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This week start exploring self-awareness about how God made you. We will also have stuff on our facebook pages this week for you to look at.

Online spiritual gifts inventories

Personality tests

Love languages

Enneagram tests

Strengths inventories

Emotion intelligence

etc.

1. Ask God why you were created?

2. List out lal the things you are good at.

3. Sanctify those things for others.

4. Decide who is supposed to get these gifts. Network as needed.

5. Set aside time for those things.

6. Engage what you were created for with joy.

Big Idea: God created you to be creative into the lives of others

Takeaways:

Our hobbies are where we are often creative. But we assume those things are FOR us. What if our creative hobbies are actually FOR others?

Are you defending yourself from the obstacles of creativity?

Your creativity can be a DIFFERENCE maker in the lives of others

God's generosity inspires / informs / encourages our generosity

God gave us literally everything

God gave us His son

We turn and give the world everything

Practical application:

1. Pray about becoming generous with God's stuff

2. List your resources and gifts on a sheet of paper

3. Explore people and placed to distribute to

4. Be consistent and disciplined in your giving

5. Enjoy and thank God for these opportunities to give

6. Become generous in another area of your life.

To discover more about how you connect with God, check out these resources:

https://groupleaders.org/spiritual-pathways-assessment

https://www.cru.org/us/en/blog/spiritual-growth/devotionals-quiet-times/how-your-personality-connects-you-with-god.html

Big Point: God can satisfy your heart in deep and saturating ways IF you engage Him the ways He has instructed us

Take away:

1. Consuming 'stuff of earth' won't ever work if our souls were made to be satisfied only by 'something from heaven.'

2. Desire and hunger are normal and healthy. The question is are we satisfying those things Gods way or our way.

3. Science and Faith show us that an attitude of gratitude can rewire and rebuild our hearts and minds. So let's engage everything with as much appreciation as possible.

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"How you feel about your family is a complicated thing."

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