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In addition to what the gift of mercy is defined as, we are also told how the gift of mercy is to be given: through cheerfulness. You’ll never meet a perpetually grumpy person gifted with mercy. The mercy-givers are the ones who are eager and happy to help!
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If you are gifted in leadership, work diligently to serve (not lord over, not complain about, not avoid) those the Lord has entrusted in your care.
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The gift of giving, like the gift of ministry, is another gift that everyone is happy to have around. The people who are blessed with this gift recognize that all they have is from the Lord and, therefore, have the supernatural ability to hold it loosely and to share it gladly.
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The gift of exhortation is a beautiful gift that is multifaceted. It is not as simple as one person encouraging another person (although that definitely applies).
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The gift of teaching (instruction) is as necessary to the Christian life as nutrition is to the body. You can survive (for a time) without it, but you will be very unhealthy.
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The spiritual gift of ministry is a gift people want around, but they themselves don't want to have. They want to see it in action, but don't want to be the person taking that action. The gift of ministry is a highly prided spiritual gift very few actually want. Why is that?
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Have you ever wondered what your spiritual gifts are? It might be the most common question that I hear as a pastor. I love getting these questions, because it shows a real desire to be used by God, and, what’s more, to be used in the way He designed us to be used! Since this is such a prevalent area
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There is a prevailing, detrimentally flip-flopped movement in our culture to call what is good evil and what is evil for good. How should we handle this?
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Fault-finders, then and now, are all aggressively unearthing the faults or potential faults (at least as they see them) of others.
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Do you live in lust? Take heed! Stop justifying it. How about idolatry (the pursuit of anything above God)? Take heed! Stop innocently explaining it away. Perhaps for you it’s a complaining spirit that you’ve grown far too comfortable with. Take heed! It will produce death in your life.
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Matthew 19:20 gives us an insight into how we can't earn salvation. The rich young ruler sets the example for how salvation is given by grace, not earned.
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We have conjured up and currently live inside the notion that those who love don’t correct, because, in our minds, there is nothing about us that needs to be altered. “Love me as I am” is the cry of the culture. Well I, for one, would like to thank those who actually didn’t love me as I am.