By Joseph Ametepe
It’s my desire and delight to declare God’s blessings upon your life for the month of September 2024. May you be graciously and generously blessed by the “Lord GOD, the God of hosts” (Adonai YAHWEH, Elohim Tsevao’th [Amos 4:13])! May the Spirit of God who has graciously and generously endowed you with His spiritual gifts, enable you to employ them for the edification of the church to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 14:3, 5, 12, 26)! May the Spirit of God, also empower you to “seek to abound for the edification of the church” (1 Corinthians 14:12; NASB) in the use of your spiritual gifts! By the Holy Spirit, may you deliver to other believers what you received from the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:3)! May you also, by the Spirit, declare: “But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10)! May the LORD hasten the day when “this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:53)! May the Holy Spirit deepen your conviction of the truth that indeed: “Christ, has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20)! May the LORD give you the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)! May the Spirit of God, enable you to “be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58)! May the LORD direct your footsteps in sharing the good news whenever and wherever He permits you to do so (1 Corinthians 16:5-8)! May the LORD Himself enable you to overcome the many adversaries when a wide door for effective service is opened to you (1 Corinthians 16:9)! May the Spirit of God grant that “all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14)! May you, like the household of Stephanas, devote yourselves for ministry for the saints (1 Corinthians 16:15)! May “the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you” (1 Corinthians 16:23)! Yes, may you be graciously and generously blessed by your gracious and generous God in the month of September 2024 and beyond!