Receive Your Reward
Hebrews 11:6
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Let’s declare that this year will be a year where we will be rewarded for our faith. This verse clearly states that God rewards those who have faith in Him.
The moment you believe in Jesus as your Saviour, our life changes just as night changes into day. Our Lord will not put us to shame. Our life will not change drastically in a day but it is a life changing process.
Hebrews 11.6 emphasises ‘anyone who comes to him’ which means we must take the first step towards God that He may come to us.
James 4.8 Says “Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Just as a person going to a certain place to meet someone or do something, dresses accordingly, when we go to meet God, we need to prepare ourselves spiritually according to His standard.
When we come to worship God, we must know that He is a Holy God.
Prophet Isaiah speaks about the holiness of God in Chapter 6 verses 1-3
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
It is this character of God’s holiness that stands out when we come near to Him. We must be single mindedly focused on God as the only Lord and master of our lives. Jesus said that it is not right to serve two masters at the same time.
When we go to the presence of God, we must not go with dirty hands and heart, knowing that He is a Holy God: “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded”.
The next step is to “Grieve, mourn and wail”; to go to Him with a broken and contrite heart.
Then when we humbly go to God, He will exalt us.
Hebrews 11:6
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Christian life is not just spending two hours in church on Sundays. We must give our whole life to Him because He gave Himself totally for us. Without Jesus, we have no life. Only Jesus can bring meaning to our life. Life without Jesus is like a balloon which is hollow and can burst any moment. But a life with Jesus is eternal, it lasts forever.
God also rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Most often, we give up on prayer and fail to receive the reward. Since He rewards us only when we earnestly seek Him, we must not drift away from Him when we don’t receive easy answers to our prayers. It is also important that we cut off from our life everything that is not pleasing to our God. We must be holy as He is Holy.
1 Peter 1:15-16
“But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Let’s declare that this year will be a year where we will be rewarded for our faith. This verse clearly states that God rewards those who have faith in Him.
The moment you believe in Jesus as your Saviour, our life changes just as night changes into day. Our Lord will not put us to shame. Our life will not change drastically in a day but it is a life changing process.
Hebrews 11.6 emphasises ‘anyone who comes to him’ which means we must take the first step towards God that He may come to us.
James 4.8 Says “Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Just as a person going to a certain place to meet someone or do something, dresses accordingly, when we go to meet God, we need to prepare ourselves spiritually according to His standard.
When we come to worship God, we must know that He is a Holy God.
Prophet Isaiah speaks about the holiness of God in Chapter 6 verses 1-3
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
It is this character of God’s holiness that stands out when we come near to Him. We must be single mindedly focused on God as the only Lord and master of our lives. Jesus said that it is not right to serve two masters at the same time.
When we go to the presence of God, we must not go with dirty hands and heart, knowing that He is a Holy God: “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded”.
The next step is to “Grieve, mourn and wail”; to go to Him with a broken and contrite heart.
Then when we humbly go to God, He will exalt us.
Hebrews 11:6
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Christian life is not just spending two hours in church on Sundays. We must give our whole life to Him because He gave Himself totally for us. Without Jesus, we have no life. Only Jesus can bring meaning to our life. Life without Jesus is like a balloon which is hollow and can burst any moment. But a life with Jesus is eternal, it lasts forever.
God also rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Most often, we give up on prayer and fail to receive the reward. Since He rewards us only when we earnestly seek Him, we must not drift away from Him when we don’t receive easy answers to our prayers. It is also important that we cut off from our life everything that is not pleasing to our God. We must be holy as He is Holy.
1 Peter 1:15-16
“But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
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Dr. Damien Antony
Born and brought up in a Christian family, Dr. Damien Antony possessed an unquenching quest for truth right from his boyhood days and eventually his relentless search led him to the Bible. He is a Revival Preacher, Bible Teacher, Leadership Trainer, Author and a Life Coach. He moves under the anointing for Prophetic, Healing, Deliverance, Inner Healing and Financial Breakthrough. God has also blessed him with an Apostolic Mandate to take the Universal Body of Christ to the next level of revelation and anointing.
Born and brought up in a Christian family, Dr. Damien Antony possessed an unquenching quest for truth right from his boyhood days and eventually his relentless search led him to the Bible. He is a Revival Preacher, Bible Teacher, Leadership Trainer, Author and a Life Coach. He moves under the anointing for Prophetic, Healing, Deliverance, Inner Healing and Financial Breakthrough. God has also blessed him with an Apostolic Mandate to take the Universal Body of Christ to the next level of revelation and anointing.
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