{"id":3530,"date":"2011-11-24T00:57:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T06:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2011-11-09T14:01:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:01:24","slug":"endowed-to-profit-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"Endowed to Profit the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:7).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The NIV Study Bible <\/em>states: \u201cEvery member of the body of Christ has been given some spiritual gift that is an evidence of the Spirit\u2019s working in his life. All the gifts are intended to build up the members of the Christian community. They are not to be used for selfish advantage, as some in the Corinthian community apparently were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think by now we have gleaned the why of spiritual gifts. <em>The Living Bible<\/em> states \u201cThe Holy Spirit displays God\u2019s power through each of us as a means of helping the entire church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are entrusted by the Spirit to use our gift or gifts to profit the church. \u00a0What a wonderful privilege we have to be given gifts to use for God\u2019s glory.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER:<\/strong> Today is Thanksgiving. Spend time in praise, thanking God for the spiritual gifts He has endowed you to profit the church.\u00a0<strong><\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal\u201d (1 Corinthians 12:7). The NIV Study Bible states: \u201cEvery member of the body of Christ has been given some spiritual gift that is an evidence of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}