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The Blessing of Service

Be the gift of support to God's leaders.

"Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the Tent of the Testimony. They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the Tent…I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the Tent of Meeting."
—Numbers 18: 2, 3, 6 NIV

Are you serving as an assistant or volunteer in a support position on your team or ministry? Determine to let your service be a gift. In the Old Testament, God gave the Levites' help as a gift to Aaron and his sons. He literally called out the Levites solely as a support ministry to the priesthood and offered them to Aaron and his sons as a gift

God's design and purpose for our Levite brothers reflect a beautiful pattern for his New Testament servants today. God set the Levites apart to help the men of God. Look with me at some simple principles set forth that undergird and still apply ...

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