Intentional: Today Is My Day

TODAY IS MY DAY! INTENTIONALLY KIND…

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

BY WHOSE PURPOSE DO WE LIVE? MY PURPOSE? GOD’S PURPOSE?

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

ARE WE PLAYING A GAME WITH NO GOALS?

Imagine a 100 yard football field, 22 players, a leather pig skin… and no goal lines and no goal post? Imagine a basketball court 94 feet long, 50 feet wide… with no back boards, no basketball hoops… and 10 players? There would be no purpose to play the game… We need rules and we need goals and thousands will watch the game.

Often times church people have no idea what their purposes are? They have NO GOALS, no plans and no purpose. Intentional

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

MOST GIVING IS GIVING BECAUSE OF A NEED… TRUMPET GIVING… VS. PURPOSED GIVING…

2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

WE LIVE IN A DAY WHEN PEOPLE LEARN MORE AND MORE ABOUT LESS AND LESS UNTIL FINALLY THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT NOTHING…

Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

LET US LOOK AT SOME POSITIVE WORDS THAT LEAD TO POSITIVE ACTIONS… CAN WE LIVE A LIFE WITH NO PLANS, NO GOALS AND NO PURPOSE? What do we plan on achieving? Nothing… Blessed is he that expects nothing, he will receive exactly what he expected.

**PURPOSE: the reason something is done, why something has been created, an end to attain, determination, aim, goal.

**INTENTIONAL: willfully, done on purpose, deliberate, to make plans to do, create, focus.

Intentional brings a focus on your commitment… on your VALUE SYSTEM and what is important to you.

INTENTIONAL IS PURPOSED GROWTH.

BEING INTENTIONAL WILL BRING HONEST CHANGE TO YOUR DAILY LIFE. MOST GIVING IS GIVING BECAUSE OF A NEED… TRUMPET GIVING… VS. PURPOSED GIVING…

2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Can we have a vision that sees beyond the deeds and actions of today? Intentional recognizes there is SOMETHING BETTER, there is more. TO BE INTENTIONAL IS MORE THAN PLAYING WITH YOUR EMOTIONS… INTENTIONAL IS STATE A OF MIND…

TODAY IS A RARE GIFT FROM GOD. There will never be another day like today. TODAY IS A GIFT FROM GOD! WHAT YOU DO WITH TODAY COULD BE YOUR GIFT BACK TO GOD… Today could be a gift back to you. AIM? AIMLESS LIVING?

There had a been possum on our concrete patio eating our dog’s food. The grandsons were over one day and the big, fat old possum came up on the back porch… It was so old it could barely walk. It had a thousand ticks on it. It must have been deaf. I loaded the 38 and walked out to shoot it. I did not want to shoot it on the concrete and chip it. The grandsons watched through the door. The possum started waddling off. It got to the grass. I was standing a foot away. I shot, bang. The possum kept walking. I shot again. It slowly walked away. On the 5th shot I hit the possum and he fell over. The grandsons said, Paw, how could you miss 4 times from a foot away. I explained to them. Boys I had my eyes closed. I did not want to see it die? They teased me for years, shooting with my eyes closed?

Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

THERE WAS A LADY THAT HAD SUFFERED 12 YEARS. SHE WAS WEAK. SHE HAD NO MONEY. SHE HAS NO HOPE. THE DOCTORS WERE USELESS… THE MEDICAL FIELD HAD FAILED HER AND CLEANED HER CLOCK… SOMEBODY TOLD THIS WOMAN ABOUT JESUS. SHE FOUND OUT WHERE JESUS WAS GOING TO BE… JESUS WAS ON THE WAY TO JAIRUS’ HOUSE… JESUS WAS BUSY… THERE WAS A HUGE CROWD AND SHE HAD TO PRESS HARD TO GET TO JESUS. ON THIS DAY THE WEAK, SICK LADY LEFT THE HOUSE WITH AN INTENTIONAL PLAN… I AM GOING TO TOUCH JESUS!