Spiritual gifting …2…

 Spiritual gifting …2…

My husband and I had the amazing honor to facilitate classes in spiritual gifting…both to mixed group settings and I, to women…we loved it as it gave others an understanding of how God had gifted them for ministry and helped them see where they and their partners fit into the body of believers…which brings joy….

After the death of a loved one, there can be loss of purpose, hope, depression…a multitude of negative things …but we do not lose those spiritual gifts…we do not lose hope, and we really don’t lose purpose…but it may take time to find our niche again…..we have changed… our gifting may manifest itself differently that before…or not…

I have friends who have gone into more ministry as they have more time…one became a chaplain for Samaritan’s Purse, another is now  a missionary in Africa…both weaving new patterns into their lives, new chapters using their gifting differently than before…

Thank YOU for your leading….your gifting…

 Spiritual gifting......

We were asked this last weekend what our spiritual gifting was...and,if we didn't know it, to go to the sites and take the "tests" that would help us to decide that information...

Putting that with the Griefshare small group, my question is, "what was the spiritual gifting of your loved one/one's?"  How did you complement one another?  And how is God using that now or how do you see that being used in the future?

Or the question "how were your lives woven together" as brought out in the Griefshare lessons. I loved that "woven together " phrase....

When  you watch a weaver, there are the strands of yarn, set in the loom, and the others moved back and forth weaving in and out, in and out, each combining to make a pattern set by the designer...intricately working together  to make a whole...a complete...

                                               





With the loss of our loved ones, we may think the design is finished, but it really goes on and on, weaving the strands of life into our lives and those around , making a new pattern ...a design for others to see and us to live out...

Our spiritual gifting doesn't change, but the direction may...our loved ones are still woven into our lives, we aren't working together anymore, but we are still being molded , woven into another realm which was well thought out by our Creator...

My husband's gifting was giving, administration...mine are high in those areas as well...I didn't work in his office as our administration skills were very different, but that was okay...I saw them and now I look back and see where our lives complimented one another, how we worked in giving, how we prayed over the gifts, how we rejoiced in giving...how it brought joy to our whole family...and still does...we haven't forgotten the giving, as it is still an integral part of our lives...it is just different now...

Or encouragement, which we both did....it didn't end with his death...it looks different without him, but it goes on and on in many people's lives...woven into the pattern, not forgotten, but lived...

So again, I ask, how did/do your gifting complement one another?  How is 
God using that to His Glory?

Thank YOU for intricately weaving, forming  my loved one and myself...putting us together, complimenting one another.....help those of us who are left to move forward still embracing that gifting for Your glory..

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 

 Romans 12:5-8 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. 

1 Corinthians 12:1-24, 26 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a 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, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to 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 distributes them to each one, just as he determines. Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, if one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.