Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

your life will cause you to invest in the less valuable, engage in inef fective activity, and abuse your gifts and talents. Ultimately, it will cause you to forfeit purpose, which results in failure. Why is this principle of priority so important to our discussion of the Kingdom? Because if priority is the essence of life, then we should want to know what our priority in life should be so that we can live effectively. It may surprise you to know that most of the peo ple in the world are driven by incorrect priorities that occupy and control their entire lives. What are these priorities that master most of the human race? The answer is perhaps found the in the work of behavioral sci entist and psychologist Abraham Maslow who, after studying the motivations of human behavior, concluded that all human behavior is driven by the same basic “hierarchy of needs”: 1. Water. 2. Food.

3. Clothes. 4. Housing. 5. Protection. 6. Security. 7. Preservation. 8. Self-actualization. 9. Significance.

It is important to note that Maslow listed these motivational needs in order of priority. Perhaps if we are honest, we would agree that the human rat race does indeed strive for all of these things. We go to work every day, and some even hold down two or more jobs, just to secure water, food, clothing, housing, and protection. What a

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