The Whole Package!

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• The Whole Package!
• S Spiritual Gifts
• H Heart
• A Abilities
• P Personality
• E Experiences

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Your SHAPE

• You are Unique!
• God Made You This Way for the Benefit of His
  Kingdom.
• Understanding Your SHAPE Helps You Minister From
  It.
• Allow the Give and Take Make the Choice To Plug
  In!

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• What is a Spiritual Gift?
• An ability, or abilities, given by the Holy
  Spirit to every believer, to be used to minister
  to others and therefore build up the Body of
  Christ.

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Communicate Gods Word.
• Preaching 2 Timothy 22
• Evangelism 1 Peter 411
• Missions Matthew 935-38
• (Evangelism)

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Educate Gods People.
  (Discipleship)
• Teaching Ephesians 411-13
• Encouragement Acts 1421-22
• Wisdom 1 Thessalonians 41

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Educate Gods People.
• Discernment Philippians 19-10
• Knowledge Proverbs 17
• The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
  knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and
  discipline.

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Demonstrate Gods Love
  Through Ministry.
• Service Acts 61-7
• Mercy Luke 1030-37
• Hospitality 1 Peter 49-10
• (Fellowship)
• Giving 2 Corinthians 81-7

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Celebrate Gods Presence.
  (Worship)
• Music Ephesians 519-20
• Arts and Crafts Exodus 312-11

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What Could My Gifts Look Like?

• There are gifts that Celebrate Gods Presence
  Through Prayer.
• Intercession Colossians 19-14
• Healing James 514-16

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Whatever gifts I have I need to remember

• These are gifts given by the Holy Spirit.
• They are for the benefit of others.
• They are meant to bring God glory.
• Gods purpose for your life is for you to use
  your gifts
• Gifts are useless unopened.

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WHAT SHAPE IS YOUR HEART?
Using your Passion
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What does the Bible say?

• The Bible uses the term "heart" to represent the
  center of your motivation, desires, and
  inclinations.

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What does the Bible say?

• Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you
  the desires of your heart. Psalm 374.

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Your unique heartbeat.

• Each person has a slightly different pattern.
  Likewise, God has given each of us a unique
  emotional "heartbeat" that races when we
  encounter activities, subjects, or circumstances
  that interest us.

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Your unique heartbeat.

• We instinctively feel deeply about some things
  and not about others.
• This God-given motivation serves as an internal
  guidance system for our lives. It determines
  what your interests are, and what will bring you
  the most satisfaction and fulfillment.

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How can I know my heartbeat?

• Think through your life.
• What passions, interests, and hobbies have you
  had?
• If you could do anything what would you do?

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What Do You Love To Do?

• DESIGN AND DEVELOP
• PIONEER
• ORGANIZE
• OPERATE/MAINTAIN
• SERVE OR HELP
• ACQUIRE AND POSSESS
• EXCEL
• INFLUENCE

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What Do You Love To Do?

• PERFORM
• IMPROVE
• REPAIR
• LEAD AND BE IN CHARGE
• PERSEVERE
• FOLLOW THE RULES
• PREVAIL

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Putting It Into Practice

• When you see the things that God has placed in
  your heart we should ask How am I using this for
  Gods glory and the health of His body?

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WHAT ARE YOUR ABILITIES?
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• About Abilities
• Abilities are related to heart but they are not
  the same.
• Passion does not give ability without work.
• The heart can provide the motivation but an
  ability is the rubber meets the road aspect of
  can you do this?

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Abilities Change Over Time

• There are times in life that we are limited by
  health, previous commitments, the needs of
  others, or finances and we may become unable to
  do what we have a passion for.
• We need to ask Who is able to as a part of our
  planning.

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Our Abilities or Trusting that God Is Willing and
Able?

• As Christians our lives are different because we
  do not have to focus on what we are able to do.
• God gives us our abilities!

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Either Way!

• Sometimes He shows us how we are able and
  sometimes He shows us our inability.

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SHAPE Personality

• God has given you your gifts, your heart, your
  abilities, and your personality and he has a plan
  in how they are to be used for the benefit of
  others and the strengthening of the church.

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1 Peter 334 (Page 1889)

• Your beauty should not come from outward
  adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing
  of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4 Instead, it
  should be that of your inner self, the unfading
  beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of
  great worth in Gods sight.

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What does God want from your personality?

• Has he made you an extrovert or an introvert?
• Are your batteries charged or drained by being
  around people?

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What does God want from your personality?

• Would you say that you are directed more by your
  thoughts or your feelings?

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What does God want from your personality?

• Are you more drawn to routine or variety?

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Your Personality?

• Do you tend to share your thoughts or keep them
  to yourself?

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Your Personality?

• Do you tend to work towards cooperation or seek
  to be competitive?

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• Your personality is neutral and it can be used
  for good or turned toward sin. Satan is active
  as well!

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Experiences

• God has given you your gifts, your heart, your
  abilities, and your personality. He has also
  been with you through your experiences and he has
  a way that all of these can be used for the
  benefit of others and the strengthening of the
  church.

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Pauls Spiritual Experiences

• Watching Stephen be killed.
• (Acts 81 Page 1704)
• Conversion on the Damascus Road. (Acts 91-20
  Page 1706)
• 3 years maturing after his conversion.
  (Galatians 115-18 Page 1810)
• Special vision from God.
• (Acts 169-10 Page 1721)

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Pauls Painful Experiences

• "To keep me from becoming conceited because of
  these great revelations, I was given a thorn in
  my flesh, a messenger from Satan, to torment me.
  2 Corinthians 127
• Verses9-10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord
  to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My
  grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
  perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all
  the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that
  Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why,
  for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in
  insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
  difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am
  strong.

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Pauls Educational Experiences

• Acts 182-4 Page 1724
• There (in Corinth) he met a Jew named Aquila, a
  native of Pontus, who had recently come from
  Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius
  had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went
  to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as
  they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4
  Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue,
  trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

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Pauls Ministry Experiences

• In order to see the variety and scope of these
  experiences you will need to read the Book of
  Acts, and then two thirds of the New Testament!

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What About You?

• How do your Spiritual, Painful, Educational, and
  Ministry Experiences benefit the work of the
  Kingdom and this congregation currently?

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Your SHAPE

• You are Unique!
• God Made You This Way for the Benefit of His
  Kingdom.
• Understanding Your SHAPE Helps You Minister From
  It.
• Allow the Give and Take Make the Choice To Plug
  In!