E2022_S2E11 - Living the right way

Apostle Joseph Simwela

My daily light - 11 February, 2022

Living the right way

What does it mean to live the right way?

*Text*

Riches won’t help on the day of judgment, but right living can save you from death.

*Proverbs 11:4 NLT*

*Five ways to living the right way*

1. Right living is cutting self from the love of this world - your best enemy is not Satan but your love to the things of this world. You are in this world but not of this world, which means you need to set boundaries as a Christian. There are discussions you need to avoid, there are movies and kind of songs you need not to feed your eyes and ears. There are some posts you need not to comment or post on social media. As a Christian, you are meant to continually grow Spiritually and the only enemy to your Spiritual growth is not Satan but your love for the things of this world. Satan has a place - you will always meet him where he dwells, in the world.

*Text*

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

*1 John 2:15 NLT*

Check how your time is spent on daily basis, then you will know whom you love. The best token of showing love is the sacrifices you give and no sacrifice exceeds your time.

Time is your life, your time given to someone is never restored - to everyone is given a specific period of time to live here on earth. How are you using your time?

*Text*

“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.

*Matthew 6:24 NLT*

You are either for God or for this world, not both. Where are you right now?

Cut yourself from the things of this world.

2. Right living is living in the hope of your Salvation - knowing that one day you will be judged for everything you do here on earth. This is living knowing that there is another life ahead, and the life we are now is simply a preparation for where we will live forever - an eternity conscious living.

*Text*

But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

*Matthew 7:23 NLT*

At the last day, you will be recognized by how you committed your life into doing the word. It's doing the word of God that matters and not knowing it, preaching and teaching it. You are living right if you are committed unto doing the word of God.

3. Right living is living according to your life's Purpose - knowing exactly what you were created for and obediently walking in it .

*Text*

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.

*2 Timothy 4:7 NLT*

Do you know the kind of a fight you were created for? If you die today, will you be proud for having walked in your assignment?

*Text*

“You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,

*Jeremiah 51:20 NIV*

God is speaking to you, "you are my weapon of war" - do you really realize the kind of a weapon God has entrusted to your life?

Choose to start living on Purpose, you do not have much time to live here on earth.

4. Right living means living according to the Spirit of the Lord - living righteously. The Spirit gives birth to the fruit which is the character of Jesus. You are living by the Spirit if the character of Jesus is what people see in you.

*Text*

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

*Galatians 5:22-23 NLT*

The fruit of the Spirit is the true character of Jesus - live according to the Spirit by focusing on Christlikeness each passing day.

5. Right living is knowing and Maintaining the friend you need most here on earth - the Holy Spirit, having him and deciding to never grieve him.

*Text*

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

*Psalms 51:11 NKJV*

The Indwelling Holy Spirit is all you need, he comes at your Salvation - at your believing of the word. You have believed if you start doing the word of God.

The Indwelling Holy Spirit identifies you as the child of God - he marks you and then at the last day during rapture, He will pick you and meet the Lord in the Air.

*Text*

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

*Ephesians 4:30 NKJV*

Is He in you?, If you die today - is He going to pick you during rapture?

Or if rapture happens now whilst you still living- are you in the right terms with the Holy Spirit that He will pick you and meet the Lord in the air?

*Five point means five prayer points for you - I pray that the gracious hand of the Lord be on you that you will start living rightly in Jesus name!*