May 7, 2024 … Using His Gifts …

May 7, 2024 …  Using His Gifts    …     

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics with Chris Tomlin singing … Gifts From God … Powerfully singing of how we Christians are to use the Gifts we have from God for His glory. 

Photo below … God’s Gifts for Him   …    

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 12:6a [NLT] … 

6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. …            

…  Paul exhorts fellow Christians to use use the gifting we have from God for His glory.                                                      

Highlight Passage (in context): … Romans 12:4-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul teaches Christians about using the gifting from God for His glory.                  

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:14-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… King David sings of God giving him (and all true believers) with gifts to use uniquely for God’s glory. 

Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 1:5 [NLT] … 

5 “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.  Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” 

…Like Jeremiah, we are all “set apart” to work for God’s glory.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 12:-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul teaching truth about about every Christian being given special gifts from God to use for God’s glory every day of our lives.               

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:11-12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  ...

…Again the Apostle Paul teaching that the gifts God gives Christians are to be used to build up God’s church to work for God’s glory. 

Reference Passage: … James 1:17 [NLT] … 

17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, Who created all the lights in the heavens.  He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. 

… James, the brother of Jesus, shows that all the gifts we have come from God.   

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Adam Holz -  AT THIS LINK  -   wrote about learning in college of tests, like the Myers-Briggs personality inventory, … tests which, when taken, were supposed to reveal how people could use their uniqueness  to be more effective in whatever task or work they (we) encounter.      

And if my readers here today have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above, we need to realize that each of us who know we are born-again into God’s family have been given a gift (or gifts) to be used, within the body of Christ, for moving and working for God’s glory.  Oh, how I pray that we recognize and use God’s gifts for His glory today and on into the days God gives us to magnify and glorify Him.                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for giving me Your gifts of teaching and encouragement to reach out and work for Your glory today. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to use Your gifting, Lord, in Your body today and all of our tomorrows.    … Amen

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