Daily Devotions

1 Peter 4: 10Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others.

 The difference in the lives of the early Christians is the change in what they are. Before they became Christians, they were just ordinary people living routine lives of peasants. However when they became believers they were born again into the Kingdom of God and their lives changed, they were no longer people who had no vision but now they were gifted by the Holy Spirit and had a vision to change the world.

We observe from their lives that they had purpose and were all set and determine to fulfill that purpose which was the Great Commission. They were prepared to travel far and near and some went all the way west to England and others all the way east to China and India where they preached the gospel and made disciples of all men.

They had purpose and vision; they were able to convey the gospel eloquently when they were not so before. This was because they had received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives which gave them the anointing to preach, teach and to work miracles. All these are fom God and are given when we ask and receive it.

However, we must first be a child of God as Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. When we are born again, we receive a new identity and a new empowering, from being meek we become strong, from being unable we become enabled.

Further down Peter wrote 1 Peter 4: 10-11 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.