成人快手

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Juanita Francis, Youth Pastor at Ruach City Church, London.

Good morning.

Did you know that God has given us all gifts or skills, some more than others but our habit is that sometimes when we become comfortable in a gift, we can tend to neglect anything else. I did just that.

Some time ago I was sitting at a lunch with a friend and when he asked me how my singing was going. I chuckled and told him 鈥渃鈥檓on you know I don鈥檛 do that anymore.鈥� And he pulled out his phone looked up a Bible passage on it from the first letter of Timothy chapter 4. It says; "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." As soon as I heard that I was silent. I was actually convicted. I had been happy to dance and exercise other gifts because I had mastered those gifts and was confident in them. As for singing and songwriting I didn鈥檛 even consider it a gift at all.

He continued, 鈥淣ow you got to work on it with the same passion as you did the other gifts.鈥� So I did. I joined my church praise and worship team, sang a couple of solos, became a praise and worship leader, and even put out an album/ and out of that I became confident because I was giving it time.

So what am I saying? To those who don't use their gifts due to fear or feeling incapable. First let me say this God has not given us the spirit of fear but of peace, love and a sound mind. We have to understand we have the responsibility to the gift God has bestowed upon us.

So let鈥檚 pray I pray that we walk in what God has called us to, no ifs or buts. Be all God has called us to be!

Amen.