THE WORD OF GOD SAYS
THE BEST YOU CAN DO FOR GOD
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation—a toast to God ! I’ll pray in the name of God ; I’ll complete what I promised God I’d do, and I’ll do it together with his people.
Psalm 116:12-19 MSG
FIND FREEDOM IN YOUR WORK
The diligent find freedom in their work; the lazy are oppressed by work.
Proverbs 12:24 MSG
HAVE YOU ASKED GOD TO HELP YOU? (Check your motives)
You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
James 4:2-3 NLT
TAKING IT TOO EASY
Easy come, easy go, but steady diligence pays off.
Proverbs 13:11 MSG
WAIT PATIENTLY FOR YOUR PROMOTION, THATS HOW JESUS LIVED
Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.
1 John 2:6 NLT
YOU WON’T ALWAYS BE STUCK—COMMIT YOUR WAYS TO THE LORD
Delight yourself in the Lord , And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord ; Trust in Him also and He will do it. He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light, And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].
Psalms 37:4-6 AMP
GOD KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU DO—NOTHING YOU DO IS EVER WASTED
God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won’t soon be forgotten. In hard times, they’ll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they’ll be full.
Psalm 37:18-19 MSG
USE EVERY FRUSTRATION AT WORK TO STIMULATE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION—SCRATCH YOUR OWN ITCH!
They are on constant alert, looking for angles, surviving by their wits. I want you to be smart in the same way—but for what is right—using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you’ll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior.
Luke 16:8-9 MSG
WORK HARD WHILE THE SUN STILL SHINES
Jesus said, “…We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world’s Light.”
John 9:3-5 MSG
FIND WORTH IN YOUR WORK AND BUILD A BETTER TOMOROW
First thing in the morning, she dresses for work, rolls up her sleeves, eager to get started. She senses the worth of her work, is in no hurry to call it quits for the day.
Proverbs 31:10-31 MSG
