★ MY SERMON NOTES
@ Family Worship Centre (FWC),
Wuye - Abuja, Nigeria
First Service
10th January, 2016
SERMON
* Speaker: Pastor Sarah Omakwu
* Topic: Seek the Kingdom of God
* Theme for 2016: Our Jesus, His Command, Our Vision
* Text: Mathew 6:24-34
* If you are always thinking of what to eat, drink or wear, you are of little faith
* God wants you to disconnect your mind from the world
→ He wants you to follow Him
* The message of the Lord to all believers is for everyone to seek his kingdom
* Read: Matthew 5-7 [Sermon on the mount]
→ Jesus outlined how the Christian life should be
→ The sermon was directed at his disciples, not the multitudes
* Jesus emphasised severally that you should not worry about anything
(verse 25, 31, and 34)
* Worry is a sign that you do not trust God
* The resources of God are limitless
→ He is the fountainhead that does not dry up!
* Worry takes your focus away from God and redirects it to yourself
* Many parents care about their children more than God cares for them. This is not supposed to be so
→ NOTE: children do not have sleepless nights out of worry. Only adults do
* Worry is torment
* Many people think that if they stop worrying there is nothing else to do
* Effects of Worry:
→ causes you to lose your joy in Christ
→ It dampens your countenance
→ causes you to be sick
→ gives you sleepless nights
* Many of the things we worry about are the goals we have set for ourselves (not the things God really wants us to do)
* It is not possible to devote all your attention to seeking the things of the world and God at the same time with the same intensity
★ Psalm 37:25 →"I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread."
★ Psalm 27:4 →"I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD’s Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple."
* You must set your priorities right
* You cannot be neck deep in pursuit of success and claim to be seeking God at the same time
* When you place other things first, you are:
→ driving God to jealousy
→ showing that you doubt God's love
→ doubting the ability of God to provide for you
→ showing where your heart really is
* NOTE: you are always on God's heart and he cares for you
* If you are not busy doing what is on God's heart, you have lost your purpose
* There are two Kingdoms that you must seek:
→ God's Kingdom on the earth and the one in Heaven
★ Matthew 6:28 →"And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don’t work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all of his splendor was clothed like one of them. Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much better—you who have little faith?"
* Something must be wrong with your thinking if you suppose that God will beautify lilies and birds and overlook you
* NOTE: clothes, cars, money, houses, etc are supposed to support you - they are not the main assignment
* God has sent us to the earth for an assignment
→ You are not meant to make deals with the world
* If a soldier is in a war, it is not his responsibility to take care of himself.
→ The Government provides all the logistics he needs and pays him adequately
* Jesus examplifed seeking after God's kingdom
→ He should be your model
→ He was in the temple all the time
→ He communed with God all the time
→ His priority was God's kingdom
* You must put God first at all times
* Young people: this is the time to Know God
→ Your talent & passions must point people to Jesus if not, you are wasting your time
* You must make being in God's presence your priority everyday
* You must serve God
★ Matthew 5:13 (MSG) → "Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've host your usefulness and will end up in the garbage."
* Your primary purpose is to display the beauty and the colours of God to the world
* Everything that you see is temporal
* NOTE:
→ you must love people,
→ you must do right and live right
→ you must help those that are in need
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