how to ster up your gift by DR MYLES MUROE
tir Up Your Gifts!
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Hidden within you, you have
one of the most powerful tools unknown to mankind. One that has the
capabilities to change the course of history.
What is that tool? It is your God-given gift!
How do you unlock its full potential? Dr. Myles Monroe answers that question as he inspires us to stir up our gifts!
| by Dr. Myles Monroe |
In the New King James Version of the Bible, the verse is translated, "Stir up the gift of God."
The gift is not something we learn.
It is something God gave us.
It is something we need to discover and then stir up.
No one else can activate your gift for you.
You have to do it yourself.
You stir up your gift by developing, refining, enhancing, and using it.
That's where education comes in.
Education
can't give you your gift, but it can help you develop it so that it can
be used to the maximum. Proverbs 17:8 says, "A gift is as a precious
stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it
prospereth" (KJV). In other words, a gift is like a precious stone to
the one who has it, and whenever he stirs it up, it turns into
prosperity.
If
you use your gift, it will prosper you. Many people are working for
money. That's an inferior reason to work. We must work for the vision
within us.
Moreover, you are not to mimic the gifts of others.
You are to stir up your own gift.
Unfortunately,
many people are jealous of other people's gifts. Let me encourage you
not to waste your time on jealousy. Jealousy is a gift robber. Jealousy
is an energy drain. Jealousy will take away the passion of life from
you. You should be so busy stirring up your gift that you don't have
time to be jealous of anyone else or to feel sorry for yourself.
I
read an article about Louis Armstrong, the jazz artist. He reportedly
applied to go to music school and was brought in for an audition. They
gave him scales to sing, but he could sing only the first two notes
properly, so they told him he didn't have what it takes to be a
musician.
The
story said that he cried because they rejected him from the music
program. But Louis told his friends afterward, "I know there's music in
me, and they can't keep it out." He eventually became one of the most
successful and beloved jazz musicians. He sold more records and made
more money than scores of others who were more talented at singing.
Now he is forever etched in the history of music.
Although we are all born as originals, most of us become imitators.
I
used to think about becoming like everyone else and joining the rat
race. However, then I realized that if all the rats are in a race, and
you win, you simply become the Big Rat.
I
recommend that you get out of the rat race, stop competing with the
community, stop being in a contest with society, stop trying to keep up
with the Joneses, stop trying to please everybody, and say, "I'm not
going to be a rat. I'm going to find my own niche.
I'm going to make room for myself in the world by using my gift."
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