The number one thing God wants is to be your God and have you be His people. It would be so easy to receive things from God if you would open yourself to Him and let Him do what He wants in your life.
If you want to please the heart of God, place yourself before Him and let Him work His perfect will in your life. Just be like putty in His hands.
Sometimes you need to shut yourself off from “religious activities.” Sometimes you need to shut yourself off from witnessing and teaching. Just go to God when no one else is around.
Manage Your Time Wisely
You shouldn’t spend all your time going to meetings. You need to spend time loving and worshipping God, telling Him how much you love Him.
Don’t allow yourself to get caught up in religious activities without putting Jesus first place in your life and worshipping Him when you are alone in your prayer closet.
Don’t let any work—I don’t care what it is—take so much of your time that you aren’t able to shut yourself off from it to worship Jesus.
If you do, you’ll cut yourself off from the blessings of Almighty God.
The more time you spend in your prayer closet, worshipping Jesus, the better warrior you’ll be when you get outside.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Norvel Hayes is a successful businessman, internationally renowned Bible teacher, and founder of several Christian ministries in the United States and abroad.
Brother Hayes founded New Life Bible College, located in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1977. New Life Bible Church grew out of the Bible schools\' chapel services. Among its many other outreachs, the church ministers God\'s Word, and hot meals daily to the poor through the New Life Soup Kitchen.
Brother Hayes is also the founder and president of New Life Maternity Home, a ministry dedicated to the spiritual, physical, and financial needs of young girls during pregnancy; Campus Challenge, an evangelistic outreach on college campuses across America; Street Reach, a ministry dedicated to runaway teens located in Daytona Beach, Florida; and Children\'s Home, an orphanage home and education center located in India.
Known internationally for his dynamic exposition of the Word of God, Brother Hayes spends most of his time teaching and ministering God\'s deliverance and healing power in churches, college classrooms, conventions, and seminars around the world.