Use Your Spiritual Gifts (Rev. David Kwamkur) 14-09-2014

MY SERMON NOTES

@ Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN)

Holy Communion Service

14th September, 2014

* Speaker: Rev. David Kwamkur

* Topic: Use Your Spiritual Gifts

* Text: Romans 12:4-8

* Note: One person is not a 'Church'

* The Church is a corporate entity made up of Separate individuals

* Everybody is expected to utilize his/her gifts in order to edify the body

* There is no single believer without a spiritual gift...

* As a believer, you don't have to ask for spiritual gifts . . . They are freely invested in you by the Holy Spirit

* Your responsibility is to discover and utilize Your gifts

* Opportunities to serve the Church are good avenues to discover your spiritual gifts

 * It is not a Crime not to have the type of gift that someone else possesses

* Your spiritual gift is given to you based on what God has purposed you to do

* If you do not use your gift, the Church will suffer and God Will hold you responsible for that lapse

★ My Additional Thoughts:

→ When you refuse to utilize your God-given gifts and talents, God will one day hold you accountable

→ God will always raise other people to fill up the vaccum you created by failing to use your spiritual gifts for the advancement of God's kingdom on earth, the benefit of other believers, and the edification of the Church

* NOTE: You are important to God, but you are not indispensable

What is My Spiritual Gift? (Mr. Achimugu Jonathan) 01-06-1998

★ MY SERMON NOTES

@ Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA),

(now Evangelical Church Winning All)

Airport, Abuja - Nigeria

1st June, 1998

☆ BIBLE STUDIES

* Topic: What is My Spiritual Gift?

* Leader: Mr. Achimugu Jonathan

* Text: 1st Corinthians 12:4-11

* All the Spiritual gifts listed in the above passage are by the Holy Spirit

★ Ephesians 4:11-13

* Unless God gives you a gift, man cannot forge it out of his own strength - and once given, it must not be left to waste away. Use it profitably

* If one does not know his gift, he should pray and ask God that the Holy Spirit should show him and read the Scriptures

★ Romans 12:3-8

★ 1st Corinthians 12:1-11

* Gifts are given to all Christians so that they can help strengthen others in their faith

* How to discover your gifts

(a) Pray for the Holy Spirit's revelation

(b) Try helping others grow to love God

- teaching Sunday School

- leading Bible Studies

- helping those in need

(c) Ask other members of your Church what they think your Spiritual gift is - they should be able to tell you

 

* Once you have discovered your Spiritual gift, you must use it without wavering. If you do not use your gift, you are like the unfaithful servant who did not use the talent his master gave him

* Do not feel inferior because you do not have a particular gift

* If you use the gift God has given you, He will be pleased

* The spiritual gifts are equally given by the same Spirit to glorify God

* Do not feel superior because you have a gift that others do not have

* If you do not speak in tongues, do not doubt your salvation. Salvation is by faith and not works

☆ Memory Verse:

★ 1st Peter 4:10 →"As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."