i am persuaded

i am persuaded

I am Persuaded, Jeff Arnold

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fear is an opposite of faith

The Daily Word of Hope Devotional

Bible Fact:  There are 3,268 verses of fulfilled prophecy in the Bible.

† The Scary Door †

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.  1 Samuel 17.15,16 ESV

Towering above everyone else, Goliath made his way out on to the battlefield and shouted insults. The Israelite army again fled from before him. This scenario had been going on day after day, for forty days.  You can bet the ones hiding from Goliath were praying: “Lord, kill this Giant!  Do you hear what he is saying about you!”  While the Lord was saying, "I will as soon as one of you go out there."

There are times when we pray for things and God takes care of it for us.  Then there are other times that he gives us the ability to take care of it and nothing happens until we do.  We can sit back and pray, "Lord, kill this giant!", but nothing will change until we face the scary problem. Sometimes the scary door is the path to promotion. When David passed this test, he began to transition from shepherd boy to king.

If you have something that you have been running from, and praying that God will take care of it for you, maybe you need to face it head on.  Fear is an opposite of faith.  Go and I will go with you (Ex 4:12). Sometimes God gives you the ability to be the answer.

Yours in Christ,
Dion Todd

Pastor/Servant  

covet the best gifts - the gifts of the Spirit

(1 Corinthians 12.1-31)

1  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I would not have you ignorant.

2  Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

3  Wherefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:  and that no one can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

4  Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

5  And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

6  And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

7  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyone to profit withal.

8  For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

9  to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

10  to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

11  but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every one  severally as they will.  (Rom. 12.6-8)

12  For as the body is one, and hath many members and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  so also is Christ.  (Rom. 12.4,5)

13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

14  For the body is not one member, but many.

15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17  If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?  If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

18  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

19  And if they were all one member, where were the body?

20  But now are they many members, yet but one body.

21  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee:  nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22  Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

23  and those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

24  For our comely parts have no need:  but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:

25  that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

26  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, (Eph. 4.11) after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

29  Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

30  have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

31  But covet earnestly the best gifts.  And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.