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| Sheila Walsh: What are Spiritual Gifts? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 2, 2026
- Peter makes it clear, just as paul did,
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- That we are called
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- To serve each other and not to think that one gift
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- Is greater than another.
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- When we all show up as believers and use the gifts god
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- Has given us, god is glorified.
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- If you're struggling to know what your gifts are,
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- Ask the lord.
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- Ask a few trusted friends
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- Who love jesus and love you what they see in you.
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- You have been given a gift.
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- We are here to glorify god.
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- I was raised in a small scottish baptist church,
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- And i honestly didn't understand
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- Much about spiritual gifts or ministry growing up.
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- I thought that if you were a man,
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- You could be a pastor,
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- And if you're a woman, then you could be a missionary.
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- That was it.
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- Everyone else
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- Had ordinary jobs that weren't necessarily spiritual.
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- I didn't understand the amazing calling on every one of our
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- Lives to serve god
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- And the church with the gifts given to every single one of us.
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- Yes, you.
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- Every one of us has been given gifts by god.
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- Well, today i want us to look at spiritual gifts.
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- What are they?
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- Who are they given to and what are they given for?
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- In first corinthians chapter 12, verses four through six,
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- We read this.
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- There are different kinds of spiritual gifts,
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- But the same spirit is the source of them all.
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- There are different kinds of service,
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- But we serve the same lord.
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- God works in different ways,
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- But it's the same god who does the work in all of us.
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- When we begin to understand god's
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- Plan for spiritual gifts, it's pretty life changing.
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- Every single one of us who is in relationship with christ
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- Has a spiritual gift.
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- Some have more than one, some overlap.
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- But we all have gifts to serve and build up the family of god.
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- Well, paul
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- Then goes on in this letter to list some of the gifts.
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- The spirit gives the ability
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- To give wise advice or a word of wisdom to another.
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- The same spirit gives a message of special knowledge,
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- Often referred to as a word of knowledge.
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- The same spirit gives great faith to another
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- And to someone else.
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- The one spirit gets the gift of healing.
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- It gives one person the power to perform miracles.
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- Another the ability to prophesy.
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- It gives someone else the ability to discern
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- Whether a message
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- Is from the spirit of god or from another spirit.
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- Still, another person
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- Is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while
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- Another is given the ability to interpret what is being said.
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- It's the one and only spirit who distributes all these gifts.
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- He alone decides which gift each person should have.
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- Before we unpack what those might look like practically
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- Today, i think two things are important to notice.
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- Number one, they're gifts, not something we've earned
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- Or because we're more spiritual than anybody else.
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- And number two, the spirit of god is the one
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- Who decides which gifts he gives each of us.
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- Some gifts might seem more spectacular than others,
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- But it's important to remember that the power is the lord's.
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- We are just the earthen vessel to contain this treasure.
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- When we look at the gift of the word of wisdom, for example,
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- It's a supernatural power to speak with god given insight.
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- A great example of that is found in the book of acts
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- When stephen is being questioned by religious leaders.
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- We read in acts 6:10.
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- None of them could stand against the wisdom
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- And the spirit with which stephen spoke.
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- It's a god given gift for a specific moment.
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- Have you ever been
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- In a situation
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- Where perhaps someone is arguing against your faith, or
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- Or even a fellow believer who's struggling
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- To hold on to faith in moments like that?
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- I ask the lord for the wisdom that only he has.
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- In james chapter one, verse five, we read,
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- Wisdom, ask our generous god, and he will give it to you.
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- He will not rebuke you for asking.
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- Isn't that beautiful?
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- We don't have to do this life in our own power,
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- But through god's.
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- One of my favorite passages
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- That talks about many of the different gifts we've been given
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- Is found in first peter chapter four, verses ten through 11.
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- God has given each of you a gift from his great variety
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- Of spiritual gifts.
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- Use them well to serve one another.
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- Do you have the gift of speaking
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- And speak as though god himself were speaking to you
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- Do you have the gift of helping others?
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- Do it with all the strength and energy that god supplies.
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- Then everything you do
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- Will bring glory to god through jesus christ.
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- All glory and power to him forever and ever.
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- Amen.
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- Peter makes it clear, just as paul did,
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- That we are called
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- To serve each other and not to think that one gift
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- Is greater than another.
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- When we all show up as believers and use the gifts god
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- Has given us, god is glorified.
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- If you're struggling to know what your gifts are,
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- Ask the lord.
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- Ask a few trusted friends
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- Who love jesus and love you what they see in you.
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- You have been given a gift.
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- We are here to glorify god.
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- Let's pray
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- Lord thank
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- You that you give gifts to your children.
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- And so often, lord,
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- We find it confusing because one might look
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- More spectacular than another,
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- But you are the one holy spirit who gives them out,
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- And you decide what gifts to give to each person.
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- Lord, i pray right now for anyone
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- Who is not really sure what their gifts are.
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- Will you give us the wisdom to know,
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- And then the courage in you to to start to speak out
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- And move in the gifts you've given to build up your body?
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- We ask it in the powerful name of jesus.
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- Amen.
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