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Feeding the Body of
Christ with Good Spiritual Food |
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Today there is a tremendous
need for those who are in spiritual leadership to feed
God's people with good spiritual nourishment. The Bible
is the spiritual food with which we are to be fed. It
helps us to mature in our faith, gives us direction and
equips us all for the purpose of sharing the Gospel. |
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Word of the Day - Monthly Archives |
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8/30/2008 |
Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. |
I Corinthians 10:31 NKJV |
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8/29/2008 |
Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the word of God. |
-Warren Wiersbe |
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8/28/2008 |
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. |
Romans 8:28 KJV |
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8/27/2008 |
26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. |
John 12:26 KJV |
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8/26/2008 |
God often reveals His direction for our lives through the ways He made us…with a certain personality and unique skills. |
-Bill Hybels |
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8/25/2008 |
Are you earnestly seeking to discern God’s purpose for your life? If so, remember this:
1. God has a plan for your life;
2. If you seek that plan sincerely and prayerfully, you will find it;
When you discover God’s purpose for your life, you will experience abundance peace, joy, and power – God’s power. And that’s the only kind of power that really matters. |
-Family Christian Pres |
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8/24/2008 |
16For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God's power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
Romans 1:16 AMP |
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8/23/2008 |
Here lies the tremendous mystery- that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. WE are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in His good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves. |
-Elisabeth Elliot |
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8/22/2008 |
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace |
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV |
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8/21/2008 |
One thing taught large in the Holy Scriptures is that while God gives His gifts freely, He will require a strict accounting of them at the end of the road. Each man is personally responsible for his store, be it large or small, and will be required to explain his use of it before the judgment seat of Christ. |
-A.W. Tozer |
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8/20/2008 |
1-3In light of all this, here's what I want you to do. While I'm locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run! —on the road God called you to travel. I don't want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don't want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences. |
Ephesians 4:1-3 MSG |
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8/19/2008 |
42-46The Master said, "Let me ask you: Who is the dependable manager, full of common sense, that the master puts in charge of his staff to feed them well and on time? He is a blessed man if when the master shows up he's doing his job. But if he says to himself, 'The master is certainly taking his time,' begins maltreating the servants and maids, throws parties for his friends, and gets drunk, the master will walk in when he least expects it, give him the thrashing of his life, and put him back in the kitchen peeling potatoes. |
Luke 12:42 MSG |
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8/18/2008 |
God does not do anything with us, only through us. |
-Oswald Chambers |
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8/17/2008 |
17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, 20which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. |
Ephesians 1:17-21 NIV |
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8/16/2008 |
Whatever your age, whatever your circumstances, you can serve: Each stage of life’s journey is a glorious opportunity to place yourself in the service of the One who is the Giver of all blessings. As long as you live, you should honor God with your service to others. |
-Family Christian Press |
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8/15/2008 |
5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if
ye do these things, ye shall never fall: |
2 Peter 1:5-10 KJV |
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8/14/2008 |
If you aren’t serving, you’re just existing, because life is meant for ministry. |
-Rick Warren |
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8/13/2008 |
23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24Put away from thee a forward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. |
Proverbs 4:23-26 KJV |
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8/12/2008 |
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. |
-John Wesley |
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8/11/2008 |
9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. |
Deuteronomy 4:9 NIV |
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8/10/2008 |
His life is our light – our purpose and meaning and reason for living. |
-Anne Graham Lotz |
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8/9/2008 |
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. |
Romans 12:2 KJV |
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8/8/2008 |
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation |
-Corrie ten Boom |
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8/7/2008 |
9And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.
10So then, as occasion and opportunity open up to us, let us do good [morally] to all people [not only being useful or profitable to them, but also doing what is for their spiritual good and advantage]. Be mindful to be a blessing, especially to those of the household of faith [those who belong to God's family with you, the believers]. |
Galatians 6:9-10 AMP |
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8/6/2008 |
Men give advice; God gives guidance |
-Leonard Ravenhill |
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8/5/2008 |
40But Martha [overly occupied and too busy] was distracted with much serving; and she came up to Him and said, Lord, is it nothing to You that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me [to lend a hand and do her part along with me]!
41But the Lord replied to her by saying, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;
42There is need of only one or but a few things. Mary has chosen the good portion [that which is to her advantage], which shall not be taken away from her. |
Luke 10:40-42 AMP |
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8/4/2008 |
God will prove to you how good and acceptable and perfect His will is when He’s got His hands on the steering wheel of your life. |
-Stuart & Jill Briscoe |
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8/3/2008 |
13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. |
John 16:13 NIV |
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8/2/2008 |
That’s what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people…because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field. |
-Joni Eareckson Tada |
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8/1/2008 |
14-18 "It's also like a man going off on an extended trip. He called his servants together and delegated responsibilities. To one he gave five thousand dollars, to another two thousand, to a third one thousand, depending on their abilities. Then he left. Right off, the first servant went to work and doubled his master's investment. The second did the same. But the man with the single thousand dug a hole and carefully buried his master's money.
19-21"After a long absence, the master of those three servants came back and settled up with them. The one given five thousand dollars showed him how he had doubled his investment. His master commended him: 'Good work! You did your job well. From now on be my partner. |
Matthew 25:14-19 MSG |
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