1. Title Slide

2. Make-up – your personality Experiences – Good and bad
Fire or passion
Recognizing your
spiritual gifts
Abilities or talents
Make-up – your personality
Experiences – Good and bad

3. God’s plan for my life:
Experience
God’s mercy.
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy…” Romans 12:1a

4. Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23

5. 2) Give myself to God and keep growing
2) Give myself to God and keep growing “…to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship.

6. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing, and perfect will.” Romans 12:1b-2

7. “Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.” Romans 6:13

8. “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.” Hebrews 13:15

9. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29

10. 3) Choose humility. “For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,

11. but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.” Romans 12:3

12. Pride in Romans 11:
“Do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches.” Romans 11:18 “Do not be arrogant, but tremble.” Romans 11:20b

13. “I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited.” Romans 11:25a

14. 4) Celebrate serving variety.
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function.” Romans 12:4

15. Spritual Gifts Video

16. 5) Serve with unity.
“So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” Romans 12:5

18. Give your best! One day each of us will have a spiritual performance review.