Fan Into Flame the Gift God Gave You
January 17, 2019 · 1:36:54 · Watch on YouTube ↗
These notes - summary, key points, and highlighted thoughts - were generated by AI from the recording and are not the preacher’s exact words.
Summary
The pastor opens this creative evening by recalling the women who followed Jesus and served Him from their own resources, Martha and Mary, and the Mary who poured costly perfume over the Lord. In Christ there is neither male nor female; God delights to use both brothers and sisters, and the ministry of the sisters carries its own special beauty.
The guest, poet and children's author Natalia, tells how she found her calling. The Lord told Timothy to 'fan into flame' his gift, and she came to see this as a command to act: God gives the spark, but we must blow on it. Every believer has a different gift, so stop merely warming a church bench, pray to discover your niche, and be faithful in small things. A gift must also be developed with diligence and excellence, for God makes nothing imperfect; we should offer Him our best instead of blaming Him for our laziness.
Through her poems she testifies to the power of the word, which God used to create light and still uses to heal marriages, restore the wayward, and even stop someone from taking their life. She warns against mocking God while He patiently gives us breath, urges us to keep clear boundaries from the world, to guard our words, to stay awake like the disciples in Gethsemane, and to remain faithful to the cross not only in some future persecution but in today's quiet daily tests.
Key Points
- To 'fan into flame' your gift is a command to act: God gives the spark, but you must blow on it.
- Every believer has a distinct calling, so do not just warm a church bench - pray to find your place and serve.
- Be faithful in small, unseen tasks, and God will entrust you with more.
- A God-given gift must be developed with study and diligence; offering Him excellence is real worship.
- Words carry creative power - they can heal, restore, and save, or wound and destroy.
- Stay awake and watchful, keeping a clear boundary between the church and the world.
- The true test of faithfulness is not a future persecution but today's small, hidden choices.
Devotional
God has already placed a spark within you; the question is whether you will breathe on it until it becomes a flame. It is easy to sit and wait, to compare your place with someone else's, or to excuse a half-hearted offering by saying you are only a brush in His hand. But the One who created light with a word asks for your faithfulness in the small, unseen things and for the best you can give. Stay awake to His voice today, guard your words, and let your gift become an act of worship that points others to Him.
God will not blow on the spark for you - He gave you the fire, now fan it into flame.
No one laughs at God in a hospital or at war; mockery fades the moment death draws near.
Be faithful washing the floors, and the Lord who sees the heart will trust you with more.
