Our daughter when she was a waitress in Wichita KS Christmas 1991 by Fran Meservy
Serving - The person who comes in and just does whatever is needed without asking what needs to be done; chief; dish washer; waitress; waiter; janitor; house keeper; gardener; cashier; secretary; bookkeeper; etc.
Dictionary: intransitive verb: to be a servant; to do military or naval service; to assist a celebrant as server at mass; to be of use <in a day when few people could write, seals served as signatures — Elizabeth W. King>; to be favorable, opportune, or convenient; to be worthy of reliance or trust <if memory serves>; to hold an office : discharge a duty or function <serve on a jury>; to prove adequate or satisfactory : suffice <it will serve for this task>; to help persons to food: as a: to wait at table; to set out portions of food or drink; to wait on customers; transitive verb; to be a servant to : attend; to give the service and respect due to (a superior); to comply with the commands or demands of : gratify; to give military or naval service to; to perform the duties of (an office or post); to act as server at (mass); archaic : to work through (a term of service); to put in (a term of imprisonment); to wait on at table; to bring (food) to a diner; present, provide —usually used with up<the novel served up many laughs>; to furnish or supply with something needed or desired; to wait on (a customer) in a store; to furnish professional service to; to answer the needs of; to be enough for : suffice; to contribute or conduce to: promote; to treat or act toward in a specified way <he served me ill>; to bring to notice, deliver,
Example: My friend who had the gift of helps had been cleaning my house for me. I had to be there and she did whatever I asked her to do. She moved. I had another friend who had the gift of serving. I again needed someone to clean my house once a week. She offered take the job. I could just give her the key and go do whatever I needed to do and when I got home everything was done. I never had to tell her what was needed - she just saw it and did it. That's the gift of serving. Every Christian is supposed to serve God in some way; but the person with the gift of serving are a group set apart to make it easy for the ministers to do their jobs without distractions. The person with the gift of helps usually fall in and assist the gift of serving.
Gen 15:13-14 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. "And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Gen 29:18 Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter."
Exo 3:12 So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
Lev 25:39-40 'And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. 'As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
Num 3:6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.
Num 4:24-26 "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying: "They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting, "the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.
Num 4:37 These were the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Num 4:41 These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.
Num 16:9 "Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them;
Num 18:2-3 "Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of witness. "They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die; they and you also.
Deu 6:13 "You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him,
Deu 11:13-15 'And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 'then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. 'And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.'
Est 1:7 And they served drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being different from the other, with royal wine in abundance, according to the generosity of the king.
Psa 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
Eccl 5:9 Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
Mat 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.'"
Mat 6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Mat 8:14-15 Now when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them.
Mat 20:28 "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Luke 2:37 and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Luke 10:40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me."
Luke 12:37 "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
Luke 17:7-10 "And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'? "But will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink'? "Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. "So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.'"
Luke 22:26-27 "But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. "For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.
John 12:2 There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.
John 12:26 "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
Acts 6:2 Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.
Rom 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Rom 14:16-18 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil; for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
1 Cor 7:35 And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
Gal 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Phil 2:22 But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.
Col 3:23-24 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
1 Tim 3:10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless.
1 Tim 3:13 For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 6:2 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
2 Tim 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
Heb 9:13-14 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
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