Use Your Talents

Verse of the Day:  Proverbs 3:27      

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.                            

Fruit of the Spirit:  If you have the ability to help someone don’t walk away or turn your back on them when they need you the most. Use your gifts and blessings to help others and be generous with LoveKindness, and mercy to those in need.

Generosity

Verse of the Day:  Proverbs 22:9      

The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.                                   

Fruit of the Spirit: God is generous with us and we need to be generous with others. When we are generous with others we are showing Kindness to them and we are displaying our Faithfulness to God.

Love the Unlovable

Verse of the Day:  Luke 6:32 

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Fruit of the Spirit: The challenge is Loving the unlovable, those who have been forgotten by society. Find ways to be Good and Kind to them, share the Love of God with them, and don’t forget to pray for them too.

Love One Another

Verse of the Day:  John 13:35           

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.          

Fruit of the Spirit: Your love for Jesus is seen in the way you treat others. When you truly have Jesus in your heart you will show it by being Kind and GentlePatient and Good, and by Loving one another so all may see His Love through you.

Do Everything in Love

Verse of the Day:  1 Corinthians 16:14         

Let all that you do be done in love.   

Fruit of the Spirit:  Because of God’s Love for us and our Love for Him, everything we do should be done with Love. From the simplest of things to the greatest, it should all be done with the Love of God in our heart.

Helping Others

Verse of the Day:   Acts 20:35

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’           

Fruit of the Spirit:  We have been blessed to be a blessing to others. Sharing God’s Love and Goodness with acts of Kindness and compassion brings honor and glory to God.

Set an Example

Verse of the Day:  Titus 2:7-8

In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.        

Fruit of the Spirit:  Always do your best to have a heart of Love and compassion, to have a selfless spirit that is Kind and Gentle, and willing to serve others. As a follower of Christ, let your light shine and set an example by doing what is good.

God Uses the Willing

Verse of the Day:  Isaiah 6:8 

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”  And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”   

Fruit of the Spirit: God has a purpose for your life and He wants you to be a willing volunteer to carry out the work He has planned for you. Your Faithfulness and obedience is what qualifies you to do His work. Remember that whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies

Instruments for Special Purposes

Verse of the Day:  2 Timothy 2:21

Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.                    

Fruit of the Spirit: If you want God to use you, you must turn from sin. “Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness — FaithLovePeace — joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God.”

You Are Wonderfully Made

Verse of the Day:  Psalm 139:14       

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.         

Fruit of the Spirit: When we see ourselves as God sees us, we can Love ourselves the way God does. Be PatientGentle, and Kind to yourself and remember that God has made you wonderfully and uniquely for His purpose.