SHAPED FOR SERVING GOD

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SHAPED FOR SERVING GOD The Purpose Driven
Life, Part 5
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• FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN, SERVING
• FOLLOWS SALVATION.
• For it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faithand this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God not by works, so that no one can
  boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
  in advance for us to do.
• Ephesians 28-10

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My 4th purpose is to SERVE GOD BY SERVING
OTHERS, which is MINISTRY.
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• YOU ARE GIFTED BY GOD TO SERVE.
• Each one should use whatever gift he has
  received to serve others, faithfully
  administering God's grace in its various forms.
  If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking
  the very words of God. If anyone serves, he
  should do it with the strength God provides, so
  that in all things God may be praised through
  Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power
  for ever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Peter 410,11

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Your unique SHAPE for ministry Spiritual
gifts Heart Abilities
Personality Experiences
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2. THE BODY OF CHRIST NEEDS YOU TO FULFILL YOUR
MINISTRY. we are to grow up in all aspects into
Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the
whole body, being fitted and held together by
what every joint supplies, according to the
proper working of each individual part, causes
the growth of the body for the building up of
itself in love. Ephesians 415,16
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3. DO WHAT YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR.
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If I proclaim the Message, it's not to get
something out of it for myself. I'm compelled to
do it, and doomed if I don't! If this was my own
idea of just another way to make a living, I'd
expect some pay. But since it's not my idea but
something solemnly entrusted to me, why would I
expect to get paid? So am I getting anything out
of it? Yes, as a matter of fact the pleasure of
proclaiming the Message at no cost to you. You
don't even have to pay my expenses! 1
Corinthians 916-18
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II. LEARN TO SERVE LIKE JESUS Whoever wishes to
become great among you shall be your servant and
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be
slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve, and to give His
life a ransom for many. Mark 1043-45
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• SERVING LIKE JESUS MEANS BEING AVAILABLE.
• And He said to them, How is it that you had to
  look for Me? Did you not see and know that it is
  necessary as a duty for Me to be in My Father's
  house and occupied about My Father's business?
• Luke 249 (Amplified)

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" For I have come down from heaven, not to do My
own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John
538 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip,
"Go south to the roadthe desert road So he
started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian
eunuch The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that
chariot and stay near it." Then Philip ran up to
the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the
prophet. Acts 826-30

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1st Barrier SELF-CENTEREDNESS Forget yourselves
long enough to lend a helping hand.
Philippians 24 (MSG) 2nd Barrier
PERFECTIONISM If you wait for perfect
conditions, youll never get anything done.
Ecclesiastes 114 (NLT) 3rd Barrier
MATERIALISM No servant can serve two masters...
You cannot serve both God and money." Luke 1613
(NIV)
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2. SERVING LIKE JESUS MEANS BEING FAITHFUL. And
He who sent Me is with Me He has not left Me
alone, for I always do the things that are
pleasing to Him." John 829 I have brought You
glory on earth by completing the work You gave me
to do. John 174 (NIV)
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As each one has received a special gift, employ
it in serving one another as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 410 He who
is faithful in a very little thing is faithful
also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust
in a very little thing is dishonest and unjust
also in much. Luke 1610
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3. SERVING LIKE JESUS MEANS BEING
TEACHABLE. For I have come down from heaven,
not to do My own will, but the will of Him who
sent Me. John 638
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Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning
for I trust in You teach me the way in which I
should walk for to You I lift up my soul.
Psalm 1438 But when Priscilla and Aquila
heard him Apollos, they took him aside and
explained to him the way of God more
accurately. Acts 1824-26
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4. THE RESULT Well done, good and faithful
servant! You have been faithful with a few things
so I will put you in charge of many things. Come
and share your master's happiness! Matthew
2521 (NIV)
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