Do you want to live well today? Of course you do. No one woke up this morning and said “ya know, I want to royally jack up this day of living.” No one intentionally woke up, realized it was Tuesday and said “I think I’ll just waste today.” No, none of us. However, many of us have unintentionally jacked up days in the past. We’ve wasted precious days before. How do we make sure that doesn’t happen again today?



We all have a desire within to live well. The question is, how do we do that in the middle of real life unfolding here and now?



Today we’re whipping out the New King James version of the Bible and reading 1 Corinthians 15:58: “Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”



Within this scripture are 3 keys to living well today. Let’s break it down sister!



* Be steadfast. Steadfast comes from the root word sit. To be steadfast, we must be seated and be settled in the truth.



We live very unsettled lives in an unsettled world. We are tense and uptight and anxious, always stirred up about something. God says sit down, settle down, be relaxed.



Did you know you can be working and still be relaxed? God never intended for us to go through the days of our lives so unsettled. Don’t you know you are way too blessed to be stressed? Stress is the plan of the enemy. Have you fallen into his trap?



As long as you are stressed and anxious, you can never be seated in truth. You can never be steadfast in knowing who you are and whose you are.



Today, take a seat in what you know to be true. Resist the temptation to be constantly stirred up and upset.



You are chosen.You are forgiven.You are blessed.God is good.God is for you.He’s working all things together for good.Settle into that. Sit down into that truth today.



* Be immovable. Like a solid rock.



James 1:6 says “The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, being blown and tossed by the wind.” That’s what our doubt does, it causes us to be seasick. We’re constantly tossed around and stirred up on the inside. We stress over making the right decision, then we stress over the decisions we made, then we go back and forth, tossed around like a little boat on a big stormy ocean. And God says STOP IT. Be immovable.



Stop doubting God.Stop doubting his plan for you.Stop doubting your ability to walk in his plan for you.



Girl, your doubt is making you sick. Be immovable. Let your yes be yes, let your no be no. Have boundaries. I will do this, I won’t do that, and I will be immovable in my commitments.



So, we are steadfast meaning we are seated in truth. We are immovable and no longer tossed around by doubt. And finally our scripture today gives us the third key to living well.



* Always abounding in the work of the Lord. Abounding means plentiful and abundant. So this is saying to be abundant in your work.



For you today this means GO THE EXTRA MILE. Stop doing the minimum. I bet there’s some areas in your life, like there are some areas in my life, that have started to pile up because I’ve been doing the minimum. That’s what creates a mess!



We’re just doing the minimum. Then we’re so overwhelmed because we’re so behind. We’ve just been getting by when God says be abounding in your work. Stop doing the minimum, go the extra mile.



Colossians 3:23 says “Whatever you do,