How is your ministry coming along?
“What ministry?” some of you are asking.
Instruction 3: “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” I Peter 4:10
If you haven’t started, then today’s the day. In these last days we are to be able ministers. You don’t even need a pulpit! [@more@]
To minister is to serve, to attend to the work, to be of direct help to someone.
What do I minister?
Well – what has God given you?
Do you have any ability that might be of help to someone?
What about talents or gifts?
Can you clean house?
Paint a house or paint a picture?
Do you know how to share joy or love?
How about just sharing a little elbow grease to get the job done.
We can’t say that we have no gifts to minister with. Ephesians 4:7-8, leaves us without any excuse. “But unto everyone of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, ‘When he ascended upon high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.”
He has captured those powers that kept us unproductive, uncreative, and intimidated. We have been set free to share what the One who created us put within. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.” James 1:17-18
As good stewards or managers of our newfound life in Christ, we have that nature to give of ourselves what we’ve been given. The greatest thing we have is the gift of God’s Grace — The sacrifice of Christ. What an awesome thing to be able to share. Christ Himself, the hope of Glory.
We are instructed to minister grace. “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” Ephesians 4:29
Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ. That in everything you are enriched by Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge; Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: So that you come behind in no gift: waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
We should be lacking in no gift. Where we fall short in natural abilities, God has given us supernaturally of Himself. He has given us, by the Holy Ghost, gifts for the edifying of the body. All we have to do is earnestly desire them.
As God questioned a reluctant Moses when he was making excuses, “What is that in thine hand?”
Filled with Christ? Filled with the Holy Ghost?
Your end-time ministry awaits you!
Rev. Tura Zapata, Texas, USA
