You have been equipped with spiritual gifts of grace to love and serve Jesus and others.

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Encouraging Devotionals

You have been equipped with spiritual gifts of grace to love and serve Jesus and others.

“For the gifts [charisma] and the calling of God are irrevocable.” (Rom 11:29)

“As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” (1Pet 4:10)

“But earnestly desire the best gifts [charisma]. And yet I show you a more excellent way.” (1Cor 12:31)

“Having then gifts [charisma] differing according to the grace that is given to us” (Rom 12:6)

“so that you come short in no [charisma] gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Cor 1:7)

“There are diversities of gifts [charisma], but the same Spirit.” (1Cor 12:4)

“Do not neglect the gift [charisma] that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.” (1Tim 4:14)

“Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift [charisma] of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” (2Tim 1:6)

“Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship [proskuneo] the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve [latreuo].” (Matt 4:10)

“And Jesus answered and said to him, Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship [proskuneo] the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve [latreuo].” (Lk 4:8)

“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” (Jn 4:23)

“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (Jn 4:24)

“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.” (Rev 2:4-5)

“for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying [oikodome] of the body of Christ” (Eph 4:12)

“from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying [oikodome] of itself in love.” (Eph 4:16)

Reading: Song 1-4; Rom 11