Teach Us to Number Our Days Spiritual Gift Inventory

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Spiritual Gift Inventory

Don’t be a couch potato.

Your personal style tells you “How.”

Your passion tells you “Where.”

Now use your Spiritual Gifts

They are the “What” -

The tools to work for God.

Understanding your personality

will tell you “How” you will relate

to the environment around you.

Your passion will reveal “Where”

 you are best suited

to accomplish God’s will.

Now we will look at the “What”

Serving God in a meaningful

 place of service comes from

our Spiritual gifts and talents.

These are the tools we work with.

Spiritual Gifts answer the “What” Question.

What we have to make a meaningful difference.

If you study Spiritual Gifts, you will find that

 most come up with a list of around 23 gifts.

There are gift assessments for Catholics,

Fundamentalist, Evangelicals, and Charismatic.

The definitions of the Spiritual Gifts,

and what is considered as a gift,

will vary in these places.

No matter how you view Spiritual Gifts

you will find them mentioned in the Bible

and see them in the lives of Bible characters.

1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12

are key chapters on Spirituals Gifts.

In Romans 12, the lead into Spiritual Gifts

gives us some good advice,

if we are going to see the Gifts

working the way God intended.

 

It is very interesting that the first thing focused on

when it comes to Spiritual Gifts is our “bodies.”

For the Gifts to operate the way God intended,

we must be willing to put our bodies on the altar.

Our bodies will need to sacrifice

their natural desire for the Spiritual desire.

When we use our bodies to accomplish God’s will,

God calls that spiritual worship.

As we take inventory of our days, what Spiritual

 Gifts can you identify God has given you? 

Remember God considers

the use of your Spiritual Gifts,

acts of worship.

This is where worship becomes more than a song.

A free Spiritual Gifts assessment can be found on the following web site

http://www.churchgrowth.org/analysis/intro.php

Scripture Reading

Romans 12:1-8 NIV

12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers,

in view of God's mercy,

to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,

holy and pleasing to God

— this is your spiritual act of worship.

2 Do not conform any longer 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.

3 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 measure of faith God has given you.

4 Just as each of us has one body with many members,

and these members do not all have the same function,

5 so in Christ we who are many form one body,

and each member belongs to all the others.

6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.

If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.

7 If it is serving, let him serve;

if it is teaching, let him teach;

8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage;

if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously;

if it is leadership, let him govern diligently;

if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.