Start with what you have got…… talent trading for profitable living 2

Laying within us are depths, wells of great potential, waiting to be stirred. Wells that could become rivers and rivers that yearns to flow out as into a mighty ocean, to flow out to nations for global transformation…….. see Ezekiel 47: 1-5 note that as the water increased, it became easier to move,then it got to the point he started swimming… swimming through water is easier and faster than walking through it. but it starts with stirring the well. that is, a personal resolution to start with whatever lies within me, in whatever way i can productively engaging or trading it either for personal gain or to bless humanity…. that’s the whole essence of our being on earth…. because God has not called us to just be busy but to be fruitful…. to replenish the earth.

we cannot get out of life what we have not put into it…. lets understand that as long as the earth remains, the principle of seed time is at work whether we are conscious of it or not. let us go on a journey of self discovery, lets locate that seed, that talent, and start showing it for our desired future…. start now! there’s a fruit of greatness in those simple activities of today if we step out with diligence….

we don’t need more prayer, we need to think, we need to search within, its a treasure, its lies within, hidden… that’s why we need to diligently search it out. hence prayer time is not another session to tug at the father with a long list…. as a parent, my kids don’t have to beg me for their fees, so lets understand that God designed prayer time for intelligent interaction with our father on how we can strategically take over the earth, how we can go about his business of preserving the earth for the purpose of showing forth his praise and glory. lets get thinking!

At the cross, Jesus declared “it is finished” . he has done all, there’s nothing new to be done… so why does our lives and the world yet seem like there’s so much left to be done? it is because we need to have an understanding that the baton is now in our hands, we are loaded with all the solution the world needs and until we start sowing little seeds we cannot know how to turn it into that great solution. its time for an awakening… its time to start using our God given resources, potential…. its time to start the stirring!

Start small. start anyhow, start that self development course, learn a new proficiency, reach out to that neighbor,  start with your family, your street…. start sowing and see how you get better and can then do with ease what even the Government maybe struggling with, that what Isaiah 60:22 means, that a little one shall become a strong nation but it starts with verse 1, “arise and shine for thine light has come”, that is: Get up! no more excuses, step out even as your understanding (light) has been awakened. 

Its such a beautiful oxymoron…. to give and yet increase, to lay down and yet gather, to die in order to live. 

No more excuses, just locate your design. that servant gave reasonable excuses in Matthew 25:24… in verse 25, he also added that he was afraid.. its time to overcome our fears and timidity and step out knowing that our father has equipped us abundantly with all that we will ever need, he has not given us the spirit of fear, but of boldness and of a sound mind. we have been pre-destined for global impact!

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, then suddenly you are doing the impossible. locate that seed of greatness, that talent, start sowing it, stir up those water… and get set for a refreshing swim!

Your life is an adventure… step out with excitement… 

Awaiting your testimonies and exploits in Jesus name. Amen

Profitable Living… Talent Trading.

I read this morning, the parable of the talents in Luke 19:12-26 & Matthew 25:14-30…. And am amazed at how practical this parable is, how it throws so much light on what our attitude ought to be to all God has put in us, how we should have a businesslike purpose to our daily activities.

Now the master had great expectations, very high ones indeed for his servants, (note ‘his servants’, the saved, those under his authority)… I believe the great judgment will be for the saved, to give account of how we ‘occupied’, how much we obeyed the commandment (not suggestion); “have dominion, be fruitful, replenish the earth, be the salt…. Give taste to the earth; preserve the earth… be that light that such a dark world so badly needs.”

A wise servant is the one that wasn’t slothful (wasteful and lazy) but profitably engaged the little he had to create more.

Today, let’s look within us. What is that desire within you? Don’t quench it, but begin to fan it, rekindle it by asking the Holy Spirit how we can engage profitably, look into your past, the things you did and loved, look into your future, the things you would love to do… start today to build that flair you have, that interest to inspire people, comfort people, leave people better than you met them…. One step at a time

It starts with knowing that God wants you to develop your gift, your personality, your hobby, those seemingly little abilities so much so that it could make a way for you, open new doors and even cause you to appear  before kings.

Get inspired today, start small, anyhow…. Let that call to a friend be profitable, that post on Facebook, grace your words. Grace the world. Be businesslike with your time… your plans for each day, have a concept, always ask yourself “how can this profit me, someone else, Gods kingdom, the society.

Just have this mindset: I am trading something somehow each day…. If its positive trade, the law of seedtime will yield an increase… even the master is watching, he will see my diligence and he will cause my profiting to appear to all men… I shall be celebrated both here on earth and in heaven… In Jesus name… Amen!