Did you:
- Spend some time in His Word?
- Spend some time talking with Him?
- Listen to some praise and worship music instead of the radio station you usually listen to?
When situations come up that might be slightly irritating to you, will you:
- Take time to stop and think before reacting, making sure your reaction is an accurate reflection of how a follower of Jesus should react?
- Pray for whoever might have irritated you and forgive them completely?
- Admit that you’re really the one doing the irritating and ask for forgiveness?
When you feel jealous of someone else’s car, job, wealth, whatever, will you:
- Realize just how much God has blessed you (warm house, food to eat, a job - unlike many in our world who have none of the above and even less) and thank Him for it?
- Pray to God that those who might have a little more than you would use it to glorify Him?
- Take time to actually tell the people in your life that you are so thankful for them?
What are some other ways that you are worshiping God today? Feel free to share!
Well, today has been full of interesting comments and laughter because of the fact that there is a mouse apparently living under the Ministry Director’s mini-fridge in his office! It’s amazing how something so small can create such a different atmosphere.
It’s good to think about as we think about ministry. Small things can affect an entire church, even though we might think about it.
Negative effects:
- Small sin - Which in truth doesn’t exist. No sin is small. When there is unconfessed, unrepentent sin in leadership ugly things happen.
- Small vision - We cannot even begin to comprehend the vastness of God. Why do we limit the vastness of what He could be doing through the local church?
- Small attitudes - Even a tiny bit of negativity towards each other can influence people much more than we realize.
- Small planning - Ministry is hard work and needs to be prayerfully planned. While we definitely want to be open to the Holy Spirit’s promptings, we can’t blame our lack of planning on “waiting on the Holy Spirit.”
Positive effects:
- Small pride - “He who neglects discipline despises himself. But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding. The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, and before honor comes humility.” Proverbs 15:32-33 Humility is so important in ministry.
- Small view of ourselves compared to God - Without Him, we can do absolutely nothing.
- Small details - Quality is very important to have in a church. Pay attention to the detail of small things that could influence others to respect the church more and eventually come to a love of God (bulletin design, worship team training, publication design, Scripture readers that read with passion, many more)
