If you are struggling today, wondering why your talents are overlooked or underused, set aside your feelings and questions, and spend time in His presence.
If you are struggling today, wondering why your talents are
overlooked or underused, set aside your feelings and questions, and
spend time in His presence. God made you and blessed you with talent
and abilities. He knows where you are, and He knows your heart’s
desire. The most important step in unlocking your potential will always
be spending time in His presence.
John 15:7-8: [Jesus said] If you
remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it
will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this: that you produce
much fruit and prove to be My disciples.
4 Qualifications for Service:
God uses ordinary people who choose to spend time in His presence.
God uses ordinary people who are willing to pay the cost necessary to fulfill their purpose in God’s kingdom.
God uses ordinary people who are willing to do God’s work, God’s way, in the places God sends them.
God uses ordinary people who do not glory in the moment, but recognize
that they are being used by the One whom they will serve throughout
eternity.
Dollars & Sense
God entrusts each of us with different amounts of money and property to
manage during our short stay on Earth. We may not be able to understand
why He gives one person much more than another to manage, but the
interesting thing that this parable [Matthew 25:14-15] shows us is that
the reward enjoyed by two of the servants was identical in spite of the
very different amounts with which they were entrusted. From this we can
conclude that it is not how much or how little God gives us to manage,
but how faithful we prove to be as a steward that matters.
Gleaned from the Oct. 18 issue of the Jefferson Baptist Journal. T.C. French