 Right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer and then we'll get into our teaching. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for yet another week you've given us Lord and even as we come together to learn from your word of God, we pray that you will speak and minister to our hearts. Lord, that we open our hearts to you, God, that we receive everything that you want to speak to us, Lord. And Lord, we just surrender this day. Everything that we're learning of God may be fruitful in each of our lives, God. And we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Alright, so we'll get into chapter 3. And so what I just realized is I think we'll need to pick up a little bit of pace because we have quite a lot to cover. So we'll get into chapter 3 and we'll talk about right workplace attitudes. Right. So last week, we looked at career, right? How the Lord can lead us into different careers. There are transitions that he takes us into. Now, when you and I are in a workplace, right, whatever it is, it could be something that you've just joined, something you're interested in, not interested in. Our attitude, right? Workplace attitudes is what will carry us through. I'm sure you heard that saying, right? Your attitude will determine your altitude. Your attitude will determine your altitude. That means how high you will reach, right? Attitude is basically the way you look at things. And the best example is you take a glass of water and just put half a glass of water in it. And you ask people, what do you say about this? Some will say it's half empty. Some will say it's half full. That's what attitude is. The way you look at things and the way you look at things influences your choices, your actions and your behaviors. Right. And so it is very important. It's very critical as people in the workplace or in ministry to have the right attitude. The moment our attitude is towards something is very, you know, you just look at it as okay, it's okay. It doesn't matter attitude. Then there's something wrong. We need to correct it. And so we look at what are some of the right workplace attitudes that are required for us as believers and also how we can develop these attitudes. I'm not saying that the moment we start working, we will have all the right attitudes. When I joined the workplace working in a corporate sector, I didn't like it. It's not like I enjoyed going to work. But I knew that if I have to be good at what I'm doing, I cannot have this attitude. So there are changes that we will have to make. And remember that not all work environments are the same. For example, APC as an organization works with a certain environment. There's a certain environment. Now you may have other churches or other organizations. They have a different environment. And it's not only the workplace. If you look at Bible college, APC Bible college has a certain work environment. And the way we do things, we do it in a certain structure. There may be other colleges which have a different environment. So every place it's different. But we must understand that there will be people who there'll be hostile. They will try to undercut you. They will try to put you down. There will be gossip. There will be all kinds of things happening in an organization. Why? Because all of us are people. None of us are robots. We all are people. We have these natural feelings and it's natural. One of the things that you and I will while making this professional journey, one thing that we must do is we must have the ability to maintain good attitude, regardless of what is happening around us. And you see for example, Paul and Silas were thrown into prison. And they had so many reasons to cry and to say, God, why is this happening to me? It's all the attitude. They said, no, we'll choose to do this. But could they have cried? Yes. There's nothing wrong. God, body's paining, emotionally hurt, mentally hurt, physically hurt, everywhere we are hurt. And now we're sitting in prison. Look at people in the Old Testament. They went through so many challenges. But the attitude is what matters. Look at Moses. In the chapter where he goes to, I forget the chapter, but he goes up to the mountain and what does he say? He says, God, I will not let you go until you show me your glory. Now, Moses has seen enough of God's glory. He has seen miracles. He has seen God working so powerfully. But he says, no, God, I need to see more. I need to see you. So our attitude must not change regardless of what is happening around us. People will ridicule us. People will make us feel happy. The same people who put you up on the pedestal will stand on you. It's going to happen. And if it doesn't happen in a workplace, that's good. When Jesus, remember Jesus was coming on the donkey, what did they say? What did they say? Hosanna on the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord with the palm leaves and all of that. We celebrate it. After that, we celebrate what? Good Friday. Why? Because the same people said crucify him. Same people. Same people. So there will be time. People change. But our attitudes, we can make sure, you know, Jesus didn't change his attitude because, hey, they said this. So now I'm changing. So how can we understand this? Remember, number one, attitude is a choice. It's a choice. It's a choice we make. I'm going to look at this situation in this way. Even though everything around me is against me, or everything, everyone around me feels that I'm not capable enough, or I'm just standing here, God, with an empty hand. Our attitude is our choice. You can say, God, I know that you're going to do something for me. I'm going to trust in you. Or I can say, God, I didn't expect this to happen to me. Why did you let this happen to me? You see that choice is there? It's a choice that we have. Right? And it is how you decide to act or react. And so attitude is contagious. Give me one example where you feel attitude is contagious. Think about this, right? Sorry? Wrong attitude. Yeah. So when I talk about attitude, it's good and bad. What is, okay, let's take good one. Let's take one good attitude and a wrong attitude that affected choices of the people around them. Let's take the wrong attitude first. Sorry? Jealousy. Yeah. Now, give me examples from the Bible. It's all very good. It's a wrong attitude, right? But sorry? Balam? Yeah, wrong attitude. I'll give you another example. I'm looking for this because it's there in my mind. Moses, he brought the people out of Egypt. What did the Israelites sing? Praise the Lord. He brought us out of Egypt. They were singing and happy. Now, suddenly Moses has gone up the mountain. What happened? One or two people in the, I mean, maybe a whole team of people, they said, okay, Moses is not going to come back down. Let's build a calf and do something else. You see how the attitude changed? The choice immediately changed. And then Moses came down the mountain. He said, whoever is on my side, come this side. Again, the choice changed. Right? Our attitude can affect the people around us. Look at Shadrach, Misha can embed and go. Three of them will throw you in the fire. Imagine one of them said, I don't want to die. I have I want to get married. I want to have children. I want to live this life. Okay, I'll bow down. It could have affected the others. But they're all three students strong. Right? So always remember your your attitude will affect the people around you. Right? Let's look at a few points, right? I'm on page 30 on your books. Your attitude always determines your altitude. Daniel chapter six and verse three. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. Look at that. Daniel stood out because he had an excellent spirit. Now Daniel six is when, you know, you have Darius, the third king. He's a third one who's coming in. The kingdom of Babylon was divided into two. And now the Medes and the Persians are there. And Darius is the king. Darius says Daniel stood out because probably he looked at Daniel and he said, Daniel, you only look after the things that are happening in the government. Why? Which is an excellent spirit in you. Right? The enemies were looking for his enemies. So Daniel's enemies were looking for ways to get him out. But the king was considering not only to keep him but to promote him. Now picture this. You have four, five people there. Oh, okay. So now since we are in the government, they're saying now we'll try to get this fellow out. He didn't bow down to the Babylon to the god, the statue. He's doing everything the way he wants to do it. So now is the best time Babylon is divided. Now there's going to be new government new rulers. So we get this Daniel out of here. This is what people are thinking. But when King Darius saw Daniel, he said to Daniel we'll not only keep you, we'll promote you. Your attitude will determine your attitude. How you look at things. So it is your grace, your gifts, your skills that you bring to an organization that will affect your attitude. That sets you apart. Why must I choose Daniel? Or why must I choose these other people? Maybe Shadrach, Meshach and Abed to go over the others. Why must I do it? There should be a reason. Yes or no. As a leader in an organization, I must have a reason for me to choose somebody. For example, one of the causes of ministry that we do is the life group ministry. So we appoint life group leaders. Why is it that we choose these leaders? There's something in their life. There's some we can see it outside. There's a grace, there's a gift, there's a calling. Yes? Right? And so our attitude towards that, towards our grace, our gifts, our calling will determine our attitude. The more you look at things in a small way the more our attitude will be in a smaller way. The more you look at things which are important in a higher way, it will begin to raise us. I remember when I was in Bible college, I used to keep preaching. I used to keep preaching and always we had this 15, 10 minutes break. We do 5 minutes sermon. That's when we make him sit, okay, translate. 5 minutes sermon. And they used to get so irritated with me. They used to always, all the students get so upset. He's not going to keep quiet. Do you think I care? I don't care. And so we would walk up to the hostel, right? It was like a 20 minutes walk. And they would say, oh, don't go with this guy Paul. He's going to keep preaching on sermon all the way till there. He has no other work. I know they don't care. Do you think I care? They didn't bother me at all. Why? Because I knew one day I will stand up. I will do it. This is what I have to do. At times they were giving out pamphlets in the streets. They would give out pamphlets and go to outreach. So some of the guys would go and they would sleep in the hostel. So many times me and maybe two or three of us would go and we would just be hot and empty pockets. We would be giving out pranks. I knew that my attitude towards this is important. Is it a big thing? No. Will people stand and clap? Oh, Paul has gone for capitalism. Very great job. Nobody is there to clap. But when we look at these small things and your attitude towards that is right, it's a good attitude. God begins to lift you up. It gives you a higher attitude. Understand? So look at the small things and do it well. People will want you in your team. That's a good feeling. I want you. You come. You be in my team. It's such a good feeling and then you become a leader and then you say, hey, you come. You be in my team. That's a good feeling. Why? It has not come out just like that. It's because of your attitude. How you looked at things. Right? Second one, do all for the glory of God. First Corinthians 1031. Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. So motivation is important. How many of you are not motivated? I can say none. Why? If you're not motivated, you wouldn't have been there on this call or you wouldn't have been here sitting here. You have maybe 10 other things you could do. But you're motivated. There's a reason you're here. There's a reason, you know, those who are online, you logged in and you're listening. There's a reason. Why? There's a motivation and our motivation is what drives us. It inspires us, stimulates us and keeps us going. Now, not always, remember in our professional life or in ministry, not always people will motivate you. When people motivate you, it's good. You feel encouraged. You feel, hey, yes, I can do it. But in a world that we live in, the reality is not everyone are going to motivate you. So what do you do that then? You motivate yourself. You say, no, I'm going to do this. I love the psalmist, David, no? He's so powerful. What does he say? He says, bless the Lord o my soul and all that is within me, bless his holy name. And there are so many psalms where he's running away from Saul. He's running away from his life. How long will it take for Saul to find him? He can find him in any time. But he's saying, God, my heart is, my spirit is broken. I feel weary. This is how I'm feeling. But Lord, I know that you are with me. Who was there with David that time? Anybody was there? Nobody was there. What did he do? He motivated himself. He said, God, I know I can just picture this. David is sitting in one of those caves and he's saying, I killed Goliath. I went and helped Saul. I played the guitar also for him when he is possessed by, oppressed by the devils and now he's coming to kill me. Better I just go back and I say okay, I don't want to be the king. Go back to doing what I have to do. Finish, end of story. But what drove David? He said, probably he said, no. When all those thoughts came, he may have said, no, no, no, no. I remember the prophet Samuel. He came. All my brothers were standing in line, but he chose me. So God has anointed me to be the king of Israel. I'm not going to give up. That's called motivation. It's easy to give up during difficult times. Motivation, you are empowered by God. When you say to yourself, I'm going to do this, God empowers you. He gives us the strength. He says, push on. Don't give up in between. We must be motivated to glorify God in all that we do. So to do everything we glorify God and we find this as the greatest motivator in our life. God, to me, this looks very difficult. One thing I know you can do it in my life and let me let it be to glorify you. We have plenty of examples in the Bible. David, Joseph, Daniel, Abraham, Jacob, all these wonderful men of God. They did it for the glory of God. And when you... Let's go here. You are empowered to carry his name. You represent him. You display his wisdom, his excellence, his virtue and greatness through your work. Look at that. You display his wisdom, his excellence, his virtue and his greatness. So when you and I are motivated to work and do what God has called us to do, we display all of these. We begin to exalt him. People look at us and say hey, good job. The moment, for example, you are in a workplace and you say and you do something and you done an achievement and you say this is because this is what the Lord Jesus has done in my life. That one sentence is bringing glory to God. Remember last week we talked about that boxer world champion. There are people from different sports who are world champions. They say I did this for the glory of God. There was a time in Brazil where the team of the Brazilian soccer team, they were all believers. I think it was the early 2000s if you had followed soccer. They would all wear those bandanas saying I love Jesus. The Brazilian team was a team which never cheated. They never caused any faults and fouls and they won I think three continuous world cups. They all said it's because of God. So whenever we do, when we say this is to glorify God, it brings honor to God. Let's go to the next point. Keep your ambition kingdom minded. Very important. Even as we prepare, even as we continue our work in the Lord or we are serving God or in the workplace, keep your ambition kingdom minded, kingdom focused. I'm doing this yes. God has asked me to work. I have to provide for my family. I have to be there. I have to work and God will bless the work of my hands. But even as I do all of this, my main intention is to build the kingdom of God. Now there's a thin line as believers. We must understand this. We must never go overboard. Never say I will not work. God will provide all my needs. That is silliness. I can never say I will only work and I will do it myself. That is foolishness. You get that thin line, right? We must work. I'm going to say, God, whatever I've achieved, it is because of your grace and your gift. Your gifts that you have put in my life, right? So when we do that, we are being kingdom focused. Here, Matthew 6 33, very common verse, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all the other things shall be added unto you. So what is our top priority? Building God's kingdom. Being kingdom focused. Now, I do understand. Some of us may ask, how could I build God's kingdom when I'm 9 to 5 in an office? 9 to 5 sitting in an office. How am I building God's kingdom? When you are glorifying God in your work, when you are working in righteousness, you're working using the gifts and the grace that God gives you, you are kingdom focused. Because who gave you that job? Your degree? Your certificate? God gave it. When God gives, when you say, God, whatever I'm doing, let it glorify your name, you're kingdom focused. It becomes the focus of our dreams, our goals, our pursuits, everything that we wish to become and accomplish professionally, spiritually, whatever organization, whichever sphere of influence we are working in, we can be kingdom focused. Right? Fourth one. Next point. Always remember, there is more to life than just making money. Yes? There is more to life than making money. Let's read Proverbs 11, 28. He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage. You know, making money is not wrong. Is it wrong to make money? Without money we can't do anything. Yes or no? There will be no APC Bible callers if there is no money. Right? We are not saying, oh, we are God is going to know. Money is important. But we must remember that everything in life is not about money. Right? Sometimes we see people, they want to grow up in the corporate ladder. Okay, now I'm a team leader. Then I want to become an assistant manager. Then I want to become a manager. Then I want to become an area manager. Then I want to become a senior manager. Then what? General manager and assistant to CEO and become the CEO. Which is good. But when I only focus on that. So for example, this young man, he's maybe in his early 30s. He's now a manager and he says, before I become 40 I should become a CEO. So he's got 10 years. But in those 10 years, he's only focused on money. When I get to that position, that is the money that I will use to buy this, buy that, but nothing wrong. But even when you focus, we need to understand that there are other things in life. Imagine this person is a Christian or a believer and he's saying, no, Sunday I can't come to church. Why? Because it's a full day. I can work. I can do something. I can prepare some reports and do that additional work because one day I have to become a CEO. Is that right or wrong? Right or wrong? Now he's missing church. He's missing fellowship with God and he's saying because the whole day will go in church, so I don't want to use that for something else. That's when your priorities are changed. There's more to life. There are meaningful relationships. There are serving people, solving problems, fulfilling your divine purpose. When we look at what is happening around, there are plenty of stories of people who are making so much money, but they're still empty in life. Money is not going to satisfy everything. With money, you cannot buy a relationship. Can we? We can do a lot of things. We have that saying, money can't buy happiness. But now there are these youth and somebody sent me this message. Money can buy happiness. This guy is sitting in a luxury car and he's saying money can buy happiness. How long will he sit in that car? Once he goes to the traffic, there's no happiness. All the happiness is gone. So remember that fulfilling God's purpose, glorifying God, there's something more to life than just making money. Now the flip side is I don't want money. God is the creator of money. He will put money in my account. He will not put money into anybody's account. You have to do, you have to work and you get paid and you go up the ladder. Very simple. So we balance it out. Remember God is your master. Money is your slave. You serve God and he will follow. And that's true. The moment you're saying, okay, God, these are the things I want to do and I want to do it to glorify you. God will make a way for you. God will send people. God will bring people to give into your ministry or your organization, whatever you're doing. We don't have to stand with a bowl. Can you please fund us? No need. Right? Yes, there are times when, you know, when you look at towns and villages we may, you know, we want funding and all of that is okay. But I'm saying it's, what I'm trying to say is money is not the center of everything. You wake up in the morning, ah, how much is in my account? So I have to make it another three digits extra. And then there's something wrong. We've got to change it. When you wake up in the morning, the first thing must be God, I thank you that I can breathe. Thank you for this life. That's the first thing that should come up. That means we've got our perspectives right. And out of that comes everything else. Right? So just reiterating, making money is not wrong, but the perspective is important. Right? If making money becomes a soul activator, then we end up violating rules. We use, you know, your crooked means, we hurt people, we this bribery, extortion, all kinds of things can happen because making money is in the center of our mind and our heart. When God is the center, we'll think, okay, God this is right. So this is something that I will not even step into. Right? Using crooked means, violating rules, it's not something that you would love me to do as your child. So I will stay away from it. Right? Fifth one, very important, always walk in the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 15, 16, let us a little with the fear of the Lord, then great treasure with trouble. Now to walk in the fear of the Lord is to walk in reverence and to walk in honor. Right? It doesn't mean that whenever we're praying, we have a fearful, oh, your God is coming to come now. No, that's that's not what it means. The fear of the Lord is basically reverence and honor. So I can be for example, I can be in my room locked in the room with my laptop. Everyone know me as the person who's a holy person. But if I'm for example, this person is locked in the room with the laptop but there's nobody who can question him. There's a choice what I can watch, what I don't have to watch. Now here comes the fear of the Lord. What is the fear of the Lord does? No. As a believer this is something that I must not do. Why? Because God is watching me. That is called fear of the Lord. And it doesn't need to be such a, you know, it could be small things. You know, I remember when I was in I was in beast, Bible call as a student. My responsibility was to make tea for all the students. So tea time is 7 a.m. So I would wake up very early in the morning, finish prayer finish everything by six thirty. I'll freshen up and be ready to get into the kitchen and start making tea. So we would put, you know, maybe three liters of milk and we would carry, we would have tea and then we would carry it for the first break. Right? First break. And so we would make that tea. I would make that tea. Many times I say go make your own tea. It felt like that. I can't do that. Why? Because that is my responsibility. Right? It is something that a responsibility that's given to me. Now if they didn't drink tea, doesn't mean they'll, you know, they can't survive. They can survive. But I knew it's my responsibility. It's something that I have to do. Right? And I would always think, you know, what if Jesus was there in my batch? Always I kept saying that to myself. What if Jesus is in my batch and he doesn't have tea? Right? Jesus is going to come and sit, make tea. Many times, you know, we finish eating. You should wash the plate and keep. You can just leave it there. I'm going to wash it later. So what if Jesus has to eat next, that same plate? Sit and scrub it. Okay, Jesus, eat nice. I wash the plate well. And these things have, it came over time. I just had to tell myself. It was not easy. Right? But the fear of the Lord. Okay, God, you know, afternoon session, you know, during our time, afternoon sessions, we had word studies and so it was one to two lunch break. Two to three. Three to three, 15 break. Three 15 to four 15 session four. Four 15 to four 30 break. Four 30 to five 30 worship and prayer. Right? So that was our day worship and prayer. We rushed to the hostel. Just freshen up. You have about an hour study time. It was not easy as it is now, I would say. But there were many times I felt I don't have to follow this road. I just want to go from here and go back home and just come to college and attend college, go back home. But I felt that if I don't do this now, it's not going to help me. The fear of the Lord should be there. Okay, I'm doing it. Let me do it. Right? And in the workplace, there'll be numerous pressures, temptations, distractions. Remember, who's watching? Train yourself in small things. Small things you train yourself. And as you do that, you ask yourself, does this what I'm doing? Does it honor God? What I'm doing is does it, you know, show reverence to my God? Is it right in the eyes of God? I remember this one time, I had to, I wanted to go meet my friends. They were all having a get together. So I went up to the principal during that time at the Bible course. I said I'm not feeling okay. I want to go home. He said, yeah, go. And I went to my I went and met my friends. But you know that Lord in there, you know, in my mind, oh man, what did I do? All of them are talking. And then I was thinking, I said, I was not talking to my friends. Hey, what? You've come over so long. Why are you not talking? Then suddenly I just felt this, you know, like this heaviness in my heart. And I said, I gotta go. I was there for probably 10 minutes. I wrote for half an hour to meet them. It was there for 10 minutes. I said, I gotta go. I came back to the principal, the sir asked me, what happened? I said, I lied to you. I am okay. I just went to meet my friend. I wanted to meet my friend, but there was something in me I could not. So I'm sorry that I did this wrong. Right. Now it was not easy for me to do that. I was scared what he throws me out in college. Right. But I had to do it. I had to do it. I had to make things right until there will be situations and workplaces. Right. We can you know, we can change things in our files. We can change things in our Excel sheets. We can do all of that. Is it right in the eyes of God? That's the number one question we ask ourselves. Right. So walk in the fear of God. Let's go to the next one. The fruit of the spirit are winning attitudes. Walk in them. What's the fruit of the spirit? Galatians 5 22 and 23. Yes. Go ahead. Read it. You have a mic with you. Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 to 23, but the spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control. There is no law against such things as this. The fruit of the spirit are winning attitudes. Meaning what? When we walk in the fruit, you will only be fruitful. You see that the presence and work of the Holy Spirit brings about transformation of who we are, our character, our attitudes and our entire personhood. Everything changes in us. The way we look at people is, you know, when we look at people say, okay, there's unforgiveness, suddenly there's love. There will be people who will be very rude to you in the workplace. Remember this boss that I had in the workplace, he would come and say, he had this habit of throwing things. Right. And for me, throwing things is, I would get really upset. So he would come and say, okay, guys, what are you guys doing? Right? This is almost, we have finished and we've not even, you know, met our targets and he would throw the papers there. So just look at our work in the morning to afternoon. Take a look at it. And many times I said you take a look at it. I don't want to pick it up from down. You want to give it to me or give it to me in my hand. I said that. And I'm sad because that time I was a young guy. You throw me out and get another job. No problem. I don't have commitments and it doesn't, you can't treat me like this. Now at one point I was like, I would say something and I was like, oh man, God, you know, see, now you're not around the praise the Lord gang. All are like this. Right. So now I say God, what to do? You know, feeling hurt inside. I shouldn't have said, I shouldn't have just kept quiet. Let him shout how much he was hurt. So there are times there was one time the holy spirits told me you go and apologize. I said, no, he should apologize. I don't even think correct. Why should I apologize? So I didn't apologize two, three days over. And I just knew because it was just there in me. I couldn't see him. I couldn't talk to him because these guys they'll shout and then forget. Next day they'll be back to normal but for me it wasn't like that. How can he shout at me? My parents didn't shout at me. So I went to him. I said, listen, three days back you said this, no, what I said, Paul, you threw the papers at me and then remember I talked back to you. I shouldn't have said that. Sorry. You know, but there was this whole weight just left and I was thankful that I was able to go and apologize. Now without the fruit of the spirit, we cannot do it. But it says here, the spirit produces love and because of that, you know, it just though in the workplace, God just began to lift me up, really lift me up. There were people who were there for 10 years, 12 years, there for two years and I was getting promoted just like that for no reason. Of course a lot of hard work, a lot of things that I learned and learned as well, but they are winning attitudes at the gift of the spirit. So, sorry, the fruit of the spirit joy, a positive, happy, passionate, enthusiasm, peace, a sense of calmness even during turmoil and challenges, patience, being committed, being willing, kindness, gentleness and word indeed, goodness, demonstrating, benevolence and generosity, faithfulness being sincere and dependable, dependable that's a very, very important word in the workplace. Can I depend on you? Even in the ministry, we may, we have leaders they have to, we depend on them. Okay, you do this right? Humility being meek, not forcing your way and then self-control. So, this is something that we can pray and say, God, wherever I am help me to walk in the fruit of the spirit. Right? Next one, do your work obediently, sincerely, willingly and cheerfully. Let's read Ephesians 6-5 through 8. Anyone would like to read Ephesians 6-5 through 8. Slave obey your human masters with fear and trembling and do it. With a sincere heart ask to you were serving Christ. Do this not only when they are watching you because you want to gain their approval but with all your heart do what God wants as slave of Christ. Do your works as slave cheerfully. Ask too. You serve the Lord and not merely human beings. Remember that the Lord will reward each of us, whether slaves or free, for the good works we do. Yeah. So, during when you look at the Bible times, you have masters and slaves. Right? Now what do we have? We have employees and managers. Now it's we shouldn't think like, okay, he's a master and he's a slave. Like what we talk about slave, they're just, you know, employer, employee. Right? And so right now we have managers and employees and here it says that there are key instructions given to a person who works for or under someone else. Here are certain aspects we must be, we must do. We must obey, be sincere, wholeheartedly and willingly and cheerfully. Now to obey means to follow instructions with reverence and a yielded heart. So here's the thing, sometimes our leaders and our bosses in the corporate, wherever we are working may tell us to do something. Now you may feel that it's not important, one or two, you may feel that you can do it in a better way. Right? Or three, you may have three different ideas better than the idea that he is given. Now the scriptures here say obey your masters or employees obey your employers. Stay aligned to what they've been asked you to do. Sorry, be sincere means to do it with genuine interest even when you're not watched. Remember, there will come a time when your opinion will matter. Now let me give you this example. You joined a company, you're working. You finished six months. Now after six months the team leader is not going to ask you, hey, tell me what can we do? You know, there's this problem happening. You really ask a person who is six months in the organization? He'll not ask because he's only six months, he doesn't know anything. He's still learning, he's still growing, he's still developing himself. Right? But imagine you're six years in that organization. Now you've seen things. You've seen ups and downs, right? And you've learned the hard way and now the team leader will come and say, hey, what do we do? Can we do this this way? Right? So yes, we may have ideas, we may have strategies but always remember to be obedient first. There will come a time when God will give you opportunities to make decisions to speak and to, you know, to speak into situations and in people's lives. Right? Do things willingly with all your heart, do things cheerfully and gladly without enthusiasm. Right? One of the responsibilities that I had was you know, we had this some of our, you know, some people would write onto these tables. Right? They would write, you know, their names, as though they don't know their names, so they would write their names. Okay? So one of my responsibility was, suddenly the, you know, now I was leading worship at locations. Right? So somewhere in Maharashtra as a Bible college student, I'm leading worship. So now no more doing Bible college work. Suddenly my principal said, come here take that spray and start wiping all the tables. Now I thought to myself, hey, I can play guitar. I'm good at leading worship. I'll do something else now. I can learn some new songs clean the tables. I said, Aisha, so you want me to do that? Do it. So I they gave me the spray and I was so upset with all the students they've written notes on the table. Some of them have drawn some things there. Some people have drawn a car so upset with this. I'm sitting and scrubbing it and some of it is not going. So I called the friend whose table is this come here. You wipe it. So I realized that after a couple of days I remember like telling myself, I don't want to do this. And God just ministered to me saying you do it sincerely with all your heart. Because you're being obedient. Now I thought to myself you know it was that day because I felt that because we would spend time in prayer and all that. I thought to myself, what's the use of praying like 4 hours and coming and grumbling here. There's no point. There's only a show then. And then what my classmates think, this fellow is praying 3 hours in the morning coming and grumbling here. So I do not do that. So I had to go ahead at least for them. And I remember doing that. It was a small task. But at one point I enjoyed doing it. And so I would start scrubbing and then I would look at everyone's table in the class. Anybody writes that's it for you. But I would make sure. But what happened was everything was neat. It was nice. The place was clean. And so when we do these small things, be obedient sincere. Do it cheerfully. It doesn't look like a task. You'll enjoy it. We'll take a break. 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