Saints Have Gifts

Ephesus in the first century was a port city on the west of what is now Turkey. In a letter that Paul wrote to the believers in the congregations in Ephesus, he indicated to all of them that each of them was called by Messiah to serve Him, and that each one of them had been given a gift by Him which would empower them to serve Him. He admonished them to live lives that were worthy of having been called to serve the Master of the universes.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will:
To the saints and believers in Christ Jesus at Ephesus.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ; for He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.
In Him we were also made His inheritance, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.
In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—in Him when you believed—were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesus 1:1-14 HCSB ©®)

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love, diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit with the peace that binds us. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope at your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift. For it says:
When He ascended on high, He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.
(Ephesus 4:1-8 HCSB ©®)