God-Given Gifts
May 7, 2024
As a church committed to praying for one another, we post this daily reminder we can all use for that purpose. It contains links to a Bible reading that if followed daily will have taken you through the entire Bible by this time next year, devotional thoughts from Our Daily Bread, and the passage upon which those thoughts are based, with a prayer inspired by that passage. We hope you will find it helpful!
Bible in a Year: 2 Kings 1-3; Luke 24:1-35
Today’s Our Daily Bread: God-Given Gifts | Our Daily Bread (odb.org)
Devotional Passage: Romans 12:4-8
Prayer: We thank You, Father God, for the reminder that just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We confess how often we forget just how organically we are connected as members of the One Body of Christ. Knowing that every one of us has been gifted according to the grace given to each of us, please teach us to exercise our gifts to serve any one of us for the benefit of all of us. May we each at any time be found proclaiming Your Word, serving, teaching, encouraging, giving, leading, showing mercy, or doing whatever is consistent with the way You have gifted us as Your handiwork, created in Christ Jesus, for good works You prepared beforehand for us to do in His Name to the praise of His glory. Amen.
If you have a prayer request or a prayer for all of us that we can share for one another, please send it to prayerchain@nbccparker.com.