Proverbs 27:17
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYERS - LECTIO 365 by 24-7 Prayer
This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRAYERS - LECTIO 365 by 24-7 Prayer
GOD would never do THAT…
GOD would never do THAT…
“What can I do if the sheep falls?” 🐑
Imagine if God—your Shepherd—said that when you stumble and fall again.
I actually heard a shepherd say those words when two of his sheep had fallen and needed help. For one, help came too late. For the other, just in time.
For a moment I felt a little guilty when the shepherd said: “There are so many people standing around watching. Someone could’ve just climbed over the fence and helped…”
Hmm, he had a point. But the people really were helpless and didn’t even know what to do.
First the question: “Maybe it’s normal for them to lie like that?”
And then: “How do you even get a sheep back on its feet?”
And isn’t that exactly what sometimes disappoints us about other people too?
“Don’t they see how badly I’m doing?
That I’m lying here hurting?
They could help, couldn’t they…?”
But often they simply don’t know how. And that’s why I’m so deeply in love with our Shepherd.
He doesn’t say, “What can I do if you’ve fallen again?”
He doesn’t look away either. Because He knows how to lift a fallen sheep back up.
And He reaches out—not roughly, not annoyed like that shepherd—but calmly, gently, and full of love. ❤️
These words are so strongly on my heart for you today:
Where people watch you fall, God Himself will lift you back up.
Take these words personally and rest in them. No matter what is going on in your life right now, even if people simply stand by and watch—your God will rise up FOR YOU.
You don’t have to explain to God how you’re going to get back on your feet.
He already knows.
And He says: “I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.” (Ezekiel 34:15-16, NIV)
You are a miracle!
Déborah Rosenkranz
Stewarding Our Gifts
Stewarding Our Gifts
Learning to use our spiritual gifts is a lifetime journey. Once we think we have a handle on them, we find ourselves discovering something new. There are, of course, many spiritual gifts, but in today’s passage, Peter focused on two categories as examples: speaking gifts and serving gifts. Those of us with speaking gifts are to speak of God’s truth with reverence, not using our gift as a megaphone for our own ideas, but as an instrument to carry the gospel. Those of us with gifts of serving are to serve wholeheartedly, drawing strength from the Lord, not ourselves, so that God is praised through the strength Jesus provides us. In all things, we are to use our gifts to serve the church and to praise Jesus.
Your gifts, whether serving or speaking, or something completely different, are yours to steward and leverage wisely. These gifts are not meant to earn us acceptance or praise in the eyes of our peers, but for God’s glory and for your fellow believers. Today, reflect on what kind of gifts you have. Where does your strength come from? How are you using your gifts?
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