~Daily Devotion 13th~

Godly believers live unto God and for God. They seek to honor and reflect God. They seek to honor and reflect God in everything they do. Godliness lives quietly, is absorbed in doing good for others and works productively. Godliness has a good reputation with unbelievers. Godliness is knowing the commands of Scripture and doing them.

I know that you are thinking and saying, " Pastor Pat, it is hard to live a Godly life in this world. So many things come against us."

Yes, I know that we do face situations and circumstances everyday. I also know that when you are praying daily and reading the scriptures that God will help you make it through each of life battles.

Listen to God and not man. Man will bring you down. Man will hurt you. Man will say things against you. Man will judge you. Man can also say and do things to question your walk with God. Why? Because man is not God.

I also have found out that when man questions you that a majority of the time they do not have good self-esteem. They are not only questioning you, but themselves.

Remember, just do what God has told you to do. Live a Godly life, pleasing to God, and everything will be okay.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

3. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

We must understand that successful Christian living consists of

1. work that flows from faith

2. labor that flows from love

3. patient endurance that is born of living hope. Insure that your life is thus characterized.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

10. Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith

Be faithful to intercede for other believers tend other congregations.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

1. Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

Live your life in order to please God, not yourself

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

11. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, 12so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Live a quiet, peaceful life. Never gossip. Be diligent in whatever work you have chosen to do. Earn a good reputation with unbelievers.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

6. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled.

Conduct your life, being alert and self-controlled.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-22

16. Be joyful always; 17pray continually; 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

19.Do not put out the Spirit's fire;

20. do not treat prophecies with contempt.

21.Test everything. Hold on to the good.

22. Avoid every kind of evil

Practice the commands of Scripture.