Empowered: Discovering and Using Your Spiritual Gifts

If God gave you a hammer, there's a nail you need knocked down next month, next year. Do not do not do not discard your gift because God created you. God knows your future. He's prepared good works in advance for you to do. And the only reason that you're gonna be able to execute on those works is if you take the gifts God's given to you and put them to good use. Do not discard your gift. You're gonna need it. [00:19:29] (21 seconds)  #UseYourGift

So much of discovering your spiritual gifts is trial and error. Now in this class, it was almost all 20. So she here's what here's what they said. In your twenties is your yes decade. Just say yes to everything. In your thirties, you start to figure out what you're good at. In your forties, you say no to everything but what you're great at. Now some of you are starting in your fifties. No that. No big deal, but you'll have that many decades to wait. Okay? [00:29:08] (19 seconds)  #SayYesDecade

By the holy spirit, you have been given god sourced gifts to make a you slash y'all shaped difference in this world. That's that's what scripture teach. Let let's read this together. Shall we? By the holy spirit, you have been given God sourced gifts to make a u y'all shaped difference in this world. By you, mean, u shaped difference, meaning God has wired you up to solve certain problems in the world using the gifts God's given to you very uniquely. [00:04:24] (24 seconds)  #YouShapedCalling

God thinks you're special. You're not that special. Everyone's got gifts. Same Lord. Same spirit. And listen. Anytime you hear the voice of pride hijacking spiritual gift, like, the call is to repent, like, today. Like, if you know that pride is at work, all pride's gonna do is take the good gift God gave you and ruin it, and use it to ruin others' lives. This is exactly what's happened in Corinthians. They're all divided and fractious. Right? [00:16:24] (25 seconds)  #HumbleGifts

Do the work God laid out for you to do. Don't worry about what other people have or don't have. You do what god created you to do. Comparison is always a piece of joy. Right? So remember, hearse that. The third thing I want you to do is consider this. If the holy spirit gave you a gift, you're gonna need it or the church is gonna need it or someone's gonna need it. Listen. Listen. If you got the gift of rice a Roni, God's gonna need you to boil that bag of rice a Roni for someone next week. [00:19:05] (23 seconds)  #DoYourWork

That as a church, we wanna make an us shaped difference. A Chatham community church shaped difference in our community for such a time as this. And when you don't know what your gifts are, you don't know how to use your gifts, what happens is there's problems in the world that you are wired up to solve that don't get solved, or that partially get solved, or that God raises up other people to solve. And then when you don't know what your gifts are, we as a church, we all suffer. [00:05:04] (29 seconds)  #KnowYourGifts