Live! Give Thanks! - Feb 20, 2014

Scriptures: Ecclesiastes 9-10
7 So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! 8 Wear fine clothes, with a splash of cologne!
9 Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil. 10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.11 I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time. - Ecclesiastes 9
Happy is the land whose king is a noble leader and whose leaders feast at the proper time to gain strength for their work, not to get drunk. - Ecclesiastes 10

Message: 

Life is Short. There is only one Life to live.

Observation/Promise:

GOD approves when we know how to appreciate the blessings in our lives. There is no such thing as luck, but favor comes from GOD and His favor comes to those that love Him. When you are thankful for what you have because you recognize that it is HE who has given and blessed you with everything, this pleases GOD and it makes your life even richer knowing that you are given everything that you need. Gratefulness is the key to a fulfilling life which leads to contentment.

Command/Application:

Live Life to the fullnest! Do not hold back or hesitate to chase your dreams and experience whatever you always wanted to do. Do your best in all things! For life is very short and everyone dies. When we die, there's no more, that's it! Be thankful to GOD for everything, and whatever you may still need, ask GOD of this, pray and do not stop praying. Live, not just for today but prepare for the future

DO's for everyday godly living

11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. 
- 1 Thessalonians 4
5 For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night. 6 So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded. 7 Night is the time when people sleep and drinkers get drunk. 8 But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation. 16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 5


To live a quiet life is to not make a fuss, a thought, a mess out of other people's lives because GOD has an assignment for each of us, we have work to do for His Kingdom. We cannot compare ourselves with others or be mindful of what others are doing or whatever struggles they are going through because we are all in a battle and fighting for GOD to reign and be victorious in our lives. If we keep on watching others lives, we cannot win our own battles, because we are distracted. Taking time to even talk about others that is unnecessary to you because it does not affect or relate to you is already mind the business of others. This is a distraction from the devil. We lose our own battles when we are not focused on GOD and what He wants us to do.

Since we have been called to live for GOD, our lives should be striking difference from the lives of the ungodly or rebellious. Be alert at all times spiritually, it is easy to fall asleep because of boredom. If you are truly engaged in the spiritual war, there's no time to sleep, every soldier assigned on his post are in an alert mode. We have to be like this at all times and be clear minded because one of the enemies tactics to distract us is confusion and doubt. Let the word of GOD rid us of any confusion and cleanse our hearts from doubts. That is why GOD has called us to always rejoice, and pray endlessly being thankful no matter what happens in life because this is how we win the battle, when we are on guard so that when the enemy strikes, we are protected by GOD's armor of faith and love. These are the Do's for everyday godly living for every follower of Yeshua.