“Open your gift..Use your gift!”

“So I’ve been reading about the parable of the talents..and long story short the Master left talents to three of his servants..so to one he gave five..to another he gave three..and to another he gave one..but the one with the five had made a profit with his talents that he was given and he doubled the talents that he received with five more talents..and the same with the one in whom received two..but with the one in whom received the one talent took his and dug a hole and hide the talent in the earth..so after some time the bible says the Lord of the servants returned to see what they had accomplished with the talents that he had given..and so to the ones with the five and two talents he says to them well, done my good and faithful servants for you have been faithful over little I will make you ruler over much..enter into the joy of the Lord..Amen..but not as much for the one who took his talent and dug the hole in the ground and buried it..so the lord was wroth toward him and took the talent away and gave it to the one with the ten talents..Matthew 25:14-30..Amen..but the point of it all is why would the Lord be wroth at the man?..why would He be disheartened about it?..well, because the way I see it is that God gives us all many gifts and talents and abilities in our lives..and for some they may think well, it’s just one..Amen..they may think it’s not that important the simple thing that I have been entrusted with..really it’s just a small thing..Amen..nothing big..nothing extravagant..nothing major so to speak..Amen..so it don’t matter if I do anything with it or not..Amen!”

“But I think about us and our lives in which we all live..and each of us have been given something to do..something that has been gifted to us..each of us have a talent like no one else..each of us has been placed where we are for a reason in our lives..Amen..so I have to ask us all what are we doing with our one thing?..what are we doing with that thing that God has given to us?..maybe it’s holding a door open at church on Sunday morning..maybe it’s a stay at home mom or dad..could be you have be trusted with being faithful to take care of your neighbor..maybe you are the one in whom God has placed over some sort of ministry or bible study..could be you have been called to be a helper in your life..could be that you have been called to rise up and be that great leader..I don’t know really where God has placed you or what the Lord has given for you personally to do..but I have too ask us all what are we doing with our one thing?..Amen..are we faithful with it?..are we doing it wholeheartedly?..are we doing it correctly?..are we taking it seriously this gift?..this talent?..that the Lord has given?..Amen..because you see most of the time we want more in our lives..but the thing is we haven’t even mastered the one thing that God has given..Amen..lets get real guys..we murmur and complain about the one thing..Amen..and we do it half-heartedly..we do the least possible just too get by and make it work..Amen..so why in world would the Lord give more to any of us if He already knows that maybe we couldn’t handle it if He did..see the word says this..don’t despise the moments of small beginnings..for it says that the Lord that rejoices to see the word begin..Zechariah 4:10..Amen..so my prayer for us all is that we feast where we are in them small moments of our lives..that we glean there from others and learn..Amen..that we get equipped and prepared do a job well..Amen..because as well it says when we’re faithful over them little things..that God makes us rulers over much..for you know God sees our work in which we do..He knows how we think..and how we feel about it all..and when we get it right..and get it together with the one thing being committed to it..and as I say doing it well..than God will open up the next door for us to walk right through..moving us forward in our lives..Amen..but right now in the place we are..it prepares us for what He has ahead..so let us grow where we are in our lives..doing the best we can with what we have been gifted and entrusted with..Amen..for yet once again let us never forget that little is much when God is in it..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤️

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