Father, You are El Roi, the God who sees us. You know our strengths and weaknesses. You know our gifts and my failings. You guide the process of our sanctification. Show us the opportunities to use the gifts You assign for the purposes You desire. Help us minister to those You put into our lives in a way that edifies, glorifies and points to Jesus.
Remind us that the fast You desire is for us to throw off of wickedness, to share bread with the hungry, and lovingly support others. As we walk in Your ways, Lord, allow us to be the hands and feet of Your manifold grace. Forgive us where we fail you, Father, in the name and authority of Jesus, according to Your good and perfect will. Amen.
“As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (1 Peter 4:10-77 NKJV)
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Joy S. Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering for Care Net.