Episode 155: Gifted but Unhealthy | When the Oil is Contaminated Series

Now, today's episode is called Gifted but Unhealthy because.

you can be gifted and still be unhealthy there's people believe it or not because i know some of you guys may not believe it that a person can be preaching teaching prophesying doing all those things that believers do And they can be unhealthy.

They can be contaminated because there's a place where you can be gifted and the gift is outrunning the formation.

Let me say that again.

There's a place that you can be gifted where the gift is outrunning the formation.

And what I mean by that is, remember, gifts are given to us freely.

Gifts are given to us.

Anybody can have a gift.

But in order for that gift to be a gift that is operating purely, that gift must be what? Surrendered unto God.

And when that gift is surrendered unto God...

The Lord simultaneously is forming the heart.

He's forming the heart by way of surrender, by way of obedience, by way of humility.

He's forming your heart so that that gift that he's giving you doesn't outrun the formation.

Have you ever seen someone highly gifted, but they are unhealthy? That's how that happens.

That gift was growing, but the heart wasn't being formed.

That's the whole reason why I taught and wrote the formation series.

The formation series started with four books.

Now it's five books.

That was the whole reason to talk to you guys about the importance of formation.

Because when your formation isn't proper, it just creates so many problems as you are trying to to operate in other areas.

Now, again, I want to welcome everyone back to Positive Thinking Podcast.

Again, today we're beginning a four-part series called When the Oil is Contaminated.

The topic on today that I'm teaching is called Gifted but Unhealthy, When the Function Outruns Formation or When the Gift Outruns Formation.