Gifts & Callings: A Member of uSoNINI NaNINI’s Body

Every one of us was created on purpose, and along with that purpose the Most High placed a gift in each of us. Not rushing to do something with it. Not comparing it to someone else’s. Just understanding it — because you can’t walk well in what you don’t understand.

1. 01

   Without repentance.

   A lot of us carry a quiet fear that we had something once, and we lost it. When we hear the word repentance, we think of ourselves — turning around, saying sorry. But that’s not the repentance in this verse. This one is on His side. Without repentance means He doesn’t change His mind about it. He doesn’t regret it. He doesn’t take it back. Paul is writing about a people who stumbled and wandered, who looked like they had lost their place, and he still says the gifts and calling were not withdrawn.

   For the gifts and calling of uSomandla are without repentance.

   Romans 11:29 KJV, as we read it

   You can lose confidence. You can lose time. You can lose your way for a while. You cannot lose what He gave, because He is the One who gave it, and He does not take it back.

2. 02

   He is not a man.

   A man gives something and then changes his mind. A man promises and then reconsiders. uSoNINI NaNINI is not a man. What He gives, He gives for good. That means the gift doesn’t stay only as long as you’re performing. It doesn’t leave when you fall short. It doesn’t expire when you take a break, or when you lose your nerve, or when you spend years doing something else. Myself included. So the question was never whether the gift is still there. The real question is whether you understand it.

   uSomandla is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

   Numbers 23:19 KJV, as we read it

3. 03

   Many gifts, one source.

   Diversities. Differences. Many gifts. Many ways of serving. Many kinds of work. And one source. Paul says it three times: the same Spirit, the same Lord, the same God. Nothing in this list came from anywhere else. Every gift traces back to Him. If we get that wrong, we’ll spend our lives trying to be something we weren’t given to be.

   Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same uSoNINI NaNINI. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same uSomandla which worketh all in all.

   1 Corinthians 12:4–6 KJV, as we read it

4. 04

   The Giver decides.

   Verse 7 says the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man. Not some. Every one. Nobody in this room got skipped, because the One who gives doesn’t skip anyone. Verse 11 says He divides it as He will. Not as you will. Not as the assembly votes. It doesn’t say you picked it, or earned it, or got it by being more spiritual than the person sitting beside you. That’s good news — you don’t have to compete for what He assigns — and it’s humbling news, because you can’t boast in what He gave. And it’s given to profit withal: the gift in you was never only for you. He gave it for the whole assembly.

   But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

   1 Corinthians 12:11 KJV

   He gave it. He knows what it is. And He is not hiding it from you.

5. 05

   The foot that shrinks itself.

   Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body. The foot looks at what the hand does and decides it doesn’t count. That’s the first way we get it wrong. Because I can’t sing like her. Because I’m not as bold as him. Because mine isn’t as visible. Myself included. The foot’s opinion of itself doesn’t change where it belongs, because belonging was never the foot’s decision.

   But now hath uSomandla set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

   1 Corinthians 12:18 KJV, as we read it

6. 06

   The eye that elevates itself.

   The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee. That’s the second way we get it wrong: we decide the visible gift is the greater gift. The one on the platform over the one in the kitchen. The one everyone hears over the one nobody sees. Paul closes that door too. The members that seem more feeble are necessary. The ones we think less honourable get more abundant honour — not less. More. There’s no ranking in this body. Not because every gift is the same, but because every gift has the same Source and the same purpose.

   And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

   1 Corinthians 12:21–22 KJV

7. 07

   A body doesn’t compete with itself.

   When one suffers, all suffer. When one is honoured, all rejoice. It’s one body, moving in one direction, for the One who formed it. The gift that gets applauded and the gift that goes unseen are both His, both placed by Him, both doing the work He assigned. If you’ve been calling yours small, bring that to uSomandla. If you’ve been calling someone else’s small, bring that to Him too.

   And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

   1 Corinthians 12:26 KJV

   No gift is better than another when every gift is for His glory. The only thing that makes a gift great is whether it’s doing what uSoNINI NaNINI gave it to do.

These notes are a summary of the teaching in Brother Jaylon’s words, not the full message as given.