Hey there, my friends. I wonder, do you have any birthday or Christmas gifts that were given to you a long time ago and they've just been sitting out in your garage?

Where they're sitting on your shelf, never really done with them what they're meant for?

I know we've all probably experienced that.

Did you know that happens spiritually as well? That Jesus gives us gifts. And he intends for us to

use them for the sake of advancing his kingdom, but we often leave them, so to speak,

sitting on a shelf. Welcome to the morning mindset, friends. This is where we get our minds aligned with

the truth of God's word for this day. We're going to be doing that today by looking again at the

book of 1st Peter, chapter 4 verses 10 through 11. So get out your Bibles. We'll be digging into that in just a

moment. Before we do, I want to make you aware of a resource I've created. It's called

Moving Toward God. It's a workbook that you can use to help yourself grow in the knowledge of

the Christian faith. It's 19 lessons, self-paced, fill in the blank style stuff with exercises

and things to work on to help you understand the basics of the scriptures.

If you're interested in finding one of these workbooks, you can go to morningmindsetmedia.com

slash mTG.

The mtg stands for moving toward God.

So morning mindsetmedia.com slash mtg. That link, or actually a link to my book's page,

will be in the description for this episode as well. All right, let's dig into 1st Peter 4, 10,

or 11. And before we do, let's pray. Our Father, we want to understand this truth, this

teaching about gifts that you've given to us

and enable us to do so in a way that excites us and encourages us to get busy with the things

you've given us and see you supernaturally supply in the way that we use our gifts.

We ask it in Jesus' name.

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