Daddy, Which end of the ocean is the deep end?

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• Daddy, Which end of the ocean is the deep end?

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• Unlocking the Gifts has three key elements
• Understand
• Discover
• Deploy

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• The Gauge
• The Plan
• The Impact

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the gauge

• A Warehouse Generation

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the gauge

• Driven people are confident as they forge ahead.
  But, often at the moment when it is least
  expected, hostile events conspire, and there is a
  collapse. Called people have strength from
  within, perseverance and power that are
  impervious to the blows from without!
• Gordan McDonald
• (Ordering Your Private World)

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the gauge

• God has a place for you and it is a good
  place.
• Rev. Dale Evrist
• (The Mighty Hand of God)

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the gauge

• God doesnt call you to a task for which he
  hasnt endowed you with the corresponding gifts.
  
• Christian Schwarz
• (The Three Colors of Ministry)

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the gauge

• Our giftedness was not an afterthought. It was
  a part of Gods plan to shape us for our role in
  building His Kingdom.
• Katie Fortune
• (Discovering Your God-Given Gift)

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the gauge

• A natural outcome of knowing who you are, is to
  know what you are to do.
• Dr. Rick Walston
• (Unraveling the Mystery of the Motivational
  Gifts)

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the gauge

• Meaning and significance will never be found by
  vainly attempting to conserve our life, but by
  purposefully thinking how to expend it.
• Dr. Daniel Brown
• (The Journey of Faith)

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the plan

• The Assignment
• The Blessing

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the plan

• Let us make man in Our image, according to Our
  likeness let them have dominion over the
  (earth). Genesis 126
• Then God blessed them, and God said
  to them, Be fruitful and multiply fill the
  earth and subdue it have dominion Genesis
  128

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the plan

• Designed
• Empowered
• Equipped

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the plan

• Designed With Purpose
• Empowered For Mission
• Equipped For Service

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the plan

• Designed With Purpose
• Romans 124-8

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the plan

• Having gifts (faculties, talents, qualities)
  that differ according to the grace given us, let
  us use them He whose gift is prophecy, let
  him prophesy according to the proportion of his
  faith He whose gift is practical service, let
  him give himself to serving he who teaches, to
  his teaching (He who exhorts, encourages), to
  his exhortation he who contributes, let him do
  it in simplicity and liberality he who gives aid
  and superintends, with zeal and singleness of
  mind he who does acts of mercy, with genuine
  cheerfulness and joyful eagerness.
• Romans 124-8 TAB

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the plan

• Empowered for Mission
• I Corinthians 127-10

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the plan

• Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit
  is given for the common good. To one there is
  given through the Spirit the message of wisdom,
  to another the message of knowledge by means of
  the same Spirit, to another faith by the same
  Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one
  Spirit, to another miraculous powers, another
  speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to
  still another the interpretation of tongues. All
  these are the work of one and the same Spirit,
  and he gives them to each one, just as he
  determines.
• I Corinthians 127-10 NIV

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the plan

• Equipped for Service
• Ephesians 411,12

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the plan

• And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
  prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and
  teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the
  work of ministry (service), for the edifying of
  the body of Christ.
• Ephesians 411,12 NKJ

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the plan

• Each individual is DESIGNED WITH PURPOSE and
  endowed with a personal gift which is to be
  exercised within the context of the Body.
• The church is EMPOWERED FOR MISSION by the
  manifestation gifts of the Holy Spirit, offering
  supernatural intervention for the good of the
  body.
• The church is EQUIPPED FOR SERVICE by gifted men
  and women.

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the plan

• The Body
• Diversity
• Unity
• Humility

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the plan

• Diversity is not a problem, it is Gods strategy!

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the plan

• Unity is the result of humble acceptance of ones
  own gifting and a welcome embrace of the
  diversity of other gifts.

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the plan

• Humility comes when we understand that we are
  called to descend to greatness.

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the plan

• He DESIGNED you for God success.
• He DESIGNED you with perfection.
• He DESIGNED you with a special gift.
• He DESIGNED you with purpose.

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the plan

• He EMPOWERED us with revelation.
• He EMPOWERED us with authority.
• He EMPOWERED us with inspiration.

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the plan

• He EQUIPPED the church with Messengers.
• He EQUIPPED the church with Protectors.
• He EQUIPPED the church with Trainers.

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the impact

• When Your Children Ask
• What will you say?
• What will the church say?
• What will the lost say?
• What will the children say?

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• The foundation for Unlocking
• the Gifts is to UNDERSTAND.