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12-9-2021 – A Word to the Wise – ON THE GIFTS

The Motivational Gifts have their beginning from conception as purposed by the Lord before conception. This process occurs with each pregnancy and ensures that each human has a purpose and direction. Further it may serve as a constant proof of the Creator’s personal interest in the child.

The Gifts (Prophet, Teacher, Administrator, Encourager, and Server. Giver, and Mercy) provide the framework for completing the purpose for which the Lord created us. The gifting process takes place in the mind of God before He creates us. Thus the structure is in place to contain and directs towards the purpose ones individual creation. It begins for us at conception.

The Gifts are a framework upon which is built all future experience. The gift filters the environment, and relationships, for specific material relevant to what the gift processes.

Additionally, into this framework may be added the core for other talents or abilities. Each additional talent exists and functions within the framework provided by the Motivational gift.

This process may be compared to a huge earth magnet. This magnet in our being attracts certain experiences and ignores others. It attracts those experiences relevant to the specific gift building on it and filling in the framework. That is what the gift does. It attracts itself to certain experiences and rejects other events which do not fit its purpose.

For example, four of the Gifts out right reject emotional experiences, particularly negative ones. Three of the Gifts are strongly attracted to emotional experiences. Each of these three gifts do different things with those emotional experiences.

When exactly does the Lord give or determine the gift and what more may be said about the purpose? Part of the answer is seen in Jeremiah 1, when the Lord says to him, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” The Lord is saying before conception He knows each of us and creates us for a specific purpose.

As the embryo develops it passes through different stages the Lord adds color to the developing fetus. Womb experiences are filtered. The Gift emphases some things, diminishing the effects of others. Each event good, or difficult, go into the development of the person who will after proper training be able to complete the task the Creator made the child to accomplish.

Later we will examine some of the prenatal experiences to see this process at work. We must keep in mind the Gifts are merely the framework. To the basic pattern is added special senses and potential abilities as the Master sees fit.

As in all things the Master creates when we cooperate, trains, and develops the necessary abilities. There is a deep sense of peace and joy regardless the difficulty encountered as the gifts are utilized. Psalm 139 becomes a guide to the hidden secrets of the Lord. The purpose here is to understand the child in the womb.

Proverbs 22:6 states “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This training begins at conception. The key to this promise is prayer. The word “depart” is our guide. A child cannot depart from where he does not first arrive. The child must first at some point accept the teaching. The child must first take it into his heart. This is observable. A tree bears fruit whether it be peach, pear, or apple. The product is observable.

As so often seems true of man’s nature, man’s interpretations are frequently the reverse of God’s reality. Interpretations which often clash as man emphasizes one aspect of a problem and the Lord puts forth a different solution.

Example, scripture is pretty clear that the creation occurred some 5000 years ago. Man postulates billions of years ago. Man sees abstinence as the cure for addiction, Paul says in Colossians 3 that this is not the case. Man says experiences forms psychology evidence shows that this is not so.

The purpose of our explorations is to see and understand things somewhat differently, perhaps from the Lord’s perspective. To do so means returning to the womb, or slightly before. Here one may behold the fine inner workings of God’s creations.

Psalm 139 actually tells how it all begins for each of the Lord’s children.

“For thou didst form my inward parts,

thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful.

Wonderful are thy works!

Thou knowest me right well;

15 my frame was not hidden from thee,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

16 Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance;

in thy book were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.”

The passage indicates several items of great interest. First, the Lord beholds the embryo prior to birth. Then the Lord begins the knitting process. Beholding the future child the Lord constructs a framework for the child which will last till the end of days. That framework is what I refer to as the Motivational Gifts. Within each of those gifts are the specific traits that are characteristic of that Gift.

To be continued: