Daily Bible
His Gift to Us
In His grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach them well. If your gift is to encourage, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.
(Romans 12:6-8)
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Encouragement
“Encourage on another day after day, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).
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Guidance from God
In all you do, and set forth to do, seek God's guidance first, and be patient...
Here are a couple of verses of encouragement and guidance...
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Matthew 6:33
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
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A message to our youth...
God’s Healing Hand
“God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.” He “sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16, 17. The love of God embraces all mankind. Christ in giving the commission to the disciples, said: “Go ye into the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
All who are ordained unto the life of Christ are ordained to work for the salvation of their fellow men. Their hearts will throb in unison with the heart of Christ. The same longing for souls that He has felt will be manifest in them. Not all can fill the same place in the work, but there is a place and work for all… Every gift should be employed for the advancement of His kingdom and the glory of His name.
Christ desires to use the youth in His service. He needs missionaries. The barren fields all over the world call to heaven for laborers. If the youth will give themselves to God, He will give them wisdom and knowledge, preparing them for service. If they will consecrate themselves to Him, he will make them vessels unto honor, into which He can pour the precious oil of the Spirit, to be impaired to others. God’s helping hand – this is what you may be if you will yield yourselves to His keeping.
To everyone who offers himself to the Lord for service, withholding nothing is given power for attainment of measureless results. For these God will do great things.
To young man and women, as well as to those who are older, God will give power from above. With converted minds, converted hands, converted feet, and converted tongues, their lips touched with a living coal from the divine altar, they will go forth into the Master’s service, moving steadily, onward and upward, carrying the work forward to completion.
The Faith I Live By (P.29)
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