What Did You Get?

[Alabaster]

1 Corinthians 1:4-5 NLT

I always thank my God for you and for the gracious gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus. Through him, God has enriched your church in every way—with all of your eloquent words and all of your knowledge.

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It is incredible how God blesses us with people who know Him! That is an amazing thing He does for His children! He makes sure that they have like-minded brethren there for us to help us grow up in Him. Along with that, God graciously furnishes us with excellent gifts---tools of the Spirit that enable us to live with power!

Pooled together, our totality of gifts in one church equals one entire Body of Christ! Imagine that! Each Spirit-filled and obedient church in the world today is the likeness of Jesus Christ to its community! A beacon, a lighthouse of love and hope to a dying, mourning, desperately seeking world.

Let us make deliberate moves to discover our own gifts that God has endowed us with and set our hearts and minds to be obedient with them, offering them up for His use to bring lost people to Himself and to bring healing and enabling to the ailing, even within the Family of God. Let us seek to be able to speak eloquently and powerfully of the love of Jesus and also take steps to educate ourselves in the knowledge of God, through His Word daily and by submitting to excellent, God-placed leaders.

What’s your gift? What did Father give you?



NEW
11/21/07

 

[Mike]

he he he

This was probably intended to throw us as it did me, but I thought you were asking what we got for Christmas. I was thinking, "Why is my friend asking this?"

Aha! :yes (You might want to re-title your thread to prompt more members to click on it, cause I passed it by a few times.)

I prove every day on these boards, I'm a very simple person and rely on my brothers and sisters to lend their gifts of such things as Knowledge & Wisdom. I believe God Gifted me with the Gifts of Understanding, Counsel and Fear of the Lord. I definitely am immersed in the fear of the Lord as I live every day of my life in amazement of who He is and what He's done for His beloved. I believe I'm at my best when being utilized to talk & pray one-on-one with my fellow Christians. If they need to person to just listen to them or they seek someone to help them work out an issue, I believe I have been given the heart to be used. If an agnostic is seeking the Truth with an open heart, these are wonderful opportunities I welcome.

 

[Alabaster]

How wonderful, Mike. Each one of us has at least one, if not several gifts from God that we need to obediently use to help Him further the Kingdom...and to just kove on others the way He does!

btw, I wrote that a long time ago, but thought I'd post it here right at Christmastime, not as a trick, but to show that we believers are all gifted by God. No one is missed, and all gifts are specially tailored to the individual. Cool!