One of the most influential ways I believe God wants to reveal himself and his heart is through others.

No one is perfect like him, of course, but we all carry unique aspects of our father's character.

God wants to use others in your life to show you more about himself on a daily basis.

If we'll open our hearts to those around us, the possibilities are unlimited to what

God can do.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 10 scripture says each of you should use whatever gift

you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms

one of the chief ways God reveals his heart to us is revelation through fellow believers.

Hebrews chapter 10, verses 24 and 25 says,

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you

see the day drawing near.

God has given us the ability to encourage one another, to literally fill the hearts

of fellow believers with courage, to pursue fullness of life in the kingdom. He's given us the

ability to stir up one another to love and good works,

that we might fill one another with wholehearted devotion to Jesus, both in word and deed.

One of my favorite passages of Scripture is 2 Corinthians 4 verses 5 through 7. Paul writes, for what we proclaim is not ourselves,

but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said,

let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

God has given us his glory. He's given us the ability to proclaim not only ourselves, but Jesus

Christ as Lord.

The jars of clay Paul was referencing here were anything but perfect.

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