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God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day
from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred
times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give
light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to
govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. Genesis 1:14-19
The fourth day of creation parallels the exhorter gift. On the fourth day of creation, God created the sun, the moon, and the stars. He gave them two commands: First, to mark the day and the night and the seasons of the year, and second, to rule over them. The exhorter s designed by God to have dominion over time and timing, but because of the assault of the enemy, most exhorters do not live in dominion over time. Most exhorters are defeated in time and do not maintain a schedule or arrive on time or start and end on time. These guys talk
a lot! God designed them to be prolific in their use of words to express
eloquently and extensively the things God gives them to express. They are known
for fair their worldliness.
Exhorters have often been teased, ridiculed and harassed
for their words. They also have the ability to cross any kind of barrier
(social, racial, economic, and religious). Exhorters enjoy being around other
people, they are not intimidated by new truth, and they tend to start things
and move on quickly. Their weaknesses are that they are people pleasers, they
are unwilling to confront because they also fear rejection. They have poor
management skills, and tend to take in too much, and they are also
compromising, they might settle for doing what is good, instead of God’s best.
