{"id":2848,"date":"2024-02-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:57:19","slug":"god-given-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/god-given-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"God-Given Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=525%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=1024%2C475&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=768%2C356&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=1536%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?resize=1320%2C612&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Spiritual-Gifts-Maxwell.png?w=1688&amp;ssl=1 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">God-given gifts, do we understand the difference between Spiritual gifts and natural gifts? Do we think they are the same? An interesting discussion came up the other day, and it was a subject that seemed so intuitive that I\u2019d never brought it up. What is intuitive to me may not be to someone else\u2014an example. I saw an article in an outdoor magazine (ezine); it showed a tree with a yellow, blue, and red paint stripe. The headline said (paraphrase), \u201cKnowing what this means can save your life.\u201d My initial thought was, if you don\u2019t know what that means, what are you doing in the woods? Then, I recalled that I was not born with that knowledge; someone else gave it to me at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>1 Corinthians 2:12, \u201cNow we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.\u201d<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:15px\">\n<p>God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with a clear purpose. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/17730-J_Oswald_Sanders\">J. Oswald Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natural Gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I spend many waking hours thinking about and talking to others about living within God\u2019s purpose for our lives. It is the most critical aspect of finding happiness, purpose, and meaning. When I think about the elements of my design and the story God has written about my life, I think of talent, passion, resources, opportunities, and experiences. God provides these building blocks as mileposts on our journey, our God-given natural gifts. But we have a choice on how to use them. We can use them to help others and glorify Christ, or we can use them for worldly success and fame. Only one of those will bring happiness, purpose, and meaning; the other leads to hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>1 Corinthians 2:14, \u201cBut a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.\u201d<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I\u2019ve mentioned before that the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert has a saying: There are two hungers: the little hunger for food and the great hunger for meaning. We spend most of our lives feeding the little hunger while the great hunger starve. In many cases, we use our God-given natural gifts to chase self-interest to satisfy the great hunger. When we do not achieve a sense of meaning, we try harder. We lead a life of quiet desperation, sometimes cloaked in worldly success. Eventually, the great hunger dies of neglect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spiritual Gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit. <a href=\"https:\/\/rickwarren.org\/\">&#8211; Rick Warren<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The magic sauce is Spiritual Gifts. Spiritual gifts&nbsp;are divine enablements for ministry given by the Holy Spirit.&nbsp;It is what God brings to you once you come to know Him. The God-given spirit inside you comes alive. It guides you to another level of awareness. You become less self-focused and more other-focused. But what is different about Spiritual gifts than natural gifts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>1 Corinthians 12:7, \u201cBut to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.\u201d<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Spiritual gifts are the God-given gifts that the Spirit bestows on us so that we can expand God\u2019s Kingdom. In 1 Corinthians, it mentions apostles, second prophets, third teachers, miracles, gifts of healing, helping, guidance, and different kinds of tongues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>1 Corinthians 12:28, \u201cAnd God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.\u201d<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I think of it this way: more conventionally. Some of us are very good at memorizing and recalling Bible verses; some are very good at heart-to-heart conversations; maybe storytelling is your thing; others are good public speakers or teachers. We should use these gifts to expand the Kingdom within our natural gifts. If your vocation and talent is teaching in a school system, do you use it to teach at church? Is public speaking an aspect of your job? Do you also use it to spread the Gospel on mission trips, locally or internationally? If you are a project manager at work, do you use it to help plan Christian outreach?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another source of information on Spiritual Gifts is Tim Keller&#8217;s explanation, <a href=\"http:\/\/c3440e2971dd36ce9f6b-b07dafdd99304a29ef42e3724b84c1c3.r59.cf2.rackcdn.com\/uploaded\/d\/0e1508579_discerning-and-exercising-spiritual-gifts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Decerning and Exercising Spiritual Gifts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Blessing and the Curse<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I was given my first management position at 14, detasselling corn. You must have lived on a large midwestern United States farm to know what that is, but it\u2019s irrelevant to the story. It seemed that I eventually managed people in almost every job I have had. Sometimes, I thought it was my curse; I liked being a worker bee. When I left work, I wanted to be given a job and left alone to do it. But that wasn\u2019t God\u2019s plan for me. Once I accepted that it was one of my natural and spiritual gifts, I started seeking to be good at it, which made me like it. It didn\u2019t take long before I led a mission trip and helped to organize volunteers. My natural gift was also one of my Spiritual gifts when I applied it to expanding the Kingdom. We can have more than one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Romans 12:6, \u201cSince we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly.\u201d<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">I know some teachers want to get away from teaching outside of school; I get that. But if your spiritual gift is teaching, teach others about Christ, find a way. If you are a nurse, a very demanding job, looking after people when not working may not be in your wheelhouse. If compassion is your Spiritual gift, find a way to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Your natural and spiritual gifts do not have to be used similarly. Doing something repetitively will make you proficient but may not indicate your actual natural gift. The desire to make more money can lead us to proficiencies in ungifted areas. I know a lot of managers or \u201cleaders\u201d who are not gifted; they have just done the job long enough to get promoted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all have God-given attributes bestowed on us at our creation that we can use as we wish. A great secular songwriter is a great songwriter because of God\u2019s natural gift. We must overlay our natural gifts with our Spiritual gifts to glorify God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Start where you are, do anything you can do, and do everything you can until you find something you must do! 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