Living and fulfilling Christian life

1. Sermon Title:
Being Diligent in Little Things
Key Verse:
Luke 16: 10-12

2. • What are you responsible for?
• What is under your control now?
• What do you hope to manage?
• What prospects do you have to succeed?
The young boy and the fishes
“You may just be one person in the world; but to one
person, you are the world” - Unknown

3. •Little things are the
• Ignoble
• Perceived unimportant
• Unnoticed
• Unrecognised
•The short prayer that hurts no fly
•The few minutes you spare
•The little acts of kindness
•The little compliments
•Etc

4. • Diligence or faithfulness is exemplified in
• Your time use
• Giving
• Role
• Family
• strongly associated with
• Careful work
• Long-term effort
• Conscientiousness – thorough, vigilant
• Determination
• Perseverance

5. • There’s something about little things - seeds
• Babies come small – Nature requires diligence to little things.
• Little things build your capacity for big things.
• The little actions you take, usually unnoticed, culminate into big
things, noticed.
“The little things come before the big things” – Pastor Derek Prince
Whatever big things you see today started as small things

6. • The case of David…. 1Samuel 17:34-37
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his
father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep
from the flock,
35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth.
When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this
uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has
defied the armies of the living God.
37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw
of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”

7. The Widow’s Offering – Mathew 12:41-44
41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were
put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple
treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.
42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper
coins, worth only a few cents.
43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you; this
poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty,
put in everything—all she had to live on.”

8. Take away
• Pay attention to how you handle small matters, little problems, provocations
and offenses….You can predict how you will handle big things.
• Sometimes, being diligent in little matters come with some stress,
frustrations, disinterest and may oftentimes go unrecognized. Psalm 126:5-6
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.

9. Ecclesiastes 11:1-2, 4 & 6
1Ship your grain across the sea;
after many days you may receive a return.
2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight;
you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
4 Whoever watches the wind will not plant;
whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
6 Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
• Don’t wait to have much before you start or share with others

10. • You don’t pray to grow big. You manage to grow big – Bishop Abioye.
• Don’t pray for big things. Manage small things faithfully and big things
will be entrusted to you.
• Just be diligent, do small things with your best effort, do it sincerely,
God is the rewarder