Sound Of Revival Devotional: JUNE 29; SOURCE OF TRUE RICHES..


Proverbs 10:22  ‘The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it’

DAILY READING –  1 Thessalonians 5; Isaiah 23-24; Psalm 116

A report from Fox News on 24th July 2019, stated that the wealthiest billionaire in Singapore, Philip Chee Tat Ng, said that he valued his relationship with Jesus Christ more than anything else in the world.

This was interesting news to many people, considering that Philip is Singapore’s largest private landlord and property developer, and estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth $12.1 billion. Yet despite all his wealth, Philip said he had no peace or rest, until he found Christ.

Though he had attended a Christian school, taken up a course in theology while in King’s College London and even married a wife who is a Christian, still Philip had no real understanding of what a relationship with God was like. That was until he was invited to a Christian event in year 2000 by the wife of his good friend. She had wanted her husband to get to know Jesus Christ and realized that the only way to get her husband to sit down at the Christian event was to get his buddy, Philip to come along too.

During the program a facilitator had said something that struck a chord with Philip. Suddenly he began to see things in a new light, realizing that his life was vain and empty without Christ. And from that moment he took the decision to become a Christian and since that day, he has faithfully been serving God.

He said recently in a video posted on Instagram “I treasure my faith more than anything , so I just wish for everyone to have that peace and joy. It sure beats a lot of money and material things that you may have.”

 

In the world today, people are made to believe that having enough money will give them rest and fulfillment in life. But that is just not true. True rest only comes when we place our lives entirely in the hands of Jesus Christ in faith. Then and only then will we have complete rest.

No matter the volume of wealth a man gathers and how influential he becomes, if Jesus is not at the center of it all, it would all be vanity and chasing after the wind. Trying to achieve success outside of God only ends up making people’s lives chaotic. Juggling careers, relationships, financial demands and a host of other issues eventually results in stress and loss of peace. For many of these people, life becomes a constant rat race with no finish line in sight.

God indeed wants us to succeed in life, but He wants us to do so through His grace and not through our strength. We open ourselves up to all kinds of stress when we try to make our own way through life, independent of God.

Psalms 127:2  says “It  is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep”.

God created us to operate out of rest, not out of stress. It is His blessings that make rich and adds no sorrow to it. We enjoy His blessings, His unmerited favor, rest and peace of mind when we rely on His grace. And grace is rooted in the finished works of Jesus, who has made available to us everything we’ll ever need.

We have to understand that God has already finished all the work before the foundation of the world. He has outlined every detail of our lives and all we are meant to achieve on earth. Therefore we are not here to decide our destiny but rather we are here to discover it.

Let us therefore through prayer, supplication and thanksgiving, daily seek God’s face and His grace, to run life’s race. Let us seek to know His will for us and diligently follow it. And as we walk in His revealed plan for us, we will enter into our rest.  And when we rest, then we will see God’s best.

 

PRAYER: Lord, I thank and appreciate You for Your good plans for my life. Thank You for Your grace that is at work in my life and I know indeed that my story this year shall only be from glory to glory in Jesus Name.

 

QUOTE;

The best is not behind you. Your best is yet in front of you, keep on moving! No need to ever move back!  Wordbite 222

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