Follow Thru

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

• ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:58‬

How many times has someone promised to do something and didn’t deliver? How did we feel? What did we think?

How many times have we been that person? How do we think we made others feel? How do you think we made God feel?

In this season God wants that to change. He wants us to Follow Thru.To keep our word to Him and to others.

We’ve heard it said that “Promises are meant to be broken” but, more than the promise is being broken. Let’s think about that. Trust, hearts

And the other thing is when we don’t follow thru it ends up being a lie. I know seems like a little thing but, a lie is a lie. There are no levels to it. God doesn’t want us to lie.

1. The most important perspective to look at is the Lord wants us to know and believe that He will Follow thru. His promises are Yes and Amen and we can stand on them. He doesn’t change His mind, His word won’t return to Him void and He can’t lie. If He said it stand on it and wait patiently for it to come to pass.

We serve a Promise Keeper and He teaches us to keep our word. Keeping our word is so important to our character and integrity.

He says for us not to make a vow to Him and not keep it. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 NKJV Deuteronomy 23: 21-23 NKJV

1. The other follow thru is staying on task. We give up when it gets tough or not going as we planned. What we have been given to do by God He will help us perform and see the promise come to pass. He says I will never leave you nor forsake you. He told Moses and Abram I will be with you. When we give up we’re depending on our own strength not His. It’s also disobedience. Jonah was told to go deliver a message to Nineveh and he chose to go the opposite way. Then gets swallowed by a whale for 3 days.

2. Lastly , Stay connected and love on one another. As life gets hectic, we tend to reach out one time, pray for folks and forget about them. Where’s the follow through. God wants us to keep love alive. Follow up and follow through. Make time for one another and not get so busy that we let that life slip away. In the church building let’s not focus so much on filling the seats and not love on who’s in the seats. So much of connection in community is lacking because we lost how to follow through. Let’s get it back and build up our communication in our communities.

How to we follow thru

1. Do things as though we’re doing them for the Lord not man. Stay focused on God not people. God won’t let us down.

📖 Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Col 3:23

1. Remember obedience is far better than sacrifice. Do what the Lord says to do when He says do it in full. 📖 1 Samuel 15:22 NLT But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.

2. Love your neighbor as yourself 📖 The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:31 NLT

We will be more inclined to follow through as we would want someone to do for us.

Be intentional with what we say and do.