Day 6 - Grace To Serve
14 Days of Prayer and Fasting
Grace to Serve
Saturday – Day 6
Thought for Today:
Grace doesn’t make us selfish or self-absorbed; quite the opposite, it encourages us to serve others. Grace enables us to understand that God, in His divine wisdom, has graced us with gifts and abilities. These graces, if you will, allow us to share the grace of God with others.
We are recipients of God's grace, but we are also dispensers of that grace. Grace works in us, grace works for us, and grace works through us. When we truly understand grace, we will seek to serve others by the grace of God. Grace is not just for our salvation; it is also for our consecration. Grace enables you to do what God's will demands of you. Meaning that God does not call you and then leave you to your own devices. He calls and equips you, giving you enablement, called grace. How does He do it? By supernaturally depositing gifts in you that enable you to do certain things well.
We are graced(gifted) to serve one another in God’s kingdom. God calls us, and with that calling comes the grace to fulfill that call. God does not ask us to serve when He has not graced us in that arena of service. Let’s use the gift of teaching as an example. When you have a gift of teaching, several things will be evident. You will enjoy teaching, and others will enjoy being taught because God has graced you with the gift of teaching. If you hate teaching, it is highly likely that you are not ‘graced’ for teaching. On the other hand, if you love teaching but you are confusing those you teach, you should evaluate whether you are simply doing it out of ego rather than from a gift God has placed in you.
Burnout sometimes happens because we are trying to operate in a gifting we did not receive. Grace carries the ones who operate according to the gifting they have received. Decide to discover, use, and release the gifting God has placed within you. Others need it; you could be an answer to someone’s prayer if you are willing to engage and use the gifts God has given you.
Then one day you will be able to say like Paul, the apostle: “My life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus…” What assignment are you running away from? Will you decide to finish the work Jesus assigned to you? When will you start? If not now, then when? Remember, you have the grace to use your gifts to benefit others and advance the kingdom of God.
Verses to Pray and Meditate on:
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 well. If your gift is to encourage others, 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 (NLT)
But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
Acts 20:24 (NLT)
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (NLT)
Prayer Focus:
Grace to Serve
Saturday – Day 6
Thought for Today:
Grace doesn’t make us selfish or self-absorbed; quite the opposite, it encourages us to serve others. Grace enables us to understand that God, in His divine wisdom, has graced us with gifts and abilities. These graces, if you will, allow us to share the grace of God with others.
We are recipients of God's grace, but we are also dispensers of that grace. Grace works in us, grace works for us, and grace works through us. When we truly understand grace, we will seek to serve others by the grace of God. Grace is not just for our salvation; it is also for our consecration. Grace enables you to do what God's will demands of you. Meaning that God does not call you and then leave you to your own devices. He calls and equips you, giving you enablement, called grace. How does He do it? By supernaturally depositing gifts in you that enable you to do certain things well.
We are graced(gifted) to serve one another in God’s kingdom. God calls us, and with that calling comes the grace to fulfill that call. God does not ask us to serve when He has not graced us in that arena of service. Let’s use the gift of teaching as an example. When you have a gift of teaching, several things will be evident. You will enjoy teaching, and others will enjoy being taught because God has graced you with the gift of teaching. If you hate teaching, it is highly likely that you are not ‘graced’ for teaching. On the other hand, if you love teaching but you are confusing those you teach, you should evaluate whether you are simply doing it out of ego rather than from a gift God has placed in you.
Burnout sometimes happens because we are trying to operate in a gifting we did not receive. Grace carries the ones who operate according to the gifting they have received. Decide to discover, use, and release the gifting God has placed within you. Others need it; you could be an answer to someone’s prayer if you are willing to engage and use the gifts God has given you.
Then one day you will be able to say like Paul, the apostle: “My life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus…” What assignment are you running away from? Will you decide to finish the work Jesus assigned to you? When will you start? If not now, then when? Remember, you have the grace to use your gifts to benefit others and advance the kingdom of God.
Verses to Pray and Meditate on:
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 well. If your gift is to encourage others, 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 (NLT)
But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
Acts 20:24 (NLT)
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (NLT)
Prayer Focus:
- Pray that we will have God’s heart to do His will and fulfill the mission of Jesus to which He has called us.
- Ask the Lord to fill you with His Holy Spirit so that you recognize your calling and gifts and obey what He asks of you.
- Pray for others that they may understand what gifts they have received, and that together we will all be so full of the Holy Spirit that we serve one another, grow to maturity, and reach our world.
- Pray about your part in God’s kingdom and ask the Lord that you would be wise enough to be able to discern what role He has called you to.
- Pray that leaders would step forward to help equip the saints for the work of the ministry.
- Thank the Lord for the grace you have received to minister in the calling you have been given. Pray that we all finish our God given assignments.
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