2. Daddy, Which end of the ocean is the deep end?

3. Unlocking the Gifts has three key elements… Understand Discover Deploy

4. The Gauge The Plan The Impact

5. the gauge A Warehouse Generation

6. the gauge “Driven people are confident as they forge ahead. But, often at the moment when it is least expected, hostile events conspire, and there is a collapse. Called people have strength from within, perseverance and power that are impervious to the blows from without!” Gordan McDonald ( Ordering Your Private World)

7. the gauge “God has a place for you and it is a good place.” Rev. Dale Evrist (The Mighty Hand of God)

8. the gauge “God doesn’t call you to a task for which he hasn’t endowed you with the corresponding gifts.” Christian Schwarz (The Three Colors of Ministry)

9. the gauge “Our giftedness was not an afterthought. It was a part of God’s plan to shape us for our role in building His Kingdom.” Katie Fortune (Discovering Your God-Given Gift)

10. the gauge “A natural outcome of knowing who you are, is to know what you are to do.” Dr. Rick Walston (Unraveling the Mystery of the Motivational Gifts)

11. the gauge “Meaning and significance will never be found by vainly attempting to conserve our life, but by purposefully thinking how to expend it.” Dr. Daniel Brown (The Journey of Faith)

12. the plan  The Assignment  The Blessing

13. the plan “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the (earth).” Genesis 1:26 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion…’” Genesis 1:28

14. the plan  Designed  Empowered  Equipped

15. the plan  Designed With Purpose  Empowered For Mission  Equipped For Service

16. the plan Designed With Purpose Romans 12:4-8

17. the plan “Having gifts (faculties, talents, qualities) that differ according to the grace given us, let us use them: [He whose gift is] prophecy, [let him prophesy] according to the proportion of his faith; [He whose gift is’ practical service, let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, to his teaching; (He who exhorts, encourages), to his exhortation; he who contributes, let him do it in simplicity and liberality; he who gives aid and superintends, with zeal and singleness of mind; he who does acts of mercy, with genuine cheerfulness and joyful eagerness.” Romans 12:4-8 TAB

18. the plan Empowered for Mission I Corinthians 12:7-10

19. the plan “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.” I Corinthians 12:7-10 NIV

20. the plan Equipped for Service Ephesians 4:11,12

21. the plan “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry (service), for the edifying of the body of Christ.” Ephesians 4:11,12 NKJ

22. the plan  Each individual is DESIGNED WITH PURPOSE and endowed with a personal gift which is to be exercised within the context of the Body.  The church is EMPOWERED FOR MISSION by the manifestation gifts of the Holy Spirit, offering supernatural intervention for the good of the body.  The church is EQUIPPED FOR SERVICE by gifted men and women.

23. the plan The Body…  Diversity  Unity  Humility

24. the plan Diversity is not a problem, it is God’s strategy!

25. the plan Unity is the result of humble acceptance of ones own gifting and a welcome embrace of the diversity of other gifts.

26. the plan Humility comes when we understand that we are called to descend to greatness.

27. the plan  He DESIGNED you for God success.  He DESIGNED you with perfection.  He DESIGNED you with a special gift.  He DESIGNED you with purpose.

28. the plan  He EMPOWERED us with revelation.  He EMPOWERED us with authority.  He EMPOWERED us with inspiration.

29. the plan  He EQUIPPED the church with Messengers.  He EQUIPPED the church with Protectors.  He EQUIPPED the church with Trainers.

30. the impact When Your Children Ask… What will you say? What will the church say? What will the lost say? What will the children say?

31. The foundation for Unlocking the Gifts is to UNDERSTAND.