Living in Wisdom & Working with Jesus (Psalm 127)

¹ Unless the LORD builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the LORD protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. ² It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones. -Psalm 127:1-2 (NLT)

• What is the hardest aspect of your work today?

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sometimes demands answers we don’t want or would prefer to be different.

Since this is your heart’s desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, ¹² therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given to you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have. —2nd Chronicles 1:11-12 (NIV)

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and

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, that is under control, and under the watch of the Lord is where the real power lies.

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and God given natural abilities are never a substitute for obedience to God.

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are weapons of mass destruction without humble submission to God.

²⁴ Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. ²⁷ And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. —Matthew 5:24-27 (NIV)

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need to be met with hospitable soil that contains sufficient nutrients to grow.

o In your own life that means learning to identify the

of God.
o Jesus isn’t saying I’m an add on to your house,

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the house, I’m the foundation, come and build with me.

²³ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, ²⁴ since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. —Colossians 3:23-24 (NIV)

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are optional, obedience is not.

“God has reminded me repeatedly that I really do want to be obedient to him. I’ve found myself, from time to time, praying this kind of a prayer, “God, forget about what I’ve done and said in the last few months. I long to obey You. Help me to resist myself. Help me, Father, learn to obey You.” —– John Wimber, Prayer: Intimate Communication (Anaheim: Vineyard Ministries International, 1997), 18-19.

• If he doesn’t build it, I don’t want to build it. If he isn’t securing it, I don’t want to secure it. Learn to work

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in all that you do.