Faith Bible Church Singapore

Matthew 6:31-34

31 “So don’t worry at all about having enough food and clothing. Why be like the heathen? For they take pride in all these things and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well that you need them, 33 and he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to. 34 “So don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time. (The Living Bible)

As God leads you then walk one day at a time as He leads. I remember a godly young man, who when he first joined this church, never failed to attend the Fundamentals of Christianity classes. Every Sunday morning before service started he would faithfully be in class attending this course. When he was pursuing his PhD from NTU, he never missed a service. Without fail every Sunday he would be in church because he was responsible for the multi-media. I do not remember him being ever absent from church. Eventually he finished his PhD in less than three years and his research paper was patented.

We do pray a lot concerning the destinies of our people. We desire to see them enter into the places that God has destined for them. Those places are placements for success and they are in the preordained plans of God – God’s perfect will.

But I have observed that there are some people, who when they moved into those places, they began to rely very much on themselves instead of on God – the One who places them there.

There are two categories of people:

1. The first category consists of those who feel inadequate in the place where they have moved into and they begin to put in extra effort to perform and to excel. So much so that they begin to neglect God. They begin to forsake the assembling of the saints who come together to worship Him and to fellowship with the other saints. They forget it was God who has put them there and it is by His grace through faith that He will see them through. They forget that if God puts you there He knows whether you have the capacity to perform. Instead of relying on themselves they should continue to worship Him and fellowship with Him. This is how we acknowledge that our reliance is on Him, totally. It is from God that the higher wisdom flows.

2. The second category consists of those who when they have moved into the place that God has placed them, pride creeps in. They begin to think more highly of their own ability, their own skill sets, and their own acumen to excel than the most High God who knows all things. They begin to ignore and disobey the Word of God thus achieving no results in their endeavours. But the sad thing is that they do not recognize the fact, or should I say it this way, they have never really been grounded in the fact that they must not violate the Word of God whatever the cost may be. Some businessmen think that the Word of God does not apply in the business world. They resort to humanistic means even when it violates the Word. They think the Word of God is not practical for the real world of business. Or is it because they pride themselves in being so able that they can manage the world of business without the principle derived from God’s Word which is spiritual in nature. For you see, it is the spiritual that manipulates the natural. Demonic powers manipulate but God’s power influences.

Therefore do not continue if your present state is one of being “short-changed”. Do not continue if your “well is drying up!” (as revealed prophetically.) Turn to God and seek His way of doing things! For His well, spiritual and natural, never runneth dry!