Prayer – Lord God, I recognize that there are people around the world—and in my own neighborhood and community—that don’t know You yet as their Lord and Savior. Personally, I want to be used by You—to do Your will. Provide opportunities for me to minister to others—using the gifts You have given me. May You be glorified in all that I think, say, and do. If time is growing short before You call for believers to come up to Heaven…to be raptured…then it is imperative that these lost people need to make their decision sooner rather than later. I put them in Your hands—that they would have eyes to see and ears to hear today.
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 1 Peter 4:10
Meditate. Consider your attitude in serving the Lord.
How would you like God to use you…to bless you?
Moses gave the children of Israel promises from God before
they crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land. Blessings and curses. It
looks to me, like always, that obedience is the key. To obey is to get one’s
attitude in alignment with God and to be willing to serve Him with the gifts He
has given.
If you fully obey
the LORD your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you
today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.
You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God: Your
towns and your fields will be blessed. Your children and your crops will be
blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit
baskets and breadboards will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do,
you will be blessed. Deuteronomy 28:1-6 NLT
If you refuse to
listen to the LORD your God and to obey the commands and decrees he has given
you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed.
These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants
forever. If you do not serve the LORD your God with joy and enthusiasm for the
abundant benefits you have received, you will serve your enemies whom the LORD
will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in
everything. The LORD will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly
until he has destroyed you. Deuteronomy 28:45-48
Destruction is the result of disobedience. That hasn’t changed
since the time of Adam and Eve. To obey is to be blessed. We have the power to
choose what we want—how we want to live. To be blessed or to be destroyed. God
has standards and has given us plenty of warnings and directions on how to
please Him—if that is our preference. God is all powerful and I believe Him. He
can destroy anyone who willfully disobeys Him. Those who obey will be rewarded…and
those who disobey will be destroyed. Pretty simple promises. How would you like
God to use you?
Verses of Salvation ~ God's purpose was that we Jews who
were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God. And now
you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And
when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the
Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God's guarantee that he
will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his
own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him. Ephesians
1:12-14 
The Holy Spirit
Release into my life.
Use me to Your Glory, Lord God.
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