DON’T MIND THEM

Service to God

DON’T MIND THEM.

The thought of giving up will set in. When it does push harder. People will even call you off. Do not ponder over such words.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.KJV

In the journey through service to God, one thing you are sure to meet are the setbacks.

They seem to be a very part of the contract of service.

They are like lost mice who in search of food, find their way in your empty barn. When they find out the barn has nothing for them they gradually fall out.

Hurdles on our tracks will come but acknowledging them gives them the opportunity to run the show. The hurdles come in different shapes and sizes; strenuous work schedules, time constraints and incessant worries from onlookers-service mates-partners, the list goes on.

They only serve as detractors from the goal ahead and may end up pulling you through their own muddy waters. Some may go the extra mile to press the limit bottom.

 Yeah! They will.

Just as I said to a friend in the ministry concerning a fair share of hurdles in an act of service to God, I will tell you same. DON’T MIND THEM.

Don’t mind them should be the anthem that will end up being the very mice poison to get rid of them. Don’t mind them will be the secret “CharM”

Don’t mind them, keep your eyes on the prize and run on till the prize is won.

The prize is set for the appointed time. The appointed time is now. God awaits you to hand over the prize. DON’T MIND THEM

God bless you.

In Jesus name, Amen!!!

Atandzi Henry Enyonam

LOVE YOUR ACT OF SERVICE

Service to God

Love Your Act Of Service.

A Christ-like nature must as a matter of necessity reflect in all our acts of service to God. The Christ like nature of service is to love the service even unto death.

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. KJV

Christ in his service to GOD and to man, exhibited the highest form of love, even to the death on a cross. The passion was to see the few steps he took at the beginning of the bold step of faith into fruition. The very love that he has for mankind and the heavenly father resulted in the intrinsic motivation that kept the fire burning. The flame that keeps our faith in a perpetual hope and expectation of a greater tomorrow.

We in the course of our service fail to develop love for the activity we are involved in and also for the person to which the service is rendered-God.

With the lack of such a seed of love in our service, our service is reduced to a rendering that only seeks to show that we can exhibit a certain ability or gift.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

We, in the exhibition of the diverse gifts that the Lord bestows on us must do so with the love for which the gifting was bestowed to us.

Just as the gifting is birthed out of love, our service can be of profit if it is done with the love it is borne with.

It is recorded in proverbs that “Iron sharpeneth iron…” to maintain the function of the product of God, it is reasonable that it is done the God way- through love.

I beseech you; usher, bassist, singer, teacher, drummer…. That we develop the love that cometh from Christ: seeking from him, because he gives freely, and steadily grow in it.

We must with the consciousness, knowledge and love the God has given us, render a genuine service unto His holy name.

With the prize in mind…. Love the service even unto Death for our God!!

God bless you as you practice this.

God bless you 

In Jesus name! Amen!

Atandzi  henry Enyonam

SERVING WITH HUMILITY

Service to God.

SERVING WITH HUMILITY.

My brother would normally say: humility is not about keeping quiet or keeping to oneself.

That having been said, this message would focus on service to God with humility with Christ as our example.

It is no secret that Christ came to serve, thus being his disciple we ought to follow suit. Our Lord Jesus gave his very life as ransom for all mankind

Mark 10:45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. KJV

Having made this clear, the preceding scriptures gives us a key of being  chiefs; just as the winner of a race, though there are top three(3)  best finishers of every race it is only the first that stands on the apex of the dais.

Mark 10:43-45 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: 44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. KJV

In service, being the first is key giving our all is important gaining the set prize is also very paramount.

Dutiful service, as scriptures put it, makes an individual the chief; the topmost, most paramount and greatest of persons. When the duty we initiated is seen as such, it unintentionally breeds out the pride in the one that the service is done to and we as servants through who glory is presented to God

Just as the beauty of being celebrities and athletics stars come with lots of pride and egoism. Service to God may similar be followed with such unguided feelings.

Ephesians 2: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. KJV

We as servants need to keep that in check; this eventually increases the chances of being the chiefs, the paramount and great people such that at the end of the race (our service) we are called faithful servants and presented with the ultimate prize.

Phil 2:3-8 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. KJV

Now we must keep in mind that the Lord Jesus, though even in full glory as “God in a man” made himself as an ordinary person: one who much may not be ascribed to- the son of a carpenter. It doesn’t end there. Scripture records that Christ took up the form of a servant that is to say lived the very life of a servant. Additionally, Jesus didn’t only take up the life of a servant, but He was humble as well.

Meaning that there are servants who are far from being called humbled they are egoist, proud and very assertive.

However a line can be drawn between service and true service to God. A service that truly deserves the reward.

1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: KJV

Egos flare up and other unguided thoughts and whims may corrupt our service to God. We often times see ourselves as the only worthy ones, blessed with the gifts, energy and power to do accordingly-what we have been graced to do. We go to the extent of shunning the company of non-servants and see ourselves as their bosses and Lords.

But are we in readiness to be called lords? Christ tells the disciples….

John 13:14 I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet KJV

If He the Lord has been humble to wash the feet of them that call Him lord…. Then we better pick up the cloaks of Humility and follow suits as Jesus did and serve in all HUMILTY.

 Atandzi Henry Enyonam