BELIEVER, HOW CONSISTENT ARE YOU?
To be productive in any endeavor, we must be organized. A Believer cannot just do things when he feels like and leave them undone when he wishes. There must be some order to the way we conduct our life.
Dear Believer,
One mark of a spiritually destitute life is disorderliness. A yo-yo Believer is an aberration. God wants every child of His to have a spiritual life built on the rock and not on a sand dune. (Read Matthew 7:24-27).
Some Believers have bought into the lie that we don’t need to maintain any special or daily schedule for prayer or the study of God’s word.
One man told me years ago, “Faith is all that matters. All this praying by the clock here and there don’t change anything.” He said this derogatorily about the idea of praying in the morning.
Sometimes we learn from nature. The sun rises and sets at certain times of the day. Some organs of our body, like the heart, works like clockwork. Many of the natural markers we know are regular, predictable and precise in their operation.
To be productive in any endeavor, we must be organized. A Believer cannot just do things when he feels like and leave them undone when he wishes. There must be some order to the way we conduct our life.
1Corinthians 14:40
Let all things be done decently and in order.
And this applies to almost everything, including praying and fellowshipping with God in His Word.
David, that man who knew how to connect with God and lived ahead of his time in many things said this:
Psalm 5:3 KJV
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
He had developed the habit of meeting with God in the morning.
Of Jesus we read:
Mark 1:35 KJ2000
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a lonely place, and there prayed.
A Believer who is fond of praying ‘on the go’ without having any specific time to settle down with God for spiritual communion is leading a very disorganized spiritual life.
The I-pray-anytime-anywhere Christian who belittles regular time of family, corporate and personal prayer may be trying to sound spiritual, but the truth is, he is just spiritually lazy.
When you don’t set time for important things in your life, they quickly become unimportant.
Do not live a life of spiritual indiscipline. Do not bring up your children to live a disorganized spiritual life.
You have time for work, school, shopping and even walking your dog, why then do you claim that having a special, regular time with God is “empty religion?”
You get up to go to work and do other things in the morning, not waiting until God tells you to; why then should you wait for God to tell you to pray, or fast or read your Bible?
When you create a responsible pattern in your life that helps you to commune with God and look into His word, your complaints about not hearing from God will end.
Believer, that is one of the ways to avoid evil.
Help me send this to as many people as possible and help the Kingdom to revive the personal and family altars.
Have a great day week.
Your friend,
Deon.
Deon Akintomide is a Pastor, author and publisher. He teaches the Word of God and ministers healing to the body and the mind. He is the founding minister of the LifeHouse Global Missions and the Pastor of The LifeHouse Kingdom Centre in Lagos. Deon is married to Tola Akintomide.
