Don’t ever forget to thank God for the great blessing of your hands.

Bad uses of hands in the Bible

• Mark 14:16; Matthew 26:67 – crucifying Jesus

• Acts 23:2; Luke 21:12 – persecution of Christians

• II Timothy 3:12; I Peter 4:16 – Christians will suffer persecution.

Good uses of hands

• James 4:8; Acts 15:9 – The only way to get clean hands is by faith.

• Galatians 5:6; I Corinthians 10:31

• I Timothy 2:8 – This is not talking about posture during prayer – it is talking about being pure before God.

• Acts 20:34

• Ephesians 4:28

• Leviticus 7:30

• Acts 8:18

• Mark 10:16 – Jesus blessed people with His hands. He gave us an example of how to use our hands – in service to God.

• Philippians 2:4-5 – We should use our hands to provide for the needs of others.

• I Corinthians 6:19-20

Romans 6:13; I Corinthians 10:31

Let us use our hands and whole body to serve God.