Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: work

Joel Osteen (January-25-2024) Daily Devotion: Relax and Let God Work.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Cease striving and know that I am God... Psalm 46:10, NASB

TODAY'S WORD: We all have to make numerous decisions throughout the day. When you face a difficult decision, did you know you can ask God to lead you in the right direction? You'll be amazed at the insight you get from relying on God instead of striving to find the answers on your own. If you’re constantly trying to figure things out and make things happen instead of waiting for God’s timing, you’ll wear yourself out. Instead, why don’t you come back to a place of rest, knowing God is in control. His ways are higher than ours. If you’ll trust Him to do things His way, you’ll see His best plan for your life unfold. When you feel worried or uptight, that’s the time to say, “God, give me Your wisdom to make good decisions. I refuse to worry. I’m staying in peace, knowing that You are in control.”

PRAYER FOR TODAY: God, thank You for remaining in control even when I'm worried or stressed. Give me Your supernatural wisdom to make decisions that honor You and are for my good. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Jentezen Franklin (January-19-2024) Daily Devotional: God And Work. 

“They go from strength to strength.” Ps 84:7 NIV

The phrase “discover your strengths” was made famous by researcher Marcus Buckingham in what’s referred to as the “Strengths Movement.” It calls us to stop focusing on our weaknesses and name and develop our strengths—which reflects God’s design. God didn’t say, “Moses, your craftsmanship skills are weak. Let’s have you stop leading this people for a while and try to become more like Bezalel.” (See Ex 31:1-5). The Bible speaks of going “from strength to strength.” And a strength is an activity which when you engage in it, makes you feel strong. Certain activities will thrill and challenge you; others will bore and drain you. Once you discover this, you’re not simply engaged in “career planning,” you’re acknowledging God’s handiwork and your own core strengths. It matters that you do this, because the single little patch of creation you’re responsible for stewarding is your own life. Dorothy Sayers said: “Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.” What if your job doesn’t fulfill your need for purpose or utilize your God-given gifts? Sometimes necessity requires that. That’s why the Bible says, “Whatever you do, do well” (Ecc 9:10 NLT). In the meantime, pray for opportunity, prepare yourself, and volunteer in an area that utilizes your strengths. Sometimes people who don’t enjoy the work they do are miserable, and they make everybody around them miserable too. But God expects better from you!

Daily Devotional (January-15-2024) Power At Work

Ephesians 5:17-20 - “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. [18] And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; [19] Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [20] Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

We understand that once you receive Jesus Christ, you are recreated and in this recreation, power and kingdom dignity is planted in your Human Spirit making you a creature that has never existed before. This is what the Bible mean by if a man be in Christ, he is a new creation. But sometimes the Power we have heard of in the days of old seems not to be a reality in our lives.

Today, we are going to talk about how to activate and Carry that power given to you by your heavenly father. Our opening verses are telling us something about the will of our father. It says “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. [18] And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; [19] Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [20] Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; " .

Have you seen that, to carry the power of God is to be fill with the spirit in excess and that it is the Will of God? But the question is, which spirit was Paul talking about? Was it the Holy Spirit? Certainly not because we are told already by scripture that we are full of the Holy Spirit of God. So which Spirit was Paul talking about specifically?

What did Jesus say concerning the word spirit? Jesus said "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Jesus said his words are spirit and life. In order words, Jesus’ words are spirit that gives life, that carry power, that connects you to the supernatural. Paul was not telling us to be fill with the Holy Spirit because he knew we were already fill with the spirit of God. Paul was telling us to be fill with the words of our master Jesus Christ which are spirit and life. What Paul meant was that we be rooted in the Word of God to be able to function as who truly we are.

People of God, you cannot carry the word of God and not carry power. If you carry the word, you will automatically carry power which the world will see. People say the word of God is powerful yet they are very empty without power. They Word of God is only powerful on the lips of a believing Christian hallelujah!

For power to be at word, the Word of God MUST and should be put to Word. A person of the Word is a person of Power and Fire. When he speaks a thing, He speaks it with divine accuracy. This morning, we are encouraging you to study the Word of God because it is your Weapon for Battle. All things may fail you but what the Word of God says is what it will definitely accomplish.

Have a good day remembering that, a person of the Word is a person of Power and Fire.

Jentezen Franklin Daily Devotional (October-31-2023) God And Your Work (3).

“I have chosen Bezalel.” Ex 31:2 NIV

The first person in the Bible who was said to be “filled with the Spirit of God” was Bezalel. And if his name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because he wasn’t a prophet, priest, king, or apostle. He was a craftsman, skilled in design. He had an eye for color and a flair for management, and when it came time for building the tabernacle, he oversaw the job. Here is what God said about him: “I have chosen Bezalel…and…filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts” (Ex 31:2-5 NIV). Imagine being Bezalel. From your youth you loved to work with your hands. You don’t know God is involved in this—but He is! He actually placed these desires within you. When you’re working, the joy you feel is actually the presence of God. You have certain strengths; you were born with them. They will always be your strengths, and you delight in them. Wonderful things happen when you discover those strengths, put them to use, and focus on improving them. Trying to develop in an area where God hasn’t gifted you is like trying to instruct a rabbit to swim or a snail to run. When you’re in your God-given slot, working with your God-given strengths, you’re at your best. When that happens, you are blessed, and so is everybody around you. The point is, in God’s plan, Bezalel was every bit as important as Moses. So, take heart; what you do matters!

John MacArthur Sermon: The Work of the Word (Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration). 2 Timothy 3:16-4:5

Matt Hagee  Sermon: Go to Work on Your Marriage.

Pastor Matt says that you don’t perform at your highest potential. You perform at your highest level of preparation. Even if you are gifted, you must be prepared. Every marriage begins with great potential. At the wedding ceremony we toast the bride and groom and their potential. But if truly great things are to become a reality in a married couple’s life, it is up to the two individuals in the relationship to work together and make it happen. A biblical marriage is the foundation of the family. Enjoy this sermon and find out how to enhance your marriage by living a righteous life before God, working together to fulfill his plan for your family.

Joyce Meyer - How Faith Works - Part 2 - Enjoying Everyday Life. Do you typically believe God's promises, or do you rely on what you see, think and feel? Be challenged to put your faith in action today.

How Faith Works - Part 1 - Enjoying Everyday Life - Joyce Meyer. Faith is an action word. Be encouraged to have an aggressive sense of expectation that God is listening to your prayers and working in your life.

Victoria Osteen - Sermon: Created To Do Good Works. In this message, Victoria will teach on what are good works through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2 says, "we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works." We are God's handiwork. He is making us. He is molding us. God has created us to do good works. God is working through us in our good works. What is a good work? When we're patient. When we choose joy. When we choose peace. When we're serving others. Within those good works God is working something in us.

Daily Devotional (April-11-2023) Faith and Work.

Scripture Reference: James 2:14-17 - What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

The gulf between talking and doing is a great one. Talking love is not the same as giving it through our actions (1 John 3:16-17). Talking faith is not the same as showing it. A faith that talks long and does nothing is dead and useless. It cannot save anyone.

James said, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:22-26).

The doctrine of “faith alone” falls short every time. James argues, “Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone” (2:21-24). Faith without works is dead (2:26).

If you believe, what are you waiting for? Why are you hesitating to act on your faith either in obedience to the gospel or in the pursuit of good works? Why are you not changing your ways? Why do you ignore the changes?

Prayer: “Oh Father, thank You for helping me to see myself by giving me Your Word. Help me to change my life so that I may please You in all respects. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.”

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