Use Your Gifts

Romans 12:3-6 NKJV
[3] For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of  himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. [4] For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, [5] so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. [6] Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let  us  use  them: if prophecy, let  us  prophesy in proportion to our faith;
Paul begins by positioning what he’s about to write as a warning.
Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves. (12:3)
Here we’re told to do an honest self-evaluation. Of what? Of the gifts, God has placed on our lives in real time.
Why do I use the words real time? Simple. Think of the biblical example. Saul’s honest assessment before he met Samuel would have been, “I cannot prophesy.” This would have been true and accurate for Saul at the time. However, once he met Samuel and the gift of God came on his life, his honest assessment would have changed to this: “I can prophesy.”
Regarding different gifts, Paul’s words are crystal clear: “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body” (Romans 12:4–5). Simply consider your own body: Your fingers can do things your nose can’t; your nose can do things your ears can’t; your ears can do things your stomach can’t; your stomach can do things your liver can’t; and the list goes on.
We’re all called, and we all carry unique gifts that are needed to fulfill our kingdom assignment.
Our gifts aren’t only for the gathering of saints in a building, although they are valid and important. We certainly don’t want to downplay our gatherings. The intention here is to expand our view of the operation of God’s gifts. If we’re called to labor outside the church, which is the case for most of us, we’re called to operate supernaturally through our gifts within our circle of influence—among our ethnos group. If you’ve separated the secular from the sacred, that mentality needs to change.
When you walk into the room, no matter where it is—the hospital ward for your work as a surgeon or nurse, the public school classroom for your teaching, the factory for your skilled labor as a machinist, and so forth—you’ve been gifted to bring the sacred into that atmosphere and to disciple it in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You have divine backing and authority to bring the Kingdom of heaven to earth, just as Jesus did with Zacchaeus and others. You’re called to multiply the Kingdom’s ’s mode of operation throughout your arena of influence