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Sermon Title: Discovering My Natural Abilities
Series: Wednesday Life Connect Bible Study notes week 4
Speaker: Dr. Stacy L. Spencer
CCLI Streaming: CSPL080294
CVLI: 505537570
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Sermon Notes
Life is too short to settle for doing less than our best for God. If we hold back the natural abilities God gave us at birth, or if we use those abilities for purposes that don't include God, they will not be used to their full capacity.
Do you know the abilities you were born with? Do you know the things you love doing? Start figuring out ways to express those abilities in your everyday life. Grab hold of your natural abilities and aim them high for God's glory!
Discussion Questions
1. What Characterizes an Activity You Love?
What characterizes an activity you love to do? Offer one or two top qualifications.
2. Deposits of Love
Talk about ways each of us can make deposits of love throughout a typical day, no matter what we are specializing in
at the moment.
3. The Parable of the Talents
Think about the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14–30. Why does it matter that we make the most of our abilities
now? What could be the harm in putting them off or neglecting them?
4. Something You No Longer Do
Share with the group something you know you do well, but that you no longer do at all. Why did you stop doing it? Is
there a way you could include it again in your lifestyle? Ask the group to pray for you to find that answer.
5. Benefiting Your Group
How could your natural abilities benefit your group? Share one way you think God could use something you know
you do well.
Sermon Title: Discovering My Natural Abilities
Series: Wednesday Life Connect Bible Study notes week 4
Speaker: Dr. Stacy L. Spencer
CCLI Streaming: CSPL080294
CVLI: 505537570
S.H.A.P.E. Assessment: ptxt.io/10rz87
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Join: n2newdirection.org
Sermon Notes
Life is too short to settle for doing less than our best for God. If we hold back the natural abilities God gave us at birth, or if we use those abilities for purposes that don't include God, they will not be used to their full capacity.
Do you know the abilities you were born with? Do you know the things you love doing? Start figuring out ways to express those abilities in your everyday life. Grab hold of your natural abilities and aim them high for God's glory!
Discussion Questions
1. What Characterizes an Activity You Love?
What characterizes an activity you love to do? Offer one or two top qualifications.
2. Deposits of Love
Talk about ways each of us can make deposits of love throughout a typical day, no matter what we are specializing in
at the moment.
3. The Parable of the Talents
Think about the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14–30. Why does it matter that we make the most of our abilities
now? What could be the harm in putting them off or neglecting them?
4. Something You No Longer Do
Share with the group something you know you do well, but that you no longer do at all. Why did you stop doing it? Is
there a way you could include it again in your lifestyle? Ask the group to pray for you to find that answer.
5. Benefiting Your Group
How could your natural abilities benefit your group? Share one way you think God could use something you know
you do well.
