Do you know what yours is? Are you using them?

Russell & Styers

May 5

I hope to make a video one day soon about what I want to see the most. What I want and would love to see is for people to come to know their God given talents. Their gifts, the ones that have been inside them from the time they were conceived. Once they have learned and grown in their gifts, then go out and use them. If they are not able to use them where they are at, then find other ways to use them.

Like reaching out to others. Speaking to people in stores, offices, on the street, wherever they can. If they have the gift of being server, find a way to serve. If they have the gift of a giver, then give their time or other things to people. If they have the gift of a teacher, write books, make video's and post them online. Another way of reaching out is sharing their testimony. Whatever gift or gifts they have they need to be using them. There are different gifts, and you can have more than one.

1 John 2:27 "As for you, the anointing [the special gift, the preparation] which you received from Him remains [permanently] in you."

Whether we use the God given gifts or not, they are still there. Some use their gift for things not of God, while others may not even know what their gift is. Then there are those who know what their gift is, but they are not growing in it. The thing is, we don't need a stage, to be well know or a pulpit in order to use our gifts. We can write blogs, do videos, speak to those we meet wherever we go. Share God's Word every chance you get because you may be the only chance someone has to hear it.

You see, for years my top two gifts were server and giver. As the years went by and as I continue to get closer to God. My top one now is being prophetic, but I still have the server and giver gifts. I grew in a gift I had all my life but didn't know it. Until I came to know the Lord and completely gave my life to Him, that's when the other started to grow. What do you want to see the most?

James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

1 Corinthians 12:4-13 "Now there are [distinctive] varieties of spiritual gifts [special abilities given by the grace and extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit operating in believers], but it is the same Spirit [who grants them and empowers believers]. And there are [distinctive] varieties of ministries and service, but it is the same Lord [who is served]. And there are [distinctive] ways of working [to accomplish things], but it is the same God who produces all things in all believers [inspiring, energizing, and empowering them]. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit [the spiritual illumination and the enabling of the Holy Spirit] for the common good. To one is given through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] the message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] the word of knowledge and understanding according to the same Spirit; to another [wonder-working] faith [is given] by the same [Holy] Spirit, and to another the [extraordinary] gifts of healings by the one Spirit; and to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people], and to another discernment of spirits [the ability to distinguish sound, godly doctrine from the deceptive doctrine of man-made religions], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. All these things [the gifts, the achievements, the abilities, the empowering] are brought about by one and the same [Holy] Spirit, distributing to each one individually just as He chooses."