Celebrating our Gifts

Greetings!

At the beginning of the year, I shared with you guys that this is the year of celebration for my church. Tomorrow we will highlight all forms of creative arts. Actually, we are celebrating everything. Today we went to the church to setup and everyone was so excited about sharing their talents. All of that is so awesome. I celebrate our pastor for having the vision to allow the people of the church to celebrate one another. We don’t do that enough.

What really blew my mind was the number of people who were participating because they had a strong desire to share information about their cause. They didn’t get hung up on the nature of their “gift” the way most people see gifts. God gave them a mission to help others…and they don’t question it. They realize that after the dancing and singing is over…we are going to need help with just living. That’s their gift.

I am looking forward to seeing what the body of Christ has to offer. My pastor always says that everything we need is in the house.  I just believe that as we celebrate one another we celebrate God. He is pleased when we work together when we encourage one another and help each other succeed. In 1 Peter 4:10-11 it says, "Each of you has received a gift to use to serve others. Be good servants of God's various gifts of grace. Anyone who speaks should speak words from God. Anyone who serves should serve with the strength God gives so that in everything God will be praised through Jesus Christ."

I love that. Knowing who you are in Christ is powerful. Your gift may not be like anything you have ever seen, or it could be something that you see all the time. God has just given you an anointing for it. When God blesses your efforts, it doesn’t matter how many people are doing it…yours will prosper and succeed.

Until next time…

Be blessed