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To whom it may concern,

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Offering yourself as a living sacrifice is a daily choice.

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Offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God. By definition, a sacrifice is costly; it requires you to give up something valuable. Therefore, to offer yourself as a living sacrifice should be costly.

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It requires your whole self — not only the easier areas to surrender to God, but also the areas that feel risky and scary to do so.

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If you have a heart that is willing, God can do the rest.

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Romans 12:1 is a reminder that through God’s mercies, although we may not be deserving, God can use you. In fact, not only CAN God use you in His plans, He WANTS to use you in His plans.

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And so, as the Passion Translation asks, what should our response be to God’s marvellous mercies? Well, when you understand the gospel and love, your response is to be willing. God is looking for someone to say, “yes God, use me” and “yes God, I will do it.”

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“So I run like someone who has a goal. I fight like a boxer who is hitting something, not just the air.”

1 Corinthians 9:26 ERV

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God’s purposes for your life aren’t just for here and now; they are forever and ever and ever. If you think this life is all there is, then you will set goals as if this life is all there is.

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The Bible often compares life to a race, so I want you to think about this: In a race, the finish line is predetermined, and you make progress one step at a time.
The same is true with goals. You work on them one step at a time, and you work with purpose in every step.

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Your gifts are not for your benefit. God gave you gifts for the benefit of other people.

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Because of these qualities, “Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her …. She won [the king’s] favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen” (Esther 2:15b, 17).

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God gave Esther these gifts for a purpose. God has given you gifts for a purpose. And just like Esther, you have a responsibility to be a good steward of those gifts — not for selfish uses but for the good of others.

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Esther had three assets that God gave her to use to fulfill her destiny. She was intelligent, beautiful, and she had an attractive personality.

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In order to fulfill your destiny, you must recognize the gifts God has given you to use. These are the cards you are dealt in life. They include the things you can’t control: your parents, your nationality, your race, your native language.

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When you get to Heaven, God isn’t going to compare you with anyone else, but he will compare you with yourself. What did you do with what you were given? What could you have done if you had trusted God a little bit more? Romans 14:12

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Now, you are not responsible for the gifts God didn’t give you. In other words, if you are not artistically gifted, you are not expected to paint pictures like Rembrandt. But you are responsible for the ones he did give you.

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They also include your SHAPE: your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, and experiences. These are the things that make you uniquely you.