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Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 3:40:08 AM
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Little_1
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1 Corinthians 12-14
Romans 12
Ephesians 4
Each of the above passages speaks of spiritual gifts.
Every Christian has been given a spritual gift(s) to use in the edification and building up of the church. We are each responsible to use this gift wisely and to the best of our ability so that when Jesus comes back (or we are called home first) we will not be found to have been unfaithful and wicked servants. Matthew 25: 14-28
What is your gift and how is it being used to edify and build the church?
Here is a great link to discover the gifts: Spiritual gifts
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 5:38:36 AM
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Here is a link to a site which breaks down the gifts into specific types, i.e. Types of Gifts and Their Definition, e.g.
Support Gifts; Teaching Gifts; Leadership and Administrative Gifts; Outreach Gifts; and Sign or Power Gifts.
Gift categories
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 6:29:08 AM
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I suppose my gift is a sense of humour.
Not on your list I see.
So I'm either wasted as far as God is concerned or He's developed this sense of humour in me for a purpose. Perhaps I make Him laugh !!!
I use this "gift" to lighten up many a situation when it gets tense. Then we can move on to the serious bit. Even if someone else picks up the situation after I've lightened it.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 6:56:51 AM
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I would add to your list of gifts lists this one: 1 Peter 4.
1Pe 4:10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
1Pe 4:11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies--in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Short to be sure. Chuck Swindoll said the easy way to remember the references is 12, 12, 4, 4:
Romans 12
1 Corinthians 12
Ephesians 4
1 Peter 4
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 10:41:04 AM
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Thanx for the links.
That's good ... I agree with the three categories you mentioned. I am a bit like that - and I do like writing ... a lot.
God bless.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 7:26:21 PM
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Sigh . . . Little 1, have you been snooping into my emails again?? God's been getting on me to get back to writing. I was pretty surprised to see Writing on the gift list. So, ok, I'll get off the site and get back to writing. Geesh!! You and God, getting after me to use my gift. LOL!!!
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1 Corinthians 12-14
Romans 12
Ephesians 4
Each of the above passages speaks of spiritual gifts.
Every Christian has been given a spritual gift(s) to use in the edification and building up of the church. We are each responsible to use this gift wisely and to the best of our ability so that when Jesus comes back (or we are called home first) we will not be found to have been unfaithful and wicked servants. Matthew 25: 14-28
What is your gift and how is it being used to edify and build the church?
Here is a great link to discover the gifts: Spiritual gifts
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/7/2008 7:29:12 PM
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I have done this test in the past, and was surprised to find that my top spiritual gifts are directly related to what I do. How nice that they come so easily to me. Isn't God wonderful!!!
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/8/2008 3:45:08 AM
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I have done this test in the past, and was surprised to find that my top spiritual gifts are directly related to what I do.......
I did the test too and was suprised that it seemed pretty accurate.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/8/2008 8:06:15 PM
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Cool!! Well, that does it. I'm getting back to work. :) Congrats, RC!!! What's the name of your book?
Little, You'd be surprised how many pro writers are on this board. Jenny Smith is making her way up the writer's ladder with her books, I think she's sold her 4th now. She used to hang out here sometime ago. John Robinson is another one, so is Barb Huff. There have been several who pop in now and then and say hi. I guess I need to get back to work so I can be one of them, huh? :)
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Sigh . . . Little 1, have you been snooping into my emails again?? God's been getting on me to get back to writing. I was pretty surprised to see Writing on the gift list. So, ok, I'll get off the site and get back to writing. Geesh!! You and God, getting after me to use my gift. LOL!!!
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ORIGINAL: Little_1
1 Corinthians 12-14
Romans 12
Ephesians 4
Each of the above passages speaks of spiritual gifts.
Every Christian has been given a spritual gift(s) to use in the edification and building up of the church. We are each responsible to use this gift wisely and to the best of our ability so that when Jesus comes back (or we are called home first) we will not be found to have been unfaithful and wicked servants. Matthew 25: 14-28
What is your gift and how is it being used to edify and build the church?
Here is a great link to discover the gifts: Spiritual gifts
All the best with your writing. I was suprised to find that we have another writer on site also who has just released a book. rcjames is a very gifted writer (hope you don't mind me mentioning this rc?). 
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 4:50:51 AM
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Cool!! Well, that does it. I'm getting back to work. :) Congrats, RC!!! What's the name of your book?
Little, You'd be surprised how many pro writers are on this board. Jenny Smith is making her way up the writer's ladder with her books, I think she's sold her 4th now. She used to hang out here sometime ago. John Robinson is another one, so is Barb Huff. There have been several who pop in now and then and say hi. I guess I need to get back to work so I can be one of them, huh? :)
kim
Wow. That's encouraging for all you writers out there.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 5:07:55 AM
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I was watching 'In Touch' with Dr Charles Stanley this morning. I could not believe that he was speaking about this very subject of gifts and responsibilities and he even spoke about the faithful and wicked servants! I was surprised but not surprised if you know what I mean! God often confirms His Word to me (i.e. when He is challenging me about something) within days of laying something on my heart.
I think I need to sit up and listen too Dancre!
Something I didn't quite understand before is that God gives us all talents according to our ability. Someone who has 5 talents and someone who has 2 are no different as far as God's love goes. I used to think that God favoured one more than the other! (which I now see as incorrect thinking). However, thankfully, this is not so - God gives us only what He knows we can cope with and therefore have the ability to use well. So if the one with 2 talents uses his well and so does the one with the 5 talents, then they are equally faithful in God's sight.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 7:43:42 AM
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I believe that obediance is the greatest of all gifts, because and if you would allow me this picture.
If i were a baseball player and i always played second base and then one day the coach called me and told me that he needed me to play left field, i would do what was needed for the cause, what ever it was, i believe that obediance is the ability to show up and what ever the need was i would be able to give my all. The Lord will use all who are willing to be used, and will provide the grace that is needed to get the spirit across.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 9:27:23 AM
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I believe that obedience is the greatest of all gifts, because and if you would allow me this picture.
If i were a baseball player and i always played second base and then one day the coach called me and told me that he needed me to play left field, i would do what was needed for the cause, what ever it was, i believe that obedience is the ability to show up and what ever the need was i would be able to give my all. The Lord will use all who are willing to be used, and will provide the grace that is needed to get the spirit across.
Does obedience perhaps come into the category of 'faith'?
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 11:14:30 AM
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Obedience is the outward characteristics of that faith. We don't aquire faith of our own, but to be able to manifest it in our walk is something of a gift. Because apart from Jesus we can do nothing.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 11:18:35 AM
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Obedience is the outward characteristics of that faith. We don't aquire faith of our own, but to be able to manifest it in our walk is something of a gift. Because apart from Jesus we can do nothing.
Yes - I believe faith is a gift which increases by hearing the Word of God.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/9/2008 11:06:55 PM
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Yippee Skippy, Little. The last you want is to stand before God and find out you didn't use your talents or worse, used what you thought were talents, but wasn't talents at all. Scaryyyy.
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I was watching 'In Touch' with Dr Charles Stanley this morning. I could not believe that he was speaking about this very subject of gifts and responsibilities and he even spoke about the faithful and wicked servants! I was surprised but not surprised if you know what I mean! God often confirms His Word to me (i.e. when He is challenging me about something) within days of laying something on my heart.
I think I need to sit up and listen too Dancre!
Something I didn't quite understand before is that God gives us all talents according to our ability. Someone who has 5 talents and someone who has 2 are no different as far as God's love goes. I used to think that God favoured one more than the other! (which I now see as incorrect thinking). However, thankfully, this is not so - God gives us only what He knows we can cope with and therefore have the ability to use well. So if the one with 2 talents uses his well and so does the one with the 5 talents, then they are equally faithful in God's sight.
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/10/2008 10:17:31 AM
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I don't think it's a case of, "you better find out what your specific talents are, because if you guess wrong, God will call you a wicked servant." I think it's a case of going with what you enjoy and have a heart for. Do you have a heart for children? Go with that. Do you really enjoy doing the behind-the-scenes, "menial" tasks? Go for it.
In the parable, a talent of money was a lot of money. A quick web search shows, depending on the source, a talent of money is equivalent to a lifetime worth of wages - 15-30 years or so. Even at $10 an hour today, if someone today worked a $10/hr job full time for 20 years, that's over $400,000. That'd be a conservative estimate for ONE talent. So the man who had 5 talents had received something like over $2 million. I don't think the stewards of that money confused their own pocket change with what had been given to them to invest!
If you want to bring this back to the subject of our giftedness, I think that the gifts God gives us to use are the obvious ones, not some little $5 bill of talent we've forgotten we've tucked into the underwear drawer of our personhood. 
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RE: Faithful or wicked servants? - 10/10/2008 11:30:57 AM
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......I don't think it's a case of, "you better find out what your specific talents are, because if you guess wrong, God will call you a wicked servant." I think it's a case of going with what you enjoy and have a heart for. Do you have a heart for children? Go with that. Do you really enjoy doing the behind-the-scenes, "menial" tasks? Go for it.......
I can't say I don't agree with this because God won't give us a gift / talent which we don't enjoy; however, there are also some things which we do enjoy which are not necessarily our gift / talent and as an example, I can think of a programme called 'American Idol'. There are so many people who love to sing and are horrified to be told that they can't when they audition! I really love singing; however, my singing is a 'joyful noise' unto the Lord (with the emphasise being on 'noise') but is not a gift or talent I have. I thankfully recognise this. However, thinking back to American Idol - this show allows us to see many people who are deluded and believe they can sing when it is evident they cannot! I believe Christians are not outside the possibility of believing they are gifted in an area (not necessarily singing) and as such, this is why I suggested that is why we may need to seek guidance from the Lord and wise counsel from other Christians whom we trust as to what our gifts are (if we are unsure).
P.S. I don't believe God will punish us if we think we have a gift / talent which we don't actually have either but it would be a shame if we wasted time in an area in which we are clearly not gifted when we could be polishing up the gift(s) we actually do have.
I hope this makes sense?
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