August 25

August 25, 2018 // Devotional+Holiness in High Country

Read: Acts 2:46-47

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15).

Service For A Sanctified Layman

Because God has not called me to be a preacher, do I count myself out of His active service? Do I think that only these especially called persons are included in the Great Commission? This was never the purpose of our Lord. Our scripture reading for today tells of the activity of the whole Church — preachers and lay people upon whom the Holy Spirit had been outpoured. “And all that believed were together… And they, continuing daily with one accord [were] in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house… praising God, and having favour with all the people.”

The preachers were busy preaching; lay members attended services and testified to their neighbors, These Spirit-filled Christians were all busy doing the things that the Lord had told them to do. They stirred the community for righteousness until “the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”

If my sanctified life is to bring me increasing satisfaction I must find some place of regular service for my Lord. Do I have a place within the church where I can do something for Christ? I cannot do everything, but by God’s help I can do something,

The Sunday school needs teachers; young people need guides in their weekly services. Children and teenagers need concerned Christian leaders in weekday activities. There are cars to be driven to bring folk to the house of God. There are carpenters’ jobs and decorating tasks to improve the building and equipment of the church. There are shut-ins to be visited and neighbors to be invited to God’s house.

God has given me the power to do something for Him. Am I doing what I could be doing for the Lord, whom I love?

Affirmation For Today

I will, by God’s help, spend some time this week or offer to give some time for the work of my church.

Interchurch Holiness Convention

18931 Route 522

Beaver Springs, PA 17812

Phone: 570-658-1030

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