Spiritual Gifts - What Now

Building our Spiritual Gifts

One thing we need to do as we continue to learn and grow our spiritual gifts to use them.

So to recap last week we talked about how the Holy Spirit gives you spiritual gifts and you need to ask to receive the Holy Spirit.

We want you as leaders to receive the Holy Spirit, as with Him there is a lot in life that is easier.

Now we have said how to receive the spiritual gifts, how to fiqure out yours and kinda what they are for but what now, what is the most pratical thing to do with your spiritual gifts? Well to that I wanna talk about Pauls spiritual gifts list in Romans 12, where he talks about how to use them:

Romans 12:3–8 NIV

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

So he is suggesting that if you have a gift you need to use it, because that is how we are to love each other like Paul says later. We are to love each other by using our gifts to help each other.

So what that looks like is:

if you gift is to prophesy then you are help give others visions or messages from God. What does that look like today? Prayer teams, that you could help bring clarity to peoples choices, that you individually would be praying for people or asking God for advice in other peoples lives. Even more is that you would help bring vision for the local church.

What would it look like in youth group is that you could prophesy about what youth would look like in the future, or what God would want us to do to contiune to reach teens in Vermilion.

How about encouragement, maybe you need to volunteer with those who are sad or down.

So lets talk about ministries that I think you should consider serving in and starting to use your gifts

Care Ministry

Evangelism

Faith

Giving

Healing

Helps

Hospitality

Mercy

Miracles

Shepherding

Service

Kids Ministry

Evangelism

Exhortation

Helps

Hospitality

Wod of Knowledge

Leadership

Sheperd

Service

Teaching

Word of Wisedom

Mission Team

Apostleship

Discernment

Evangelism

Faith

Giving

Intercession

Mercy

Miracles

Prophecy

Word of Wisdom

Worship Ministry

Administration

Apostle Ship

Evangelism

Exhortation

Helps

Word of Knowledge

Leadership

Service

Teaching

Youth Ministry

I will use you no matter what Gift you have

I have the gift of apostleship so I will fiqure out how to equip and empower you no matter where you feel your gifting is

Camp Ministry

Craftsmanship

Evangelism

Faith

Helps

Hospitality

Word of Knowledge

Leadership

Mercy

Shepherd

Service

Teaching

Words of Wisdom

The real question for you is are you ready to use your gifts to serve the Church. We are not called to be people who consume what the church gives, like a service that is only there to give for us but we are supposed to help and support each other and reach out to new people and that is what the spiritual gifts are all about.

So if you heard this message all month and you still don’t know what your spiritual gift is, I want to encourage you to meet with a ministry leader and talk about how you can help with their minsitry, and do it beause you want to learn more about yourself while helping others.

Let me tell you why I became a pastor:

The number one reason I became a pastor is because I wanted to learn and grow myself, then to help others.