Celebrating Your Purpose

When you rise up in the morning, when you enter your time of prayer during the day, when you pray before sleeping, take time to praise Him. Take time to thank Him for life and the beauty of it all. Lift your hands toward heaven and allow yourself to sense His presence and nearness to you as you pour out your heart to Him. And in the moment of this closeness give Him praise, honor and glory for that great grace by which He has saved us through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.

His word says if we draw nigh to God, He will draw nigh to us (James 4:8). You have but to reach out and touch Him and believe He’s heard your every prayer, and has received your praises as a sweet smelling sacrifice. And how can we not but praise the Lord who is so gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy (Psalms 145:8)?

For to strive to know God as we are known changes everything. You will soon realize as you delve into the really deep things of God that you can not put Him in a box. His plans for our lives are far above all we could think or ask, and all He requires of us is to believe on the name of Jesus, God’s son, and trust Him, commit our way, commit our dreams and desires to Him, and trust Him.

Excerpt from http://inspirationsbyday.com/blog/?p=529

Investing in Your Purpose Through Worship

• God gives us EVERYTHING we need to worship and serve Him.

• God expects us to use EVERYTHING He has given us to Worship Him.

• Worship is a “do something” activity.

• Wholehearted worship produces results and half-hearted worship produces regrets. God always desired our whole hearted devotion to Him. Sin got in the way and made half-heartedness a Giant in out lives. A Giant we need to face and conquer.

• God expects us to respect the level of commitment He wants from us.

• When we do not give God our best, others will not give God their best. Leaders, if you do not give God your best, do not expect those you lead to give God their best either. Parents, if you do not give God your best, do not expect your children to give God their best either!

• When we are committed to doing our best (to defeating the giant of half-heartedness), we:

o Have the greatest influence on others

o Produce our best work for Christ

o We received God’s blessing and reward

o We live and love God with our whole heart