Embracing Your Unique Gifts for God's Purpose

"So today we're going to go with the first one in the scripture that talks about, we're going to talk about the motivational gift of prophecy, and in the book I put perceiving, and the book I kind of, I kind of wrote it a little more towards the corporate world or for outside the church so that it would be a little broader for people to understand that, I've had people say it's still too churchy, but I can't help it, that's who I am, I'm a churchy person." [00:06:32] (26 seconds)


"Perceptive people are insightful, intelligent, and able to see what others cannot. Perceive means to see, to see with your eyes. So perceptive is a word to describe someone who is good at seeing, not just, you know, I don't have good vision, but actually can see things beyond what other people see. Now, this vocabulary .com said they were intelligent. I didn't say I was intelligent. I think I am, but I'm just not, I didn't include that to say, hey, I'm intelligent. But I'm very resourceful." [00:09:14] (35 seconds)


"Now, it's because of this, and then the right and wrong thing. Okay, the right and wrong is something I've had to work on. I've had to work on it. I've had to work on it. Everything was black and white. I've learned about gray. Okay, I've learned there is a gray, but it's because of this sense of right and wrong that perceivers hold very high standards, and I have, you guys are so blessed, because I'm older now, because first, when I first got in the ministry, I tried to straighten everybody out." [00:14:41] (31 seconds)


"Make no mistake about it. This information is purposefully shown to the perceiver for a reason. So the perceiver, the one with the gift of prophecy, you see these things for a reason. Not to frustrate you, which I thought I would get upset at God because you show me these things and I can't do anything about it. But what he was doing is I want you to pray about it. Pray about it. And I've had to learn to do that. That's not my, because I'm not a, this is a bad thing to say about a pastor, okay? But I'm not a prayer, prayer that much. My first inclination is to fix it, to do something." [00:22:10] (39 seconds)


"To say what they think, to declare the truth, right or wrong, black or white, and they are a quality control person. They're really, they look for quality, but they want these kind of things. So that's the pro of this. So I'll have pros and cons for each one. So I'm going to tell you about the bad parts of me. I like to tell you about the good parts while I tell you all this stuff." [00:29:28] (25 seconds)


"They need to learn to speak the truth in love. Okay? It's not grit your teeth. I'm telling you this because I love you. No, it's true love. You got to understand. Now, I will say this. God has, and you can ask Sharon about this. God has really changed my heart in that I really look for the good in people. Because I operate in the motivational gift, I mean, in the manifestational gift of prophecy, that, that gifting, you, you search out the gold in people. God shows you the gold in people. I can, I can, I have prophesied to people and I have given them the heart of God, given them a word of knowledge and stuff. And later the, the pastor of the church would say, you got that wrong because they are this way. And I said, no, no, no." [00:29:45] (47 seconds)


"Because God placed gold in everybody. God placed good in everybody. And there's always good, in somebody. There are, there are no such thing as bad people. There's bad situations, bad teaching, bad culture, things that they, bad company corrupts, corrupts good morals. It's your influences and those kinds of things that can corrupt you. The enemy wants to corrupt you. So you can be corrupted, but down deep, God created, you are an image bearer of God." [00:30:45] (39 seconds)


"So what we have to do is we have to look for that in people. Do they have to suffer consequences of bad choices? Yes. Do they have to suffer consequences to do they have to deal with things that they do yes yes we we do need to have laws we do need to and things but the thing is is god god will correct in a way so he can restore everything god does for us is to restore us god never wants to to do anything to us or correct us or anything to harm us he wants us to be restored and so this is how that we need to look at things is okay they there is something inside of them that that god wants to bring out we have just got to look down at the root of it it's like i said when i when people say why don't you preach preach on sin i said it's useless to preach on sin because that's not the issue that's that's the surface okay that's the symptoms what the core issue is the heart it's the heart now am i against abortion yes i'm against abortion but i'm not against abortion because bad people i'm against it because there is something in the heart of people that want to that" [00:31:24] (78 seconds)


"Jesus never carried a picket sign. Jesus never told anybody except the religious people that they were bad. Now, religious people, because they were supposed to know better. They were supposed to be representing God, and they were misrepresenting God, and he said, you are a whitewashed tomb full of dead men's bones, but he never told somebody that was making a mistake that they're useless." [00:33:36] (24 seconds)


"This is our responsibility still to this day. We are to speak into situations. We are to speak God's thoughts into situations. We are to speak God's purpose into situations. And if you don't have any perception, you cannot perceive what the Holy Spirit. And we can all perceive because we have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. Can guide us. You may not have the motivational gift of prophets, but you can see into things with the Holy Spirit, but you need to speak into things. So, when people say, why is it, why would, is He, if He's a good God, why is so much bad?" [00:47:48] (36 seconds)