Scripture: 2 Timothy 1.  

OBSERVATION
(What is God saying here?)

2 Timothy 1:6-7 (NLT)
⁶ This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
⁷ For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

APPLICATION
(How Can I apply what God is saying here to my circumstances today?)

This chapter is filled with nuggets, but these two verses especially spoke to me. I’m afraid that too often Christians become so laid back and satisfied, that we tend to reflect on the outpouring that was once given by Christ, and that those gifts have since been used up in our lives and perhaps others will now kick in because of their new-found faith. Friends that is just not biblical. I believe that all of us will agree that we serve a living God. To me this means that I begin each new day serving a living God who loves me more today than He did yesterday, who has a new work for me today because of those that He will place in my path, and He will give me new insights and power to deal with the challenges and opportunities that I will be faced with today. Friends, Jesus is alive today, and because He lives in my heart, I am convinced that His mighty power will be revealed through me today, and in fresh new ways. Sunday School teacher – be open to what God will say through you to your students next Sunday. He has a fresh new revelation for you each day, and He will guide you into new truths each day. Allow His holy presence to renew that flame within you so that you could share what He wants you to do today. This may coincidentally be the same as what your grandfather told you was gifted to him 25 years ago, but I can assure you that God is able, and will enable you with a fresh anointing that will be so current and so applicable to the individuals and circumstances that you will face today. Trust wholeheartedly in God and allow His fresh, current, dynamic Holy Spirit to work in your life today.

PRAYER
(With God’s help, what am I going to do differently today because He said it?)

Lord Jesus, I pray that You will forgive me for the times that I base my walk on what others may have shared about You and about their walk with You. While that may be encouraging and reassuring to me, I need a fresh touch from You today and a refreshing reminder of the gifts that You have blessed me with. As I fan into flames the gifts You have blessed me with, I am reminded that these are used so that You may be lifted up and to see others blessed. Please allow me to use my gifts today in such powerful ways that it will be very evident in whom I believe, to rejoice each day and to do this in ways that will bring You everlasting joy. People need the Lord. Father, please help me to be of service today in helping folk resolve the mystery of locating you and accepting You as Lord.

 

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