All of us will have an opportunity every day to place God somewhere
He does not want to be second place
He does not want to be picked third or fourth, but he said I am God and beside me there is
No other and so I have made up in my mind even though it might not be flashy
Even though it might not be something that people laud and applaud and commend I've decided in my mind
Every day with his help. I'm gonna place him first in my life
Because I believe that success and living for God is not an emotion. It's not a buzz. It's not a feeling
It's squaring our shoulders back and saying Lord. I'm placing you
Absolutely first in my life
Our allegiance must be to God first
But you know here in Western culture we've got
Plan a when we get in trouble if that doesn't work. We can go to Plan B
We got Plan C plan D plan e, you know we got insurance. We've got the doctor. We got family
We've got this we've got that we belong to the Union
There's all these different things that we can rely upon and I think perhaps though. Those things can be good and beneficial
I think there's a danger where we subtly shift our trust from God to all of these other things and when trouble comes
We look to everything else first and God becomes our last ditch effort
After the insurance has failed and the doctors have failed and the Union can't help and our friends can help
You Know we had plan a plan B Plan C plan D plan E plan F and now what you've got to go to plan G God
And I'm not saying God won't help you if that's been the case
He's very gracious and long-suffering and merciful and slow to anger, but he's not honored
when he's put last
He's not honored when we've gone to everyone and everything else first and we only go and see God
After the arm of the flesh has failed we should go to him first when we're faced with conflict
And I think some of you will find
That if you will go to God first
You're not going to have to fight the battle that you thought you'd have to fight after all
God will intervene in ways that you never imagined possible
If there is any message that is loud and clear
Throughout the pages of Holy Writ
It is that
message which
admonishes us
to put God first
God says put me first
And everything works out better, but I tell you you're week go better when you put God on the first day of the week
Your week will not flow if you use the first day of the week as your golf day
It will not flow if you use it as your fishing day
It won't flow if you use it as your family day, but I declare that if you start your week out
By Putting God first your whole week will go better
So the whole lesson of the scripture is put God first
Wise King Solomon
Who spoke three thousand proverbs and did sing a thousand and five songs
This man in writing to his son and leaving it on record for us said in that third chapter of Proverbs
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart
Lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways
Not some but in all of thy ways acknowledge him
He shall direct thy path. We need to put God first
Even when you're young person and even an older person that's seeking a lifetime mate
You don't need to judge them by where they work how much money they make how much education
They have what kind of car they drive
When that person seeks to be your lifetime partner
you need to hold that person up beside the Word of God
And put that person in your heart for prayer and ask God whether this is my lifetime partner
A lot of people wouldn't be stuck where they are if they had acknowledged God
first in all thy ways
acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path
You see we honor God we demonstrate faith and we unlock blessings
When we put him first
Your problem is not a problem to him and we should go to him first and foremost
And if you do that you find out you may have not have to go to a lot of other things that you were
looking to, prayer
and the word
The promises before earthly help before human wisdom. And yes God
Uses human vessels to bring his answers
Yes, he uses people as his instruments of deliverance many times and thank God when he does it
But it's still true. If we do not ask we do not have
I place him
First in my life and then watch him work
Just put God first in those plans
Your plans are not wrong. You're trying your best to follow after the will of God, but put him first in those plans
Insert him at the beginning of those plans and give him
license to change whatever he needs your plans are ok but put him first
Be open to his direction it is fascinating that the decision to put God first
has nothing to do with what's going on in the world around me
or what my present state of resource is it is simply
a decision and a deliberate action in my current reality
When should we put God first living into practice right now
Shouldn't we wait till we get more stuff? No, what do we have in our hand right now
Whatever you've got start putting him first right now
The power to put God first is already in our hand
Wake up every morning and just start thanking him
For just your life your kids your job your house your food your clothes your money your car
your husband your boyfriend and then
Immediately after that you have a better day
God must be
first
But you need to settle it in your heart as if the choice were eminent
God first
and included in that thought is leading our families into the same mindset
An unshakable heart conviction that God must be first in our lives
Think of what Joshua said as for me in my house
we will serve the Lord I'm gonna lead them into this thing
If you'll put God first in your life and talk to your kids. This is why we go to church
This is why you know daddy reads the Bible
This is why we give God the first part of our income and they will see the fruit of that in your life
the Lord does need to be first when it comes to our families
If it was within my power to give a gift to every person under the sound of my voice
It would be an ear to hear
What the Spirit is saying to us
To train our ears to get up in the morning to hear what God is saying to us
When God speaks he's never wrong
When God gives direction he's never out in left field. He knows what he's doing
Can I say it like this there is not a greater time than right now
to live a God first life
There's nothing you cannot do if you and God are doing a righteous thing the
Impossible can be done. It can be done. It can be done
Stop saying if
Say I will by God's grace
Stop saying it's impossible
Nothing is impossible to those that believe
nothing
Stop saying I don't know the right people, you know God the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit those people have lots of power
Master the art of forgetting the past
Paul says forgetting those things which are past and reaching forward to what lies ahead
I press toward the prize of the calling
Of Christ Jesus the Lord today is a new day
This day is a new day