The Father's Menu

The Father's Menu

Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Saturday, November 26, 2022

STIR YOURSELF UP!

Stir up that gift within you means to keep ablaze, fan into flames and rekindle the gift that is in you. The Greek word translated “stir up” denotes the kindling of a fire, as by bellows. Anyone who has ever tended a campfire knows that stirring up the glowing embers of a dying fire can cause those embers to flame up again and burn more brightly. Timothy was to see to it that his spiritual gift did not grow cold through disuse; he was to “stir it up” and keep the fire going. In the same vein, we are admonished to stir up the gifting within us.

We stir up the gift by using the gift we’ve been given. We stir up the gift through godly discipline, which produces the fruit of God’s nature in our lives: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law” Galatians 5:22–23. We keep the gift ablaze by not letting our spiritual selves grow cold or, worse, lukewarm, as the church in Laodicea had become Revelation 3:15–16.

Do not quench the Holy Spirit of God within you. Choose to grow in the Lord! Decide to build a relationship with Jesus and watch His gift manifest in your life.

Prayer: Dear Lord, I choose to rekindle the gifts within me, I grow in the Word of God. Amen

Further Reading:                                                    

Galatians 5:25 “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

1 Timothy 4:14 “Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.”

Read through the Bible in 1 year: Daniel 2:24-3:30 1 Peter 4:7-5:14 Psalm 119:81-96 Proverbs 28:15-16

Read through the Bible in 2 years: Song 1.1-2.7 & Ps 144