On Being A Servant Of God By Warren Wiersbe (pt4)

Perhaps the hardest lesson we learn from failure is that we aren’t as great as we thought we were.

Do your work by faith, and leave the results with the Lord.

It’s our job to prepare the younger generation to step in and take over.

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service. 

Readers are leaders only if they turn their learning into living.

As we mature in Christ, we stop choosing between the good and the bad and start distinguishing the better and the best. 

Remember, the best thing you can do for your ministry is build a godly family; and the best thing you can do for your family is build a ministry that glorifies God. Home and ministry are friends, not enemies; and it’s your job to keep them that way.

No matter what kind of Christian service God has called you to, it’s a privilege to be in ministry and to serve Jesus Christ. 

First and foremost, I think, is the job of pleasing the Lord because you’re doing what He wants you to do.

The Word of God reveals the God of the Word; and the servants must know the Master if we are to serve Him acceptably. 

We read the Bible to get to know the heart and mind of God. The better we know God, the better we can enjoy Him and minster for Him. 

The Word of God reveals the character of God to us, and as it does, it also renews the mind so that we start to think the way God wants us to think.

What we think determines what we are and what we do.

I suggest you discipline yourself to spend time daily in a systematic reading of God’s Word. Make this “quiet time” a priority that nobody can change.

When God speaks, that word has power; and when we believe that word and act on it, the. power goes to work. 

Whether you’re cooking a dinner, cleaning the nursery, folding bulletins, or raking leaves on the church lawn, ask God to use your part of the ministry to reach lost people with the gospel. 

Many disagreements and divisions start when we focus on a minor detail and forget the big picture. 

Don’t focus on yourself or the people you serve; focus God and His glory.

In the economy of God, suffering and glory go together. 

What grace that God not only gives us work to do and the ability to do it, but He then rewards us for what He enabled us to accomplish!

You aren’t responsible for the way others treat you, but you are responsible for the way your respond.

As long as your enemies are on the outside, you’re safe; but when you let them get on the inside, you’re in for trouble. 

On Being A Servant Of God By Warren Wiersbe (pt3)

When you find yourself more corned about your “image” more than your character and your work, you have stopped glorifying God.

Whatever God calls us to do, we can do with His help; otherwise, He would never have called us. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:24)

If God has called you to minister, no matter what that ministry may be, He hasn’t made a mistake. He knows what He’s doing, and the best thing you can do is gratefully submit to His will and trust Him to work. 

God always prepares His servants before He calls them.

You are unique in what you are and what you can do, and God doesn’t want you to destroy that uniqueness by trying to be somebody else.

It’s not how much we have to start with that really counts but what we have to show for it at the end.

Those of us who minister must put others ahead of ourselves, but we must put the Lord ahead of others. 

Focusing on serving the Lord can make a big difference in your ministry.

I firmly believe that God has a specific plan for each of His children and that He wants to share His plan with us and help us to fulfill it.

The purpose of discipline is restoration, and the results of restoration ought to be fellowship and ministry.

God will get His work done either with you or without you (Esther 4:14), but you are the loser if you quit.

There’s no substitute for Christian character. No matter how much talent and training we may have, if we d on’t have character, we don’t have anything.

You can use all kinds of gimmicks and techniques to gather a crowd or build an organization, but that’s not the same as building His church.

Paul wasn’t always successful in helping people mature, nor will we be; but with the Lord’s help, he did his best. If people failed to mature, the failure was theirs and not Paul’s.

Believers who try to serve the Lord can expect to have problems with people.

Christian service is supposed to make us grow, and it will if we’re in the right place with the right attitude.

Discouragement and depression are two of Satan’s chief devices for getting Christians on detours.

If your only motive for service is to be recognized and thanked, you had better get prepared for a lot of disappointment.

When your service is the most difficult, God may be doing His deepest work in your life, so don’t run away.

No matter what you did wrong, confess it to the Lord and claim His forgiveness.

The future is our friend when Jesus is our Lord.

On Being A Servant Of God By Warren Wiersbe (pt2

No matter how difficult the work or how many times we feel like quitting, we can keep going and growing if we minister the way God tells us to in His Word.

The trouble with too many of us is that we think God called us to be manufacturers when He really called us to be distributors. 

You don’t earn grace, and you don’t deserve grace; you simply receive it as God’s loving gift and then share it with others.

It’s a basic law of the kingdom of God that the servants who know how poor they are become the richest, and those who give the most receive the most and therefore have the most to give.

The best thing we can for for people is not to solve their problems for them but so relate them to God’s grace that they will be enabled to solve their problems and not repeat them.

Selfishness says, “What will I get?” Service says, “What I have I’ll give to you.”

If the motivation for our service is anything less than Christ’s love—His love for us and our love for Him—our ministry will not really meet human needs or glorify God.

God is as concerned about the servant as He is about the service.

God is glorified when people see the Lord and not the servant.

It takes more than a winning personality to influence people for Christ; it takes godly character.

We must put into our Christian living the same kind of discipline that athletes put into sports.

God makes us holy so that He can use us to do the work He want us to do.

God is at work making people more like His Son, and that’s what Christian service is all about.

We who are servants of God don’t deserve His grace any more than the ones we are serving deserve it, and who are we to limit God’s grace and mercy?

The love that we need for ministry is not a natural ability; it’s a supernatural quality that only God can provide. 

One of the best ways to discover the divine resources that others need is to need them yourself and trust God to supply them. 

If our motive for serving is anything other than the glory of God, what we do will be only religious activity and not true Christian ministry.

God is glorified when people see the Master and not the minister.

Build on your strengths, and ask God for helpers who can compensate for your weaknesses.

Obedience to the will of God give you wings, not chains!

What a tragedy it is when Christian leaders sell their character just to make more money or use devious means to get people to donate more money to their work. When money takes over, character goes—and so does ministry.

On Being A Servant of God by Warren Wiersbe (pt1)

Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God. 

Certainly we need methods to serve God, but we must remember that methods work because of the principles behind them.

In your ministry, you must be yourself.

Ministry is not just another way of making a living; it’s a wonderful opportunity for making a life.

In Christian service, a sensitive spirit and a tender heart are absolutely essential.

God’s servants don’t always have to be right.

God is building your character while He is building His church, and what He does will last forever.

The better know the Bible, the better we can know the person of God, the will of God, and how to work for God.

If reaching lost sinners is so important to God, it ought to be important to us.

If the worker doesn’t get a blessing out of the work, something is radically wrong. Serving God isn’t punishment; it’s nourishment.

We are often tempted in ministry to get rid of the very people God wants us to help.

Fortunately, acceptable Christian service isn’t based on feelings; it’s based on obedience.

I would rather serve with an average worker who is reliable than a talented one who can’t be depended on from one week to the next.

A holy life is a useful life.

Life is built on character, but character is built on decisions.

Most of the people you meet day after day are either wasting their lives or merely spending their lives, but God’s servants have the privilege of investing their lives in what is eternal.

You are shaping your life by your thoughts, attitudes, and actions and becoming either more or less like Jesus Christ.

You’ll meet problem people and problem situations wherever you go, so make up your mind to expect them, accept them, and let God use them in your life.

The Holy Spirit can make you adequate for any ministry challenge God brings to you.

The difficulty of the task God gives us is one of His loving gifts for our maturity.

I believe that unfaithful stewardship on the part of God’s people is one sin that is holding back revival in the church today.