Gifts and Talents

        Every new Christian wonders what is God’s will for their life, and some older Christians also. When we accept Jesus as our Redeemer, we must also accept God’s will in everything we do. We are first of all a new creation. The former things we did are now not a part of our lives. We have been changed into a Son or Daughter of God. That means we want to do what our God wants us to do. We want to please Him because we Love to do what He wants us to do.

       Here are a few things that the Bible says about the will of God.

      1. In 1 John chapter 2, - This world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God, abides forever.

      2. 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 - For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.

      3. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

      4. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

      5. Romans Chapter 12 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

      6. Ephesians Chapter 6 - Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

      Even after reading the Bible many people still do not know what they should do. Start serving the Lord, anyway that you can. You can start as an usher in Church. Serve in the nursery, kids church, with your gifts and talents, no matter what they are. There are many places that your gifts and talents can be used in the Church. The more you serve the Lord the more God will ask you to do.

      The more we do for the Lord, the more opportunities He will give to you to serve Him. Finding God’s will for our lives is not hard to find, we just need to start from where we are, and God will lead us to better and better things, He has for us. We go from one level of glory, to another level of glory, and so on, and so on. We will find our place in His Will.

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      Contemporary English Version
John 4:34 Jesus said: My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.

      New King James Version
1 John 2:17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

      New King James Version
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 6:6 -- Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

John 4:34 -- Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Romans 12:2 -- And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 -- In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 John 2:17 -- And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.