{"id":12909,"date":"2024-12-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:58:52","slug":"preparation-key-effective-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/preparation-key-effective-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation is a key to effective life!"},"content":{"rendered":"Good day, dear friends!\r\n\r\nThanks to God for this awesome day He granted us with! Thank Him for another opportunity to get filled with His living word! Today I wish to discuss with you a very important topic: \u201cpreparation is a key to effective life\u201d. In reality, effective life is impossible without appropriate preparation. Jesus solved the question of effectiveness by preparing Himself for the ministry. There is almost no information about what Jesus had been doing during the first 30 years of His life. Gospels tell us the story about His ministry. Meanwhile, we need to understand that prior to starting His ministry Jesus had been seriously preparing himself for quite a long time.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abThe child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.\u00bb\u00a0(Luke 2:40).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, developing certain skills and calling Himself to discipline. For example, He regularly communicated with the Father:\r\n
\u00a0\u00abBut the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.\u00bb\u00a0(Luke 5:15-16).<\/h6>\r\nJesus often fasted. (see Luke 4:1-16)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen people came to Jesus asking for healing, Jesus never rejected them saying He would need to fast for 7 days first and only then pray for their healing. Not like that, He always was in shape, always ready to serve people, because He kept preparing Himself for ministry.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Bible prompts us to be ready at all times:\r\n
\u00a0\u00abBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear.\u00bb\u00a0( 1\u00a0Peter\u00a03:15).<\/h6>\r\n
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\u00abpreach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.\u00bb\u00a0(2 Timothy 4:2).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nInfluential people always work on themselves. God always prepares the vessel He is using. Are you letting Him to prepare yourself? Your future starts today as the following verses of Scripture say:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abJoshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.\u00bb\u00a0(Joshua 3:5).<\/h6>\r\n
\u00abYahweh said to Moses, \u201cGo to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.\u00bb\u00a0(Exodus 19:10-11).<\/h6>\r\n
\u00abTherefore don\u2019t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day\u2019s own evil is sufficient.\u00bb\u00a0(Matthew 6:34).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nIf you take care for tomorrow, tomorrow will take care for itself. If you skip your preparation for tomorrow today, tomorrow will bring you only bitterness and failure. Today is important! What are doing with your life today? What are you doing with the word of God today? What are you doing with His call today? Commence your self-preparation today, so that your tomorrow can delight you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will continue tomorrow! Be blessed in the Lord! Rufus Adjiboye, pastor\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In reality, effective life is impossible without appropriate preparation. Jesus solved the question of effectiveness by preparing Himself for the ministry. There is almost no information about what Jesus had been doing during the first 30 years of His life. Gospels tell us the story about His ministry. Meanwhile, we need to understand that prior to starting His ministry Jesus had been seriously preparing himself for quite a long time.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pexels-pixabay-326616-1024x423.jpg",1024,423,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38940,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions\/38940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}