TAGGED: THE HEART OF A KINGDOM WORKER
TEXT: PSALM 51:10
MINISTERING: PST. MFON DICKSON
INTRODUCTION
~ After being born again, the next assignment is to become a worker of God.
~ As the trinity are workers, we as children of God are to be workers. ( Gen. 2:2, John 5:17, Galatians 3:5).
~ Working is a command from God.
~ No matter the urgency of the work in God's kingdom the kind of heart used is important because:
✓ God searches our heart. ( 1 Samuel 16:7).
✓ The heart of a kingdom worker should be loyal to God.
✓ God rewards our service not according to how busy we are but how sincere to the work of God.
✓ Because of the nature of Human heart.
✓ Our appearance can deceive people.( Matthew 23:28).
✓ The heart of man is continually evil ( Gen 6:5).
✓ Our heart is the centre of everything we do
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF KINGDOM WORKER?
1. Kingdom Worker is a born again child of God entrusted to carefully use, control and manage kingdom resources and possessions.
~ The first criteria to being a kingdom worker is being born again ( John 3:1-3): Our work is useless if we are not born again because our SALVATION is more important than our work.
~ You are entrusted with a responsibility ( Luke 12:48) thus to whom much is given, much is required.
~ Use the responsibility given to you by God carefully.
~ Ensuring management and control: Control in the sense that, the people working with you are working well because a Leader's mistake is a Leading mistake.
2. A kingdom worker is a servant of God serving faithfully with the mind or understanding of giving to his master.
~ As kingdom worker, we are servant not boss thus while serving serving God we are to serve with humility.
~ One of the way to fast track any action is to begin the action first as a Leader and then everything will then join.
~ As a worker we are to serve faithful.
WHAT IS A FAITHFUL SERVICE
1. This is having a reliable, dependable and trust worthy character.
2. A faithful service is being loyal and steadfast at your place of service. ( 1 Samuel 22: 14).
3. A faithful service is accepting full responsibility for any assignments given to you.
4. A faithful service ability to exercise an excellent service without any supervision i.e doing the right thing at the right time without no supervision.
N/B: A worker is supposed to do what God says he should in a way that please God.
SUB THEME: WORKING WITH GOD WITH A CLEAN HEART
WHAT IS A CLEAN HEART?
1. Clean Heart is a heart that is not mixed with any thoughts.
2. A Clean Heart is a heart that focused only on God while working.
3. It is a heart with no secret agenda, no hypocrisy but a heart filled with good conscience and motivate ( 1 Timothy 1:5, Act 23:1).
CONTENTS OF AN UNCLEAN HEART ( MARK 7:21)
✓ Theft
✓ Sexual immorality
✓ Murder
✓ Envy e.t.c.
BLESSINGS ATTACHED TO SERVING GOD FAITHFULLY
~ When we serve God faithfully, God accept our service.
~ It gives us unlimited access into God presence ( Hebrew 12: 14, 2 Chronicles 16:9)
