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Hello everybody, This is Pastor Rick's
Daily Hope. Thank you so much for

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joining us today, and if you're
brand new, welcome to the Daily Hope

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family. We hope you'll enjoy the
teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here.

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I'm so excited for all of you
to learn about your shape. It might

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not be the shape you're thinking of
right now. Rick loves to use acrostics

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and this one is shape your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities,

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personality and experiences. And one of
the reasons I love this series and

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have shared it with so many friends
is because Rick talks about the way God

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wired you and why you need not
just know your shape, but how to

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use it to do the things that
God designed you to do. So let's

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get right into it. Here's Pastor
Rick with part one of a message called

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Using your Abilities. God has never
made copies of anything. He only makes

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you originals. He's never made a
copy of a tree, never made a

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copy of a plant, never made
a copy of an animal, never made

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a copy of a human being.
You are unique. There's nobody else in

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the world like you, never has
been, never will be. God uniquely

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designed you as an original. Why
because originals are always worth more than copies.

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God said, before you were born, I planned you, I thought

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you out. I have a purpose
and a plan for your life, and

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I have uniquely shaped you for a
specific purpose that before you were born,

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God showse who your parents would be, what DNA combination you would have,

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and He made you you so you
could accomplish what he wants you to accomplish

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in the world. And God doesn't
want you to be anybody else. He

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wants you to be you, the
Bible says in job there on your outline,

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Chapter ten, verse eight, God's
hands shaped me and made me.

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And God planned you for a purpose
and heed you. Now we use this

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little crossteach shape shape to represent the
five things that make you you, five

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things that make you different from everybody
else. First, you have spiritual gifts,

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and we looked at that a couple
weeks ago. What am I gifted

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to do? And then God has
put in you a unique heart beat a

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heart which is what do I love
to do? And today we're going to

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look at your abilities. What am
I naturally able to do? What are

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my natural abilities? Next week we're
going to look at your personality, and

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then the following week, we're going
to look at your experiences, good,

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bad, positive, negative, how
God uses them all to shape you for

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his purpose. So what we're going
to do today is I'm going to give

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you an overview of what the Bible
says, what God says about your natural

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abilities, and how and why He
wants you to use them. Now,

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what do you need to know about
your abilities? Well, first, there

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are two important verses. The first
one they're on your outline, Romans twelve,

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verse six. Read it with me. God has given each of us

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the ability to do certain things.
Well, now that's obvious. What it

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says there is that there are no
no talent people. You may say,

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well, I don't have any talents. Well, you're wrong, I don't

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have any abilities. You're wrong.
The problem with you is that you know

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what you're not good at better than
you know what you're good at. If

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I were to say to you,
give me fifty things you're not good at,

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you come up with a list pretty
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fifty things you're good at, you'd
have hard time doing it. The average

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human being has between five hundred and
eight hundred abilities. Study after study after

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study have shown this You have at
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Most of them you don't even know
you've got. They just come naturally

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to you. You don't even think
of them as abilities. But you have

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that ability. And part of my
job as your pastor is to help you

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discover talent that you don't even know
you've got, abilities that you don't even

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know you've got, and help them
put them into service for God and for

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good in the world. So there
are no no talent people. Everybody has

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abilities, hundreds and hundreds of them. But we all have different abilities.

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We all have a different shape.
Now you've noticed that physically, haven't you.

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We all just look around. We're
all shaped differently. Some of you

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are shaped like basketball players, and
some of your shape like racehorse jockeys.

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Some of us are shaped like bodybuilders
like me. Some of us are shaped

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like ballerinas, like Doug Fields.
But we all have different shapes. The

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problem is when you go to school, they treat us all the same way,

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and we don't learn the same way. We don't look the same way,

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we don't have the same abilities,
interest heart, shape, all these

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things. So we all take these
standardized tests like the SAT or the act

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or the psat and all these and
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We now know that there are at
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intelligence. And as a result,
they try to force us all to learn

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the same way, And we don't
learn the same way, and we don't

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have the same abilities. We have
different abilities, and they're all important.

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Once upon a time there were some
animals who decided to start a school for

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animals, and they decided that the
courses would include running, climbing, swimming,

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and flying. And then they decided
that all of the animals should take

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all of the courses. Now that's
where the problem started. Now, the

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duck was better than his teacher in
swimming, but he only made passing grades

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in flying, and it was very
poor and running, So they made him

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drop swimming and stay after school to
practice running. This caused his web feet

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to be badly warrants. His grade
dropped to average in swimming, but everybody

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felt less threatened and more comfortable with
that, except the duck. Now,

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the rabbit started at the top of
his class in running, but because of

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so much makeup work in swimming,
he caught pneumonia had to drop out of

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school. The squirrel showed outstanding ability
in climbing, but he was extremely frustrated

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in flying class because the teacher insisted
that he start from the ground up rather

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than from the tree top down.
He developed the Charlie horses from over extension,

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so he only got a sea in
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Now the eagle was the problem student, which was disciplined for being a nonconformist.

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For instance, in climbing classes,
he could beat all the others to

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the top of the tree, but
he insisted on using his own way to

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get there. Finally, because he
refused to participate in swimming class, he

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was expelled. The point is that
God designs specific animals to excel in specific

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areas, and he doesn't expect them
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And when you expect everybody to fit
into the same mold, all you're going

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to get is frustration, discouragement,
mediocrity, and failure. A duck is

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made to be a duck, not
made to be something else. And you

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were made to be you. And
God has given you unique abilities, and

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he wants you to use them the
way he intended for you to use them.

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Now, your abilities are the map
to God's will for your life.

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Your abilities are the map. It
points the direction. When you know what

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you're good at, then you can
know what God wants you to do with

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your life. Look at what this
next Bible verse says. God will equip

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you with all you need for doing
his will. Now notice it doesn't say

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that God will give you all the
abilities you want that other people have,

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like I want to sing like her
and look like him and think like her.

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And God doesn't say, well,
you can just have any ow ability.

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No, He pre planned the abilities
you were given, and he wants

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you to be you. If he
didn't want you to be you, he

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wouldn't have made you. So He
doesn't want you comparing with anybody else and

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trying to be somebody else. You
give him pleasure, You give him glory.

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You make God smile when you use
the gifts he gave you in the

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way that He gave them to you. So the Bible says, I will

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give you all you need for doing
his will. God does not give you

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abilities to do something he doesn't ask
you to do. On the other hand,

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if He asks you to do something, he always gives you the ability

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to do it. So how do
you decide what you're supposed to do with

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your life? What classes should I
take in school? Who should I marry?

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What kind of career? Should you? Look at your shape? What

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has God wired me to be and
to do? It? Points you in

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the right direction, because, as
I said, every abilities from God,

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all of them are important. It's
not an accident, and they intentionally picked

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them. I actually went through the
scriptures one time, and I read through

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the entire Bible, making a list
of all of the abilities that God says

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I use for my will and I
bless in the world. And I made

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a list. Here's just a very
small list. It's probably ten times that

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list. I'll just read a view. God says, want I get honor

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through athletic ability. It's in the
Bible. Through artistic ability, through architectural

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ability. God says I use in
the world administering ability, baking, boat

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building, candy making, I like
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embroidering, engraving. God says,
I use poetic ability people who write

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poems. Farming, fishing, gardening, leading, managing is an ability I

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give to people. Masonry, molding, musical These are all in the bob

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making weapons, needlework, painting,
planning, philosophizing, playing Xbox machinist.

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Just thought I'd slipped that one in
there. Inventing, ability, carpentry,

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sailing, ability, selling, soldiering, tailoring, teaching, tent making,

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writing, and on and on.
All of these abilities came from God.

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All of these abilities can be used
by God. And all of these abilities

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have a purpose on this planet.
And God says, I gave you your

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abilities, and that gives you a
good direction. Now I want you to

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write this down on your outline.
My abilities match my call. My abilities

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match my call. Now some people
you hear about them saying, well,

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I'm called of God in the ministry. Well, every believer, every person

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is called by God into ministry.
Some people think a calling is something that

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you do if you're going to be
a priest or a nun, or if

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you're going to be a minister or
missionary, that God gives you a call.

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Every person is called by God.
First we're called to salvation and second

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we're called to service. So you
have a calling on your life, You

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have a vocation, you have a
life mission and a life message and a

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life goal and a life purpose.
That's your calling in life. And how

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do you know what your calling is? Look at your shape, your spiritual

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gifts, your heart, and then
your abilities. In other words, what

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I'm able to do God wants me
to do with my life. Now,

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God expects you to use the God
given abilities He's given you in six ways.

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I want you to write these down. These are what God wants you

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to do with the abilities he gave
you. He didn't give your abilities just

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to use on yourself. There are
six reasons and six things He wants you

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to do with your abilities. Number
one, my abilities are to be used

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to honor God. First. Your
abilities, whether it's embalming or embroidering,

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they're to be used to honor God. And the Bible says this, whatever

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you do, do it all for
the glory of God. Now that means

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any of those abilities I just listed
and every other one can be used for

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God's glory. Whatever you do,
do it for the glory of God.

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They're all important. Carpentry is as
important as teaching, and masonry is as

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important as preaching, and managing is
as important as music. They're all important.

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There are no unimportant abilities. God
says, I spread them all out,

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and they're all important. To me. So that means you can honor

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God by repairing cars. You can
honor God by balancing books. You can

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honor God by helping people find a
home and sell it to them. You

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can honor God by making music or
making meals, or managing an office or

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a million other ways. Whatever you
do, he says, do it for

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the Lord, as if you're doing
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And he says, bring do it
for God's honor. Now he says,

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not only did I give you abilities
to honor me, but second to serve

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others. That's the second reason.
Your abilities were for the benefit of other

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people. And God says they're not
just for your benefit. First Peter,

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chapter four, verse ten says,
this God has given each of you some

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special abilities. Look at this verse. Be sure to use them to make

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a ton of money. Oh that's
the reviled substandard perversion translation. Let me

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read it again. God has given
each of you some special abilities. Be

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sure to use them to what help
each other, circle that help each other,

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passing on to others. God's many
kinds of blessing. So with your

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abilities, you don't just honor God, you serve other people. Now,

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nobody is good at everything. Everybody
want to agree on that one. Nobody

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is good at everything. What that
means is you need me, I need

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you, You need the person sitting
next to you, they need you,

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and other people. Nobody is that
has every talent. There are no superstar

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perfection people who can say to the
world I don't need anybody else. The

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person who says that doesn't realize how
needy they are. We need each other.

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And during forty days of community,
we talked about this, how we're

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better together. I need you in
my life, you need me in your

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life. We need each other because
I'm good at some things and you're good

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at some things, and the people
next to you are good at somethings.

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And that's why you need a small
group, and it's why you need a

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church family, and why it works
good in teams. We need each other.

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We're better together. Now, if
you want to be successful in life,

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and who doesn't, I want you
to be successful in life. My

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goal is to help you be a
success. Here's the key to success.

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Build on your strength so that your
weakness has become irrelevant. Every successful person

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does this. You build on your
strengths so that your weakness has become irrelevant.

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Now. That means you work on
what you're good at and just make

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it better. Nobody is good at
everything. And let me give you a

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second rule of success. Team up
with people who are good at what you're

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not good at. Team up with
people who compliment you. One of the

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reasons this church grew is because I
built the staff of people who are better

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than me in things that I'm not
good at, and in all of our

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pastors. I'm good at some things, but Tom's good at some things that

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I'm not good at, and Glenn
is good at some things that Tom's not

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good at, and Doug Fields is
good at some things that No, he's

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not good at anything. Doug feels
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That's what he's really good at.
He's really good. Doug has to

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get to humor. Everybody want to
agree with that, oh yeah, And

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everybody has something to contribute, and
nobody has it all together. So we

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need each other now. This,
by the way, friends, is one

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of the purposes of marriage. That
in marriage we are put together to compliment

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each other's strengths and to compensate for
each other's weaknesses. What happens is.

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We don't compensate for each other's weaknesses. We criticize each other's weaknesses. That's

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all what marriage is for. You
married a sinner, she married a bigger

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one. When you put two sinners
together, how can you have a perfect

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relationship? There are no perfect relationships. Everybody's got weaknesses, and in a

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marriage, you compliment each other's strengths, and you compensate for each other's weaknesses.

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For instance, let's say, in
doing the bills and in budgeting,

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how many of you in your family
the guy does the bills in budget and

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budgeting? Got I see your hands? All right? Some of you are

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just scared to raise your hand.
Okay. How many of you in your

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marriage the wife? The woman does
the bills in budgeting? Okay, all

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right? Question who should do it? Which one's right? The one who

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does it better? Duh? Okay, that's not like in the Bible,

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there's some role that says, here's
what the guy's supposed to do, here's

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what the girl's supposed to Now,
who's ever better? You compensate for each

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other's weaknesses. That's why I always
let Kye drive. She's a much more

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careful driver than I am. You
know, I get distracted. I'm looking

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over here. Hey, what about
let's change the world. How about turning

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the corner honey, you know,
the absent minded professor kind of thing.

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This also works at work for maximum
effectiveness. You have a business, you

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want your you want your company to
be effective. Here's the key. Staff

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by shape. Find out what people's
shape is and put them in the position

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that they're good at. And when
you do that, then you don't have

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to manage them. You don't have
to supervise them, you don't have to

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reward them, you don't have to
motivate why because they're doing what they love

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to do and they're good at it, and it just moves ahead. And

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that's what we do in all of
our late ministries. We find people who

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are good at certain things that go
with it. Go. Thank you so

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much for joining us on Pastor Rick's
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have you ever asked the question,
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with my life? If you're like
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