A prayer for guarding what's been entrusted to you, written by Chelsea Domatis and read

by Kelly Gibbons.

Guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

First Timothy 6, 20.

Last summer I spent a lot of time in the letters Paul wrote to the men he had trained

up.

Something really special about these letters continued to pierce my heart.

The Lord continued to highlight to me the command over our lives to guard the deposits

entrusted to us.

To guard yet actively be brave and Christ for the things he has given us.

Each time Paul mentions guarding what's been given to Timothy, it's attached to the

call of living out his faith, standing firm in the truth that he knows, and serving

where God has him.

In Hebrew, the word entrust means deposit, a point to remember.

So for us as Christ followers, we must first seek to know what God has entrusted to us.

This means prayerfully asking God to open our eyes to see our world through a kingdom

perspective.

For me personally, he revealed something I knew, yet hadn't fully let sink in.

After giving our lives to Christ, we now have our testimony.

This is the second most important story entrusted to us, other than the gospel.

God calls us to share the story he's written for us.

God has entrusted you and me to share the parts of our stories that he permits.

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