Text: Heb. 11:16, Isaiah
45:19, Matt. 6:33
OBJECTIVE:
(i) To understand the relationship
between dedication and the rewards that accompanied it.
(ii) To know that every active work
done for God is not without reward at the end.
INTRODUCTION
Always know that God rewards servants,
not official people, God looks at those who looks after the things of God.
THINGS TO NOTE
(1) Always understand that, the
dedicated are constantly marked out for a blessing.
(2) Your stand for the things of God
determine your height in life.
(3) Understand that there is payments
in serving God, it is a curse and pain to serve the devil and it is a lose to
stay without either.
(4) Your time for God determines your
stand in life.
MEN THAT DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO GOD
THAT WERE REWARDED
(1) ABRAHAM
(2) JOB
(3) JOSEPH (Gen 39:1-9)
AREAS THAT JOSEPH WAS DEDICATED TO GOD
(a) Becoming difference in the place
of service to God: At 17 years, he reported the evil conduct of his brothers to
his father (Gen 37:2).
He cared more to stand for the right
way and things. Again, at 17 years, his brothers hated him because of his
difference character he had from his brothers.
(b) His Decision to serve God any
cause:
Nothing could stop Him from being
faithful to God. (Including putting him in pit; putting him in the prison;
false accusation; Betrayal and braking of promise by those trusted.
(c) His Decision to see God as his all
and all in his life and action.
(d) His refusal to compromise situation
till his visitation came by God alone.
(e) He was patient enough to wait and
believe God to take him up to the top as he had promised.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DEDICATED OUR
LIVES TO HIM
(i) God will go with you all the way,
(Gen 39:2, 21).
(ii) Release of wisdom that will announce
you to the place of Glory and influence, (Gen 41:39).
NOTE:
(1) Reward or blessing of God to man is
always attached to giving out of self on the platform of dedication.
(2) Man respond to dedication to God
entails the response of God to man's situation.
(3) When God needed to redeemed, man
back to himself,, He came down to work, (Mark 10:45).
(2) JOB (Job 1:1-3)
AREAS OF JOB'S DEDICATION TO GOD
(i) The act of making his standing out
for God, the more valuable assets in his life. (Job and money, children,
possession, businesses but was use in description of job but his service life).
(ii) The act of pleasing God to an
extent that God has to use him as testimony point to the devil. God boast about
the stand of bro Job with Him (Job 1:8).
(iii) His dedication of standing for
God is not as a result of looking for things from God, rather, for theperson of
Gos. His dedication to God was still in place even when things got so bad, (Job 13:15).
(iv) He was ready to remain in the
place of service for God even when people left him including his wife and
friends.
THE REWARD OF JOB'S DEDICATION TO GOD
(i) Restoration of his possessions and
finances.
(ii) Recovery of his lost family
(iii) Restoration of his name in the
East (Job 42:12-13)
NOTE: The blessings that Dedication
produces
(i) Setting at the top;
(ii) Putting over your enemy;
(iii) Enjoying steady supply; and
(iv) Becoming an example to the people of Word.
