Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

If you're brand new, we're so glad that you found us.

And I know you'll want to listen every day as we dive into some of Pastor Rick's best series.

This series is called Shaped to Make a Difference.

And today we bring it to a close.

But don't worry, there's another great series coming right after this one.

Rick has been talking about the acrostic shape,

S for spiritual gifts.

H, your heart. A, your abilities.

P, your personality, and E, your experience. your it's important that you know your shape but it's more important to use it to do the

things that God made you to do. So let's get right to it with Pastor Rick and the

final part of a message called employing your experience.

The Bible tells us in 1st Thessalonians 511,

encourage one another and help one another. That means we're to encourage, where to

build up, we're to motivate, we're to inspire. Now how do you do that? Well you can do

it three ways. You can help people, give people hope, you can help people give people hope you can help people overcome their fears and you can

help people break down barriers. First you need to give people hope and

when you give people hope when you show it can be done, you show

that you've been through it and they'll be able to get through it too in the same way.

You just show it can be done.

When you give people hope, when you help them

take away their fears, it's kind of like riding a roller coaster.

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