The Million Dollar Life
By William M. Self
Thank God
We have been invited to sit with Christ
In heaven at the right hand of God
Where the riches of grace
Are enough to meet every earthly need
Stress
Stress is a gage of happiness.
If you are a caring and compassionate person, your stress
level will be more sensitive than someone who is not.
Stress comes from a perception of right and wrong.
When we perceive something is not going right
in our life, our
stress level increases.
Our inability to deal with that perceived wrong
will also increase
our stress level.
Our perception becomes our appraisal of our ability to cope.
Our perception is not always correct.
You may see a shadow and it startles you.
In reality, the startling shadow may be cast
by a police officer
and not a thief.
Perception comes from our ability to see.
We have been invited to view
life from a very strategic place.
We have been invited to sit with Christ in heaven.
God wants you and I to have the
advantage to see life as He sees it.
This is not just an observation platform.
It is a place of authority.
“God
raised us up with Christ and seated us
with
him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
in
order that in the coming ages he might
show the incomparable riches of his grace,
expressed in his kindness to us in Christ
Jesus.”
If your car breaks down and you don’t have
any money, that pushes your stress meter.
But if you are a millionaire, you buy
another car and donate the broken one.
Both have empty pockets at
the time of the break
down.
The difference is the millionaire
“God
has given us everything we need for life and godliness”
We have been given the riches of heaven.
We must learn how to exchange the
currency of heaven into earthly realities.
It is the fulfillment of Christ’s instruction on prayer.
“Thy
Kingdom come in earth as it is in heaven”
The millionaire’s life starts with a heavenly perspective.
Scripture Reading
Ephesians
1:15-2:10 NIV
16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you,
remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation,
so that you may know him better. 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called
you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his
incomparably great power for us who believe.
That power
is like the working of his mighty strength,
20 which he
exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority,
power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present
age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet
and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his
body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Ephesians 2 NIV
2:1 As for
you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live
when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the
air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us
also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature
and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature
objects of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich
in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up
with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in
order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his
grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by
grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is
the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.
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