When we see something
moldy, we throw it away. But when Alexander Fleming saw his culture dishes
contaminated with mold, he discovered penicillin. You see, he had a gift which
prospered him.
Joseph, a Hebrew slave
in Egypt, had nothing except his gift of interpreting dreams. But look at what
that gift did for him. It prospered him. He interpreted Pharaoh’s dream and
became the most powerful man in Egypt after Pharaoh (see Genesis 41).
“But Pastor Prince,
what if I don’t have any gift?”
My friend, don’t let
anyone tell you that you don’t have any gift. God has given each person a gift
which can open doors of opportunities and bring in great blessings.
Maybe you are just not
aware of that gift you have inside you, or perhaps it has profited you nothing
thus far as you have not found out how best to use it. You need to take your
gift and ask God for wisdom to cultivate it until it becomes such a powerful
tool or “precious stone” that wherever you turn, you prosper.
This was the case with
a church brother who was tremendously gifted in the creative arts. For a long
time, he lacked the confidence and boldness to leave the security of his police
job and step out on his own. But when he began to seek God’s wisdom for his
situation, God gave him boldness to leave his job and go back to school to
pursue the creative arts. In school, he prospered, becoming one of its top
students and impressing the principal so much with his creative gift that he
was offered a teaching position in the school even before he graduated.
Now, please don’t go and quit your job after reading this. What you should do is ask God for wisdom regarding your gift. For when the wisdom of God is added to your gift, that gift becomes “a precious stone in the eyes of its possessor; wherever he turns, he prospers.” (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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