Hello everybody. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Thank you so much for joining us today. And if you're brand new, welcome to the Daily Hope family. We hope you'll enjoy the teachings of Pastor Rick Warren right here. I'm so excited for all of you to learn about your shape. It might not be the shape you're thinking of right now. Rick

loves to use acrostics, and this one is S-H-A-P-E. Your shape, your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities,

personality, and experiences. And one of the reasons I love this series and have shared it with so many friends

is because Rick talks about the way God wired you and why you need not just know your shape,

but how to use it to do the things that God designed you to do. Very excited to hear today's

message. So here's Rick with part one of a message called Unwrapping Your Spiritual Gifts.

Robert Kriegel Runtz wrote a book in which he said everybody's always in one of three zones.

He said one is the panic zone.

And that's exactly what you do in the panic zone. You panic.

In the panic zone, you do in the panic zone. You panic.

In the panic zone, you are out of your league.

You are doing work that you're not gifted or shaped or prepared or educated or equipped to

do.

You are stressed out when you're way in over your head.

Have you ever been there?

How many have you ever been in the panic zone?

The rest of you are lying.

Because everybody's been there.

If you've never been in the panic zone,

I want you to preach the sick services next weekend.

That will immediately move you into the panic zone.

At the other end of the spectrum is the drone zone, and that's where everything is too easy.

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