multiply - grow the gift
October 03, 2021 | Matt Ware
Each one of us is called to not just BE followers of Christ but to actively DO something in order to Multiply God’s Kingdom. This series dives into the practical by exploring how you can get off the sidelines and discover why you’re here, what you’re gifted in, how to steward those gifts and how to be faithful to Multiply. In the end, your effectiveness in the Kingdom is up to you.
Grow the Gift
Multiply
Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV) For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Romans 12:6 (ESV) Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them
1 Corinthians 12:4, 11 (NLT) There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all … 11 It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
Psalm 24:1 (NLT) The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.
1 Peter 4:10 (NKJV) As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Grow the Gift
1 Timothy 4:14-15 (AMP) Do not neglect the gift which is in you, [that special inward endowment] which was directly imparted to you [by the Holy Spirit] …15 Practice and cultivate and meditate upon these duties; throw yourself wholly into them [as your ministry], so that your progress may be evident to everybody.
1. Practice
2. Cultivate
3. Meditate
Proverbs 18:16 (NKJV) A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
1 Samuel 16:18 (AMP) I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who plays skillfully.
1 Timothy 4:14-15 (AMP) Do not neglect the gift which is in you, [that special inward endowment] which was directly imparted to you [by the Holy Spirit] …15 Practice and cultivate and meditate upon these duties; throw yourself wholly into them [as your ministry], so that your progress may be evident to everybody.