31 Days of Wisdom and Worship – Day 10 – Pastor Ryan Binkley

Wisdom and Worship-Day 10

Wisdom

 

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

 

Proverbs 10:4-5

 

Diligence is one of the attributes of life that God honors.  I have seen many people that are not Christians but have tremendous favor on their life because they understand the importance of diligence.  If you are diligent in life, the bible says that you will stand before kings.  Conversely, one who is lazy in their affairs and in work will end up in poverty.  What’s also important is that you learn to work diligently in the right season.  Solomon says that if you gather crops in the summer or during the harvest you will be wise and it is disgraceful to rest during the harvest season.  Do you recognize the season of life your family, business or ministry is in?  For example, I have a short season with my oldest children to get into them everything I can before they go to college.  In business, we have to recognize the season of when to invest or to cut back.  In ministry, you have to know the season of whether to evangelize or disciple.  In an evangelist season you are reaching out to everyone you can and in a discipling season you are growing and nurturing the ones that God has put in your influence.  Let’s work in the season we are in with all diligence and see what God does in our midst.

 

Worship

 

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

 

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.

They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.

He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:2, 16-19

 

Lord, I thank you for delivering me out of all of my troubles! You are my victory! You are the reason I stand today.  Surely my enemies would have devoured me, but you have stayed their hand every time and pushed them back from my life.  I am alive because of you and I praise Your name forever.  You have put me high upon a rock.  You are my salvation and the reason I exist.  Thank you for saving and protecting me! My love and heart is Yours forever. Amen.