EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2025.
SUBJECT: DEVOTE YOUR TIME TO DOING GOD’S WILL!
Memory verse: “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the Will of God, you will receive the promise." (Hebrews 10 vs 36.)
READ: Ephesians 6 vs 6 - 8:
6:6: Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the Will of God from the heart,
6:7: with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
6:8: knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
INTIMATION:
God’s Word is His Will. Obeying God’s Word is doing His Will. Every command of the Lord has the attendant promises made by God—God is a God of promise. There are about 3,000 promises made by God in the Scriptures, and each has the provision(s) attached to it. Fulfill the Will of God, and you will receive His promises and obtain the provisions.
God has made life so simple that if you do His Will (keep His commandments), every other thing you need to live for Him, He promised to provide. Therefore, do His Will, and then obtain the promised provisions. God, in His love nature, works in us to make us the kind of people that would please Him, and He equips us to do the kind of work that would please Him.
God has poured out His love nature in our hearts by the Holy Spirit—our Helper, who has been given to us (Romans 5 vs 5), and helps us in our weaknesses. We are not alone in the task of doing His Will. Jesus said, “I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28 vs 20). He is with us in the form of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. The Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to fill our lives with love and to enable us to live by His power. With all this loving care, how can we do less than serve Him completely!
Haven known the promises of God for doing His Will, and the greatest promise of the crown of life—living with Him in eternity, we should ultimately strive to please Him. Let nothing stand between us and pleasing God. The apostle John, in First John 2 vs 15 - 17, says: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the Will of God abides forever.”
It’s obvious that worldliness is our greatest distraction in pleasing God, and is characterized in those three attitudes enumerated above—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. These vices influence us both internally and externally. Externally in our behavior; the people we associate with, the places we go, the activities we enjoy. Internally in what we harbor in our hearts; preoccupation with gratifying physical desires, being possessions conscious; coveting and accumulating things—bowing to the god of materialism, and obsession with one’s status or importance; being class conscious.
There are some places you go to, those things you enjoy doing, and those companies and association you keep, that lure you into compromising your commitment to obeying God. For such things flee from them; resist those attractions, be bold to voice them out to your friends and counterparts, and the Holy Spirit will offer His help to you in that regard. Identify those physical desires that lure you into disobeying God’s Will, such as sexual pleasures, social vices—drunkenness, smoking etc. These fleshy desires are contrary to the Spirit, and hurts you as well as your relationship with God. Resist them!
Of what sense is it to keep accumulating possessions that you know that one day, you will abandon them, though against your wish, and depart this world? King Solomon called them all “vanity” (See Ecclesiastes 2). One day all these things shall be burnt up, “For the form of this world is passing away” (First Corinthians 7 vs 21). When the desire for possessions and sinful pleasures feel so intense, pray earnestly for the Helper’s Intercession, and He will help you resist the devil and his lures, and he will flee from you (James 4 vs 7). Knowing that this evil world will end can give you the courage to deny yourself temporary pleasures in this world in order to enjoy what God has promised in eternity with Him.
Prayer: Abba Father, Endue me with the spirit of raw obedience to You, that I may do Your Will at all times, with joy and gladness of heart, knowing in so doing I will obtain Your promises and attendant provisions, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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