Today I begin to share with you some important factors that influence your productivity and effectiveness as a child of God. Our anchor scriptural reference for several days will be 2 Peter 1:5-8. In this reference Apostle Peter firstly underscores the fundamental role diligence plays for us to be productive. Diligence encapsulates elements of earnestness, quality attention to details, skill, hard work and commitment. The Cambridge dictionary defines it as the quality of working carefully and with a lot of effort. If you want to be remarkably successful you must embrace diligence. Proverbs 22:29 says, "seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before Kings. He shall not stand before men of law estate". In all you do exhibit diligence and you will be promoted to stand before great people. In this year of manifesting, embrace diligence for your conspicuous positioning whose grace has been released already. Don't be a person with a lazy and casual mentality in carrying out your assignments.

Proverbs 24:30-34 portrays a pathetic imagery of a person without diligence saying, "I went by the field of the slothful (lazy) and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding and lol, it was all grown over with thorns and covered the face thereof. And the stone thereof was broken. Then I saw and considered it well. I looked upon it and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that wanders, and thy want as an armed man" Without diligence the beauty of the Lord cannot manifest in your life. Exhibit diligence at your work place, home, business, school and ministry. Make mediocrity unacceptable in your life and don't befriend procrastination. God wants to manifest Himself through your life at every place and every time.