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How To Use Your Gifts Every Day | Guided Prayers · Central Christian Church

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  SPEAKER_00: Today, as we pause our schedules and our lives, our job is to listen to our Heavenly Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's each find a quiet spot to get away with the one who loves us.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 4 is a passage written to a church community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter's instruction in verse 10 says, use whatever gift you have received to serve others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every gift, talent, and personality God has given you can become a way of caring for someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's listening, serving, encouraging, or helping behind the scenes, your gifts matter in God's kingdom, and we carry God's kingdom wherever we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: We each have so many areas we need to grow, change, and mature in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But would you thank your creator for how he created you and glorify him in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: A humble perspective of ourselves is not just thinking less of ourselves, but rather having right, accurate perspective of who we are in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: This might feel odd at first, but would you take 20 seconds and thank God for the unique ways he has created you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask God to show you where your gifts can meet someone else's needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Invite Him to replace hesitation with willingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pray that your life would become a channel of His love to your family, your neighbors, to your church community, to those in your world you may have never considered or taken note of.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes while we are right in the middle of serving others, we have to get a lot of people.