Talk

Able

Louie Giglio
May 8, 2016

In this message from Louie, he challenges us to look to God for our identity rather than looking at the world to give us labels. He reminds us that through our weakness, He makes us strong.

Key Takeaway

You are able in this life through the power of Christ’s resurrection. In Christ’s power, you can reject earthly labels and trust Him to define who you are and what you can do. You are called to tap into Christ’s power to fulfill your purpose.

1.) What do you let define you in this life?

  • The only one who can label us is the one who created us.

  • Earthly labels mean nothing in the kingdom of Christ.

2.) We were all chosen by Christ.

  • Ephesians 1 Paul prays in the hope that we may know:

  • The hope to which He has called you

  • The riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints

  • His incomparably great power for those who believe

  • Chosen by our position in Christ

3.) God labels us as … “You are able"

  • We can not trust our own opinions about who we are.

  • We must look to God’s word to define us.

  • You are able because you are linked to the almighty God.

4.) When we tap into God’s power & that we are able we understand that our deficits are our greatest strengths Ephesians 1:7

  • His grace is sufficient for us

  • When you are weak, you need to depend on the Lord’s power even more

  • His power is connected to our purpose and what we have been called to do.

“
You are able to be everything that I have made you to be.
”
Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. What false labels do you need to replace with the Lord’s labels for you?
  2. What labels from the Word do you need to repeat over yourself today?
  3. How does the truth of being chosen help you to live life differently?
  4. How have you allowed people to give you labels vs. God to give you labels?
  5. What labels from God are you struggling most with giving to yourself?
  6. How have you seen God's strength make up for our weaknesses?
  7. Are you in a mountaintop season right now or a valley? How can you invite God into either of these seasons?
  8. How do you define your purpose in life?

Scripture References

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,

To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ

3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

11In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9But he said to me,
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.