Author: Pastor Happy Nyirenda

Steps to take if you want your life to shine:
1. Salvation (Luke 10:27, John 3:1-3)
• Salvation is the first and primary step to take if you want to shine in this life.
• Jesus is light.
• You cannot shine while you are in the dark.
• Inviting Jesus into your life is inviting light into your life.

2. Being dedicated to kingdom principles (Psa 132:3-5)
What should I committed to?
a. Prayer (1 Thes 5:17, Luke 18:1)
• Don’t stop praying.
• We avoid temptation by praying (Luke 22:40).
• Prayer fuels visions and revelations (Dan 2:17-19).

b. Fasting (Isa 58:6, 8)
c. Kingdom service
d. Giving (Acts 10:1-5)
e. Speaking right (Isa 43:26, Mat 12:37-38)
• Language matters a lot in the kingdom of God.
• Our mouths weren’t meant for eating alone, but for speaking positively.

3. Be studious (2 Tim 2:15, Dan 9:1-2)
• The answer to some of the challenges we’re facing are hidden in the word of God.

• 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.

• Being a child of God is not a call to laziness.
• Many are born-again and have sat down, not doing anything but coming to church and going back home.
• You should walk with God and work with God in your christian journey.

What is dedication:
• The act of binding yourself to a course of action.
• A complete and whole-hearted fidelity.

• In dedication , there is sacrifice.
• Sacrifice is doing things when the conditions may not be convenient.
• In dedication, there is faithfulness.
• In dedication, there is commitment.
Prov 4:14-16
• God wants us to be dedicated to Him, satan also wants his followers to be dedicated to him.
• If you are dedicated to doing what God tells you to do, the enemy hates that.

WHAT IS IN DEDICATION?
1. PROMOTION (1 Chr 11:6, 17-24)

2. ENTHRONEMENT (Est 10:3, 6:1-11, 1 Sam 18:25, 27)
• Dedication will lead to your quick enthronement.
• Mordecai was enthroned because he was faithful.

3. ANNOUNCEMENT
4. YOU WIN ACCESS TO YOUR MASTER’S HEART (Acts 13:22, James 2:23)
5. ACCEPTANCE AND FAVOUR (Ruth 1:16)
6. DEDICATION PREVENTS SHAME (2 Tim 2:15)
7. ACQUISITION OF AN ANOINTING (2 Kings 2:9)

IN WHAT AREAS SHOULD WE SHOW DEDICATION?
1. PRAYER (1 Thess 5:17)
2. KINGDOM SERVICE (Luke 2:37)
3. GIVING (Eccl 11:1-3, Prov 11:24)
4. SOUL-WINNING ACTIVITIES (Acts 15:26)
5. STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD (2 Tim 2:15)

Mat 24:46