Gifts to Advantages
When we use the gifts and the advantages God gives us to further His work while doing our own, our accomplishments will grow. In the middle of the Old Testament in the Bible; God placed the Chronicles. And then in one chapter of those Chronicles He had the life of Jabez placed for a specific reason. I have always heard “nobody reads the Chronicles because all it contains is the lineage.” But, while reading through the Bible I found this story in those Chronicles of a man who placed his total belief in what the God of Israel could do! Jabez took time to THANK God and then he ASKED the Lord to enlarge his territory. He was a good man but he knew that he was to spread the word to others as well as in his community; then across the world! When we put our trust in the creator, all things become possible. Bro. Billy Graham spoke a comment years ago, which I believe sums things up. He said, “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” Your character is what God gave you, and it contains your gifts. Your advantage is that God can carry you into and out of everything whether good or bad. By asking God you have done His bidding. Just think of the advantages of being part of that heavenly home someday! So get up, get going! Use what you have inside as an advantage to live a joyful fulfilled life and remember life is a gift! Use your gifts to build up others along your path so they too can use their gifts to receive advantages to a heavenly home!
Scriptures:
Read: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, Matthew 7:7-8, Colossians 3:17, James1:17, Colossians 1:10
Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank you for today. Thank you for the gifts you have bestowed on me! I come asking that you take these gifts and help me to use them in a way that will honor you and also will reach others who I come in contact with on a daily basis and to others I may see just in passing. Please enlarge my territory so that my gifts will grow while also spreading your love by being your vessel. Open the doors to the advantages awaiting in my journey! Amen.