Finding Joy in Suffering // The Spiritual Gift of Mercy

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Spiritual Gifts Series: Mercy Howdy folks! On this season of the Real Marriage Podcast, we want to help you find out what gifts you have and how you can use those to serve your spouse and minister to your family. Also along the way we will be sharing some stories of church leaders from the past with marriages that inspire us! Each week will be discussing a different spiritual gift to help you not only identify the gifts you have, but excel in them for the glory of God. On this weeks episode we are talking all about the serving gift of mercy. Quick Quotes: "the Bible commands us to love our neighbor, well our closest neighbor is always our spouse" Links/Offers mentioned in this episode: Spiritual Gift Guide Text 'GIFTS' to 31996 to get a free copy of our Spiritual Gifts guidebook 21 Day Inner Healing Book Visit 21dayinnerhealing.com to order your copy today. Faithful Counseling Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage for 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we've blown it, we don't need to hide from him.
0:03.0	We can run to him because we're not going to get law.
0:05.3	We're going to get grace.
0:07.4	When we're weak in our humanity, when we have sinned and failed or like a prodigal, we have wandered, or we have done something that is just evil or sinful or foolish or out of character.
0:19.0	If we turn to him, there's compassion.
0:23.2	Well, howdy, Mark and Grace Driscoll here?
0:24.8	Welcome to the Real Marriage podcast.
0:28.1	This is episode two on this season where we're dealing with spiritual gifts in marriage.
0:36.1	And so I was thinking about it. One of the most interesting things you
0:40.3	learn as a kid is how colors work. I'll never forget when I was in elementary school,
0:46.5	they pulled out the three primary colors. It was red, yellow, and blue. And they told us,
0:53.0	you can make millions of colors out of these
0:55.9	three base primary colors.
0:58.1	And I thought, that's crazy.
0:59.7	And then the teachers started doing combinations showing how the three primary colors turn
1:04.5	into millions of colors.
1:07.1	Similarly, when it comes to spiritual gifts, every Christian has one or more spiritual gifts.
1:14.2	They mix together different degrees of spiritual gifting in addition to your personality,
1:20.5	your life experiences, the innate abilities and talents that God gives you.
1:25.8	Some of you are musicals.
1:26.8	Some of you are athletic. Some of you have incredible tech capacity. Some of you have natural pitch in your voice.
1:34.5	All of that together creates a unique divine design. It's almost like your fingerprints are unique.
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