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spider web's and spiritual gifts // Tuesday E-Devotion

1 Peter 4:10-11 (nlt) --- God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
I am excited about the series we are sharing at church on Wednesday evenings. It is about Spiritual Gifts. The angle that we are taking is summed up in the title: Get FIRED UP to Serve God.
Always God touches lives for specific reasons. That is clear from how He works all the way to the people who were changed on the outside. In other words, lives were and are touched and people were and are changed, and it is not just the person that God began with. They were all tied together, linked together in something kind of like a spider web. We are talking about the fact that God gives gifts to His kids so that His kids will use the gifts to help others. See the verse above.
We are keying on the gifts about serving others. God wants to use you and will use you. Do you have a desire to serve and help and make a differnce in the lives of all kinds of people?
The biggest issue we need to remember when it comes to Spiritual Gifts is that God intends for them to be used and shared. That spider web thing....how does it fit? We are all linked together. The church is a body and is to be working together like a well-oiled machine or a motor tuned to perfection. We are put together by God to make a difference in our world.
Learn your spiritual gift. Use it to serve others. Get fired up that your life is linked to others through spider webs and spiritual gifts. We need each other just as we need God because this world, the people we encounter need Jesus!
1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (msg) --- If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
PRAY FOR
The family of Marleen Webb who passed away last night. She is Rhonda Jamison's mother, and Mark will be preaching the funeral. (send Mark and Rhonda a card or call them.) Pray for Konner Fulcher and Caylee Joyce, Kid's from our church, who are sick this week. Becky Smith went to the doctor this morning at UVA. Last, Marilyn Dickey who continues to have a big health problem.

E-DEVOTIONS are sent each week day from Michael Harrison, lead Pastor of The Community Fellowship in Collinsville, Virginia. These devotions are intended to encourage you in your faith in Jesus and your walk with Him. To change your subscription, send an e-mail to Michael at mharrison@thecommunityfellowship.org.

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