Managing Your Life: Twenty-One Laws of Spiritual Enrichment

By Dr. Paul A. Thomas

Laws are needed to manage ones life. Laws are not optional. Disregard laws, and you can find yourself suffering from the worst plague imaginable: ignorance. Managing Your Life reveals the twenty-one laws of life that connect us to our Creator, enriching our lives with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. The lessons in this guide will empower everyone to take spiritual control of their lives by reconnecting to God. Humanity must stay connect to its original source, its Creator, in order to maintain itself.

Thousands of people believe that the accumulation of material wealth is really important. They strive to make money hoping to achieve what they believe is success. Managing Your Life explains what is essential to living in Him. This life is called abundant life, and it is far more than the accumulation of material possessions. The best things in life cannot be bought with money. Prosperity is the result of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, which only comes from God. Managing Your Life tells the story of the highest achievement for which humankind should strive for true spiritual enrichment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462027293

Dr. Paul A. Thomas

Apostle Paul Thomas received his PhD from Central Christian University in Blytheville, Arkansas. His ministry has reached thousands in India, South America, Haiti, the Caribbean, Canada, and the US. Paul has authored several books for church leaders and mature Christians. He and his wife, Katie, live in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Managing Your Life through God’s Perspective

Chapter 2

The Law of Connection

Chapter 3

The Law of Obedience

Chapter 4

The Law of Enemies

Chapter 5

The Law of Assignment

Chapter 6

The Law of the Anointing

Chapter 7

The Law of Humility

Chapter 8

The Law of Favor

Chapter 9

The Law of Vision

Chapter 10

The Law of Achievement

Chapter 11

The Law of Discipline

Chapter 12

The Law of Giving

Chapter 13

The Law of Prayer

Chapter 14

The Law of the Word of God

Chapter 15

The Law of Timing

Chapter 16

The Law of Reproduction

Chapter 17

The Law of Love

Chapter 18

The Law of Words

Chapter 19

The Law of Change

Chapter 20

The Law of Success

Chapter 21

The Law of Integrity

Conclusion

Introduction

When I was young, I would get a series of laws that troubled me because they involved things I did not want to do:

Make up your bed!

Dry the dishes!

Pick up your toys!

Hang up your clothes!

Take out the trash!

The older I got, the more responsibilities I had. Even though I knew I could not go outside and play until I did my chores, I would try to sneak outside before I did them. I soon discovered, to my dismay, my mother and father were a step ahead of me.

I learned that when I tried to duck out from doing my duties, I would get caught. I used to play sick to skip school and my chores. I learned to practice to deceive. Oh, what a tangled mess! When I was sick—real or imagined—my mother would give me castor oil, which was the cure-all. One must remember that years ago, castor oil was used for headaches, colds, stomachaches, and so forth. Of course, I would rather do my chores and go to school than take that nasty, yucky, castor oil!

There are all types of laws, including driving laws, civil laws, and health laws. When these are broken, they always result in negative consequences. Laws are just like the Ten Commandments. They are not suggestions: we must do them! The truth about a law is: it is better to not know it than know it and not do it. Every day, people who know the speed limit is 55 mph or 65 mph believe they can do 75 mph and not get caught. Sooner or later, you will face the serious consequences of breaking laws that you know.

Managing Your Life provides twenty-one laws of spiritual enrichment to those who desire to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. They are for those who recognize laws are needed to manage one’s life. Laws are not optional. Disregard laws, and you can find yourself suffering from the worst plague imaginable: ignorance.

Whoever thought your enemies were valuable to your life? The Law of Enemies and twenty other laws are biblically founded. I believe information can be both good and bad. However, truth must be founded on the Word of God, which is more than information. Truth produces a spiritual transformation, which we need to live. Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are pertinent to life. Without these three strong pillars of life, we find ourselves merely existing. Whenever you ask God for something, He will give you instructions or laws to be observed. The ones you break may be those that determine your success.

Life was never meant to be just endured. God designed it to be enjoyed. Life is a gift from God. What you do with your life is your gift to Him. No matter what we accumulate, our life is not worth anything without God; it is mere existence. Managing Your Life brings us the reality that we cannot own our life. The Apostle James said our life is but a vapor. Since God owns our life, the most we can do is manage it by realizing God has a purpose and an assignment for each of us.

Managing Your Life has comprehensive laws that unite us with our owner: God. The laws mentioned in this book are not the only ones the Holy Spirit might reveal to you. Please do not let this book become like a newspaper: obsolete. I hope the truth that is revealed will make life more manageable. Pray while you study the contents of this book, as I believe this piece of literature will prove to be life-changing. Internalize each chapter. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal your assignment to you. As you read and obey, your life will be transformed. Managing Your Life will answer many questions.

Note from the Author

This book is designed to be read along with your Bible. Each scripture reference relates to specific contents, ideas, statements, or thoughts embedded in various chapters. The use of the Bible will bring clarity to the impact of the concepts. Scripture references at the end of the book are relevant to the content of each law and provide opportunities for personal Bible study. Although many of the scriptures are not mentioned within the separate laws, you will want to peruse them to obtain a further understanding of each law.

Chapter 1

Managing Your Life through God’s Perspective

Your life is precious and should not just be endured. God is the author of life. He never planned life to be mundane and disdainful. Jesus said in St. John 10:10, The thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. This is the paramount reason the Son of Man came into the world. Agony, suffering, and death came through Adam, but Jesus brought life and peace. Adam disobeyed God: Jesus obeyed God and brought life to this universe. The life Jesus came to bring is eternal life. We always look for eternal life to come after this present life, when we go to heaven. However, eternal life should begin here and now and proceed to the next life. Eternal life is really an unending cycle. This present life, which has tests, trials, heartaches, and pain, must be managed. We must recognize salvation is not just saving us from sins but also from the spirit of death. More people die before they die; their lives terminate before their heart stops beating. They fail to recognize life is never owned: it is managed.

Life is like a business, such as Wal-Mart, Kmart, or any other retail chain. They have managers to operate the store, but they are not the owner. The manager is always accountable to the owner. Owners who operate a business are responsible for inventory in order to properly run the business. Life is very much like a big business, and life must be managed as well. We will never own our life; God is the owner of life. He has chosen us as managers, who will always be accountable to Him. Life is a big responsibility, so we cannot operate it with a slack hand and lackadaisical attitude. It is easy to lose control.

Managers often hire associates who disregard the high cost of maintaining the overall cost of the operation. They have no concern for the owners’ investment. These associates will bring down the quality of the business: they are a liability. As it is in the natural business, so it is in the spiritual business of life. We bring people into our business or into our assignment who disregard our sacrifices and our spiritual labor. Just as Abram brought Lot into his