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Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. 15 Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

17 Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. 18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— 19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So, from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. 20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. 21 Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”

 

In these scriptures Paul is discussing his passion for his ministry to the gentiles. He has been tasked with a difficult job wherein he has been called to strange places and to reach very different types of people. While it would have been easy to retreat, doubt, or even dislike his congregants, he instead embraces them with complete hope and acceptance in Christ.

God puts us all in places within which he calls us to minister to others. For some, this might be in stressful occupations or in academic settings. Some people are relocated to new areas by their professions and unwittingly find themselves called to minister where unexpected. Some people find themselves in patient roles in hospitals and facilities. All of these places can become ministry ground. How encouraging that the Holy Spirit can work through us even in the midst of difficult mission fields to reach others.

No matter where you find yourself, He is with you and working through you. He can use your present environment for His powerful mission field.

Allison Montgomery

Yes5olias1@yahoo.com

 

Prayer Concern - For every one of us to realize their mission field and to reach others there.

Alternate scriptures: Isaiah 48: 6-11 and Psalm 65: 9-13