Work From Your Core Strengths

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"In life, your purpose is always connected to your giftedness."

-Bob Gass

"... Bring me seventy... who are known... as leaders... " 

- Numbers 11:16 NIV

A group of neighbourhood children built a treehouse and formed their own club. When the grown-ups were told who had been selected for each office, they were astonished to hear that a four-year-old boy had been elected president. 'He must be a born leader,' one dad observed. 'How did it happen that all you bigger boys voted for him?' His son replied, 'Well, he can't very well be secretary because he doesn't know how to read or write. He couldn't be treasurer because he can't count. He would never do for sergeant-at-arms because he's too little to throw anybody out. If we didn't choose him for anything, he'd feel bad. So we made him president.' 

Life doesn't work that way! You don't become successful by default; instead, you must work from your God-given strengths. In life, your purpose is always connected to your giftedness. God doesn't call you to do something you've no talent for. God told Moses, 'Bring me seventy... who are known to you as leaders.' You cannot grow to your full potential if you continually work outside your core strengths. Improvement is always related to ability. 

Do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses, and never develop your strengths? If you work really hard you could claw your way up to mediocrity, but you'll never get beyond it. Economic necessity and family responsibility may require you to work for a season outside the area of your core strengths, but don't settle there. Seek God's guidance, sharpen your gifts, be patient, and God will open doors for you.

Thank you. God bless you.

© Bob Gass, the publisher, Word for today devotionals. https://www.bobgass.com/aboutus.php

Your Life Is Powered by You Les Brown

"...I want to remind you to stir into flame the strength and boldness that is in you"

2 Tim 1:6 TLB

Handling the Word with a sense of reality

"I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man." -Abraham Lincoln

Every law of God is right, whatever it concerns. I hate every other way

Psalm 119:128 TLB

Indisputably, the universe and humankind are God’s brainchildren. He created what we can now see from vastly intangible resources of His thoughts, calling those things which do not exist as though they did.¹ Such that, He accomplished exclusively through the instrumentality of His infallible Word. Consequently, our worlds are regulated by, and run productively on established principles which have their source in God, who applies them notwithstanding.² Thankfully, God had packaged His Word, applicably labelled principles, in the Bible.  Back in the ancient Israel time, these inspired writings were the major noticeable edge God’s people had on their contemporaries.³ The efficacy of the Bible is self-evident. Approach the contents of the Book, therefore, with all sense of reality, because that is what makes the world work. ⁴  The Bible has specific lines for all aspects of human life. The Word works, and it will work for you. Thank you. God bless you.

¹Rom 4:17, ²Heb 1:3, ³Deut 4:5-6, ⁴ Psalm 119:128, 

The Living Book

"The Bible is not just a book; the Bible is a living force that creates its path when applied"

-Napoleon Bonaparte.

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The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right. 

2 Tim 3:16 -The Living Bible