{"id":13090,"date":"2025-01-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=13090"},"modified":"2016-12-13T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:01:06","slug":"the-blessedness-beauty-serving-others-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-blessedness-beauty-serving-others-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The blessedness or beauty of serving others!"},"content":{"rendered":"Dear friends, welcome to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d! I am grateful to God for the opportunity to meet with you through these messages, to strengthen my own spirit and to feed on healthy Biblical teaching that is able to save our souls. Today I would like to start discussing about\u00a0<strong>the blessedness or beauty of serving others<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nMinistry is a widespread concept among believers. In essence, ministry is giving of all things: giving of one\u2019s talents and gifts, one\u2019s knowledge and time, one\u2019s heart and resources. The Kingdom of God is built through such giving. Your church is built by your giving and ministry. It says in the Bible that it is more blessed to give than to receive. God blesses those who serve, so if you want to get to the top of God\u2019s blessedness learn to serve God and people.\r\n\r\nMinistry is giving. But many people believe that the one who receives is in a better position than the one who gives and sacrifices. The Bibles tells us that we are more blessed when we use every opportunity to give, to solve the problems of others and to be an answer for someone\u2019s needs. Ministry is the demonstration of our love towards God and people. Ministry is the way to be promoted and exalted.\r\n\r\nThe two main commandments that Jesus left is say the following:\r\n<h6>\u00a0\u00ab<u>\u2019You shall love the LORD your God<\/u>\u00a0with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: \u2018<u>You shall love your neighbour<\/u>\u00a0as yourself.\u2019\u00bb\u00a0(Mathew, 22:37-39).<\/h6>\r\nOur love towards God is always reflected in how we treat other people. The one who loves God serves Him. But the only way to serve God is to serve people that are created in His image and according to His likeness. It is the love for God and men that must be the true motive of our ministry. After His resurrection Jesus asked Peter whether he loved Him. Jesus did not ask Peter whether he loved His sheep. He said that Peter\u2019s love for Jesus should motivate him to tend His sheep. It is not possible to love God Whom we have not seen without loving and caring for people that we see every day. God\u2019s love in our hearts motivates us to give ourselves in a way that makes the lives of other people less difficult.\r\n\r\nWhen we fellowship with God, it changes our perspective of the things around us. Prophet Isaiah is a wonderful example of it.\r\n<h6>\u00abIn the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: \u201eHoly, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!\u201d And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: \u201eWoe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.\u201d Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: \u201eBehold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: \u201eWhom shall I send, and who will go for Us?\u201d Then I said, \u201eHere am I! Send me.\u201d\u00bb\u00a0(Isaiah, 6: 1-8).<\/h6>\r\nThe idea of \u201elove for God\u201d can be explained in different ways, but there are at least two qualities that can be seen in everyone who loves God: they spend time with God and they obey Him.\r\n\r\nIsaiah went to the temple to worship God. There are several things you and I do it all the time: spend time alone with Him, read His Word to know His will, go to church, attend home groups. All of this is good and has its place in our lives, but it is not enough to please Him. We must go further.\r\n\r\nDuring our time of fellowship with God Isaiah saw three important moments that changed his whole life. We will talk about them tomorrow.\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ministry is a widespread concept among believers. In essence, ministry is giving of all things: giving of one\u2019s talents and gifts, one\u2019s knowledge and time, one\u2019s heart and resources. The Kingdom of God is built through such giving. Your church is built by your giving and ministry. It says in the Bible that it is more blessed to give than to receive. God blesses those who serve, so if you want to get to the top of God\u2019s blessedness learn to serve God and people.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pexels-photo-5409710-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"M\u0101c\u012bt\u0101js Rufus Ad\u017eiboije","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-lv\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38980,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions\/38980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}