The Good Talker: The Spiritual Gifts - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Spiritual Gifts

Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Master Yah'shua the Messiah to be revealed. He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Master Yah'shua the Messiah. Yahweh, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Yah'shua the Messiah our Master, is faithful. [1 Corinthians 1:7-9]

"The Good Talker"

"Who needs him, he’s such a loser." Roger responded to his friend Steven when the subject of Danny came up.

"That’s a pretty harsh thing to say about your brother." Steven responded. Roger knew it was harsh. He thought back when he and Danny were kids. Danny, the older by a year and a half, was always the guy who could "fix anything". Oh, how mom and dad bragged on Danny when he fixed the washing machine or the lawnmower or unclogged a drain in the kitchen. At first, Roger tried to learn to do what Danny did but it never worked out.

Finally, in high school, Roger found his gift and like his own dad, it was the gift of gab. He won competition after competition in speech, debate and other forms of speech giving. He seemed to have a natural ability to talk to people, give speeches or just get people to see things his way or rally to his cause. It served him well as he moved into a sales career whereas Danny built a very successful auto mechanics business around his skill.

But sadly, for all the success the brothers had, their dislike of each other kept them apart. Danny never understood that talking was a good skill and Roger thought being able to tinker with machines or pipes or wires was a geeky way to be. They fought about it endlessly until Danny moved out, but holidays were always tense except when they went to see Grandma. Everything stopped at Grandma’s house because she saw them as her sweet baby boys and for a while when they visited her, they were sweet and children again, innocent and always ready to play.

Steven left his friend Roger in his office thinking about his brother. Roger wondered if there was ever to be a way to make things ok between them. He didn’t know that over at his garage, while fixing a car, Danny was wondering the same thing. Roger’s thoughts were broken by the phone ringing. He answered it. The sound of urgency in the voice was frightening.

"Roger, the floods have his Pilger." Steven informed him. Pilger was not far from the large city where his family grew up. "The water is rising there and people are becoming trapped in their second floors. The Red Cross is going in to try to get people out."

At first, Roger didn’t get too alarmed but then he remembered, Pilger was where Grandma lived. He picked up the phone and called her but no answer. He knew she lived alone in that big house and probably could not get to the phone. The thought of her alone facing that terror was more than he could stand. Moving almost on instinct, Roger got moving. He organized a rescue mission for the town of Pilger using his huge network of contacts at church, work, his clubs and his business contacts. Within hours, Roger had an army of men and machinery gathered in the parking lot of the Church. They were ready to invade Pilger and save those people.

"Folks," he announced to the crowd of rescuers from his bullhorn. "We need to pray. My grandma is down there and you all have relatives there too. Let’s pray that Yahweh help them until we can get there." And then he bowed his head and led them in prayer.

"Roger we have another area to pray about." Steve shouted out. "Lots of these boats are broken. We need mechanical help or getting all of us down there will be no good. We need someone who can fix anything." Roger felt his face go hot with emotion because it was like Yahweh was telling him, "Get Danny." He had no time to wallow in self-pity or resentment at Danny. He picked up his cell phone and called his brother’s number.

All he had to say to Danny was "Danny, its Roger, grandma’s in danger. Get down here." And he knew Danny would fly to the scene. And that is what happened. Danny brought his tools and workers and in no time, they had the machines in tiptop shape. Side by side, the brothers loaded the boats and together they got to Pilger and got every citizen out. As the brothers sat side by side on the boat heading to grandma’s house they both suddenly knew why they were so different. Danny knew that he could have never gotten such a huge response and organized the rescue so beautifully. And Roger knew that Danny’s gift for fixing things was crucial to their success.

As they got grandma into the boat, she hugged them both and kissed them and then she said what they both were thinking. "Yahweh has given each of you boys a wonderful spiritual gift. Working together you are a powerful tool for him." They knew it was right because that is how Yahweh blesses the church. By giving everyone unique and wonderful gifts, we all can work together to do what Yahweh has for us to do. Separate we are incomplete but together we are powerful tools for Yahweh to use for good.

Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact Yahweh has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don’t need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don’t need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But Yahweh has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. [1 Corinthians 12:14-27]

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