9-12 Clothing Closet. Thank God for His provision, including our volunteer servants! Pray He uses us well, provides for needs and shines His love bright and draws many to Him.
Good Morning Gifted, Activated Teammates! We are co-laborers in Christ, gathered and sent to love others, seed, water, fertilize and harvest. Do you know your part in His Good News Delivery Company? You can! Ask Him to reveal and lead you to become the person you are created to be and doing the things you are created to do . They will always include praying, abiding, listening and then living and loving like Jesus. There are no small things when offered to God. Remember He provides and guides as we follow His peace. He has given assignments to us according to the faith and gifts He has given us in alignment with His purposes for EACH OF US AND US AS HIS GATHERED AND SENT BODY. AMEN AND PTL!
As we near the end of the year I like to evaluate where I've been and what I did with what God has provided this year. We are called to evaluate with sober judgement and adjust before moving forward. Am I doing all I can with what I've been given? Are we as a Body? Is His Kingdom advancing through my and our efforts. Have I grown from one way in Christ to the next? Am I becoming more like Jesus? Am I following Him? How well am I leading like Jesus and in His ways?? Do I know my gifts and use them well? Do I know my weaknesses and find teammates to help to fill those gaps as we work to advance the Kingdom together?
I'd like to challenge all of you to consider these questions prayerfully and seek God first for His answers and plans and then find your teammates to work together, pray together, hold each other accountable, and celebrate all God is doing... together. That is one of God's plans for us for 2026. Discover and step into our gifts as a team and work to do the things God has planned for us individually and as His Body. Please pray into that! And ask God to help us maximize doing all we can with all He's provided. That's being the best stewards of all His blessings! Another thing is determining a thing or a word to work on as a corrective in '26. We did this in '23. Have you grown as you worked on that word? What's the next thing God has for you to work on and develop?
Check out the Upper Room below and contemplate with God and others what's for now and what's next as Jesus leads us forward doing what we can with what He has given. He does have great plans for you and for us to discover and step into. As we yoke to Jesus, we advance as we adjust and work on the things He has revealed for us to grow and go more like Him. Amen! Are you ready for what's next by maximizing what's now? Life in Christ is never stagnant. It moves from glory to glory as we do. Amen!
Go Live and Love Like more like Jesus--Together! Love created you for such a time as this to go incarnate Love as you live and love more and more like Jesus. He's provided what you need and that includes partners. So, worship, abide, prepare and GO make disciples that reproduce disciples in the way of Jesus. He is the Way and we are moving towards living like Him and doing His ways for His glory! We are becoming a dynamic movement of God! Rejoice! Be the real you! Go! We are His Gifted, Activated Teammates! Amen!
Upper Room: The Gift of Love
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and [Mary] gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. - Luke 2:6-7 (NIV)
As the season drew near, my recent health issues were limiting my ability to enjoy my usual seasonal activities. However, I found comfort in Luke’s narrative about the birth of Jesus, especially as I considered the innkeeper.
Nothing is written about the person who did not give Mary and Joseph a room. Regardless, much has been said about him. He has been judged harshly because he didn’t give the expecting, travel-weary couple a room. Luke 2:7 says there simply wasn’t a room to offer. But rather than turn Mary and Joseph away, the innkeeper offered them lodging in the stable. This action was creative and loving, an example of someone doing what he could with what was available to him. And when the angels appeared to the shepherds, they were told they would find the baby lying in a manger. This unusual detail likely helped them find Jesus.
So what can we do this season with what is available to us? We can share the love God has shown us through our kindness, by listening to and helping others, and by praying with and for them. Seemingly insignificant actions can demonstrate God’s love for us and others.
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's Prayer
Dear God, help us to see the ways we can share your love with others. Remind us that our actions — no matter how big or small — demonstrate our love for you. Amen.
