Your Spiritual Gifts

Proverbs 18:16 says, "a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great."

Back in May I blogged about how your gifts would make room for you. Well, today I want to further elaborate and say that some of us are still not using them for God's glory. We are sleeping on our gifts. And if you're like I once was, you are not using them due to fear of failure, fear of success, worry about what people will say, discomfort with putting yourself out there, and the list goes on. Look, I'm here to tell you that you have to get over that stuff. I stifled myself with all of that whack crazy thinking and all it did was get me further away from my calling and thus, further away from helping those I could help. I know you want to help people and it seems nothing is happening, right? Well, what can be expected when there is nothing consistent about your endeavors? When the full effort is not there? I know what that is like too, because I wasn't consistent for many years until one day when I finally woke up and knew I would go forward and take more chances. That was several years ago, but the real level of consistency started about a year and a half ago. Now I am starting to see the fruits of my labor in many ways, namely that people are telling me how my blog is helping them; how my inspirational posters and videos speak to them, how Sha Sha is encouraging them, and even more.

So I want you to be inspired by what lives inside of you and know that if God put it there it will be used for great things. You can't trust God if you don't trust yourself. Go forth and just try something different. You will get there.

I would like you to hear what Sha Sha has to say about using your spiritual gifts. Sha Sha is my avatar, so her face is based on my face and the voice you hear is actually me speaking through her. Check out what she has to say:

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