Work takes more than one......

CityBlast 2010 was absolutely amazing...Impacting our community for the KINGdom!! What an amazing experience to be a part of! if you volunteered, prayed, attended the service and / or the evening show....everyone took a part that was a very important part of bring Christ to so many lives! Thank you to everyone for being part of someting so great!~

Devotion today....I want to share this with you all as it applies so well. None of us can do anything on our own and continue to do it well. I am extremely guilty of this and this reading today, really brought it all home--CityBlast never would have happened without MANY hands our sets never would happen without many hands....takes many hands to do God's work!

S:Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. "
"As you walk through life, remember that you're not supposed to do everything on your own. You need other people to walk alongside you, but you also need other people to work alongside you."
O:God put us on earth to do a certain work that only we can do. Ephesians says that God made us to do good works and that he planned in advance what we would live our lives doing. However, he didn't plan for us to do that work alone. We need people to work with us.
You know the feeling you get when you do too much work on your own. You get exhausted and burned out. Why? Because you're trying to do your work alone, while God never meant for you to go through life working alone.
God tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:9 that "two people are better than one, because they get more done by working together" (NCV). When you work as a team, you get so much more done. Plus, having good teammates alongside you is a whole lot more fun and less tiring!
Picture this: Individually, each of us is like a snowflake; on our own, we can't make a big difference. However, when one fragile snowflake sticks together with a lot of other snowflakes, they can stop traffic. Like snowflakes, we can make a big difference if we work together, each one of us doing only our small part.
A: As I walk through life, God didn't attend me to do it alone. I need other people to walk alongside me, but I also need other people to work alongside me. As I share the burden of my work with fellow Christians, I will actually accomplish more for the glory of God.
P: Lord God, I ask your forgiveness for not being a good steward of what you are expecting out of us. That we should not work alone, that we should not tackle life alone. That you want us to partner with others and do your work. God, I have not done a good job of sharing the burdens of work in so many areas of my life. Please work within me to do so and to fullfill your wants for my life, so that I may share your word and promises with others.