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Acts 20 – What are you doing with your time?

Oct3

Hello blogging family. Please accept my apologies. I have been away for the last 2 days and so haven’t posted a blog on Acts 18 and 19. I did read the chapters and hope you guys did too 🙂 but just didn’t get a chance to blog them. By God’s grace I intend to blog those chapters at a later date.

Today I’m blogging on chapter 20.

Be blessed 🙂

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As I read through this chapter, I was particularly struck by verse 24 which says:

“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God. (Acts 20:24 NLT)

It got me really thinking: what’s my sole purpose in life? And what’s my aim? Do I want to just make it into heaven or do I want crowns waiting for me because I finished well and did all God required of me?

Beloved the end is drawing real nigh and the question today is what are you doing with your time? Are you spending it doing what God has called you to do? Can you boldly declare like Paul did in verse 24 that your life is worth nothing unless you finish what God has called you to?

Lets go back to God and ask for grace to finish strong. I wanna hear Jesus say to me on that day: ‘welcome home my faithful servant’. People are waiting on us…Scripture says, ‘… the world is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God…’

Are we wasting our time chasing things that are irrelevant? Friends destiny destiny destiny is calling… We can’t afford to loose focus or waste time. It’s time to get serious and focus on the race ahead of us.

Paul said forgetting what’s behind but focusing on what’s ahead

He also told us to redeem the time. This is a man who understood his time was limited here on earth and he needed to make sure he did all that God called him to. No wonder he told us to redeem the days and make the most of every opportunity

Are we aware of how limited our time is? Tomorrow is not guaranteed for anyone so let’s make the most of today.

Paul said, ‘… I have finished the race…’, when our time draws nigh can we too say we have finished the race….or will our lives be… “I wish I had one more day to do this and that…”

I pray God will help us make the most of our opportunities; help us reprioritise our lives and let go of distractions; let go of every weight and run the race set before us. That God will reveal to us His purpose for our lives and show us what we need to be doing now, and give us the grace to run with it and do it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Thanks for joining today. Pls feel free to share your thoughts on the chapter.

I’m blogging through the book of Acts a chapter a day with Good morning girls. Please check us out at www.goodmorninggirls.org

Have a blessed weekend basking in God’s goodness 🙂

Jumbug…xxx

***With God all things are possible***

Acts 17 – The Known God…

Sep29

Good evening y’all. Today we are studying Acts 17.

Be blessed 🙂

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Here are a few points I picked up from the chapter:

1) Wherever God’s message is being preached, there is bound to be opposition. The devil is never happy when we are doing God’s will. That’s why we were told in the book of John that his (the devil’s) mission is to steal, kill and destroy. He wants to leave people in bondage and not let them experience the life that Jesus has come to give them. The apostles didn’t allow the opposition deter them. They didn’t use it as an excuse to stop preaching. Some of us would have stopped because of the opposition. Paul and Silas continued to preach the word of God wherever they found themselves. I was amazed to see that after they escaped from Thessalonica and made it to Berea, the first thing they did was to find the synagogue and preach there! Verse 10 says :
“That very night the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue”(NLT)

2) Berean Christians didn’t just take Paul’s words for it. They went back to the scriptures to confirm what he is preaching is correct and based on Gods word.  Verse 11 says:

“And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth” (NLT).

How many of us go back to check the validity of the messages we hear preached? The Bereans were keen on God and wanted to be sure they were taught right and not led astray from the truth of God’s word. Nowadays we are too lazy to read the bible for ourselves. We rely on pastors and prophets to read the bible on our behalf and then dump what they have read on us in a message or sermon on Sunday. We won’t grow that way! This is one reason why Peter urged us in 1 Peter 2: 2-3  to desire the sincere milk of the word of God.
“As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious” (NKJV).

We need to let God’s word be our delight. The Psalmist was very good at making God’s word his delight. He constantly wrote about the joys and pleasures he found in God’s word. Perhaps this was the reason God said of him that “he was a man after his own heart”. I pray we learn to make God’s word priority in our lives.

“I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word” (Ps 119:16 NLT).

“Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions” (Ps 119:18 NLT)

“Your laws are my greatest joy! I follow their advice” (Ps 119:24 CEV)

I love the way Paul enlightened the Greeks about God; I love his description of God… just had to include this in the blog 🙂

“He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. From one man[f] he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries. “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us.  For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your[g] own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone” (Acts 17: 24 -29 NLT).

“The God who made the world and everything in it, this Master of sky and land, doesn’t live in custom-made shrines or need the human race to run errands for him, as if he couldn’t take care of himself. He makes the creatures; the creatures don’t make him. Starting from scratch, he made the entire human race and made the earth hospitable, with plenty of time and space for living so we could seek after God, and not just grope around in the dark but actually findhim. He doesn’t play hide-and-seek with us. He’s not remote; he’s near. We live and move in him, can’t get away from him! One of your poets said it well: ‘We’re the God-created.’ Well, if we are the God-created, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to think we could hire a sculptor to chisel a god out of stone for us, does it?” (Acts 17: 24 -29 MSG)

God is real. He is not a god created by human hands. He is not a God dependent on any mortal man. He is not a God in need of anything we can give, He is God all by himself!!! Hallelujah

Have a blessed evening basking in God’s goodness and greatness

Stay blessed,
Jumbug

***With God all things are possible***