• To serve is to work for or be a servant to.
• Serving God is secondary to walking with Him.
• We start by walking with God thereafter we work for Him.
• Walking with God is having a relationship with God.
• When you have the right motive for serving God, blessings will come automatically.
• Serving God should be your nature.
• Our God is not a taskmaster.
• God has everything and can give you everything.
• If you are not getting anything from God, the problem is not with God but with you.
Luke 10:7, Heb 6:10
THE EFFECTS OF SERVING GOD
Luke 1:5-13, Heb 6:10
1. Serving God provokes divine visitations
• Serving God is the easiest way to receiving answers from God to issues of life without sweat.
2. Those who serve God genuinely enjoy divine health, protection, exemption and long life (Exo 23:25-26)
3. It is the easiest way to tap into the anointing (2 Kings 3:11, Deut 1:38)
PLATFORMS ON WHICH TO SERVE GOD
1. Service departments
• Service departments are important because God has a tendency of meeting His people at their place of service (Judges 13:2-11)
2. Through financial resources, substances and giving (Luke 8:1-3, Exo 10:25-26)
3. Through prayers (Job 42:10)
ENEMIES OF SERVING GOD
1. Procrastination (delay) (2 Sam 20:4-10)
• If you have something to do tomorrow , do it today.
• Delayed obedience is disobedience.
• When you wait, you waste.
2. Laziness (Rom 12:11, Heb 6:12)
3. Giving up or doubting (Mat 14:31)
• Ask God for the grace to keep doing whatever you have started.