In His Presence - Part 3
Mykal Smith
Part of In His Presence
September 5, 2021

Experience God

(Zechariah 4:6 NIV) So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD… ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.”

(1 Corinthians 12:1 NIV) Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

(Romans 6:23 NIV) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Ephesians 2:8 NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.

__The Holy Spirit.

(Acts 1:4-5 NIV) “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

(Romans 12:6 NIV) We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.

“A spiritual gift is a special supernatural ability that God gives to each of His children, so that together we can advance His purposes in this world.”

(Acts 2:17-18 NIV) “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.”

1.God has called

to to the world around us.

(Acts 10:38 NIV) God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

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

(1 Corinthians 12:7 NLT) A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

2.Every

God has given is and .

(1 Peter 4:10 NLT) God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through you.

Mercy: “Ohhh…. I’m so sorry. Are you okay?”

Preaching: “That’s what happens when you’re not careful!”

Serving: “I’ll clean it up.”

Teaching: “The reason it fell is because your plate was too heavy on one side.”

Exhortation: “That’s okay, it could have happened to anybody.”

Giving: “Here, take my dessert.”

Administration: “Jim, you get the mop. John, you clean it up. Mary, why don’t you fix another desert for them.”

(Psalm 139:13-16 NIV) For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well… All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

I was made for this.

3.The

God has given me .

(Romans 12:3-6 NIV) Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts…

Highly: an

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Sober: having a

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Faith: Allowing the One who created you to give the

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Do not have the

of who you are but rather be set free and put in your by allowing the One who created you to show you and .