Flourishing Forever 3 - Daystar Christian Centre

Flourishing Forever 3. There’s an old story of a man who arrived in heaven and pointed at another man he saw and told Peter, I know that man down on earth. And Peter said, you mean the General? The man told Peter that he wasn’t a General on Earth and Peter responded that he may have chosen to be something else, but the provision that was made here was for him to be a General. Now the moral of that story is that we can live in total misalignment with God’s design for our lives. We can live in total misalignment with God’s design for our life.

“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb, before you were born I set you apart... Jeremiah 1:5 NLT

God has a definite purpose for your life. Whatever it is that you may be going through that makes you wonder, ‘is there anything to this life?’ Remember that is the enemy trying to steal you away from God. There is a reason and a purpose that God sent you here. Nobody is an accident of nature.

Matthew chapter 2:531-33. There is nothing to fear of God’s Judgement because God is not a father that wants to catch us by surprise. He’s showing us the criteria for spending eternity with him. Revelations 20:11-12. We’re all going to give account of our lives, give account of the privileges and the opportunities that God has given us. Give an account of the time, the treasure, and the talent that God has given us. What will your account look like?

When you live your life with the perspective of eternity, you make better decisions. 1 John 3:3 MSG. So when you look forward to his coming, you stay ready and you use Jesus’ life as your model, you can’t get it wrong. So let’s look at those that will pass God’s test, Matthew 25:34-46 NLT. Christ is telling us what will happen up front, should we then be surprised again? No. How we treat people is the basis for entering the kingdom of God. Feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, being hospitable to stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, visiting those in prison.

Let’s care for the hungry, the sick, the naked, and the imprisoned. Let’s make heaven together.