{"id":7567,"date":"2025-07-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2015-06-12T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:08:32","slug":"compassionate-service-others-will-fill-life-satisfaction-make-us-happy-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/compassionate-service-others-will-fill-life-satisfaction-make-us-happy-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassionate service to others will fill our life with satisfaction and make us happy in the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear readers to the column of our daily word for spiritual strength on this wonderful day! Every day comes with new things from the Lord. His mercy and steadfast love are new for us every morning! Glory be to His wonderful name!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe are talking about ministry and have discussed how important is it to develop a compassionate heart. When we serve God and people, it becomes a means whereby God can deal with our selfishness and develop compassion in us at the same time. As we develop compassionate hearts, God\u2019s power is released in and through us for the benefits of multitudes.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDo you want to be transformed? Can you imagine changes and transformation taking place in your life without ministry? I can’t. God will transform us through ministry!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus\u2019 anointing was without measure, because His ministers and serve people without measure.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBegin now to minister and serve others and watch how you will start to grow in your spirit and become transformed into the likeness of Christ. Begin to serve people, for that is when the character of Christ and the power of God will grow up in you like never before.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn addition to the fact that God helps us to develop compassion towards other people through ministry, ministry delivers satisfaction and fulfilment to us. Compassionate service to others will fill our life with satisfaction and make us happy in the Lord. It is in ministering to others instead of focusing on ourselves that we discover a fulfilled, happy and satisfied life. Life and joy fill our hearts when we see how God meets other people needs through our ministry.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen we share our talents with other people through ministry, God also fills us with life. Let’s read a verse from Gospel of John:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abbut whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life\u00bb (John 4:14).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWhat is Jesus trying to say in this verse? He is saying here that we already have a source of life inside of us through our faith in Christ Jesus. That’s why Jesus said:\u00a0but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb. If you already accepted Jesus Christ into your heart as Lord and saviour, you may rest assure that a source of life \u2013 a source of living water is already opened up in you. What is the purpose of that source of living water?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFirst of all, the source was created in order to meet your own personal needs. Although, God desires that you use this source for something more, and not just for to meet your own needs. God wants you to share your source with others by serving them.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThat is the reason why Jesus went ahead and said:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abHe who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water\u00bb.\u00a0(John 7:38).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nHere Jesus is now saying that His desire for us believers is that we will not just carry the source of living water within, but that we will also let the river of living water flow through us to other people. The source of living water that we carry inside of us is a gift from God, received for the purpose of ministry to others.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThat is what the following Scriptures adjourn us to minister to others what we have received as gifts from the Lord:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u201cAs every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God\u201d\u00a0(1st<\/sup>\u00a0Peter 4:10).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nGod wants me to serve other people using everything I possess. My talents are supposed to be a source not just for me but also for somebody else. If you will use the source you received from God only for personal purposes instead of using it to meet other people\u2019s need through ministry, then you’ll never be satisfied in God and never fully enjoy this source.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abHe who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water\u00bb.\u00a0(John 7:38).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus said before that the source \u201cwill become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(John 4:14),<\/em>\u00a0now He is saying this source will flow out to others from us as\u00a0\u201cthe river of living water\u201d<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFirst of all the rivers should flow\u00a0into us<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0then\u00a0out of our belly<\/u><\/strong>. The source should first be born inside of us through our faith Christ, and later it should flow out of us as rivers of living water that can meet the needs of other people, and make them thirsty no more.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAs we live our life this way, we are able to enjoy the life of God, and become cheerful, happy and fulfilled all the time.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMinistry makes us joyful and keeps us fresh. Ministry makes you happy and satisfied with life. It makes the rivers of living water flow out of our belly to others. Whenever God’s life flows into us, then out from us to other people, we will blossom and bear great fruits for God. As a result of that we will be transformed into lively, happy, cheerful and fulfilled people.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod bless you abundantly!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRufus Ajiboye, pastor","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is in ministering to others instead of focusing on ourselves that we discover a fulfilled, happy and satisfied life. Life and joy fill our hearts when we see how God meets other people needs through our ministry.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen we share our talents with other people through ministry, God also fills us with life.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33543,"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-7567","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\/2021\/08\/pexels-photo-4530594-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"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\/7567","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39547,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions\/39547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}