Hebrews 10:24-25: using what God has given us for his glory

In the recent sermon at church, God has reminded me of his calling to use my gifts for his glory.  Lately, I have been trying to use my gifts more and discern how they can be put to use in a ministry context.  This is evidenced in the passage Hebrews 10:24-25.
Hebrews 10:24 says "And let us consider how we can spur one another on toward love and good deeds." God calls us to use the spiritual gifts he has given us to serve others in ministry.  He calls us to be an encouragement to others through serving in various aspects of ministry.  As disciples of Christ we are to use our gifts to further advance his kingdom.  By finding out what our gifts are, God will better use us in whatever ministry or area God has called us into.  Through this search, God's will can be shown through us.
 Some of my gifts are prayer, encouragement and patience. I also enjoy hanging out with youth. Lately, I have been helping with an encouragement ministry that someone from the church I go to started. I am trying to pray more for people across the world to know Jesus as well as using this gift for God's glory.
There are passages regarding spiritual gifts Romans 12:3-8 and and 1 Corinthians 12.Romans 12:3-8 KJV says  3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Romans 12:4-6 describes how we are all apart of the body of Jesus Christ and we have to use our gifts for God's glory whatever they may be.   God has blessed us with unique gifts so we should use them  Paul reminds us in the passage in Romans 12.
In 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 God gifts us many spiritual gifts that are empowered by the Holy Spirit.  Corinthians 12:4-12 says this about the spiritual gifts that God gives us 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.  God gives us all different gifts that the Holy Spirit can us for his glory.  
In order to help us serve others well, we have to keep encouraging one another.  Hebrews 10:25 says, "And let us not stop meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encourage one another all the more as you see the Day approaching." God calls us to use our gifts to serve others in the body of Christ as well as encouraging and leading others to a relationship with him.  1 Corinthians 12:25-26 ESV says "that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.  If one members suffers then another members suffers, if one member is honored then, all rejoice together."  God can use us in order to build up and encourage others through the whole body of Christ.  
How did we see God's will through this passage in Hebrews?  Is there a way we can best apply this to our lives?  Why did God give us spiritual gifts?