daddy, which end of the ocean is the deep end? unlocking the gifts has three key elements…...
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Daddy, Which end of the ocean is the deep end?
Unlocking the Gifts has three key elements…
Understand
Discover
Deploy
The Gauge
The Plan
The Impact
the gauge
A Warehouse Generation
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)
the gauge
“God has a place for you and it is a good place.”
Rev. Dale Evrist(The Mighty Hand of God)
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)
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)
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)
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)
the plan
The Assignment
The Blessing
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
the plan
Designed
Empowered
Equipped
the plan
Designed With Purpose
Empowered For Mission
Equipped For Service
the plan
Designed With Purpose
Romans 12:4-8
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
the plan
Empowered for Mission
I Corinthians 12:7-10
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
the plan
Equipped for Service
Ephesians 4:11,12
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
the planEach 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.
the plan
The Body…
DiversityUnity
Humility
the plan
Diversity is not a problem, it is God’s strategy!
the plan
Unity is the result of humble acceptance of ones own gifting and a welcome embrace of the diversity of other gifts.
the plan
Humility comes when we understand that we are called to descend to
greatness.
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.
the plan
He EMPOWERED us with revelation.
He EMPOWERED us with authority.
He EMPOWERED us with inspiration.
the plan
He EQUIPPED the church with Messengers.
He EQUIPPED the church with Protectors.
He EQUIPPED the church with Trainers.
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?
The foundation for Unlocking the Gifts is to UNDERSTAND.