Living in God’s Plans for Your Life Part 3

Some Keys to Discovering Your Gift

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

I.Living in God’s Plans for Your Life

A. You Have God-Given Gifts – You Must Use Them

“When we discover our gifts, we uncover our passion.  When we uncover our passion, we find our purpose.  When we find our purpose, we can fulfill our destiny.” Brian Souza

1. (Prov. 18:16 NKJV; 17:9 KJV) Your gift is the key to your prosperity.

a. (Rom. 12:1-8 NLT) lifestyle/gift

b. (Eph. 4:1-7 MSG; [v7 AMP/NLT]) lifestyle/gift

c. (Rom. 11:29 NLT) Irrevocable gifts.

2. Key Principles of Your Gift

a. Whatever God calls for He provides for.

b. Whatever God demands He supplies.

c. Whatever God expects He injects.

d. Whatever God assigns He designs.

e. Whatever God calls out He puts in.

B. Some Keys to Discovering Your Gift

    1. Get leverage.  Develop either a burning desire or a burning discontent. (ref. Exo. 5) Israel slaves had to make bricks with no straw after Moses goes to Pharaoh.

a.Thomas Edison “Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.”

b.In order for most people to make life changes, things must be either really bad causing us to run in fear or the change we want must be so attractive moving us to do whatever is necessary to have it.

~Share testimony of praying daily then getting fired from the bank.

c.Create leverage by exposing yourself to what you want and then begin to dream of it. 

2.Get curious.  Use your imagination to come up with interesting ideas.

a.If you could wave a magic wand and be doing anything you wanted tomorrow, what would you do?

 

[Pastor Lee Stokes]

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