God Wants to Use You to Make an Incredible Difference in this Life and He Gifts You and Equips You to Do It! 1 Peter 4:7-10
Every person ever used by God was Gifted by God and Equipped to do it!
2 Peter 1:1-4 When God Calls You to It, He Equips You For It!
• Three Things: One, You Have the Same Faith as the Apostles:
• Two: You Have the Same Power Giving You Everything you need that pertains to life and Godliness!
• Three: You Have the Same Promises:
1 Peter 4:7 – Everything You Need, to Do Whatever He Asks You to Do!
• To Pray! 7
• To Love! 8
• To Show Hospitality! 9
• To Use the Gifts God Has Given You!
1. Notice Who You Are: Stewards of the Manifold Grace of God
May Facets of God’s Grace: Titus 2:11-
• Saving Grace: “Bringing Salvation to all Men!” Philippians 2:1-10
• Sanctifying grace: Instructing Us How To Live!
• Redeeming Grace: From Every Lawless Deed!
• Purifying Grace: Purify for Himself a people, zealous for good deeds! 1 John 3:1-3
2. Notice What You Have: Gifts From God to Employ, To Use!
Gifts: Charisma: A Favor You Receive From God Without any merit of Your Own: Like the Grace we just spoke of:
• The Gift of Salvation and Eternal Life
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal Life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.
• The Gift of the Holy Spirit!
Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit!
How Do You Employ the Holy Spirit? Galatians 5:16-23
Galatians 5:16 Walk By the Spirit and you will never, ever fulfill the deeds of the flesh!
You will be God Directed or Self Directed:
• The Gifts of Service: Romans 12:1-
Prophecy: Applying the Word of God to a situation so that sin is exposed and relationships are Restored:
Serving: This Person demonstrates love by meeting practical needs and does it in extraordinary ways and special touches.
Teaching: This Gift motivates the person to discover and explain truth of God’s word. The Person with this gift loves studying as much as teaching.
Exhortation: This Person has a gift of helping the people grow to new levels of spiritual maturity. She is a Natural encourager and is usually great at counseling, teaching and discipleship.
Giving: A Person with this gift uses her financial resources in a smart way in order to give to meet the needs of people and organizations.
Leading: The person with this gift is motivated by seeing a need and taking the initiative to involve others with various gifts to the need.
Mercy: This Gift motivates you to be sensitive to the emotional needs of others. They see people in need and responds in compassion, understanding and love.
• The Gifts of God’s Manifestations:
1 Corinthians 12:7 Word of Wisdom – word of Knowledge – Faith – Gifts of healing – Affecting of Miracles – Prophesy – Distinguishing of Spirits – tongues – Interpretation of Tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:27 – Apostles – Prophets – Teachers – Miracles – Healings – Helps –Administrations – various kinds of tongues.
So, Use Your Gifts! Employ Them:
Humble – Available – Obedient!
• To Speak as One who speaks the utterance of God!
• To Serve by the strength which God Supplies!
3. All This: That God May Be Glorified!
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