{"id":1496,"date":"2021-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:59","slug":"you-are-gifted-by-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/you-are-gifted-by-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Gifted By God (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t say, \u2018I\u2019m of no use to God,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m not needed in the church,\u2019 or \u2018There\u2019s no way God could use me.\u2019 You are gifted by God! You are called to use your gift to bless others, build up the church, and display His Kingdom to a watching world. <i>\u2018Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God\u2019s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Peter\u00a04:10\u201311<sup>\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>Every Christian is a minister, and has a ministry. The ministry of the church is to be carried out as individual believers exercise their spiritual gifts in ministering to one another. And to the extent that you don\u2019t exercise your spiritual gift, you hinder the ministry of your church. And since the Holy Spirit decides which particular gift each of us receives, there\u2019s no place for jealousy and competitiveness. <\/p>\n<p>Paul writes: <i>\u2018For who makes you different from anyone else?<\/i> [Obviously, the answer is God!] <i>What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a04:7<sup>\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) Each of us is gifted differently, and each of us is gifted perfectly. The Holy Spirit in His divine wisdom has given to each of us the precise gift, or gifts that will enable us to function most effectively in the body of Christ. So start using your gift today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t say, \u2018I\u2019m of no use to God,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m not needed in the church,\u2019 or \u2018There\u2019s no way God could use me.\u2019 You are gifted by God! You are called to use your gift to bless others, build up the church, and display His Kingdom to a watching world. \u2018Each of you should use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}