Jesus was welcomed by Martha together with His disciples and being hospitable she begun preparing meals for the 13 hungry men that were her special guests. They had not given a notice that they were coming otherwise she could have prepared earlier but this was a surprise visit.
It is a tideous work to cook for 13 men and seeing that her sister Mary didn't come to the kitchen, she was irritated and reported it to Jesus. Instead of being appreciated by Jesus for her sacrifice and hardwork; she got a shock of her life by getting rebuked instead.
What she did was something good but her priorities were wrong. Mary had the right priorities. Listening to Jesus must be more important to Jesus than serving Him.
Are you distracted by the work of the Lord from the Lord of the work? What do you value most, serving God or listening to His voice?
Learn to listen to God first and only do what He tells you to do. Your fruitfulness will be determined by your eagerness to listen to God's voice and obey it. All your life if you serve God without listening to Him first you'll discover at the last day that all that work will be burnt up and you'll be left with nothing.
Learn to set your priorities in order.
In you schedule there are things that are *important and urgent* for example taking a sick child to hospital, others are *important but not urgent* for example ironing the clothes you'll wear tomorrow, others are *not important but urgent,* for example a matatu which is going the direction you are planning to go tomorrow, others are *not urgent and not important* for example drawing a picture of yourself if you are not interested and skilled in drawing without any purpose. Learn to categorise your activities in the order of their priorities.
After finishing Praying, one disciple asked Him to teach them praying just like John taught His disciples.
After observing the life of Jesus , this disciple concluded that the secret of Jesus was His prayer life. He realised that in the life of Jesus, the top priority was prayer. What about you, if someone spies on you secretly for six months, what conclusion will they make about you? What will they see as the most important thing about you? Learn from Jesus and follow Him. Let prayer be more important to you than ministry. In other words let your private walk with God become more important to you that your outward or public ministry. Living a godly life is more important than exercising spiritual gifts. Seeking God's approval is more important than men's approval. Speaking and listening to God is more important than speaking and listening to men.
Jesus taught us commonly known as the Lord's prayer.
Our Father who art in heaven. God who controls all things and all people and all circumstances from heaven is my Father. He loves me and cares for me, thus I need not to be afraid of ANYTHING.
Hallowed be your name. May His name be regarded as holy. Our Father is a holy God, this is a forgotten concept. He hates sin. We must treat His name as holy not as our equal.
Your kingdom come. His rule in Righteousness and justice to come.
Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. How is Gods will done in heaven? In reverence and Godly fear, and immediately and exactly as commanded. The angels do not run here and there trying to do God's will but they wait to hear what they are to do and do it.
Are you always eager to hear God's voice and will and do it immediately as the Lord leads you or are yoy busy like Martha trying to do something for the Lord?
You can start now and be like Mary to sit at the feet of Jesus listening to His voice.
Give us each day our daily bread. We need material blessing to help us do God's will every single day. We need food, shelter and clothing, we need health, wisdom, counsel, knowledge.....this we must pray for so that everyday of our lives we'll be able to carry out God's will.
Forgive us our sins in exactly the same way we forgive others.
How have you forgiven those who have wronged you? Do you say, I forgive you but I will never talk to you or forget what you have done? Or do you say I will never forgive you for what you have done? Then you are signing your own death sentence saying the Lord's prayer. You are telling God to not forgive you when you have not forgiven, and you tell him not to talk to you when you say you'll never speak to those who speak, and you tell God to keep on remembering what you did against Him when you keep on dwelling on what was done against you. You tell God to deal hardly with you when you deal hardly with those who wronged you.
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil. There are many Temptations the devil places along our path, but we need to pray daily that the Lord will not lead us where they are placed that we may not fall in evil schemes of our archenemy the devil so that we can do Gods will for our lives.
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