Designated Duties

So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do'. Luke 17:10 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.17.10.NKJV
One of the rewarding ways of promoting productivity in service offering is through the use of compensation. Goal-oriented Masters motivate their servants with a good sense of workers compensation award programme. Whereas today, workers and servants readily demand compensation in advance from Masters, especially as a show of their potential commitment to a service call. Even in Christendom, there are several passive prayer points or statements with little or no personal commitment, like 'Lord, have mercy' when a personal show of mercy would have sufficed; `God will make a way' when the heart is attempting to shift responsibility around; etc. And when the disciples and apostles said to Jesus "Increase our faith" when they doubted their readiness to embrace the demand for kingdom purpose, His response rather corrected their dogged duty mentality. Praying for divine enablement when the heart refuses to attend to simple commandments within human willing minds was clearly discredited as disobedience. A request for an increase in faith cannot nullify the believers' call to trust and take appropriate steps in the line of obedience. Therefore, an 'increase in faith' does not happen to disciples on the line of dogged duty; but it comes through the hearing and giving attention to designated duties from the Lord.

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