21/02/2022
Daily Counsel by *Bishop Dag Heward-Mills*
*EXTRA MILE*
21st February, 2022
READ: *Philippians 3:12-20*
_Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily._
*Colossians 1:29*
*Our generation of ministers has the Laodecian spirit of complacency.* That spirit speaks today and says, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.” God says, you don’t know that you are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” He continues to say, “ _I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see._” ( *Revelation 3:17-18*).
*You do need something! You are not really rich and you are not really as stable and as safe as you think.*
Until you are in your grave, there will always be a little bit more that you can do for God. Can’t you win a few more souls even though you have won many souls for the Lord already? Can’t you plant another church? Can’t you hold more crusades and campaigns and conferences for Jesus? Can’t you build another church? Can’t you give a little bit more? Can’t you write one more book? *Instead of resting now why don’t you rest in peace later?*
*Dear friend, don’t deceive yourself! You can do a little bit more!* Most people are not doing as much as they could. A little bit more prayer and a little bit more effort will make a big difference. *Why don’t you give a little bit more time to the study of the Word and to achieving of your spiritual goals?*
*Jesus spoke about going the extra mile.* If you would add a few more yards you may achieve the goal of going at least one mile for Jesus.
*MAY YOUR SEED TIME AND HARVEST BE BLESSED* 🙏
_Read Your Bible, Pray Everyday_ 📖
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*Philippians:12-20 KJV*
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: