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Audience of Significance :: Thursday E-Devotion

Last evening I got an e-mail from a prayer warrior friend back home who shared something that blessed my much. It will encourage you as well.

He said that we are to do all we can for an “"Audience of Significance". Here is how he described what he meant

Every year in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center, Honors are bestowed on five people who have contributed much to our society through their life's work. In the audience are the President and first lady and the placed is packed with dignitaries. Those who come to perform are truly performing for an "Audience of Significance". As a child, we look for our mom and dad's face in the crowd anytime we are on stage or a ball field and they are our "Audience of Significance" and we want so much to please them. As a child of God we have the supreme creator as our "Audience of Significance" and as long as we look for and see Jesus' face in the crowd, we have the power to overcome trials and temptations. We can't please man, but we can please our Lord, and that's all that matters if we want to live life, and live it more abundant.

That is awesome. We are to do everything for God. He is the ultimate in our world and in our lives. Listen further:

And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through him to God the Father. Colossians 3:17(NLT)

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