God gives us gifts with the expectation that we will use them!

Phillip’s Daughters

1 Peter 4:10 CEV

Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts

to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well.

Your personal faith empowers your public gifts

Romans 12:6 NET

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

Your age or marital status is not an excuse for not use your gifts

1 Corinthians 7:34-35 NLT

In the same way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be devoted to the Lord and holy in body and in spirit. But a married woman has to think about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband. I am saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.

Your gender should never deter you from using your gifts

Acts 2:17-18 NLT

‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike—and they will prophesy.

These four young daughters joined with their father Philip and traveled through the known world teaching and preaching the gospel. We don’t know a tremendous amount about them but that they were all young and unmarried at the time, but their ministry was so effective and significant that they are mentioned alongside their father, the evangelist of Samaria. They were specifically mentioned by Papias, a church leader alive at the time of Philip’s daughters, who said that people travelled great distances to visit these female prophets and listen to their accounts of the early decades of the church. Eusebius, who in the second century wrote the first history of the church called them ‘mighty luminaries’ and teachers in the early church.

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