Stay In The Center of Your Expertise.
Even in your mother’s womb you were given by God special gifts, talents and skills. What you enjoy doing the most is a clue to what God wants you to do with your life.
Start today to build your daily agenda around this Assignment.
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called,” (1 Corinthians 7:20).
When we see something moldy, we throw it away. But when Alexander Fleming saw his culture dishes contaminated with mold, he discovered penicillin. You see, he had a gift which prospered him.
Joseph, a Hebrew slave in Egypt, had nothing except his gift of interpreting dreams. But look at what that gift did for him. It prospered him. He interpreted Pharaoh’s dream and became the most powerful man (Prime Minister) in Egypt after Pharaoh. (Genesis 41)
Daniel, while in captivity of Babylon serves Nebuchadnezzar the king and his successors interpreting dreams and became the third ruler (Senate President) in Babylon… Daniel 5.
“But, what if I don’t have any gift?”
My friend, don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t have any gift. God has given each person a gift which can open doors of opportunities and bring in great blessings.
Maybe you are just not aware of that gift you have inside you, or perhaps it has profited you nothing thus far as you have not found out how best to use it. You need to take your gift and ask God for wisdom to cultivate it until it becomes such a powerful tool or “precious stone” that wherever you turn, you prosper.
This was the case with a church brother who was tremendously gifted in the creative arts. For a long time, he lacked the confidence and boldness to leave the security of his police job and step out on his own. But when he began to seek God’s wisdom for his situation, God gave him boldness to leave his job and go back to school to pursue the creative arts. In school, he prospered, becoming one of its top students and impressing the principal so much with his creative gift that he was offered a teaching position in the school even before he graduated.
Now, please don’t go and quit your job after reading this. What you should do is ask God for wisdom regarding your gift. For when the wisdom of God is added to your gift, that gift becomes “A present is a precious stone in the eyes of its possessor; wherever he turns, he prospers,” (Proverbs 17:8).
God placed you in the best place to use your spiritual gifts and build your talents. No matter where you live or what life circumstances you find yourself in, you can make the choice to succeed, regardless of your challenges.
Don’t ever give up.
Keep going.
Don’t quit. Remember, it’s what you do with what you have that makes you who you are.
Ask God for wisdom to cultivate your gift until it becomes such a “precious stone” that wherever you turn, you prosper.
Your uniqueness will be outstanding,
Shalom!
Shalom!