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Cut It Of: Pastor femi Monehin

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God's Favourite House Daily Devotional Saturday 23rd July 2016

Theme: Cut It Off
 
“He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more” John 15:2

You cannot just be doing things because other people are doing it. That is the fastest route to killing yourself. As a church, in God’s Favourite House, there are so many things that we have put to sleep. One example is bulletins. The amount of work hours that goes into printing bulletins every week is a lot; content development, content gathering, proof reading, and the printing not to talk of the cost of the printing. So one day I met with my team and challenged the usefulness of the bulletins. Do people really read the bulletins? So we decided to do a little experiment, we would stop printing bulletins and see who misses it. We stopped and nobody missed it.

A few months later I asked someone, how was the bulletin last week? And he said, powerful! You people are really doing a good job. Really? I just walked away quietly and that was the end of bulletins in God’s Favourite House. You cannot imagine how many hours my team and I saved in the week from just cutting off that task. What do you need to cut off? Your hairstyle is beautiful and it is not even up to a week old. But you want to take it down because someone else showed up with a new hairdo.

You cannot be doing things just because other people are doing it. That is the fastest route to killing yourself. Sometimes, it is actually a relationship that we need to cut off. If you are going to be honest with yourself, there are certain relationships that the best way to describe them is stressful. Cut it off and see how stress free your life will become. Cut off those people that the only time they come to talk to you, is when they want to gossip.

The greatest antidote to stress is simplicity. I have only one phone. Some people have four different phones; it is even stressful to reach them because you do not know which number to call. Simplify your life. The day I cut off receiving emails and uninstalled the social media applications on my phone, it added years to my life. It is truly amazing how much control our phones have over us. As soon as it beeps, you must look and as soon as you look, you are distracted. It complicates your life.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, please help me identify things, systems, processes and people that I need to cut off in order to simplify my life, in Jesus Name
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