Look for ways to demonstrate love for your coworkers by treating them with kindness, extending grace and providing support. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” – Matthew 22:37-39Īpplication: Demonstrate love for God at work by seeking His direction before starting your next task. “Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” – Colossians 3:23-24Īpplication: Look at the work in front of you today – whether it’s preparing a report, participating in a meeting, taking out the trash or updating the budget – and identify ways you can do each thing with excellence as if God is the One you want to please.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.Be intentional about the way you handle each task, and treat each person at work today with grace and love. “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” – 1 Corinthians 10:31Īpplication: Work is a part of life and it’s meant to be done with a positive attitude.Below are just a few verses that contain God’s wisdom and perspective on our work, and how we should conduct ourselves while performing our work, along with a practical ways you can apply these verses today. Throughout Scripture God communicates how important our work is to Him. ( M) 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.The words “work” and “toil” are mentioned over 480 times in the Bible, indicating that God considers our work to be a very important aspect of our lives.
( L) 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. ( J) Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? ( K) 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ( I) 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. ( H) They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. True and False Prophetsġ5 “Watch out for false prophets. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. ( G) For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ( F) The Narrow and Wide Gatesġ3 “Enter through the narrow gate.
#Ask and it is given verse how to
8 For everyone who asks receives the one who seeks finds ( C) and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.ĩ “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ( D) to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, ( E) for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 7 “Ask and it will be given to you ( B) seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened to you.
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