Living a Life that Really Matters

Your unique Gifting to Engage your family, church, and world

4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. - 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 (NIV)

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. - 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - Psalm 139:13-16 (NIV)

You Were Shaped by God to Have a Significant Life! Spiritual gifts Heart Abilities Personality Experiences

I Am a Gifted Person! 1. God gives me the gift of being right with God And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. - Romans 5:16 (NLT)

I Am a Gifted Person! 2. God gives me the gift of eternal life For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:23 (NIV)

I Am a Gifted Person! 3. God gives me the gift of His Spirit Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. - Acts 2:38 (NIV)

I Am a Gifted Person! 4. God gives me a spiritual gift ... Each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. - 1 Corinthians 7:7b (NIV)   A spiritual gift is a special ability given by God for use within the context of a church family.

God Decides My Area of Giftedness It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. - 1 Corinthians 12:11 (NLT)

My Gifts Show How God Wants Me to Serve Him 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. - 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 (NIV)

My Gifts Show How God Wants Me to Serve Him There is a Difference Between the Gifts of the Spirit and the Fruit of the Spirit 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV) There is a Difference Between Spiritual Roles and Spiritual Gifts

My Gifts Show How I Can Find Fulfillment in Life 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples... 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. - John 15:8, 11 (NIV)

My Gifts Show How I Can Find Fulfillment in Life How to Discover your Spiritual Gift: 1. Explore the possibilities 2. Experiment with as many as you can 3. Examine your feelings 4. Evaluate your effectiveness 5. Expect confirmation from others

God Wants Me to Stop Making Excuses and Use My Spiritual Gift/s Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you. - 1 Timothy 4:14 (NLT)

God Wants Me to Stop Making Excuses and Use My Spiritual Gift/s This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. - 2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)

God Wants Me to Stop Making Excuses and Use My Spiritual Gift/s Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. - 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

God Wants Me to Stop Making Excuses and Use My Spiritual Gift/s 6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly. - Romans 12:6-8 (NLT)

Living a Life that Really Matters