So the people came streaming from the village to see him. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.” But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.” “Did someone bring him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other. Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest……. John 4:30-38
Jesus prioritized his Father’s work. Nothing comes in his life before his Father’s work. He suspended anything that came in the way of his Father’s work in order for him to do his Father’s work first.
First, he even suspended rest he needed from weariness to attend to a Samaritan woman. “Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour” – John 4:6.
Second, he suspended his preference for food to propagate the gospel. The disciples urged him to eat but he told them, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me” – John 4:34.
Third, where he wanted to save his life he lost it because he wanted to do Father’s will. “He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done” – Matthew 26:42.
Jesus, throughout his life on earth, made sure his Father’s work takes the first place in his life. He demands same from us. “He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” – Matthew 10:37.
He told someone to follow him. But the person preferred going to bury his father before responding to his call. Jesus rearranged his priority for him and told him: “Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go you and preach the kingdom of God” – Luke 9:59-60.
Jesus told all his followers: “But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” – Matthew 6:33. Doing anything on this earth without God’s will disqualifies you from being a follower of Jesus who prioritize his Father’s will.
LET’S PRAY
Heavenly Father, give me grace enough to always remember that, if I place God first on my priority list, He will also place me first on his superiority list. O Holy Spirit strengthen me to do Your Will by focusing on the Father’s Work first as my priority in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen Amen Amen
AGREE WITH ME
You are a plant and you just need water to flourish and bear fruit to fulfill your destiny. So, you need to be connected to the Source that never dry. I therefore decree and declare this morning “May your business, finances, career, academics, marriage, family, health, physical person and spiritual person be connected to the Fountain of life, by the Power of the Holy Spirit in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!”
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