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Word & Deed: We are Gifted: How do you know you have a gift?
with Travis Aicklen
This sermon focuses on identifying and embracing spiritual gifts as part of understanding God's unique call on our lives. It emphasizes that spiritual gifts are one element among many, including passions, natural abilities, personality, and experiences, that shape our individual purpose.
The sermon addresses the question of how to recognize spiritual gifts, offering several key indicators:
- Recurring Events: Pay attention to patterns and frequent occurrences in your life. These may reveal underlying spiritual gifts.
- Frustrations: Identify what upsets you or bothers you in the church. These frustrations can point to areas where you are gifted to bring change.
- Power and Grace: Recognize when you are operating in a supernatural power source that goes beyond natural abilities.
- Joy: Discern whether serving in a particular area feels like a "have to" or a "get to." True joy often accompanies the exercise of spiritual gifts.
- Opposition: Acknowledge areas where you experience significant spiritual attack or opposition. These may indicate areas of gifting that the enemy seeks to hinder.
The sermon also explores the "dark side" of each gift, highlighting potential pitfalls and challenges associated with each one. It emphasizes the importance of love as the guiding principle for using spiritual gifts effectively, as described in 1 Corinthians 13.
The sermon concludes with a call to receive prayer and the laying on of hands to activate and empower spiritual gifts, drawing on biblical examples from 1 Timothy 4:14, 2 Timothy 1:6, and Acts 8:14-17.
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