Celebrate!Sample

The Father’s Gifts These words preface a list of gifts that our Father and Creator has given in varied measures and groupings to human beings. The seven categories noted in Romans 12:6–8 have sometimes been called “the motivating gifts” of God. In other words, God has given everyone “a measure of faith,” that is, a beginning point for responding to His will for them. This starting point is activated as each person realizes and uses the unique and distinct gift he has; when each of us serves others by acting on those inclinations which God has placed within to motivate our vocations and our ministries to others. In this December season, come before Father God with both gratitude and teachableness—gratitude, first, to thank Him for the fact He has invested something of His creative potential in us; then teachableness, saying, “Father, show me more about how the gifts You have given me (some of which I may not even yet recognize or acknowledge) might glorify You as I fulfill Your creative purposes invested in me.”