Gift Giving in God's Economy

Four steps in giving our gifts [back] to God:

1. Prepare it - 

You cannot expect God to use what you have not taken time to prepare.

2. Present it - 

Prepared gifts cannot serve their purpose if they're kept in hiding.

3. Put it down - 

Releasing our gifts back to the Lord for Him to do with as He pleases is difficult and humbling... because [often] without even knowing it, we've placed a demand on God to use our gift in a certain way.

4. Pour it out - 

The best use of our gifts is seldom what we imagined.

Prepared gifts don't work unless they're presented gifts.

#LessonsFromGideon

-Priscilla Shirer, Gideon, Your Weakness, God's Strength

week 4, pages 101-103