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Your life is a Ministry, People Are Watching You Whether You Know It or Not: Pastor Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

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Sunday Sermon Date: October 31, 2021

Speaker: Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Today’s Message: Your life is a Ministry, People Are Watching You Whether You Know It or Not

Time: 9am – 11 am

Scripture references

·        Romans 5:5

“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.”

·        1 Corinthians 13:2 NIV

“If I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing”

·        Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord has appeared to us from the past saying, “I have loved you with perpetual

love, Therefore I have drawn you with kindness.

·        Colossians 3:17 NIV

“Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,

giving thanks to God the Father through him”

Sermon Notes’˙✓ ,Š‘f)

Love Is a Choice. Love is not a feeling. Love is a choice. Even when you don’t feel

like it, you can choose to do it anyway.

I once spoke with a young mother who felt overwhelmed and was battling with depression. It seemed like her schedule and the demands on her life were too much to handle. She felt like all she did was nag her kids and scold them relentlessly. When she looked at herself, she saw a failure. In her despair, she cried out to the Lord.

As she spent more time reading the Bible, she found the answer in 1 Corinthians 13. Five words in particular leaped out to her: “Without love, I am nothing.” So, she wrote out these words and placed the notes all over her house on her refrigerator door and on the dashboard of her “sport utility vehicles” at the top of her calendar.

“I realized the single most important thing I could do was love my family,” she said. “So, I began to live my life through love. I began to run my home through love. It was as transforming as when I accepted Christ into my life. It brought the happiness back into my life and my home.”

What made the difference for this young mom? She made a choice. It was not always an easy choice, but it changed the whole dynamic of her home, the way she saw herself as a mother and as God’s child.

Acting in love when you don’t feel like it is actually a greater expression of love, than when you do feel like it. Love is getting up in the middle of the night to help a sick kid after you’ve already had a long day and went to bed late. Love is being patient with your spouse when they are irritable. Love is giving a person what they need, not what they deserve.

It’s easier to act your way into a feeling than feel your way into an action. If you act in a loving way, eventually the feelings will follow. That’s important to remember when you are trying to love people who seem unlovable.

Remember the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 4 reads, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.”

When you love irrespective of your feelings, that is called loving by faith. It doesn’t just change the next person. It changes you too, and makes you more like Jesus Christ.

Your life is a Ministry. People are watching you whether you know it or not.

Mr. Smith Wigglesworth was a great preacher. But before he was a preacher, he was a plumber who wasn’t a Christian nor a very nice man. Fortunately for him, he had a godly wife. He didn’t want her to go to church, but she Went there anyway. When she did, he’d lock her out of the house, and when she came home, she would have to sleep on the back porch. In the morning he would unlock the door and she would come in and say,” Good morning, Smithy! and make breakfast  Ç •?•s for him. She was a godly example for him. She was a sensible soul wife, she prayed for him and God gave her the grace to be good to him in spite of his rude behavior. Because she continued to be so good to him, he eventually came to know the Lord Jesus Christ and was radically changed. As a result, he became one of the greatest preachers who ever lived.

Whatever You Do, Do It as a Ministry!

God has called you to be a minister. Maybe you’ll never preach a sermon. Maybe you’ll never officiate a wedding or a funeral. Maybe you’ll never lead a church. But make no mistake about it. If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’re a minister.

God has called you to be a bi-vocational minister. What does that mean? Think of the word “bifocal.” Those are the glasses that allow someone to see two things at the same time both far away and nearby with clarity.

When you follow Jesus, you do everything for two reasons and not one, to help others and to honor God. That makes you a bi-vocational minister, whether you’re a truck driver, an attorney, a builder, or a stay-at-home parent. You have a job, but in that job, you work to help others and to honor God.

The Bible says it like this in Colossians 3:17: “Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” NIV.

That scripture reminds us that anything we do can be a ministry and a blessing if we honor God and help others through it. Whatever you do, do it in the name of Jesus, i.e., Taking out the garbage, changing a dirty diaper, and cleaning the living room etc. can all be ministries. As long as your motivation is right, the Bible says that whatever you do can become a ministry. That means menial tasks become meaningful tasks when you do them out of love for God.

When you look at life from this perspective, everything you do becomes significant.

Pep talk

  • How can you learn to love more like Jesus so that it is easier to choose to love someone who is unlovable?
  • How does the Bible challenge the way our culture portrays romantic love?
  • When people don’t respond to your love the way you expect, what is a

Christlike way to react?

  • How does the Bible’s teachings on doing everything for the Lord change your perspective on tasks you might otherwise consider insignificant?
  • How does your calling as a bi-vocational minister impact how you look at your work?
  • What’s a task in your life that you struggle to think about in terms of helping

others and honoring God? Why do you think that’s so?

Many Thanks, I love you and I’m praying for you!

CREDITS

Sermon Script Writer: Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe Church Editor: Ms Bawinile Mahlangu

Ministry: IHPMI

© 2021 Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Pastor Lekgetho Morgan Mogagabe travels to many countries spreading the word of God. He is a Facilitator of Pastors of Grace under Dr Creflo Dollar Ministries.

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