Tag: calling
96. Are You Comparing Your Spiritual Usefulness to Others?
You might feel a little bit inadequate when you compare your spiritual usefulness to others. Maybe you feel like you’re not quite as useful to God because you don’t minister to hundreds of people like your pastor, or you don’t bring dozens of people to Christ, or you don’t have an inconsistently updated online devotional. [...]
April 23rd, 201395. Why shouldn’t we tell people ‘Be Anything You Want to Be’?
A phrase we’ve heard since childhood is, “If you put your mind to it, you can grow up to be anything you want to be.” That’s why I became a cheeseburger. It’s a phrase that’s meant to inspire people to accomplish their dreams. But really it’s totally wrong. Sorry to be a downer, but you [...]
April 9th, 201387. How Can I Maximize My Talents?
You know that parable of the talents? To paraphrase, a master gave one servant $5,000, another $2,000 and another $1,000 to invest while he went away. The first two guys doubled the money and the last one didn’t do nothing and just handed back the money back and got sent to New Jersey. But to [...]
February 6th, 201333. Relationships: Where Do I Fit In?
In the last devotional I talked about the importance of finding your role in your relationships. I also talked about bacon. Now I will expand on how to understand your role. Your role in relationships. Not your role with bacon. But, that would make an awesome devotional though. So we left off with, “What [...]
April 10th, 201217. Does God want me to stay or go?
Sometimes we get stuck in a situation where we don’t know if God is pushing us out or just wants to grow our patience. For example, let’s say you have this totally annoying boss. Should you interpret that as God wanting you to quit that job, or is God simply growing your patience? What if [...]
March 20th, 2012127. But What If I’m Not Good at Anything?
I got this great question in reply to figuring one’s calling, [How can you figure out your calling] “if you aren’t good at anything?” To answer this we first have to define what tells us what our callings are, and these are: Gifts, Talents and Resources. And included in your Resources are personality traits. And [...]
November 18th, 201128. What is one of the biggest resources God has given us all?
There’s one amazing common resource that God has blessed us all with. And no, I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not me. When considering what our callings are, in previous devotionals, I’ve mentioned this formula: Gifts + Talents + Resources = One of our callings As a quick example, if God wanted you to [...]
March 30th, 2011
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