DAY 26 - LORD, USE ME TO TOUCH THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
Giving to God and to other people is such a vitally important part of our life on earth that we can never achieve all we want to see happen in our lives if we're not doing that. It's a major factor in raising the complete purposes of God for us. We can never be truly whole and fulfilled or find any lasting peace unless we are giving to other. We release the flow of God's blessings to us by letting them flow through us. Giving to God and to others creates a vacuum into which God pours more blessings. If we stop that flow, we stop up our lives. We must pray that God will show us how to give and enable us to do it.
When i decided to share The Word on this blog, the main aim was to reach out to people about Jesus. Of course I prayed about it with my husband but the thought of praying for it to reach the whole world never crossed my mind until one day I woke up with mixed emotions. I had had a whole week of sleepless nights, anxiety and fear of which I could not explain. I spoke to my husband about it and we prayed. During the time of prayer, The Holy Spirit revealed that The Word I'm sharing is actually reaching places and people I had never dreamt it would and so the enemy was trying to get me to give up with those negative emotions.
Coming to his realisation gave me even more strength to pray that The Word will reach every corner of the world and beyond. My prayer has now changed to "God, use me to touch the lives of others around the world with Your love, mercy, hope and truth". You can pray that prayer too, and God will use your abilities and talents to touch others powerfully. When your heart is to give to others from what God has given to you, He will enable you to do that.
PRAYER is the greatest gift we can give to anyone. Material things are temporary, but our prayers for another person can affect them for a lifetime. We can never move into all God had for us until we first move into intercessory prayer. This is one part of our calling that we have in common, because we are all called to intercede for others. God wants us to love others enough to lay down our lives for them in prayer.
PRAYER
Lord, help me to serve You the way You want me to. Reveal to me any area of my life where I should be giving to someone right now. Open my eyes to see thier need. Give me a generous heart to give to the poor. Help me to be good steward of the blessings You have given me by sharing what I have with others. Show me whom You want me to extend my hand to at this time. Fill me with Your love for all people and help me to communicate it in a way that can be clearly perceived. Use me to reach the lives of others with the hope that is in me.
Help me to give to You the way I should. I don't want to rob You of anything that is due You. Lord, I know that where my treasure is, there my heart will be also (Matthew 6:21). May my greatest treasure always be in serving You.
Lord, show me what You want me to do today to be a blessing to others around me. Specifically, show me how I can serve my family, my friends, my church and the people whom You put in my life. I don't want to get so wrapped up in my life that I don't see the opportunity for ministering Your life to others. Show me what You want me to do and enable me to do it. Give me all I need to minister life, hope, help and healing to others. Make me to be one of Your faithful intercessor and teach me how to pray in power. Help me to make a big difference in the world because You are working through me to touch he lives of others for Your glory. Amen.
Scripture for Meditation
I Peter 4:10-1
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
I John 3:16
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Galatians 6:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
John 14:12-14
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
#inspired...ann #WiseQuotes
*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman(2006)
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