{"id":9802,"date":"2026-01-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:00:23","slug":"how-serve-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/how-serve-god\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we serve God?"},"content":{"rendered":"Hello Friends!\r\nThank God for another wonderful and new day that the Lord has made. Let us do our best to make this day as effective and qualitative as we can. Let us do our best to spend this day to the benefit of God\u2019s Kingdom, to our own benefit and to the benefit of others. May the goodness and the mercies of God accompany you throughout this day in Jesus&#8217; Name.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe will continue our discussion on serving God. The word I want to share with you today is in a question form and we will try to answer that question together. Here is the question:\u00a0<strong>How do we serve God?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe serve God by serving other people in His Name. To serve God actually means to serve other people in the Name of God or as the representative of God on the earth. It is to do good to others by meeting their spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical or material needs as an act of our love for God.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPlease understand that your love for God will have a reflection in your relationship with others. In the same way, your neglect of God reflects on how you relate to your neighbour.\r\n<h6>\u201cIf thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man\u201d\u00a0(Job 35: 6-8).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe above scriptures accurately illustrate that in the long run, it is people around us that will either benefit or suffer because of our relationship with God or its absence.\r\n\r\nAll that we think we are giving to God actually benefits people like us on the earth. Our ministry or service to God is to be taken as a service to people created in the image of God.\r\n\r\nJesus said in Matthew 25:40<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<h6>\u201c\u2026 Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me\u201d.<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhat we do to others, Jesus receives as if we have done it to Him.\r\nOne time Jesus asked Peter if he loves Him. After receiving a confirmation from Peter that he loves Jesus, the Lord said: \u201cif you love me, then feed my sheep\u201d (John 21:16).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis is saying to us that if we really love God and are serving Him, that should move us to serve others in His Name.\r\n<h6>\u201cFor God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister\u201d.(Hebrews 6:10).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod keeps a record of all that we do for others in His name. He accepts our acts of love in relation to people, as an expression of our love to Him.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe show our love towards God by ministering to the saints.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nAs you go about your daily activities today, remember to minister to the Lord both in words and in deed, by doing just that to the people around you. That is how you serve the Lord.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>Here on earth mere men receive your service and your gifts, but in Heaven, the Lord Jesus receives all of these things (Hebrews 7: 8). So do all things you do from the heart as unto the Lord, for He is the one who will reward you (Colossian 3:17; 23-24).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod\u2019s word for you today is this:\u00a0<strong>Do not forget that you serve God by serving the people He has put in your life or the people He leads you to on a daily basis.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nRemember, you cannot say you love God whom you have not seen unless you first love your brothers and sisters whom you have seen.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nRemain blessed!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboy","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We serve God by serving other people in His Name. To serve God actually means to serve other people in the Name of God or as the representative of God on the earth. It is to do good to others by meeting their spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical or material needs as an act of our love for God.\r\nPlease understand that your love for God will have a reflection your relationship with others. In the same way, your neglect of God reflects on how you relate to your neighbour.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35243,"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-9802","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\/2022\/03\/pexels-photo-551578-1024x684.jpeg",1024,684,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\/9802","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=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40507,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions\/40507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}