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Improving Your Serve I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1

Finding Examples of Service I Peter 2:18-25 Christ as our example as a servant Others serve to be an example too

Two Great Servants Not considering the burden of service Isaiah is told he will preach fruitlessly Mary will live to see her son murdered Not jaded by the fear of failure It was enough to be called to serve

We Are Those Called by God John 6:44-46 How should we reply? Here am I send me Let it be to me

Here am I send me We may be THE instrument to serve Esther “Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Let it be to me Mary’s heart was that of a servant Whatever God said was her desire

Learning by Example Two Great Servants A Great Prophet The Mother of the Messiah Chosen by their servant’s heart

The Invitation of Jesus Christ The Unbeliever To Believe To Confess Christ To Repent of Sin To Be Baptized The Christian To Turn Again To Walk by Faith To Share Your Burdens