Graceland Baptist Church, Zaria

Happy new year. We welcome Joseph Agwanpan-Shegendel Ashafa to church today.

Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉
2024

Happy last Sunday of the year 2023. God is still in the business of changing lives for the better.

We are happy to celebrate our amiable church leader's birthday. We pray that God increase you in all ramifications and give you the strength to lead on. And take you to your o places beyond your imagination.

DAY 3 OF GRACE FOR GRACE

1. Grace! Thy grace alone
Has brought me into thy will
Stranger and alien I had been
Till grace brought me so nigh
Grace! Thy grace alone is all I plead for
Grace to serve Thee aright Lord
O! Grace to love Thee more.

2. ‘Tis grace that teaches me
Thy paths for me to know
And grace day by day leads me on
My call not to let go
3. I long for this grace Lord
To be faithful a steward
To lay my all down for the church
Till her glory bursts forth.
4. Make me a battle axe
Kept Lord in Thy quiver
Tried, trimmed, sharpened in thy furnace
Meet for my Master’s use

Prayer
Help to serve without grumbling. Whether I'm recognized or not.


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Prayer
Father, help me not to be an onlooker but rather help me to deliver my own portion. Before the sun will set, help me to finish and finish well.


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Prayers

Beg God to help you serve. That He will find you at your post when he comes back.


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You don't need to be on the pulpit to serve, you can serve God in your little corners.


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‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭4:10‭-‬11‬ ‭NLT‬‬
[10] God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. [11] Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

God's grace and gift is not for selfishness.
It's for service to others.

Do not try to step into someone's service and grace. Take your place and serve God according to the grace you received.


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Don't receive God's grace in vain. Operate and perform according to the grace you have received.


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Do not compare gifts because teacher person operates according to the proportion of grace given them.

Do not frustrate the grace of God upon your life or look down on it.


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God's grace is not dependent on age or status. Allow your gift to perform by grace given you.


Graceland Baptist Church, Zaria

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:9‭-‬10‬ ‭NLT‬‬
[9] For I am the least of all the apostles. In fact, I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church. [10] But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.

Apostle Paul recognized God's grace that enabled him to do the work of ministry.


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Ministry is a gift you receive by grace and grace enables you to perform


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A man working according to his grace will never murmur or complain. He will just do what he needs to do whether he is encouraged or not.


Graceland Baptist Church, Zaria

Do not allow the grace of God upon your life to be in vain. You need to perform your duty in the church according to the grace God has given you.


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There's no ordinary church member. Member of the church has a gift that is meant for the other members.


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‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭12:4‭-‬7‬ ‭NLT‬‬
[4] There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. [5] There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. [6] God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us. [7] A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭3:7‬ ‭NLT‬‬
[7] By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.

If a man makes you something, a man can also bring you down


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It takes a man with grace to work among people of different cultures, backgrounds and mindsets.
Therefore, service is a gift by grace


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Jesus called the 12 to impact His life into them.


Graceland Baptist Church, Zaria

Seminary does not make one a pastor. God's call is what makes one a man of God.


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