I love my work, for it helps me to grow spiritually.
God can only do for me what I allow God to do through me. I am open and receptive to my true calling.
I am ready to follow God’s guidance obediently and to put God’s ideas to work in all that I do.
I work at "earning my wings" every day with the work of my hands and the words that I speak.
God works in me to will and to do whatsoever God would have me do, and God cannot fail. This is my true calling.
Responsive Reading for Sunday, August 27
“Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is at work until now, so I am at work’. . . . ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also’” (John 5:17 &19).
I love my work, for it helps me to grow spiritually. God can only do for me what I allow God to do through me.
“The LORD called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, ‘Here I am. You called me.’ Then Eli understood that the LORD was calling the youth . . . . The LORD . . . revealed his presence, calling out as before, ‘Samuel, Samuel!’ Samuel answered, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening’" (I. Samuel 3:8-10).
I am open and receptive to my true calling. I am ready to follow God’s guidance obediently and put God’s ideas to work in all that I do.
“I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands, calling on your name” (Psalm 63:5).
I work at "earning my wings" every day with the work of my hands and the words that I speak.
“We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers [and sisters] loved by God, how you were chosen” (I. Thessalonians 1:2-4)
God works in me to will and to do whatsoever God would have me do, and God cannot fail. This is my true calling.