***COMING TOMORROW! 2008 promises to be an explosive year. Oprah will be
using her media empire to promote New Age teachings, Christian leaders will
sell out the Truth and souls in hopes of having political power, and the
spiritual freefall our nation is in will get worse. It is an environment
ripe for revival and most likely our last opportunity to turn back to God
and His Truth before we see and feel His wrath unleashed upon us. This is a
message you can’t afford to miss!
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A word of encouragement for you today. As you sit in your home, your office,
or wherever you read the Daily Devotional, I want to give you a word of
encouragement today. God wants to use your life for His glory! Think about
this for a moment. The God who created the heavens and earth, the God who
created you and me in His image, GOD HIMSELF, wants to use YOUR LIFE! I
don’t know about you but just the thought blows me away. The fact that THE
GOD wants to use me is mind boggling. It is true, God wants to use your
life!!!
I love reading the Biblical accounts when God calls a person to serve Him.
Some say no, some obediently follow, and others make excuses why they aren’t
adequate. The reality is, all men are born to serve and glorify God their
Creator with their lives. That is the universal purpose for all men. So we
shouldn’t be shocked or surprised when God calls us, since He is only asking
us to do what we were created for, to serve Him!
Apart from our universal purpose to serve and glorify the Lord with our
lives, God calls each of us to do that in unique ways. He gives each of us
special gifts and talents in order to be able to serve Him in the specific
area He calls us to serve. Most people understand their universal purpose in
life is to serve God, but are not very clear what God is specifically
calling them to do with their life. This is another area where your daily,
intimate, personal walk with the Lord becomes so important.
The closer we are to God, the better we “hear” God, the better we understand
God, the easier it is for us to find those areas of service He is calling us
to. Never forget the passions you have, what you enjoy doing, what gets you
excited, exist because that is how God made you. In serving the Lord, you
should find ways to serve that incorporate the things you enjoy and are
passionate about in this life. Serving God is not supposed to be something
that you dread but something that you look forward to and enjoy!
Remember that a couple of the big ways God speaks to us is through other
people and through our circumstances. Nothing that happens in your life is
an accident or a coincidence. God brings people into our life, speaks to us
through other people, God allows things to happen to us, He opens and closes
doors in our lives, all to guide us where He wants us to be and doing the
things He wants us to be doing. That is why we need to be tuned in to what
God may be saying to us through others and through our circumstances. Often
it is God speaking to us and trying to guide us where He wants us to be.
In serving God, don’t be misled that this means doing something on a grand
scale or what the world would notice because it was something so visible and
affecting so many people. I would guess that 99.9% of the people who have
served the Lord over the ages were people whose name the world never knew.
Most people know who Paul is, and Billy Graham, and many of the world-renown
men and women of God who have made an impact on millions with their lives.
But in the eyes of God, the faithful service of someone carrying groceries
to a poor family, someone using their gift of music in their local church,
someone visiting those in the prisons and nursing homes, someone who holds a
Bible study at their job, someone who passes out tracts, is just as
important as someone whose name is known by the masses.
You don’t need to stand in a pulpit and preach to thousands, or write books
read by millions, or reach nations on TV or radio, or operate an
Internet./TV ministry reaching millions of people worldwide daily to serve
the Lord. We are ALL called to serve the Lord, each in our own special and
unique way, and nobody’s service is more important than someone else’s. What
IS important is that we are faithful and obedient to serve the Lord to the
best of our ability. Never forget, it is our heart that God sees and is
concerned about.
I love you and care about you so much. My word of encouragement for you
today is that God, yes THE God, has called you to serve Him. I want to
encourage you that serving the Lord is not only the universal purpose of
life we all share, but as a follower of Jesus Christ something we are
commanded to do. My challenge to you today is to open your heart and seek
the Lord and let HIM guide you to those areas of service He has called you
to. Each of us are special and unique, with special and unique gifts and
talents, so we have all been called to serve our Lord in different ways.
Never forget that we live in a world that has rejected God, the Truth of His
Word, and Jesus. It is to this lost and hurting world that God has called us
to service. As each son and daughter of the Lord answers that call to
service, we are being the salt of the earth and the light to this world
Jesus has called us to be. It is through our service to the Lord that this
lost world sees Jesus in us and has a desire to get to know Him. The Bible
says that we are His ambassadors. It is in our service that we bring the
hope and love of Jesus Christ to the lost and hurting in our world each day.
I will be praying for you. I pray today that God will move on your heart and
help you to continue serving Him with even more conviction and enthusiasm.
If you have not been doing all you should in serving the Lord, let this word
today motivate you and challenge you to follow Him and as He guides you in
your service. He will open and close doors, speak to you through others,
cause circumstances to occur in your life to show you the things that you
should be doing for Him. Don’t forget, service is not an option it is a
commandment from our Lord.
In these days when the world preaches and teaches that your success is
judged by how many people serve you, let me remind you that in God’s eyes,
your success in this life is measured by how many people you serve!!!
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Thank you for standing with me and helping me be here each day to bring
God’s Truth to this dark world and HIS hope to so many lost and hurting
souls. Together, we are making an impact on lives for all eternity!!!
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller
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