Pray, Love, Eat

      "The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers. Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay. God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you. Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God is speaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then God will be given glory in everything through Jesus Christ. All glory and power belong to him forever and ever. Amen."-1 Peter 4:7-11

         These verses were the verses that the sermon tonight at my church were based off of and I want to put them on here because I want to share part of the sermon too. It's funny sometimes how we don't see what we are doing until someone tells us or that we have to be reminded of it off and on again. During the sermon I thought I do this everyday at my job. I am blessed to do this at my job everyday. My preacher named off and made it shorter so people could remember what to do for God as we come to the end of the world. We can't just live it for ourselves we have to live it for God and here are some ways to do that. I won't go into much detail because it is self explained. Just to let you know I'm not sharing to brag about what I do but I'm showing it can be something as simple as this or that.
      
         Praying-I pray every night after I come home for sure because there are things I just have to talk to someone about and that late at night that someone is God. I try to pray before I go to work or go into the building even if it is a little prayer like, "God, give me those little moments to show the kids you today", Let me watch for those little moments form You, or "God, give me the wisdom and strength to get through the day." In that way, I am earnest and disciplined in prayer.

          Deep Love-That is my main job. I show these children deep love because no one has in their life yet. I show them what it is suppose to look like and what it can look like and feel like. Hopefully, I show them the One that can love them deeply no matter where they go or what happens to them in life. That's why I try to care for them like I should, take time to talk and play with them, take time to read the Bible and pray with them. Take time to rock them to sleep or just for a little bit before they go to sleep.

            Show People My Home-Now this means at my job to embrace the strangers and I do that every 3 months at the most. New children come in and I have to embrace them like they are at my work for a lifetime because we have no idea when they could leave to go somewhere else. Embrace them means learning about and loving on them. Embrace them in my arms. Give them all the hugs and kisses that I can and tell them that they are beautiful, handsome, and pretty. Just give them some encouragement in who they are and can be.

            I'm made to help others (aka the children). I'm there at my job to serve them and give them what they need because no one else did. Sometimes depending on how many children we have at a time it does take all my strength and energy plus more from God. There are some days that I go home and give God the glory and thank Him for getting me through the day because it was so busy with so much going on. Co-workers see the energy and strength I have too but don't understand and they tell me that. They are like "how do you do it, Tiffney or you have a lot of energy" and I just smiled and say thanks when really I'm thinking Thank you God. I should say that out loud though. I need to work on that more.
           Question to challenge you with: What are your gifts and how are you using them in your work place or how will you start if you aren't already using them?