By Kathy Smith
Are you living an ordinary life or are you living an extraordinary life? God does not want you to live a mundane life; He doesn’t even want you living an average life! God wants His very best for you; after all, you are His child!
How can you live the extraordinary life God intended for you? Here are seven secrets to an extraordinary life in Him.
1. God is a jealous God and he wants to be first in your life.
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). Matthew 22:36-38 says, “ ‘Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Jesus said unto him, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.’ ” God wants to be first in your priorities, first in your day, first in your finances, first in your thoughts.
2. Pray without ceasing.
When we retain God first and foremost in our thoughts we are always in an attitude of prayer, no matter what we are doing.
3. Meditate in the Word.
Joshua 1:8 says," This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."
4. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together (Hebrews 10:25).
If we are to be like trees that are planted by the rivers of waters, then we have to be planted somewhere and stay put so that we may grow, be fruitful, and multiply. (See Psalm 1.)
5. Follow the path of peace.
James 3:17,18 says, “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."
6. Rejoice every day. Don’t worry, be happy!
Comic strip character Charlie Brown says, “I only dread one day at time.” As Christians, we do not need to dread even one day! Paul said in Philippians 4:4 that we are to “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” We are to cast our cares upon Him (1 Peter 5:7).
7. Live life expecting God’s best!
Attitudes are like waves in the ocean... we want to make certain that we catch the best one so that it will take us all the way to the shore of our destination in Christ Jesus. Are you expecting God’s best for your life? Are you expecting a miracle? The woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5 was expecting God’s best and she received her miracle.
We are all pregnant with the expectation of something from the Lord. What are you expecting? Nurture a spirit of expectation in your life and you, too, will receive God’s best!
