Saturday Sermon 11 July 2009

We are all gifted and called to be a minster for God.

God give us gifts to minster effectively for Him not us, thus we should not use the gifts for our own glory

All gifts that God created for you are important to the church community

1 Cor 12:1 –

Spiritual Gifts

 ¹Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant

The word "ignorant" means – "uninformed". God in heaven want you to know your gifts and maximising it in to the fullest in serving Him

Psalm 33:13-33 (New International Version)

 ¹³ From heaven the LORD looks down
       and sees all mankind;

 ¹⁴ from his dwelling place he watches
       all who live on earth-

 ¹⁵ he who forms the hearts of all,
       who considers everything they do.

 ¹⁶ No king is saved by the size of his army;
       no warrior escapes by his great strength.

 ¹⁷ A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
       despite all its great strength it cannot save.

 ¹⁸ But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him,
       on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

 ¹⁹ to deliver them from death
       and keep them alive in famine.

 ²⁰ We wait in hope for the LORD;
       he is our help and our shield.

 ²¹ In him our hearts rejoice,
       for we trust in his holy name.

 ²² May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD,
       even as we put our hope in you.

Everybody is a brand new idea from God- in another words we are created to be unique

If you choose not to be who God had created you to be, the church and His people will lose out.

If you don't choose to be who God had created you to be, god will choose others to be take over your destined position.

To gave the best worship to God, we need to be who God had created us to be

The main purpose of knowing your gifts is to fulfil your destiny

Three things that spiritual gifts are not:

1. Spiritual gifts are not the same as your personal trait
   
2. Spiritual gifts are not the same a natural talents
   

• Talents have to do with techniques and methods but spiritual gifts have to do with spiritual endowment
  
• We have to develop our spiritual gifts- we got to fan our spiritual gifts in to flame
  

1. Spiritual gifts is not the same as fruit of the spirit
   

• The fruit of the spirit reveals Christ's contribution to our character, while our spiritual gifts reveal Christ's contribution we make to God's kingdom
  

What are spiritual gifts?

• It is defined as a God given special ability given to every believers at conversion by the Holy Spirit to share to His love and strength the body of Christ
  

1 Peter 4:10 (New International Version)

¹⁰Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.

• People can't see God but people can see God's hands and feet through us
  

Faith is ewhat you need to develop and find that spiritual gifts

Unwrapping Spiritual Gifts

1. Examining what gifts you think you may have
   

• We try out to test and approve which spiritual gift you have
  

1. Serving in various roles to see which ones bring the great fulfilment for you and the greatest result for God