Little Entrepreneur

My little Entrepreneur 👦

Couple of days ago my little boy took interest in making ice lollies. Infact he made one and was so excited of the outcome. He wanted me to taste it i said it's good even though i didn't taste it. Infact he shared it at sunday school that he made ice lollies.

I decided to surprise him i bought an ice lolly shaper that will make his ice lolly more real. He was thrilled, he kept checking on it to find out the outcome which was great.

This morning i heard him negotiating on the price he wants to sell each ice lollies. Wao!   I thought little Entrepreneur. He even said one was a special flavour compared to others and he was not even giving up on his business skills. He was so confident of what he made and he was ready to promote it.

This got me thinking about talent/gift/resources. God as we know is the giver of all gift. He expect the gifts to be used to His glory and benefit the one who use it.

Some of us have gifts but like little Entrepreneur we kind of lose focus that the source is God then we start negotiating on where to use it and how to use it leaning on our ordinary human understanding.

I was listening to a preacher the other day and he spoke at length on how God had placed in each individual the secret of their success but many still look the wrong direction.

There is nothing bad in making your living from your gift at all. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:16 KJV "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men."
So God gave us gift/talents/resources so we can benefit from it but above all that it will bring glory to Him.

Don't be an entrepreneur on the gift God had placed on you without consulting Him on what to do and seeking grace and strength to use it to glorify Him. It's useless if your gift is used against the giver.

There is no man on earth without a gift from the greatest giver (God almighty). Use it in line with the decision of the greatest one Jehovah Elshadai the provider.

Spirutual Gift.

I will start by saying anything spiritual affects the spirit and soul of human. While a gift is a thibg given willingly without need to pay.

So fron my perspective, spiritual gift is something given to human by God which affects their spirit and soul but to the glory of God.

In Romans 12:5-8 KJV "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness".

As believers and Children of God we are given different types of gifts. It's not for our benefit only but most importantly to the glory of God. So whatever gift God has put in our care or given to us so to say should be nutured in the way of the Lord.

I will take the gift of singing/ministering in song for example. Some think it's a generational gift so it should just be used the way their four fathers used theirs. If your four father was a designer in singing to idols you do not necessarily have to work in the path.

If you know the God whom you serve very well, you will understand that that gift in you must and should be used to the glory of God and not to sing praises to Idols.

In 1 Corinthians 12:5-12 KJV"And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ".

The word of God did not say you will not profit from your gift but your priority should not be about your self gain. Your main priority should be the profit that gift will make to the body of Christ. How many souls are saved by the spiritual gift in you.

Are you using that gift, given freely to you to lure people into darkness or Light?
Is Heaven happy with the way you use your gift.

Ephesians 4:11-16 KJV "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love".

All spiritual Gift whatever category it falls in is only for one purpose to edify the body of Christ. That gift is not fulfilling purpose if it is not used to glorify God.