings the LORD entrusts to you in order to maximize evangelization & disciple-making of many others while on earth). This priority weaved throughout your life and activities develops your character, worthwhile skills, proper use of spiritual gifts, and life and financial fruitfulness. You can help yourself immensely by reinforcing this highest, righteous priority by daily, consistently reciting a prayer declaration like the following.
“LORD give me the knowledge, understanding, and discipline to successfully use my gifts, natural & spiritual, to serve You, the body of Christ, and other people in order to produce great relationships and profitable enterprises and to help release people from bondage the enemy tricked them into. Help me never be ashamed to use the platform you’ve given me (my job, business, politics, music, sports, etc.) so that I can be a godly example to all others with whom I come in contact.”
Please pray for this ministry and email me with any questions. May the LORD bless you richly as you follow His plan!
Deuteronomy 8:18, Jeremiah 27:5, Matthew 6:33, James 4:3, 1Peter 5:1-4
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