{"id":13922,"date":"2016-08-18T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/20-prize-your-mates-gifts-and-talents\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:50","slug":"20-prize-your-mates-gifts-and-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/20-prize-your-mates-gifts-and-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"20 PRIZE YOUR MATE\u2019S GIFTS AND TALENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>\u201cI<\/b> never knew you could speak in front of a group,\u201d confessed the amazed wife. Her husband had just finished teaching some very significant truths which she had never heard him express.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In order to prize your mate\u2019s gifts, you must first know what they are. How do you discover those gifts and talents? First, go to the gifts listed in Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4 and 1 Peter 4. Share with your mate the spiritual giftings you have seen in his life. Then ask your mate to tell you what spiritual gifts he has seen at work in your life. Or, tell your mate what spiritual gifts you believe God has given to you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Next affirm one another\u2019s talents. Make a list of those talents from each other\u2019s perspectives and experience. Begin to pray over that list of gifts and talents for the Holy Spirit to continue to empower your mate in them.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Finally each of you select one gift and talent that you will pray specifically for and affirm continually each month. Focus on what you have selected both in prayer and affirmation. See how the Spirit increases both the depth and effectiveness of the gifts and talents in your marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Try this: Each of you choose a gift which is not operating effectively in your life right now. Decide to ask God\u2019s Spirit to increase that gift. Pray together.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>But earnestly desire the greater gifts.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>1 Cor. 12:21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI never knew you could speak in front of a group,\u201d confessed the amazed wife. Her husband had just finished teaching some very significant truths which she had never heard him express. In order to prize your mate\u2019s gifts, you must first know what they are. How do you discover those gifts and talents? First, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/20-prize-your-mates-gifts-and-talents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 PRIZE YOUR MATE\u2019S GIFTS AND TALENTS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}