01- 28- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (I Thessalonians 4:9- 12)
LEARN TO LIVE IN THE SPIRIT
9-But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10- And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 11- And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12- That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
YOU LET GOD WORK AND DO THE TALKING.
Learn to meditate and just be quiet with God. Let God work in us and in our quiet time with Him. Some Christians, the only time they have their quiet time with the Lord is when they’re in the bathroom.
(Proverbs 20:12) “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made both of them.”
Dr. Chuck Swindoll (Growing Strong in the Season of Life, page 62) said: “Two ears. Two eyes. Only one mouth. May that should tell us something.”
Let me encourage you to be a good listener, especially to the voice of God as God speaks to you through His Word, through the preaching of His Word and through the voice of the Holy Spirit.
2- MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
It means to just focus on what you have. It means to focus on who you are. It means to focus on your work, on your ministry, on your family, on what you can do for yourself, and not necessarily on other people’s lives.
It means not to be critical of others. It means not to look back or to look at other people’s fault, but to look up. Mind your own business at home or wherever you may be and be busy in the work of the Lord. Those are the principles that would not take you to your goal and to the next level. It’s the principles of minding other’s life and home or business. While others are progressing and getting themselves busy you are stagnant and you don’t take a step forward, you are not fruitful and you will get distracted on your objectives. Mind your own business, it means stay focus and do what you wanted to do and take the responsibility for your actions.
3- WORK WITH YOUR OWN HANDS.
The Lord wants for us to be a responsible Christians. And not be lazy but diligent in the work of the Lord and also be a responsible Christian fathers and mothers or be a responsible Christian brothers or sisters in the Lord. Be it at home, at work or in the work of the Lord. (I Corinthians 15:58) “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
