#Day 218: 06 August 2016, Saturday

BEING NEWS READER

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV - For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

We had the sunday service news reader meeting today. Thanks to Brother Franklin and Sister Chintia for their advice, tips as well as the do's and don't's about being a news reader.

Three key things that I remember as the art of being a news reader:

1. Be confident, which also means having a feeling or belief that you can do something well or succeed at something:

• For me, confident also means the low existence of fear. 1 John 4:18 says "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love"
• I translate this as being news reader, being confident means performing an act of love and not merely sharing of information. Only then we can create low existence of fear and having a belief that we will do well.

2. Be comfortable, which also means allowing you to be relaxed : causing no worries, difficulty, or uncertainty:

• How and what can makes us relax? No other than when we know God is with us.
• 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• I translate this as being a news reader, being comfortable means continue to give thanks and praise our God in all situation as only God can provide comforts.

3. Be yourself, which also means being your normal or healthy self:

• How to be myself when I am standing in front of the congregation? How should I behave? Oh no, do I dress well? Will I say anything wrong?
• All these are not the most important point!!
• 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV - But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
• I translate this as being a news reader, being yourself means to know your heart. To be your normal self with the healthy heart, To be able to look at the mirror and say I am giving the best I can.

What a blessing! I am proud to be a news reader.

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