Think Spot

Think Spot 3rd September 2012

Strengthen Your Church

When Paul was writing to the church at Rome he said “I long to see you that I may use my gifts to strengthen you”Partakers God's spiritual gifts are given for the strengthening and building up of the faith of brothers and sisters in Christ's body the church. We can exercise our natural talents, playing a musical instrument, encouragement, financial wizardry, driving a car, cooking, and of course much more to strengthen the church.Partakers But when God chooses and gives us spiritual gifts some spectacular like the gift of the word of knowledge, wisdom, faith, miracles of healings etc as with our natural gifts they too are for the strengthening of the church.Partakers So what are you doing in your church? Are you a private Christian who only looks to themselves and does not look upon the needs of others? Or from the church leadership level are you looking out on the membership and noticing and recognising the gifts being used already for the building up of the church? The gifted should be recognized in the fellowship!Partakers Of course we know the trouble caused in Corinth over spiritual gifts and cliques appearing and there seems also a lack of caring for the church in allowing all manner of sin openly to persist rather than deal with it. Was there also rivalry there? I think we see that it is clearly seen there.”I am of Appollos I am of Cephas, I am of Paul” you would hear people say.Partakers So are you a New Testament Church? How far removed are you from that status? It may be a mistake of a church to hold a voting system whereby favourites are voted into Office who are not necessarily gifted or called by God for those positions. They may appear to be but how well do you know your fellow church members.? May be there is the need to request the gift of discernment to recognise gifted persons.Partakers Now we know that no Christian is perfect otherwise there would be no need of the great quantity of teaching on how to live out the Christian life in the epistles of Paul, Peter and John. Why then do we sometimes fail?Partakers The Holy Spirit is sometimes forgotten or neglected in the Believers life. Yet He is ever present within every believer and always speaking into our hearts to show us the right path to take and what ministry he wants us to perform in the body of Christ. We `are warned not to “grieve the Holy Spirit” and to “Keep in step with the Spirit”Partakers Whether we are multi gifted or have difficulty in discovering what our one gift is we all have a part to play and when we discover that role life takes on a far greater meaning and we will be fulfilled in knowing and doing God's will.Partakers All the resources your church needs is available in and through God. “Ask, seek, knock and the door will be opened to you” for since Jesus went back to heaven God has poured out his blessings and gifts to His church to receive and implement both in their individual and corporate church life.Partakers So what do we need to become the kind of person who wakes up in the morning thanking God for our great salvation and then says “Lord how I want to strengthen peoples faith today. Grant that at the end of this day somebody will be more confident of your promises and much cheered up because I crossed their path.Partakers If you do not wake up like this then as you seek to help someone in some way it will not be long before The Spirit will reveal ways in which you can help others as you yield to Him. Have a nice day and step out in faith. Partakers Joys Prayer Partakers Gracious Lord, Thank you for setting the perfect example to me of loving your people. It is my desire today to think more about others than myself. I need to feel the links I have with other believers because I am a Christian and to feel compassion for the injured and bereaved in my fellowship and to take an interest in their lives as well as my own. Please give me perception where I have been blinded to others needs and opportunities that were there but I failed to see them.Partakers 'Lord make me useful to thee send thou thy Spirit to me Thy perfect will, in me fulfil , Lord make me useful to thee.' In Jesus Name Amen Right Mouse click to save this as an audio mp3 file

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