Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee on ElSitioCristiano.com

Give with joy

Whatever you do for God, you’re to do it enthusiastically. That’s the way He wants it done and that’s the way He wants giving done; is to give like that. There was that motto years ago, “Give till it hurts.” Well, God says, “If it hurts, don’t give. But if it helps and makes you joyful, then give.” And that’s the way a child of God should give to the Lord’s work. Do it joyfully. This is something that’s really enthusiastic that needs to be done today. Even the offering ought to be done with great joy. We should give that way.

We need His presence

When Christ came, He took upon Himself human flesh, and when He did the glory was not there, you see. But He was God, you see. And, therefore, that’s the reason He could say, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Now you and I today are not going to see God. We’re going to see the Lord Jesus Christ. And He today is in a glorified body, and we “shall be like Him.” This is the anticipation and the hope of the believers, those who are walking today by faith, friends. And that’s the way Moses is going to walk, but now he says, “Your presence must go with us.” And we need His presence today, friends, to face the problems of every day.

Moses shows the way

Friends, what certainly could be called one of the most precious sights in the Word of God was to see this man Moses become an advocate and an intercessor on behalf of his people. And he certainly knew the way into the heart of God. And I think that today in our prayer life we ought to be a little more intelligent than we are and learn how to lay hold of our God. He knows our hearts, friends. That’s the important thing. There’s no use trying to say things with our lips to Him that we don’t mean with our hearts. But we do need to learn to lay hold of the mighty arm of God. And I wish all of us knew that.

What is your gift?

God gives us talents, but He wants us then to dedicate them to the Lord and let the Spirit of God take us and use us. And that doesn’t mean we are all to do the same thing. There is a wrong impression today that in the church if you can’t sing in the choir or teach a Sunday school class or speak publicly or be an usher there’s nothing left for you to do. And I think there are literally hundreds of gifts that God gives to men to serve today, and it’s up to the individual to determine, find out what that gift is. And it may be whatever God’s given you as a talent that He’d like for the Spirit of God to take it and use it for His service.

He equips

Whatever a man’s equipped to do, that is the thing that he should do unless God makes it clear to him to do otherwise. In other words, I think that there are a great many people today that are equipped to do certain things that are technical that are needed in the Lord’s work. Now I find that there are those that cannot speak, and yet they want to speak. I know quite a few laymen that just determine that they’re going to be speakers. They’re not equipped for it. And yet these men have remarkable gifts in other connections. And I think God will give you a gift, friends, that will develop whatever talent you might have or gift you might have.