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God has given each one of us gifts to manifest. Natural ability or talent, some skill, competence, spiritual gifts and natural ones. But we may not be experiencing the fullness of all of those in us, which makes our life less than what God has for us. There may be a time we feel we are stuck in our life. We’re being held back in our gifts.
We’re as the story of the circus elephant who could go nowhere because he was tied to a stake. We know how powerful an elephant is and they can do anything against a human they want. No one person could stop them in their own strength.
Yet here was this huge circus elephant tied down to an 18-inch stake. He could’ve ripped that stake out of the ground, walked away, and been free. But he had accepted being tied down because it had been that way since he was a baby.
When the elephant was born, right away the owners had tied him to the stake. When he tried to pull it up, he couldn’t because he was so small and weak. That stayed in his memory and from there on out he never tried to pull it out of the ground again. That elephant never moved onward because of his thinking of what happened in the past. He had been convinced he couldn’t.
We can get into that kind of thinking. Something happened in the past that we felt we couldn’t do. Maybe we stepped out to accomplish something and didn’t get very far. Or we tried to express a gift or talent or skill and were rejected. Perhaps it’s just our own thinking. We believe we have a limit put on us. That stake is tied to our mind and it is holding us back from moving onward.
But God has put so many wonderful gifts in you and He wants you to be bold in those. He’s speaking that to your life. Take those gifts and move onward in them. Rip up the stake that tries to hold back your gifts and go forward. See yourself as a powerful elephant that no one can stop and stand in your way. God has much for you to accomplish. Also those gifts can be a great blessing to you and to others. Be willing to walk away from the stake of wrong thinking or hurt emotions or trepidation and move onward.
God knows what He wants to accomplish by using your gifts. He doesn’t want them tied down. He wants you to move onward and use them so that He can see His work accomplished not just in your life, but who knows what your gift will contribute in the future. Just think of that. It isn’t one small gift inside you and you use it for one or two things or maybe not at all. But when you step out in your gifts and allow the Holy Spirit to show you how to express them, generations to come can be blessed and helped because of it.
When you use your gifts, you may be protecting your extended family in the future and don’t know it. You may be meeting a need around you this very day because you are bold enough to express a gift.
It doesn’t matter who your family is, how much money you have, what race or nationality you are or gender. The Lord is interested in people who will submit their gifts to Him and obey Him. He wants people who are willing not to be so timid that they hold back. Don’t allow any false “stake” hold you back.
You may not feel you’re the brightest person or the most talented. What can I do is the way you feel. Don’t feel that way! Come out of that. Pull up the stake and walk away from the wrong thinking and how the devil tries to convince you that you don’t have any gifts that are worth anything. False! God is the One who puts gifts in you.
Would we daresay that anything God would do has no worth? We would never say that. So don’t see the gifts in you and then think they are not of much value. They are of great value just as YOU are of value to God. So in spite of past thinking or how you may feel, change your believing. Change your spirit so you are reaching out. Reach out to God and say, “I want to express these gifts. I want to honor You, Father. I will fulfill every gift You have placed in me.”
Then just watch and wait. Because God can start using you in such wonderful ways. He will work through your gifts to cause great things to happen in your life and for others and for His kingdom. Don’t stay at the circus going around and around tied to the stake. Go on and develop what God has placed within you and see what the Holy Spirit will do!
A Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I HAVE GREAT GIFTS IN ME!”
Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:
Father, thank You for reminding me that You have placed wonderful gifts inside me. Now help me use those in the way that You desire. I want to see beautiful and powerful things happen in my life and for others. I believe as I express my gifts under the direction of the Holy Spirit, great events are about to happen. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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