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Gifts and Talents

You were given a gift from God to help others. That’s right, God gave you a supernatural ability to encourage someone or heal someone by laying your hands on them. Or He may have given you the ability to sing or teach. In life, we all have moments when we are discouraged or facing a hard time. Unfortunately, everyone can’t be happy and successful at the same time all the time. That’s why God gave us gifts. He desires for us to use them to help our friends, families or strangers.

If you have a gift, use it. If you don’t know what your gift is, ask God to show you. Chances are, you have been using it without knowing. If you are in need of help, don’t close yourself off, allow others to use their gift to help make your situation better.

When my wife and I lost our child to early childbirth, we were sad and discouraged. However, God gave us friends and family with different gifts to help us get through our tough time. For example, two of our friends who are married came and used their gift of serving to help us prepare food . After we ate, they used their gift of encouragement to speak positive words to us. They told us things like, “ It’s going to be alright,” and “ you both are strong!” These words settled in our hearts and encouraged us. On the next day we had a friend come over who could sing. She came and made us breakfast and then played a song that she specifically made for us. It touched our heart and lifted the heaviness off of us. We were granted peace from her song. Later on, our sister cooked for us and spent quality time with us. She had the gift of giving. There are countless moments that our friends, family and strangers used their God given gifts to help us. We hope you allow your gift to be used and receive it from others. 

Written by Shammrie and Imani Brown