Godly promotion--you don't promote yourself, your boss doesn't promote you, God is the one who promotes you (or demotes you).
Psalm 75:6-7 "
6 No one from the east or the west
or from the desert can exalt a man.
7 But it is God who judges:
He brings one down, he exalts another."
Everything we do is unto God-->this is true freedom!
Hebrews 4:13--God judges from the inside out. Doesn't matter what you do publicly, it's what's going on privately.
1. Be found content with what you have and where you are
- 1 Timothy 6:6 "But godliness with contentment is great gain."
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 "Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind."
- How do you expect God to move you forward when you're not content with where He has placed you right now?
- If you're dependable to everyone except God, something's wrong. If you will show up at every meeting on time, every obligation on time, but refuse to spend time in God's Word or push it to the side, something is wrong.
- Promotion comes with obedience
- Don't demand something that is not yours.
- When others say, "Oh that's just fine," God is saying, "No, that's not fine. It's not okay to take that stapler. It's not okay to take that paper. It's NOT yours!"
- Pastor Art shared an amazing story from his own life when he (while in the ministry) stole merchandise from his employer. He was unable to be promoted, to get a job, or even succeed in the ministry until he had called his employer and repaid what he had taken.
- Proverbs 16:11 (Amplified) "A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights of the bag are His work [established on His eternal principles]."
- Reflect the character of God and His nature.
- Excellence has NOTHING to do with performance. Look at the life of Daniel (Daniel 1:16-21) He outlasted numerous kings and three kingdoms!
- Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
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