January 22, 2024 - Proverbs‬ ‭22:29

“If you are uniquely gifted in your work, you will rise and be promoted. You won’t be held back— you’ll stand before kings!” Proverbs 22:29 TPT

Lord, we thank you for this amazing promise. Other versions word this like, “if we are a truly competent worker or skilled/efficient in our work, then...”. Lord, we want to be a person who works hard to be the best we can be at whatever you have us doing. Regardless of who we are doing things for in the natural, we want to do all we do unto you. Give us your strategies to accomplish things the best way possible. Help us work in a skilled and efficient way. When needed, help us to learn new skills in a quick and effective way. Help us not to operate in our own ways, wisdom, and strength, but in yours. Let everything we lay our hands on be blessed by you. Help us to do everything to the best of our ability and not to a “good enough to get by” standard. Let this make our work stand out to others.

Lord, this verse says if we work in this manner we have prayed for, we will be noticed and exalted even by kings. I think of people in the Bible who were servants or even prisoners, but they worked effectively with your strategies and blessings. As they did that they were recognized and ended up serving the king or being honored/given authority by the king. Those are huge promotions - from servant/prisoner to kingdom authority. Help us work like that and see results like that.

Lord, we thank you for your amazing promises that are found in Proverbs. Help us live in a way that we can see them in abundance in our lives. We thank you that you want to release them over us. They are stored up in heaven waiting for us to fulfill our part so they can be released. What an amazing God of blessing you are. It is such an honor to serve you and lay down our lives before you. You are so worthy. We love you so much!

In Jesus name, amen.