Comfort or Character Have you ever worked to serve others only to get critism and no expression of thanks? Have you ever experienced pain when you serve people and they can not see your sacrifice and good intensions but they are even tempted to suspect your motives?
You are not alone. In 2 Corinthians 14:19-28 Paul goes through a list of hardships that few men, perhaps none, have equaled yet pressed on in his care for the church. Likewise the call of Romans 12 is to press on, not decrease in zeal for the advance of the kingdom. And we expect praise and affirmation on earth? If so, it may be that we have our reward. Rather we endure hardship and even critism, to hear the words of the master: Well done, good and faithful servant. Key Passage:
[Be] ... not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer ... Rom 12:11-12Friend of NEMA, USA
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NEMA is a networking association and fellowship forum for the missions movement in Nigeria, comprising missions agencies, organizations and churches who come together under the NEMA umbrella to foster the work of missions in Nigeria.
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COME LET US WORK TOGETHER
NEMA spearheads National Emergency Management Agency for spiritual souls; a rescue mission to salvage the souls of men that seem unredeemable. [More >>]
SILENT RESIGNATION
How may I serve God and not be strangulated along the way? How do I avoid a trend I have seen so often with people in ministry? I have seen people start well and continue by just wandering in the wilderness. If these questions relate to you... [More >>]
What Happened to People Group Theory?
A strange thing happened on the way to bringing the Gospel to every 'people group.' A growing number of Christian voices around the world begin to suggest that the focus on people groups was overemphasized. [More >>]
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me."
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