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- Does this feel like your life right now?
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You can't control everything,
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but you can control more than you think.
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Taking Control: a new Crossroads weekly streaming series.
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Learn how to take control of what God gave you.
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- We all have gifts, mine include tormenting my dog
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and junior high humor.
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My name is Brian. It's great to be with you today.
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We're going to have Alli talk to us
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about understanding our gifts
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and how to leverage them and how to deploy them
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so we can have the most impactful life possible.
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Let's hear what she has to say.
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- Lately, I've been thinking
about all the pieces of my life
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that sometimes seem like
they're out of my control.
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Today we're going to stop and talk about
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the things that we actually are given to control,
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the things that God has given us
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the freedom in our lives to take control of.
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My name is Alli Patterson,
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and I'm one of the teaching pastors here at Crossroads.
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And I want you to know today that you have gifts.
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I don't know how you see yourself.
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Maybe you're somebody who's had
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one really visible outstanding gift since you were a kid
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and everybody knows it, everybody can see it.
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Or maybe you're somebody who just gets up every day
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and thinks, "Oh, well, I'm kind of good
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at a lot of different things,
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but maybe not gifted at anything."
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However you think of yourself, I think -- I hope today
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you will begin to see that you have incredible gifts
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and that you can manage them for a life that really thrives.
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We're in a bookstore, Duttenhofer's Books as a matter of fact.
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And I love places like this because
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one of the things that's in me is that I love books.
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I always have since I was a little girl.
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I remember going to the library checkout
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with a big stack of books to take home
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and every single time the nice lady who checked me out
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would say, "Now, honey, you can't take all those home,
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that's too many."
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And I would have to agonize over which three or four
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I was going to have to wait until the next week to read.
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And actually, that was a clue.
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It was a clue to some of the things
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that now operate in my life as true gifts.
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I would say today I have a gift of teaching.
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I have a gift of being able to process information
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like at deep levels and kind of translate that
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and communicate that back out,
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especially when it comes to the Bible.
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I love the words in the Bible.
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I love words in general.
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I've always loved words, not just in books,
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but actually also to write words, to speak words,
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to ask just the right question with just the right words
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or to use words to encourage people around me.
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I love the power of words.
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OK, hold up.
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- Alli and I are actually really good friends.
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There's a lot of things that she's really good at
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and there's a few things she's not so good at.
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We've been friends a really long time, like 17 years, long time.
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And over the years I've noticed some things
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that she's not so good at.
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Today we're going to have a little fun together
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noticing the things that Alli's not so good at.
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- Got it. Got it.
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- You were so close, Al.
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- Ladies, can you believe the weather we've been having?
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- I know it has been so unpredictable lately.
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- That's because the Earth is crying out in pain.
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It's the end times.
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- That's not how this goes.
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- That's not how this goes.
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- OK, so you guys, this guy, he walked into a barn.
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Wait, a barn, a bar? Was the guy in a bar or a barn?
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Was it a horse?
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- That's not how this goes.
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- I want you to get out your phone right now,
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or maybe if you're old school, a pen and a piece of paper,
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whatever the case might be,
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I believe that if you begin to think about
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the things that are in you, you are going to see gifts too.
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We all have these things.
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Maybe some of them are genetic things for you.
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They're just things that have always --
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they were like literally in your DNA when you were born,
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your physicality, elements of natural ability that you have.
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Maybe you discovered when you go to the gym
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you build muscle 3 times faster than anyone else at the gym
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or you were born with a high IQ
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and so learning has just been easy for you your whole life.
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Or maybe you're the kid on the playground
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that got to walk everyone to the nurse when they got hurt
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because you just make people feel better.
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Maybe you're a maker
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and you're really good with your hands.
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That is not me, I'll tell you that much.
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And other gifts maybe you've discovered
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as you've lived a little, as you've had to work,
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you've discovered capacities for things in your life.
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Maybe you have a capacity for making money.
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And come to think of it, your lemonade stands
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did kind of crush it as a kid
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and today all your business ideas work.
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Or maybe you have a capacity for compassion
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and mercy and understanding
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every time you pass a homeless person on the street.
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I think we go looking for information about ourselves.
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We love to take all of those inventories online,
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all the quizzes on our phone.
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We just love to gather up information about ourselves.
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What Disney princess are you, by the way?
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I, I am Pocahontas.
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Ironically, that might be the one Disney movie I've never seen.
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But maybe you've been at work where you've had to take
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something called a DiSC inventory and you're a high D.
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Or you had to take the Myers Briggs like I did
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where I found out I was an INTJ, but not a strong I,
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but a really strong N.
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Long after I found out all this information about myself,
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like why I like to arrange flowers
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or why I hate small talk,
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I was actually no closer to taking control
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of those things in my life, to actually managing them well
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for a life that I loved.
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I wish I could say that there was a quiz
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you could take to do this,
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that there was one thing that helped me
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better manage all the pieces of Alli.
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But I'll tell you what I did discover,
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that looking for information about myself,
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self discovery without God always comes up short.
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What I really needed was to be connected
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with the God who made me.
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It wasn't until I started following Jesus
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that I began to notice the more I'm following Jesus
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day in and day out, the more I'm just
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putting myself in the concerns that He has,
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doing the things that He says to do,
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something new began to emerge in my life,
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a new kind of gift.
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And this kind of gift has actually been the key
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that I needed to successfully manage all the other things
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that I kind of already knew about myself.
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The Bible calls these spiritual gifts.
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They are gifts given to us by God.
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We don't start with these, we actually are gifted them
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the moment that we come to faith in Jesus.
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Spiritual gifts come from the spirit of God
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at the moment of our faith in Christ.
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The Holy Spirit actually comes to live in us.
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And he's so good He brings gifts.
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These gifts should not feel like they're out of left field.
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There's one God that made us,
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they should feel very consistent
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with how you're put together from the beginning.
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Like the gift of teaching to a girl that always loved books.
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Or if you're the kid on the playground
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that took everyone to the nurse,
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maybe you have a gift of mercy or even healing.
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Or if you're the one that makes great money,
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maybe you have a gift of giving.
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There's all kinds of different gifts,
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but they're from the same God, the same Spirit.
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Listen to how 1 Corinthians 12 talks about just this.
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You all, when we come to follow Jesus,
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that's when things start to unlock.
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There is one God and He comes to live in you
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with His one Spirit that brings all kinds of different gifts
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and brings us to life in the Kingdom.
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We are part of a family and we're connected to each other
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and we're all so different.
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But we are -- the same Spirit lives in us all
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and when we follow Jesus we get to see our gifts clarified
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and empowered for His purposes.
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And all of who we are begins to make a lot more sense.
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Do you want to unlock all of who God made you to be?
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Do you want all the things that He has for your life?
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It actually is possible,
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but it's not possible through a quiz on your phone.
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It's not an easy button, online test is going to do it.
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It is faithfully following Jesus.
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You have gifts and you can manage them
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by following Him into a better life.
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The surprising truth about our gifts is that
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they are not actually ours, they're on loan to us from God.
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I'm at a library, my favorite place to get things on loan.
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The only thing about a library is that
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you've got to bring what you take back to the owner.
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I think we're used to thinking
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of whatever is inside of us as ours, it's who we are
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and we can do whatever we want with it,
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to any end that we want.
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But actually, God says we are the manager
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and that our gifts are not ours, they're on loan.
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I really learned how to think about this concept
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of management when I managed a brand at Procter and Gamble.
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I did it with somebody else's gifts.
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Their gifts were the money and the resources
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that I needed to manage the business well.
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And my job as a manager was to take what I was given
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by the company and to get a return for the owners,
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To use all the tools at my disposal, but to be on their mission.
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I took the product, the price,
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the places where my product showed up and all the messages
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that I could develop through the advertising,
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but my company, end of the day,
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expected a return for what I was given.
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It is exactly the same between you and God with your gifts.
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Have you ever thought about the talents, abilities, skills,
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spiritual gifts that you possess as actually on loan?
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Maybe you wrote something down today in the notes
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you've been jotting down on your phone,
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but whatever it is that you have is actually on loan from God.
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One day God is going to be asking you,
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"Hey, how do you use that talent that I gave you?
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How did you use your ability to do hair, fix motorcycles?
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What about the ability that you have to run a business,
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to make money? Whatever came of that?
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What did you do with it?
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And did anyone benefit except for you?"
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Right now God is on a mission
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and He has given you the freedom to take control
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of some of His resources as He has planted them
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right inside you and He really does want them managed well.
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1 Peter 4 is one of my favorite verses. Verse 10 says:
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A steward is a manager.
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We are the managers of God's resources and they are not ours.
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I think there's some freedom in that; isn't there?
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And there's also some responsibility,
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responsibility to the mission of the giver of those gifts.
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And God has a purpose, it was buried in that verse as well.
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God's purpose is to pass out grace.
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We are the stewards, the managers of the various kinds
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of grace that God wants
passed out into this world.
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And your gifts
are that grace in disguise.
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God would love an unending flow of grace into this world,
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and we should be using our gifts
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and they should be feeling like grace.
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I think of my husband when I think of
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a use of gifts that comes together in the way of grace.
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He's an attorney.
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I know that probably surprises you
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to think of grace when you think of attorneys,
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but Bill has gifts of administration.
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He has gifts of a being an amazing problem solver.
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He's very decisive. He's very detail oriented.
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And when I listen to his clients, they don't say,
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"Gee, thanks for the 45 page contract, Bill."
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No, they say things like, "Thank you for solving a problem.
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Thank you for being my advocate."
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This feels like grace to somebody.
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When we put our gifts together in a way
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that feels like grace, it frees someone,
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it blesses someone, it relieves someone.
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If you want to know what you do
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that feels like grace to others,
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that's exactly what you need to ask.
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I want you to pick up your phone
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or just commit to texting this later today.
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I want you to to ask somebody today,
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"What do I do that relieves you, that frees you,
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that blesses you?"
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Because that's what Grace feels like.
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We not only can pass it out,
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we also can stop the flow of it
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if we don't manage well the gifts that we've been given.
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I know this has totally been me before.
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I will often think of something
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that's encouraging to say to someone.
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I told you I love words, I love books, writing words,
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I love using them to encourage, but sometimes I get lazy
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or maybe I just feel insecure about how that person
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is going to receive what I say so I keep it to myself.
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That stops the flow of grace.
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Our mission is as a manager of the grace of God.
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And we want to pass that grace out as much
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and as well as we can
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to as many people around us as will receive it.
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How do you know if you're doing it?
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Maybe you're already doing this.
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The way that you know is when God starts to look really good.
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Peter goes on to write:
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Man, I love that.
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Peter like almost launches into a prayer
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at the end of those sentences because he gets excited
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about the fact that it's about God.
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God is the giver of the gifts inside you.
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God is the power behind them,
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and God's grace is the mission that we are on
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and you are the manager.
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The moment that we get that our gifts are there
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for the glory of God, and not us,
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is the moment that they begin to lead us to life.
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- You can start to realize the potential of your gifts
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when you realize they're not yours.
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Everything we have is God's.
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This is the foundation of being able to financially give.
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Jesus talks about where your treasure is,
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there your heart will be also.
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I recognized that the treasures that I have
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are actually God's treasures
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and my heart is more about Him
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than it is the treasures that He's blessed me with.
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If you'd like to find out more about that
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and more about things that could impact your life
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and be a giver at Crossroads,
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you can go to Crossroads.net/give.
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Your giving fuels all kinds of big stuff,
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like The Journey we're about to start,
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maybe the most important thing you'll do all year.
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Get ready. Let's get going.
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- Is God good?
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Is He good on day one of working from home?
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How about day 180?
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Is He good when school is online
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or when your business is struggling?
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Is He even when everything in the world
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makes you want to scream, "Good God, what is going on?"
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That's a fair question and actually a great prayer
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because we believe there is a Good God with good answers.
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Join us for The Good God Journey
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streaming online each week for 45 minutes of music,
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teaching, and inspiration.
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Start your Journey at crossroads.net/journey.
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- Well, having gifts actually means very little
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until you put them to work.
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Every single day, including today,
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is a chance to take control
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of how your gifts are being used out in the world.
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You know, you can do inventories online
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and quizzes on your phone.
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You can read and study about your gifts,
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which goodness knows I like to do.
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But until they're actually put to work
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with real people living real lives with real issues,
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you will make very little impact.
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For me, this is a place where the rubber meets the road,
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where my gifts actually come into action.
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When I'm gathered with other women, with other people,
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where I can sit and listen, where I can encourage,
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where I can teach, where I can pray.
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But that's my environment where my gifts help.
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What's yours?
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I know what it feels like to think that you need a better plan.
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You need to be something more.
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You need to plan more.
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You need to know more.
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You need to have experience more
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in order to offer your gifts to someone.
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But you don't.
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Today is the right day and it's time to offer your gifts.
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Jesus actually shared a lot of gifts
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with the men that he did life with, His disciples.
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Ad then He sent them out.
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He was like, "Go, go, it's time to use them."
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And when He did, He said this to them.
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Jesus said, "Freely, you have received, now freely give."
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He said, "I've given you all these things,
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now I want you to go out and give them away."
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That's the same with you and me.
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We've gotten all that we have,
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even the stuff inside of us that we think of as our own,
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we've actually gotten it for free from Him
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and it's time to give it away.
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When you do,
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you actually don't know if it's going to be received.
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It's a pretty vulnerable thing
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to offer your gifts to somebody else.
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It ultimately comes down to a moment
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where you basically say, "Do you want what I have?"
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I just got out of seminary a few months ago
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and you would think, if anything,
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I would be confident in offering my gifts
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to help other people study the Bible. Right?
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I mean, duh.
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However, when I went to do that,
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just maybe a month or so ago,
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when I went to start a couple of new groups of study,
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I still tripped over that moment of vulnerability,
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that moment where you just have to say,
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"I think I have something to give you. Would you like it?"
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Romans 12 is a huge encouragement for us
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to get out there and use our gifts. Romans 12 says:
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Romans 12 says whatever you've got, do it anywhere, everywhere,
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in any role or environment that you have in your life.
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I stayed home, I wasn't working
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for about seven years of my life when I had four babies at home.
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And at first I was a little bit lost
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on how to use my gifts in that setting.
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I realized that I'd always really depended on a job
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to be an outlet for the use of some of my gifts. A
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nd I had to learn over during that time
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exactly how to use my gifts in a new way in that setting.
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And I fumbled it for quite a while.
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I got frustrated, but now I know
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I can use the same gifts in new ways,
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whether I'm a mom at a school,
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whether I'm a colleague at work, whether I'm a neighbor,
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in any setting God wants His grace to show up
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in different forms to all kinds of different people.
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Guess what happens when you walk in the door with your gifts?
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God himself suddenly has access to wherever you are.
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When you walk in, you represent the generosity of God.
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When you walk in, you're the wisdom of God.
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When you walk in, you're the leadership of God,
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or when you walk in, you're the beauty of God.
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You just have to offer your gifts.
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You just have to do what you've been gifted to do.
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You know, a couple of days ago, I went to get my haircut.
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You know, when a girl goes on camera,
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she needs to, you know, put things together,
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a little eyebrow wax, a little haircut. It's important.
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I talked to Ann who's my stylist.
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She said, what are you up to this week?
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So I kind of told her what I was doing
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and I told her that I was talking about using your gifts.
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And she seemed interested.
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And I said, "Hey, you're using yours right now. You know?"
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She said, "What do you mean?"
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And I said, "You have a gift, you have a gift
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that impacts how women that sit in this chair --
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How many are you going to see today, 10, 12?
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Women that sit in your chair every day,
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you impact how they see their own beauty.
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You have the gift to influence them
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with your grace every single day."
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And so do you.
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Look around you.
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Do you have a shot at something?
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Are there circumstances in front of you
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that you could walk in and offer something that you have?
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I think God puts opportunities in front of us all the time
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and they don't have to be grand.
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Don't fall for that lie.
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Don't fall for the idea that what you can do for one,
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you wish you could do for a thousand,
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so you don't even offer it to one.
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When I sit at a table like this,
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I wish that 6000 women could sit with me. I really do.
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I would love to be able to offer
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that whatever I'm doing to 6000 people.
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But honestly, six is good.
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It's fine for us to take whatever we have today
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and take one small step.
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Guess what?
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There's a grace of God inside you.
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You're sitting on it and it's time to give it up.
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- I am so thankful for the gifts
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that God has entrusted me with, there's so many things,
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it's hard to recount them all
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and the only thing that's consistent with them
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is that God has been generous to entrust them to me.
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That causes me and others to want to worship,
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to tell God, "I trust You because You've entrusted me
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with things and there's so many other reasons
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why I want to declare right now that I trust You."
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Let's worship him together and sing that to Him.
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Man, if you like that, there's more where that came from,
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just go to Crossroads.net/music.
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Well, next week we start The Journey.
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The Journey is a multipronged multisensory approach
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to get you and I to a whole new place spiritually.
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Man, I hope you want more for your life.
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I want more from my life and we need to have
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God having a greater control of our life.
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The one key thing, key thing for it is to get in a group,
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you got to be with other people.
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We want to make that as simple
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and as easy for you as possible.
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You can go to Crossroads.net/journey,
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learn more about The Journey
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and learn how to get into a group.
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The Journey starts next week. We'll see you then.
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- Every year, Crossroads does this thing called a Journey.
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It's a five week adventure.
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Everyone in the community, from kids to adults,
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zero in and go deep on one topic.
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This year it's the Good God Journey.
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Let's face it, 2020 has been a struggle.
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Even the most faithful may be asking, "Is God good?"
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It turns out that exploring that question
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can unlock new levels of peace,
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belonging and potential for your life.
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Interested? Great. Here's how you can get started.
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Step 1: Head on over to Crossroads.net/journey
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and initiate a group or join one.
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If you have a group, great, you're all set.
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If not, we'll get you connected to one.
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Depending on who you are, meeting with a group
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might sound exciting or terrifying,
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but trust us, this is where real growth happens.
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We'll even provide a group guide
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to help steer the conversation,
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either in person or over a video call.
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Step 2: Download the Crossroads Anywhere app.
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It's packed with a ton of features
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that can help you grow spiritually,
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including a Good God Journey Guide.
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Each week during The Journey, simply open the guide
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and discover something new about yourself and God.
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Step 3: Watch the weekend message online or live at a site.
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Part teaching, part challenge, part soul filling music,
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plus a couple of surprises you won't want to miss.
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It's that simple: Get in a group,
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do individual work in the app and watch weekly.
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Challenge yourself for five weeks,
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it might just be the best thing you do all year.
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Go to Crossroads.net/journey to get started.