SERVE GOD

WHEN LIFE IS HARD
“SERVE GOD”
1 Peter 4:7-19, 5:1- 5 (NKJV)

When life is hard…be intentional about serving God.

1. Serve God with our “Commitment” (1 Peter 4:7-9)(Mt. 10:37)

We should be committed to the Lord, but also committed to:

2. Serve God with our “Gifts” (1 Peter 4:10-11)

Start where you are, do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.”
~ Jim George, author and pastor

1). How your spiritual gift is unique to you (1 Peter 4:10) “As each one has received a gift…”

2). How to use your spiritual gift (1 Peter 4:10), “minister it to one another…”

3). How you received your spiritual gift (1 Peter 4:10), “as good stewards of the manifest grace of God.”

4). How you always make sure to give God the glory for your spiritual gift (1 Pet. 4:11)

3. Serve God with our “Endurance” (1 Pet. 4:12-19)

Serve Him thru:

  1. “Trials” (1 Pet. 4:12-13)
  2. “Reproaches” (insults) (1 Pet. 4:14-18)
  3. “Pain” (sufferings) (1 Pet. 4:19)

4. Serve God with our “Devotion” (1 Pet. 5:1-4)

Devotion to:

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