WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:06.200 Hey, everyone, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:07.120 Daily Hope. 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:08.359 This is the place. 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.039 Where Rick Warren brings you uplifting messages from God's Word 5 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.759 every day to help you grow deeper in faith and 6 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.640 live a life with purpose. Today we're continuing in a 7 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.320 powerful series called Toolbox for Life. In this series, Rick 8 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.600 teaches us four essential skills that you need to succeed 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.759 wherever God has placed you, whether it's at home, at work, 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.520 at school, or in your community. These are tools that 11 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.880 every follower of Jesus absolutely needs. Okay, and let's get 12 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.719 right to Pastor Rick with part one of a message 13 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.159 called Maximizing Your Strengths. 14 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:49.759 Our series theme is the verse out of the Bible 15 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:52.840 Ecclesiastes ten to ten. It's one of my life versus. 16 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.560 It's here on the screen. The Bible says, if the 17 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:59.640 axe is dull and its edge is unsharpened, more strength. 18 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:01.719 In other words, you've got a dull axe. It takes 19 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.439 more energy to cut the wood. He's saying, work smarter, 20 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.239 not harder. If the axe is dull and its edges unsharpened, 21 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:13.760 more strength that's needed. But skill will bring success. It's 22 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.959 not enough just to want to be successful in your 23 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.640 life and your marriage and your career, in your schooling. 24 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:20.879 Desire is not enough. 25 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:24.000 Determination is not enough, dedication is not enough. 26 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.319 Prayer is not enough. 27 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.760 The Bible says skill will bring success, and until you 28 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:34.560 learn those skills, you cannot succeed in life. And the 29 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.680 more skillful you become, the more successful you'll be. Now, 30 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.319 part of my job as your pastor is to coach 31 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.640 you in life skills. That's one of the things that 32 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.200 I do is to help you learn the skills of 33 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.040 life to make you more successful, because I want you 34 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.840 to succeed in every area of your life. Now, this week, 35 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:56.079 I'm want to look at the Thurge skill, which is 36 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.680 how to maximize your strengths you as time goes on 37 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.400 in your life. I need to do less of what 38 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.840 you're not good at and need to do more of 39 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.200 what you are good at, what God wired you to do, 40 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.400 what God shaped or formed or created or designed you 41 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:13.520 to do. And we're gonna look at that in detail today. 42 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.039 Now we've got an entire class on this called Class 43 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.280 three OHO one Discovering My Shape. But this has to 44 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.000 do with the fact that God made you unique. And 45 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:26.919 the Bible says that God has uniquely wired you up 46 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.319 for a purpose. He's designed you. He has shaped you 47 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:36.240 for a purpose. The Bible says this Jeremiah chapter one, 48 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.240 before I shaped you in the womb. This is God 49 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.599 talking before I shaped you in the womb. I knew 50 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.599 all about you before you saw the light of day 51 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:48.879 in the words took your first breath as a baby. 52 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:55.280 I already, he says, had holy plans for you. Now 53 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.360 I want you to circle the word shaped. Before I 54 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:59.639 shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you, 55 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.919 and before you saw the light of day, I had 56 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.520 holy plans for you. Did you know that God determined 57 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.560 your life in advancing and he shaped you in advanced 58 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.520 And by the way, this is why abortion is wrong. 59 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.280 It's short circuits God's plan. God's plan for your life 60 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.919 doesn't start the moment you take a breath. God plans 61 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.199 for your life started the moment he thought you up 62 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.159 and decided to use the DNA of your parents to 63 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.719 create you. And it short circuits God's mind. God's plan 64 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.759 for your life didn't start the moment you were born. 65 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.960 It started before you were born. And the Bible says, 66 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.360 he said, I shaped you in your mother's womb. Now 67 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:41.400 Your shape reveals your purpose in life. If you want 68 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.840 to know what you're here on earth for, you got 69 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.560 to look at your shape. In architecture, we have a 70 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.840 phrase that says a form follows function. 71 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:53.240 You may have heard this term. 72 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.599 And if you go and you want a building built, 73 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.719 and you tell an architect I want to build a building, 74 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.680 he will say first or she will say, tell me 75 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.080 what you want to do with it? What's the function? 76 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.680 And then form follows function. For instance, the building here 77 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.199 at Lake Forest wearing right now was the function of 78 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.000 it is to hold a large crowd, and so it 79 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:18.279 was shaped. It was formed to fulfill a function. In architecture, 80 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:24.360 form follows function, but with human beings it's the exact opposite. 81 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.560 Function follows form. In other words, if you want to 82 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.879 know what your function is a life, what you're supposed 83 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.079 to do with your life, you got to look intently 84 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.639 and deeply at how God wired you. And that's what 85 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:41.000 we're going to look at this morning. Your shape reveals 86 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.279 your purpose. I mean, anybody here have gills, no, so 87 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.480 you weren't made to swim underwater without a scuba tank. 88 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.720 Anybody here got wings? No, And that's why you takes 89 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.680 a machine to help you fly. You weren't shaped for 90 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:01.399 those things. Now, the Bible says, very repeated that God 91 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.600 planned every day of your life, even before you were born. 92 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.720 You are not an accident. Your parents may not have 93 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.639 planned you. I've told you this many times, which but 94 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.639 God did. And it doesn't matter whether they were good, bad, 95 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.120 or indifferent parents, or you've never even knew your parents. 96 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.560 God knew that they had just the exact DNA twenty 97 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.240 three thousand chromosomes each that would create you. And God 98 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.040 is more interested in making you than he was in 99 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.279 their parenting skills. And God wanted you alive, and nobody 100 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.240 else could have made you you, so He used even flawed, 101 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:33.519 imperfect people. 102 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:34.120 To make you. 103 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.199 Now the next verse some on one thirty nine, I 104 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.319 want you, as I read this aloud, to circle all 105 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:42.079 of the verbs. 106 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.120 Okay, let me read it to you. Here's on screen. 107 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:49.040 You Lord made my whole being circle. The word made 108 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:55.480 You formed me circle, formed in my mother's body. I 109 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.160 praise you because you made me. There's another maid in 110 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:04.800 an amazing, in a wonderful way, you saw, he saw. 111 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:07.720 There's a verb you saw my borns being formed. There's 112 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.360 another verb. As I took shape. There's another in my 113 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.439 mother's body. When I was put together, circle put together. 114 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:19.920 When I was put together, there in your mother's womb, 115 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:24.079 you saw my body as it was formed. All the 116 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:28.639 days planned planned for me were written in your book 117 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.360 before I was one day old. Now I want you 118 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:37.800 to write underneath that verse. God was intimately involved in 119 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:42.439 my birth. He made you, he formed you, he shaped you, 120 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.519 he planned you, he saw you. This is not something 121 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.439 where God just said, oh, another baby's been born. No, 122 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.759 God was intimately involved in your personal birth. He saw you, 123 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.439 he made you, he planned you, he created you, he 124 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.959 formed you, he shaped you. 125 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:01.360 God was intimately involved. 126 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.519 Now, notice in that verse he says, I've planned every 127 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:05.720 day of your life. We don't get to choose the 128 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.160 day of our birth, and we don't get to choose 129 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.600 the day of our death. It's God's timing. Today there 130 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:14.480 are many people trying to choose the day of. 131 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.920 Their own death. That's called playing God. 132 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.399 We don't get to choose when we're born, and we 133 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:22.639 don't get to choose when we die, and when we do, 134 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:26.279 we're trying to play God. God is God, and you're 135 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:32.199 not now. Nearly thirty years ago, those who've been around 136 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.079 for any length of time At saddle back, No, I 137 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:38.920 came up with a little crosstick shape, five things that 138 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:43.000 describe how God shaped you, why you are you, what 139 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.399 makes you you? And to kick us off in today's message, 140 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:50.000 Pastor Tommy, who is our three to Zho one ministry 141 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.680 pastor who teaches the class now shaped for significance, is 142 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:54.879 going to come and talk about shape. 143 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:56.319 So let's give Tommy a warm welcome. 144 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.160 So how has God shaped you? The yes stands for 145 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:11.360 spiritual gifts. It stands for spiritual gifts. The moment you 146 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.480 became a believer, God gave you some spiritual gifts. And 147 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:19.000 spiritual gifts are supernatural abilities that God gives each of 148 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.959 us through the Holy Spirit. At the moment of conversion, 149 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.959 at the moment that Jesus comes into our hearts, the 150 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:28.399 Holy Spirit enters in. We receive different kind of talents 151 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.800 and special abilities and multiple spiritual gifts in the moment 152 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.279 that we become a believer. Look at what First Corinthians 153 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.039 seven to seven says, each one has his own gift 154 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:42.080 from God. One has this gift, another has that. Now, 155 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.879 these spiritual gifts that are given by God are not 156 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.039 for your benefit, but they're for the benefit of others. 157 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.519 These gifts are to be used to minister to the 158 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:52.360 Body of Christ. They are to be used to build 159 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.320 up to the church, to advance the. 160 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.759 Kingdom of God. And we're given. 161 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.200 These gifts so that we can be a blessing to 162 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.879 other people, that our lives and how God has made 163 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:03.519 us could help other people. 164 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.759 And it's to show God's workmanship and his handiwork and 165 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:08.480 his power in our lives. 166 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.799 Now, some of you have spiritual gifts, but you don't 167 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:13.759 even know you have them. And one of the reasons 168 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:15.480 you don't know that you have them is because you've 169 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.080 never actually taken a look at them. You've never unwrapped 170 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.840 the package that God has given to you. Imagine receiving 171 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.840 a beautifully wrapped gift and then you receive that gift, 172 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:25.360 but you just put on a shelf and you just 173 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.879 stare at it. Imagine how the gift giver would feel 174 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.080 knowing that you've taken this gift that they've given and 175 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.480 you haven't done anything with it. Well, God has given 176 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.159 you these amazing spiritual gifts inside of you, and he 177 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.399 wants you to unwrap those. We say, well, Tommy that's great, 178 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.240 but how do I unwrap them? Well, the easiest way 179 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.519 and the most beneficial way to unwrap them is to 180 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:47.080 start serving in ministry. You discover your gifts and what 181 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:49.320 God has put inside of you by getting out and 182 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.279 serving and trying different ministries. And you'll try a ministry 183 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:53.600 and it might work for you, and it's like, oh, 184 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:54.879 I think this maybe me. 185 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.600 I'm not sure. Some may not work for you, but 186 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:58.240 the ones that. 187 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:02.000 You're most fruitful at encourage others, encourage you and say, man, 188 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.360 this really looks like who you are. You're doing a 189 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.960 great job. That is where your spiritual gift is at. 190 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.519 It's easier to discover your gift through ministry than it 191 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.440 is to discover your gift or ministry through your gift, 192 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.559 and so God wants you to be able to use those. 193 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:17.279 Gifts for him. 194 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.039 Now, I want to be honest with you, there's some of. 195 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:23.000 You here that actually don't have any spiritual gifts. 196 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.200 And the reason you don't have any spiritual gifts is 197 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.120 because you've never asked Jesus into your life. You've never 198 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.200 stepped across the line, you never tried to establish a 199 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.480 relationship with God through his son Jesus. 200 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.159 But the moment that you do that, the moment that you. 201 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.559 Ask Jesus into your heart, he changes everything about you. 202 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.919 But he also gives you gifts, these spiritual gifts. Now, 203 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.480 every believer has at least one gift that they receive. 204 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.120 I've never met a believer who doesn't who only has one. 205 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.519 Most every believerrival woman always has multiple gifts. So the age, 206 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:57.000 the age stands for heart. It stands for heart. This 207 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.720 is your motivations, your interests. This is your passion, the 208 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:02.000 core of who you are. 209 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:04.000 Deep down inside. This is what gets you up in 210 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:05.759 the morning. This is what keeps you up late at 211 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.200 night thinking about it. This is what turns your crank. 212 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:10.639 The things that you love. 213 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.039 And we've got all different kinds of passions, all different 214 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.720 kinds of loves in our lives, and they're all for 215 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.759 different reasons. Some of you absolutely love football, like this 216 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.720 is your season, this is your time. You love football. 217 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:24.679 You're all up in what everything the NFL is doing. 218 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.639 Some of you love sports, some of you love love love, 219 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.679 I mean just love running. You could run for miles. 220 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:36.759 I don't understand this at all, you know, Tommy, don't run. 221 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.799 I just don't I don't and I don't get it. 222 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.039 If we have to evacuate the building, I'm gonna die 223 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:46.080 and go to heaven. I you know I'm gonna get out, maybe, 224 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:47.720 but I'm gonna be the last one to get out. 225 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:49.279 There's nothing wrong with that. 226 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:49.519 Though. 227 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:52.159 You got different passions. Some of you love cooking, some 228 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.679 of you love painting. Some of you love to do 229 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.600 business and shop and fix things and repair things. Some 230 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.279 of you love video games, some of you love numbers. 231 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.639 I don't understand that one either. You've got different passions 232 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.440 and different things that you love. They make up who 233 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.120 you are, and they're all wonderful. Have you ever noticed 234 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.159 that there's some things that really interest you? I mean 235 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.240 you really into it, and then there's other things that 236 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.399 just bore you to tears and thirty minutes feels like 237 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:19.960 thirty years, and you're like, are. 238 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:21.919 We ever gonna get out of word? This is terrible? 239 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.639 Have you ever noticed there's some things that really excites 240 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:27.440 you and other things you could just care less about? Well? 241 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:28.639 Where did that come from? 242 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.200 It came from the fact that God put inside of 243 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.120 you an innate desire, an innate passion for certain things, 244 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.519 things that interest you, and God put those passions in 245 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.399 your heart for you to enjoy them and for his benefit. 246 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:42.399 Why do you do this? 247 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.159 Because He wants you to be you only you can 248 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:46.519 be you, and he wants you to be you. 249 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.080 And my heart is the real me inside. 250 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.840 Now you may not have known this, but every single 251 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.639 one of us have a unique heart beat. Just like 252 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:56.080 you have a unique thumb print or a fingerprints, a 253 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.919 unique EyePrint, you have a unique heart beat, a unique emotion, 254 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.480 a heartbeat that God put inside of you, and that 255 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.000 person inside of you in who you are. God wants 256 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.240 that to come out because that's the real you, those 257 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.840 real passions. He doesn't want you to be ashamed of 258 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.200 those real passions you have. The person you're sitting next 259 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.360 to you more than likely doesn't necessarily have the same 260 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:17.519 passions that you do. 261 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.960 And that's totally okay. 262 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.919 Look at what Proverbs four twenty three says, guard your heart, 263 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:23.639 for it is. 264 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.200 The wellspring of life. 265 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:28.279 We need to guard our heart for many reasons. But 266 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:29.559 let me give you one of the reasons why we 267 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:30.399 need to guard our heart. 268 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:31.879 Because there are people. 269 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.960 In this world that will look at your passions and 270 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:35.960 look at your dreams, and they'll want to dismiss them, 271 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.879 don't want to belittle them. They'll want to deny them. 272 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:42.000 They might even try to destroy them. And God doesn't 273 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.279 want that for you. God wants the real you to 274 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.879 be able to stand up and to step up in 275 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:51.559 ministry and to serve him. Satan wants to destroy your passions. 276 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.600 Satan wants to whisper things in your ears of like, oh, 277 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.559 why should you care about that? That doesn't matter. 278 00:13:57.480 --> 00:13:59.799 He wants to destroy and he wants to distract you 279 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.000 from them. So the Bible says you have to guard 280 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:02.840 your heart. 281 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.480 Now, if we all had the same heart, if we 282 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.000 all had the same passions and desires, there's a lot 283 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:08.320 of things. 284 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:09.519 That wouldn't get done in the world, right. 285 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.960 I mean, so thank God that we all have different 286 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:15.039 things that we love, different things that get us going. 287 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.039 I mean, thank God. 288 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.519 People love repairing things, repairing cars, and people love teaching kids. 289 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.960 Those are all different things that God can use for 290 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.159 his glory and his kingdom. 291 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.840 Now, the A stands for abilities, stands for abilities, and 292 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.960 those are the natural abilities. These are the natural abilities 293 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.879 that you were given the moment you were born. And 294 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.679 everybody gets some natural abilities. Look at what Romans twelve 295 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.399 six tells us God has given each of us the 296 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.159 ability to do certain things. Well, I want you to 297 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:51.440 underline certain things well. In this verse, God doesn't say 298 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.799 I gave you the ability to do everything. Well, he said, 299 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.960 I've given you the ability to do certain things. 300 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:57.279 Well. 301 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.039 There's a book called the twenty one Outrageous Lies We 302 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:02.080 Tell our Kids. 303 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:03.080 Now. 304 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:04.960 In this book, it talks about all these different lies 305 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:06.360 that we tell them. For example, this is a lie 306 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:07.200 that we tell our kids. 307 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.759 Just tell me the truth. I promise you won't get 308 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:15.039 in trouble, right, Like I mean, I've told I've been 309 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:16.720 so careful, I've to tell my kids. 310 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:18.879 I tell my kids that, and in my mind, I'm like, Okay, 311 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.879 no matter what comes out of their mouth, I am, 312 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.960 they're not going to get in trouble. I just want 313 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.039 to know the truth. But that's a lie we tell them. 314 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:27.200 Here's another lie we tell our kids. We tell our 315 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:30.399 kids you can be anything that you want to be 316 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:31.000 in this world. 317 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:33.159 It's true. We tell our kids that. 318 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.480 Now here's the problem, though, we kind of perpetuate that 319 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.840 lie out in their lives and they think they can 320 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.679 be anything. Case in point, how many of you ever 321 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:41.639 seen American idol. 322 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.759 Somebody has lied to those people. They have not. 323 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.799 Every time I watch the show, I'm like, where are 324 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.039 their friends? Where are the people that love them to 325 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.240 tell them that, like they can't sing, they don't know 326 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.320 they can sing. We also perpetuate the lie inside of 327 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:00.960 ourselves that we think can do anything. I mean, there 328 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.320 was for a long time there. I want to be 329 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.120 an NBA basketball player. The problem is I got a 330 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:06.080 two inch vertical leap. 331 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.559 That's it. And I don't like to run. So I 332 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:12.360 got a problem that's. 333 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.360 Not gonna work for me because it's not who God 334 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.639 made me to be. So instead of telling your kids, 335 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.240 or even instead of telling yourself you can be anything 336 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:23.039 that you want to be, telling yourself the truth of 337 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:24.840 what God says, and here's what God says. He says, 338 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:29.200 you can be anything, absolutely anything that I created. 339 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:30.960 You to be. That's what I tell my kids. 340 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.639 I said, you can be anything, absolutely anything that God 341 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.519 created you to be. 342 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:37.240 Say this out loud with. 343 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:44.240 Me, say I can be anything, absolutely anything that God 344 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:49.519 created me to be. That's the truth, and. 345 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:50.960 It doesn't matter about age. 346 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.639 David was a teenager when he took on the Giant 347 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.320 and killed him. 348 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:55.919 Joshua said, you know what, I. 349 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.200 Want to take that mountain, the final stronghold in the 350 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:02.759 Promised Land, in his eighties, and he did it. He 351 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.039 was fighting to the front of the line as an 352 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.920 elderly man, saying we're going to the mountain. 353 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:07.640 We're going to take it. 354 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:10.599 When God is in it and God has created you 355 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.880 to be who he's made you to be, and you 356 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:17.759 embrace it, you can do anything. So sometimes the greatest thing, 357 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.920 the greatest discovery, you can make, is finding out what 358 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.279 you can't do in order for you to concentrate on 359 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.559 what you can do. Because all of us are different. 360 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.240 Some of you are really good with numbers. Man, you 361 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:31.519 breeze through math. I mean you can do everything, geometry, calculus, 362 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.440 You're just good with it. Others you, when you think 363 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.279 of numbers, you're like, look, not me, I'm not doing it. 364 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.480 Some of you are really good with words. Some of 365 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.240 you are really good with people. Some of you are 366 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.480 not really good with people. Some of you are really 367 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.160 good with the animals. Some of you might have a 368 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:53.359 natural athletic ability, and some of you might be really uncoordinated. 369 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:55.720 You hurt yourself and you hurt other people. When you're 370 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.799 out there. It's not good. 371 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.039 Some of you might have a be an artist and 372 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.400 you love to create, or you might be mechanically you 373 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.200 have mechanical abilities in or you can create software. 374 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:08.519 And I love that I am all these people. 375 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.680 I feel like I had a mechanical bypass as a 376 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.160 child when I was born. My brain just doesn't work 377 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.440 that way. But some of you do amazing as architects. 378 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:20.039 Some of you are teachers and hair stylists and makeup 379 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.480 design artists and video production. You're born with leadership skills 380 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:27.359 and leadership abilities, so you have music abilities. You're able 381 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.759 to take an instrument and just a very short amount 382 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.400 of time learn how to play it and develop that skill. 383 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.480 Some of you, God gave this incredible ability to sing, 384 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:35.880 and you have. 385 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:37.039 A beautiful voice. 386 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.200 The fact is that all these different kinds of abilities 387 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.480 God wants to use for his glory and his kingdom, 388 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:45.759 and he will to build up his church and to 389 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.519 further the work here on this planet. Now, PEA stands 390 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.400 for personality. We have spiritual gifts, we have heart, we 391 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:53.240 have abilities. 392 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:54.640 And then PA is. 393 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.279 The fact that God has given us all a unique personality, 394 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:00.920 and some of you have more unique personalities than others. 395 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:04.440 Don't elbow anybody. 396 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:05.400 Now. 397 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:09.200 Psychologists tell us that there are sixteen unique personality types, 398 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.400 but within those sixteen unique personality types, there are hundreds, 399 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:16.240 if not thousands, of variations based on environment, based on 400 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.200 passions and education, based on the experiences. 401 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:19.920