Gifted

Introduction

Had a great time in South Africa

• Worked hard – spoke 26 time in different forums (not including meals)
  • Preached to large groups and small
  • Leaders and the unsaved

“I bet you're exhausted” – truth is I wasn’t is was energised

• Never felt more in the will of God than this trip

WHY?....Because I’m doing what is was created to do

• Not just doing my own thing – doing Gods thing

Jer 29:11-14 NIV For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (12) Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. (13) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (14) I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

Illustration

• On the treadmill the other day
• This is how many people live their lives
• Working hard, sweating lots – but not going anywhere

Pro 29:18 MKJV Where there is no vision, the people perish;

Your future is not ahead of you - it lies within you

• Poorest person in the world is the person without a dream

It doesn’t matter what you currently have or don't have as long as you can see what you could have

1. You were born on purpose

• You are not an accident – not a mistake – not an experiment

You are a project of providence not a divine experiment

You are one of a kind – irreplaceable – an original

Psa 139:13-16 NIV For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. (14) I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (God doesn’t make junk) (15) My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, (16) your eyes saw my unformed body. (that’s vision) All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Fearfully and wonderfully made

• God doesn’t make junk

Saw my unformed body

• That’s vision – seeing something before it is there
• E.g. Walt Disney

All the days for me were written in your book before they came to be

• Your purpose was established before production
• E.g. Building a house – start with the plans

Ecc 3:11 NIV He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

• You were completed in eternity
• Before the foundation of the earth