Your Gift is Not For You.....
I know that God has given me a Gift. It was for Technology and Discernment. I am a Visual Person God gives me a lot of Word Pictures to share in Bible Study and it has been very instrumental in the Dream Career God showed me in Web Design and Multimedia (Print, Video) it comes so natrally to me and people say that I am very good at it Go figure... I Amy am Good at something... I wasnt good at anything till God Gave me This.....I know it's not of me... It has to be God..... I had first tried to take my talent to the Main Sancuary with the Adults but it didn't fit for me. Their designs and stuff was so Serious and plain. I mean I was gonna be obedient wherever He wanted me ( I just knew I had to Serve God Somewhere )
So I showed up every week out of obedience and I didnt feel like I was were God wanted me till my sister told me about Children's Ministry. At first
but then she said you don't Necessarily need to work with the Kids you can work on the Multimedia we use for the Services. Videos and Bible Verses and stuff.
I said Hmmm... Well I'll Check it out.
At first I (of Course) didnt know anyone on the team and felt like I was just in the way. Believe it or not I am shy at first sometimes...
But I hung in there and found that This is Exactly where my Passion is.... It's exactly what I needed too....
I didnt have the Luxury of Being brought up in the Church so I am learning just like the kids are.... It's totally helping me....
It's Hard coming to meetings and not getting home till 10pm 3 nights a week but You know what?
I know that God has more than seen my Living Sacrifice and More than made up for all the effort....
32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
EVERYTHING I have EVER Needed I Get! If I need a Job... I get it.... If I need a Vehicle.... I get it.... If I need my money to stretch till next payday?..... It Does or something comes up (side job or blessing)!
Stuff just happens and I know that it's because I have sought first God's kingdom before my own....
With my personality it's easy to only worry about myself and my life... Getting ahead and keeping ahead giving my time and energy to the things of my world but I choose not to I choose daily, hourly to live my life Sacrificial.... Thinking of others..... I am not bragging at all... I just want you to see that Yes it's hard.... Yes it's uncomfortable... But so is Every New thing..... And every Big Investment...... The Rewards are Great when you Push Through....
Most of all I dont want to be like the Servant who didnt invest his Talent at all.....
Matthew 25:14- (New International Version)
14"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. 17So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 18But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
19"After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20The man who had received the five talents brought the other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.'
21"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
22"The man with the two talents also came. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.'
23"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
24"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
26"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28" 'Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
God has Given Me and You a Talent WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT?
Where are you investing it?
He will come back and/or We are going to stand before Him and show Him what we did with that Talent....
Have you Berried it?
Have You invested it?
I want to Hear Him Say "Well done, Good and Faithful Daughter.... You were faithful in the small things now I will give you bigger things to care for.... Come share in your Father's Happiness.... Awww to hear those words straight from My Master, Owner, Greatest Love, Father, Teacher.... It's My Dream.....
I think it's Selfish for me to Volunteer.... It's probably one of the most selfish things I do.... My Sacrifice Covers me.... My Sacrifice of Love.... Love covers a multitude of sins and The Father Loves me...... I am learning about it out there in the Fields in the Trenches of Service on the Streets.... I get paid in Heaven for all of this......
Every Good Tree has Fruit..Matthew 7:17-19... we all know that Verse But The tree doesn't Bear Fruit for the Tree..... It Bears the Fruit for Others to EAT...... Or it Rots and falls to the Ground which is of no use to anyone....
There are so many Ministries out there to Join.... God has one for you or has one to
Impreganate in you if you Sacrifice your Body to it..... like in Romans 12
Living Sacrifices
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
Use your Talent out of your Love.... You cannot go wrong with that....