Take Responsibility For Personal Growth - Keys to the extraordinary

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Opening Prayer And Student Ministry

SPEAKER_01 1:32

And let us allow the Lord to speak to us today. We today is our day, an important day for us, submission day, as we receive the university students at the Creme Center. We're looking forward to that. I know we've done everything that we can to prepare to receive them. And we pray that the Lord will be gracious to them, grant us good weather, uh, to allow them to come and just to fellowship, and even for us to be able to minister to them. So thank you, each one of you, for everything that you're doing towards that. But for now, I just want us to um go and and and and and just take a look at God's word, and then uh we'll share, and then we'll finish it up in prayer, even as we want to pray for the that that function, that ministry um that we have today. Um just continue so to pray for one another, pray for our nation, um, pray for our families, um, pray for the world for peace uh to prevail. And yeah, we have a lot to pray for. Um, but for now, I just want to go and read God's word, and we shall have time at the end uh to be able to pray.

Matthew 25 Parable Of The Talents

SPEAKER_01 2:43

So I want us to turn to Matthew chapter 25. Matthew chapter 25 is a very um, I think very common scripture, it's a parable the Lord Jesus Christ gave, and we want to use it uh to encourage us this morning, this year of extraordinary possibilities, as we have continued to look at things that will help us uh to experience the extraordinary uh in our lives. And we this morning we are focusing on Matthew, it's chapter number 25, and first fourteen to thirty. Let me read it uh for context. The Bible says again, it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another, two bags, and to another one, and to another one, one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five more bags. So also the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground, and eat his master's money. After a long time, the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. Master said, You entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more. His master replied, Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. The man with two bags of gold also came. Master, he said, You entrusted me with two bags of gold. See, I've gained two more. His master replied, Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things. I'll put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness. Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. Master, he said, I knew you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here what here is what belongs to you. So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed. Well, then you should have put my money on, deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would have received it back with interest. So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever has will be given more. This is very important. For whoever has will be given, will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have, will be taken from them, and throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness where there'll be weeping of weeping and gnashing of teeth, and that is the reading of God's word.

Personal Responsibility For Spiritual Growth

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Amen and amen. So, brethren, this morning, I want to use this scripture to encourage us um, you know, on this theme of the year that we've had extraordinary possibilities. The last two weeks we've been looking at the life of David, and we've been learning a lot of lessons on uh from him on how to experience the extraordinary. And last Sunday we saw um the that we saw the need for us to fight. We have to be ready and be willing to fight. And this morning, I want just to pick it up there and uh just take it a notch higher. And the the the the the topic is really taking uh responsibility for growth. Taking responsibility for growth. You cannot experience the extraordinary in your life if you're not willing to take personal responsibility for your growth. Personal responsibility for growth. And that's what I want to focus on here, uh, from this passage that we have read here, the parable of uh, you know, the parable of the bags of gold. Now, the Bible talks about men, uh three men here, who were entrusted with an ascet, we were entrusted with uh with something by their master. And Jesus was giving this parable showing um the you know how the kingdom of God is. That was actually the background of the parable. And so he called his servants, yet three of them, to one of them he gave five bags of gold, to another he gave two bags, and to another he gave one one bag. And it says, he says, the Bible says, everyone was given according to his ability. And the the man, the the this man went on his journey. And the Bible says the man that received five bags of gold, he says immediately he went at once and began to put this money to work. Um, the Bible doesn't tell us that the master gave them any instructions. He didn't tell them what to do or what not to do, he just gave them the wealth, he, you know, each one according to his ability, and he packed his bags and he went on a long, on a long journey. The one who had been given two talents or two bags of gold, he went and gained two more. And the man who had received one bug, there's this guy who had received one bug. The Bible says, as soon as the master left, he went and dug a hole on the ground and he put this um this money in that in in in on in on the on the ground. Then says the Bible tells us that it took a bit of time. The master, it took time. In fact, it says it says a long time went on. So there was time, time, there was we don't know how many years it was. But the Bible says that when he came, he came to settle accounts with him. He came to settle accounts with him. And the man who had received, of course, five bags of gold brought what he had earned. The one who had brought, who had earned um, you know, two he also brought. And what was common among them is that they were told that, well done, good and faithful servant, and they were welcome to share in the master's happiness. And the man who had done nothing, the man who had done nothing, the Bible says the master was furious. He called him wicked. Because he said, you know, I hid it on the ground, which I think was a, you know, he looked to him, it was a good thing to do. He hid it on the ground. Um, and he gave him back his thing. He had not damaged it, he did not do any harm to it, he did not do any, you know, he did not damage the the gold. He actually gave it back to him the way it was. Um, but the Bible says that his master was furious. And is we know he's furious, but the words that he used, he said, first of all, you are wicked. He said, You wicked, lazy servant, you you you know, you knew that I harvest we have not sown and gather we have not scattered seed. Then you should have put the money with the bankers and so at least I guess something. So the master was absolutely furious. He called him wicked, he was upset. Um, but actually, what is not even encouraging is that um he said, take this, he called him a worthless servant. Those are the words that he used: wicked, worthless. Uh, he was thrown into the darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. These were all very negative things that happened with this man who had done nothing with his talent. And I want us to use this scripture um just to encourage us this morning. Now, the man with the one talent, if you look at what was really happening here, um the man with the one talent is someone who was not willing to take responsibility for growth. As soon as the master left, he took what he had entrusted, entrusted to him, he put it on the uh, he put it on the um, you know, he dug, the Bible says he dug and he hid there. He was basically not willing to take personal responsibility for growth. And I I I believe that this morning, if we are going to experience the extraordinary in our lives, uh we must be willing to take personal responsibility for our own growth. God has invested, he has given each one of us, you know, we are potential. There's no one who is not given nothing. This master, there were three servants, he gave them each um a bag of gold and says, according to his ability, we all have been given something by God according to our ability. God knows us, he created us, he knows what we are capable of doing, and he has deposited a bag of gold in you. And the question is, are you willing to take responsibility for the growth, personal growth? So this man who died, he did not recognize the potential he had. He did not recognize that he was holding a bag of gold that could even be deposited with the bankers and they would get interest. Even the basic of it didn't seem recognized. He did not recognize the potential that he had. He had been entrusted with something. This man had been entrusted with something. We have all been entrusted with something today. The master went, he created us, we were born into this world, and the and and he's given us some time. And for the period that we are under the sun, you know, God expects us to do something with what he has deposited in us. Um, we all have something that God has entrusted us with, each one of us. And the problem is always that most of us think that we have nothing. And so when you talk about living an extraordinary life, you know, you can imagine this man, if he was given five, he doubled, he doubled that. I mean, that's extraordinary. So we the problem is that most of us think that we have nothing, or what we have is too little. We think either we have got nothing, or what we have is too little, or we are busy comparing ourselves with what others have got. And that is a that is a challenge. The master gives according to our ability. We are not the ones who decide what we are given. Um, the master decides what is giving us. What is what is what is critical is that they were all given gold. There is no one who was given um who was given copper. He did not give one copper and give another one silver and give another one um you know diamonds. No, no, no. Each one of them was given gold, a bag of gold. That's the that's how God works. We all have gold in us. There's nobody who was given a quarter of a talent, who is not gifted properly. We all have a piece of gold in us. And the question is um, we think we have nothing, or we feel that what we have is too little, or we are preoccupied focusing on the gold that others have and not looking at what we have been given. And what we see here is that the master showed no mercy to the one who had nothing, who had done nothing with what he had. He showed no mercy. You would have expected, oh, he did not lose it, he did not lose the gold, you know, he did not give him a half. He gave it back to him the way it was. And the master was completely upset. So he showed no mercy to the one who had nothing. And I believe that's the same attitude that God has on us. When he comes back, when we stand before him on the day of judgment, when he comes back again, he's going to be asking us, what do you do with the gold that we that that I gave to you? And where what did you do with it? Did you bury it? Did you um extend it? Did you what what did you do? Did you grow it? That's the question. Did you grow it? Um, because the issue of this man did not grow what he

When You Neglect What You Have

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had. Um, and the same thing, the world will show the world we live in shows no mercy to anyone who does nothing or neglects what he has. The world that we live in is very, very, very dangerous. If you don't realize what you have or you neglect what you have, the world will show no mercy on you. Um, that is just a reality. You can look at, I mean, we have all been talking about here in the continent of Africa. We talk about the the resources that we've got here. Every resource that the world needs is in the continent of Africa. Whether it is gold, you have diamonds, you have copper, we have cobalt, um, rare earth minerals that are in such a high demand in the world. We have got oil, we have got everything that the world needs is here in Africa. But we have done what? We have neglected. We have neglected what we have got. And when you neglect what you have got, people take advantage of it. That's why a lot of the Western countries have been extracting resources from Africa, giving us a quarter of the price that's supposed to be paid for, um, because we have neglected, we have not paid attention to what we have as a continent. And point is, when you don't when you when you neglect or you don't recognize what you have, the world we live in will show no mercy. And it's a biblical principle. You know, the master when he came back, he was so annoyed, he said, you know, take what you, you know, he said to take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who had 10 bags. He said, take it from this one who had one and give it to the other one. The world shows no mercy to those who neglect what they have. And it's the same thing, even in our nation, in our country, if we neglect the power, the power that we have, people take advantage of it. And we have seen it happening with our politicians and our leaders sometimes. They, you know, when we have given, we've not, we've not, we've not recognized what we have, the power that's in our hands. Um, and and and today we are still crying, um, you know, as as an as a country, as we look at the challenges that we are going through. So the key to success is taking full responsibility for what you already have. If you want to experience the extraordinary, one of the things we have to do is we have to take full responsibility about what um or for what we already have. We got something. Don't be obsessed with what you don't have. Focus on what you have. That little job that you have, that's a code, that talent, that training, that gifting, that passion that you've got for something. If you would look inwardly, God will use that as um, I will use that to grow you. And you would when you when you take responsibility for what you have already, you're on your path to experiencing the extraordinary.

David Polishes His Gift In Private

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Now, in the story that we looked at last week, we looked at the story of David, um, you know, King David, and we had noticed that you know the David had had he had a responsibility for looking after his father's sheep. We saw when he was being anointed, um, they went to call him from the the bush where he was looking after the the shepherd the sheep, and uh they bring him and you know some will anoint him to become the king of Israel. So one of the things that we noticed there again is that David was he took responsibility after his father's sheep, and he took that responsibility seriously. You know, and the the beginning point of the extraordinary is always taking serious responsibility of what you have of what you have. He took such a serious responsibility, you know. And I believe at every stage of our life, if we want to experience the extraordinary, whatever we have been given, whatever we are responsible for, however little it is, let us take that seriously. Um whether you are in school, whether you are you know in school studying, take the your studies seriously, take whatever you are doing, do it with seriousness. Um it striks about responsibility. If you are a youth, uh a young person, take your youth seriously, because that season will never come again. Uh, if you're in college, oh you know, take it seriously. Um if you are in uh you know at home and you know you have time and and and and and in your hands, take that seek take that season seriously. Um it is you know taking um responsibility for what you are doing seriously is a key enabler for uh the extraordinary. David he had a gift for playing the harp. We're talking about the things that God has invested in us now. David had a gift for playing the harp, and he invested time to perfect it. And the the time that David invested in perfecting that gift was his time in the wilderness when he was neglected in the wilderness, looking out of the few sheep that his father had. It was that moment in the bush that David took advantage of to perfect his gift, to perfect the gold that was in his life. That gifting of playing instruments, he became so good at it, and it is that gift that opened a door for him to serve King Saul. That is that is where his breakthrough came in. In moments of neglect and in moments of um, you know, extreme, I would say extreme conditions, he used that opportunity to sharpen his music skills. And it was that music skill that gave him an opportunity in front of King Saul. In in Samuel, in some in uh first Samuel chapter 16, verses 18 to 23, the Bible says, one of the servants answered, I've seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the Lar. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine looking man, and the Lord is with him. Then Saul sent a message. To Jesse and said, Send me your son David, who is with the sheep. So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them with his son David to Saul. David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor bearers. Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him. Whenever the spirit of from God came on Saul, David would take up his lair and play. Then relief would come to Saul. So he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him. Now I just look at what is the gift, what is the thing that opened the door for David. Um, as much as the Lord had anointed him, as long as the Lord was with him, but it was the gift of playing this large that actually opened the door for David. So when when Saul was in problems and he was being tormented by an evil spirit, one of the servants says, I know a man, a young man who can play this instrument. And he's a brave man, he was brave, he was a warrior, he sp he spoke well and was fine looking. And the Lord was with him. Then Saul said, Go bring him, bring me that young man. The gift, the the five bags of gold that was inside David's life, he has perfected it, he has become good at it to the point that people know about it. And it was that gift that now opened the door for him to go and serve King Saul. And the question, brethren, is as we look at this year of extraordinary possibilities, what gift do you have? What gift do you have? And how much time and effort do you invest in it? How much gift do you have? How much time and effort do you invest? And you know, even our professions, they are giftings. You know, they are giftings. We whatever profession that God has given unto us, the training that we have received, these are all giftings that we have gotten from you know from God. And um, how much time and effort do you invest in it? David invested such quantity time that it he actually stood out, and that opened a door to for him to go and serve King Saul. Saul himself gives uh a testimony. He says, Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him. I mean, not that that's extraordinary. When the king does not want you to go back home, the king is saying, No, stay with me here. Um, you know, this is the king of Israel, he's not somebody's mom. He's testifying about um about David's ability. David was adding value. I think that's the word I'm looking for. David was adding value to the life of David, to the to the ex to the life of Saul, that he could not allow him to go. He was wanted, he was um, he was, you know, he was adding a lot of value to the extent that you know he could not um you know he could not allow him to go to go back. So the the point here is that looking after sheep may not have been a pleasant thing. It may not have been a pleasant thing. You know, remember you David is neglected, he's alone in the bush, he's there looking after the sheep. It was not something pleasant, but this provided David with the time needed to polish his skills in playing music. He used that time to polish his skills. You know, and you know, today you could be in maybe in a job which is actually obscure job. You are somewhere where you're not exactly where you need to be, you're in transition, you're in the bush, you're looking after sheep. There's that season called looking after sheep season in your life. Where you are neglected, what you are doing is looking like it's not going to take you anywhere, it's like it's valueless, you are completely neglected, and you are you, you know, you're wondering what am I, what, why am I in this season of my life? You know, it that looking after sheep season. If you focus on growing yourself, if you focus on growing yourself and not be distracted by the enemy, tomorrow that you're going to become such a skillful person that the world will start looking

Youth Seasons And The Cost Of Distraction

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for you. Um, so you your life is um, you know, for example, for example, for the young people, we keep telling them, you the the the the that the as a young person, it's more or less that season of looking after sheep. So when you are young and you have time, you have you have time, you have no responsibilities, you have no child to bother you, you have no wife to bother you, you have no, you're not paying rent, you are staying in your father's home, you are, you know, that is the time you focus on growing yourself and you don't allow yourself to get distracted by the enemy. Unfortunately, a lot of our young people get distracted. They get distracted by the environment, they get distracted by the youth. And instead of investing in themselves, instead of investing in themselves, they end up wasting that time, you know, doing, you know, spending a lot of unnecessary campaign investing instead of investing on themselves. And today you're going to be talking to them at the Krem Center anyway. These university students are going to be there, so if you will make it there. And this is what we keep telling them. You have a unique time. And you find that the young people, they have a lot of time in their hands. But instead of using that time to sharpen their music skills, their Lara skills, their competence, they spend their time in clubbing, doing social stuff, and that time goes in before they realize they are out of college, they are in the job market, and they are not skilled. They are not specialists on anything. Why? They a lot of time, but instead of using that time to sharpen their skills, they are using that time clubbing, doing a lot of patting and a lot of things, and they end up not actually using that time properly. So many people waste seasons of their life and come to realize when it's late. You waste a lot of seasons in your life when you and you come to realize when it's late. Anytime you find yourself where you have time, where you feel, oh, what do I do with all this time? That is a wake-up call that to know, hey, what can I do in this season? When David was in the wilderness season looking after sheep, he perfected his music skills. He got so close to God. He knew that's why he wrote his psalms. He did so many things, and these are the things that opened the door for him to do the extraordinary. And we talk about David as an extraordinary man. So God has a way of using the little you have and you recognize, the little that you have and you recognize, God will use it to be the door to great and defining moments in your life. The little that you have and the little that you recognize. The issue is you need to know you have it and you need to recognize it. That becomes a great door and a defining moment in your life. The enemy would like us to focus on what we don't have. And that has been the strategy of the devil always. He wants to focus on, he wants to focus on what you on what you don't

Faith Steps With The Widow’s Oil

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have. In Kings chapter, first Kings chapter 4, verses 1 to 7, it talks about the widow's oil. The widow's oil. You remember the story of Elijah, Elisha and the widow. The Bible says, the wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves. Elisha replied to her, How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house? Your servant has nothing there at all, she said, except a small jar of oil. So this woman is asked by Elijah, What do you have? I said, I have got nothing at all, except a small jar of olive, of a small jar of olive oil. This woman goes to ask Elijah for help, and she's even saying, I have got nothing except this small jar of oil that is available here. And that's what she offered the man of God. Um, God will intervene when you take steps of faith. Um, God will intervene when you take steps of faith. And I believe um, you know, that when you take steps of faith, the little that you have, God begins to intervene. So this woman is asked by Elisha, what do you have? And she said, you know what? I've got just a piece of a small jar of olive oil is all I've got. He said, No, I'll use that one. I'll use what you have. Today, this morning, brethren, we all have our small olive oils, a gifting there, an interest there, um, and you know, um a job that you have, um, you know, a gifting. We all have got something, and if we recognize what we have, um, God begins to use that to do the extraordinary. The Bible tells us that this woman, um, you know, she was, she was they told they brought the she was told, go, go around, ask all your neighbors for empty jars, don't ask for a few, then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour the oil uh into all the jars, and as each is filled, put one one aside. And that became the miracle that this woman needed to get and earn her living. Um and so today, what do you have? What do you have today? I think take some time always and ask yourself, what do you have today? Uh, when you when you begin to count what you have, I talk about count your blessings one by one and see what the Lord has done. Many times we feel miserable when we are overwhelmed by situations because we are not actually able to recognize what we have. You have got a lot, a lot, a lot going on in your life. Um, so what do you have today? Um, you know, you have a job, you have an education, there are people who cannot uh speak English, there are people who cannot express themselves. Um, you have uh you have a home, you have assets, you have a wife, you have a husband, you've got children. There are so many things that God has given to you. There are giftings that God has hidden in you, there are treasure that is in you. And God is asking the same question: what do you have? What do you have when God wants to bless you, to do the extraordinary, it's always going to come down to what you have. When you recognize what you have and you are willing to perfect it, you are willing to invest in it, God begins to use, uh you know, to use it. So take responsibility for it and develop it. The question is, do you recognize what you have? And are you have you taken personal responsibility for it to develop it? If you can do that, God has a place for you, and that is, he'll open for us huge doors of opportunity in Jesus' name.

Turkana Oil And Undiscovered Potential

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Um, what is lying in your life undiscovered? You know, for a long time, I think most of you knew about um, you know, Trucana was considered a very, very dry place. Um, you know, it was considered a uh, you know, very, very, very dry place um until in on you know, in if you remember the in uh recently or not really a few years ago, um, you know, the the Talo oil that time, I think they have now sold their interest. They announced that they had found oil of between at between 160 to 200 meters uh in Trucana. Uh, and and and now you know they are drilling that oil. And at the price of oil where it is right now, uh, it's actually profitable to begin to extract that oil that we have in Trucana. But for a long time, for a long time, nobody wanted to hear about Trucana. Uh, the you know, the place is considered dry, it's poor, there's poverty on the on the surface, but yet billions of barrels of oil are lying underground in Trucana and completely lay there and discovered. Nobody wanted to be part of that place. It was considered a remote place. Um, and the day they announced that they had found oil, a lot of people started flocking to Lodwa. Lodwa, the town has grown, Trucana is no longer what it was. People are you know angling to buy into you know to buy land there. Why? Because they've discovered um you know billions of barrels of oil are lying underground uh in in Trucana. And it lay there undiscovered. When it was undiscovered, nobody, nobody thought it was worth anything. But now the place um where this oil has been discovered, you know, on Gamia, one or Kamiya 2, whatever it is, that place has become valuable. Why? Because they have found, they've discovered there's oil underneath there. So the question is what is lying in your life undiscovered? What is lying and developed? Um, because if you don't discover, if you don't find some time to discover what is in your life, and not only just discovering it, you now need to develop it. The secret is discovering the the what you have underneath and then beginning to develop that which you have, but then it becomes a breakthrough that God begins to use to shape your future, to shape your future life. So do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by circumstances. Brethren, if we are going to experience the extraordinary in our lives, one of the things we must do is to take personal responsibility for our own growth. And just like oil lay in Trucana undiscovered. Underground, they also say there's a lot of water underground in Trucana. That's the other thing that they realized there. It was lying underground, completely undiscovered. And up there on the surface, people are suffering, people are you know dying of anger, they're dying of things, and yet underneath is barriers of oil that, if extracted, developed, exported, would transform through Khana into one of the most, most um, you know, amazing places to you know to be. But because the oil is underground, it's unknown, it's undiscovered. At the service, people are suffering. People are suffering, they ask you for aid, you know, it's dry, it's considered everything, but there's potential lying underneath in Trucana until it was discovered. Brethren, we all have our oil. We all have our oil that's lying undiscovered, buried underneath. And if you would identify it, not just identify it, also begin to develop it. Begin to develop it. That little five, you know, gold, five bags of gold, one bag of gold, you begin to develop it, personal growth, taking responsibility for personal growth. And that's it's not it's never easy to grow. It's never easy to grow because it takes time, it takes effort, it's takes a sacrifice, you have to deal with yourself. Um, it's painful, you have to sacrifice so much. That's why many times we have a challenge. Extracting that potential from us, we fail there. But I pray that by the grace of God, it's good to help us, brethren, to recognize what we have. Even as creme, as a ministry, that God has blessed us in unique ways. We have a lot in our hands. We have to continuously ask ourselves what has God given us? Opportunities for ministry, like today, when we have we have these students coming in, these are all bags of gold that God has given unto us, that we can use, we can uh we can leverage, we can grow, we can make better and invest in and grow. And when we do that, you're going to see us doing God using us to do the extraordinary. So, brethren, what do you have today? What do you have lying buried, undiscovered, undeveloped? I believe God is challenging us in this year 2026 of the extraordinary. Let's dig deep and really begin to find what makes you tick, what is it and still undetected? What can I do to grow it? What can I do to polish it, to make it better, to make me a better person, um to make me a better brother, better sister, better husband, a better worker. You know, you know, what can I do to become better at what I'm doing? When you begin to polish that which you have, God uses it to remove you from your problem. That's why he asked that woman, a widow, what do you have in your hands? He said, I've got nothing except a small oil and a small jar of

Pouring Yourself Out Through Service

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oil. He said, Go around, ask all your neighbors, then and don't ask a few. Then he said, Go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and begin to pour oil into the jars. Begin to pour oil. That little that you have, brothers and sisters, when you begin to pour it, you know what I was also getting there is a revelation. When you begin to pour the little that you have, pour it, pour it out. He said, This it told the lady, this lady, don't just go and lock your you know yourself in the house and noon. He said, begin to pour, pour yourself out. Pouring yourself out means serving. You know, give the gift that you are, pouring yourself on other people, pouring yourself on your neighbors, pouring yourself on the ministry, pouring yourself in the church, pouring yourself in on our nation where we be begin to pour ourselves, to build our nation, to you know, to pour yourself on your family. You know, pouring yourself as you begin to pour yourself, God does the miraculous. He says that that oil never never never never dried up. It never dried up, it continued just getting failing. And that was the breakthrough for this woman um to get to get a miracle. Brothers and sisters, today is another. Let's go out and pour ourselves. There are people all around us that we can pour ourselves out on. Discover what you have from the what God has given unto you, and don't just discover it, invest in it, grow it, and then begin to pour yourself out. Pour yourself out. Don't allow yourself, don't lock yourself in your room alone doing nothing. The miracle gets unleashed as you pour, pour out, serve people. Go out be a volunteer. You know, give your time and resources and be a blessing. And look at what David did to Saul. He poured his life on Saul. When Saul is in trouble, so David was there with his layer and half laying to make sure that the evil spirit does not torment him. And he ministered to Saul in such a great way that Saul writes a letter to this to his father, says, Please don't take this young man, allow him to stay with me here. He's of such great value to me. I need him. Why? David is pouring himself into Saul's life without asking, without caring, without um um asking for anything. He's just pouring his life out. Brothers and sisters, as we pour ourselves out, God will bless us, he'll enlarge us, he'll grow us. And before you realize, you look back and say, Wow, what an extraordinary life we have been able to

Closing Encouragement And Prayerful Charge

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lead. I want to encourage us, brethren, in this day, as we continue, you know, invest in yourself, take responsibility for personal growth, discover what it is that's hidden in you, polish it, become good at it, invest in it, and pour. Begin to pour yourself out. And as you do that, God is going to enlarge our boundaries in Jesus' mighty, mighty name. So, brothers and sisters, allow me to reach there. Um, and and and I'm going to invite you.