As much as you can afford, enroll
yourself for formal training. If you’re gifted in music, for instance, try to
enroll in a music school. Every individual on the surface of the earth has
been given an assignment by God to fulfill. This innate ability with which each
one of us has been endowed is referred to as ‘potentials.’ Each one of us has a
responsibility to discover our potentials and then maximize them, in order to
fulfill our God-given assignment on earth. First, let’s briefly consider
how we can go about discovering our potentials before going ahead to discuss
how they can be maximized.
DISCOVERING YOUR POTENTIALS
The following questions will be of help to
you on the pathway to discovering your potentials.
Try to give an answer to them.
a. Consider what the Lord has impressed on
your heart as a special talent or unique gift.
b. What is your heart’s deepest desire? What
stirs your passion? What do you enjoy doing so much that you forget to eat? What
naturally flows out of you? Whatever you were designed to do will feel right
and natural when you do it.
Although it may be complex for someone else, it
will be simple for you. Find out and write down the gifts that naturally come
out of you. Ask yourself, “What do people say I do well?” Where do you produce good results? What ideas, visions or dreams are impossible to
get out of your mind?
To what can you give 100% of your life? If you knew you wouldn’t fail and you had all the
power you will ever need, what would you do?
I hope the questions above will really be of help
to you in discovering your God given potentials. Having discussed the issue of discovering your
potentials, let’s now consider how to maximize them. The following tips will
certainly be of help.
Diligence: No matter how gifted you may be, if
you’re lazy, it will be difficult or rather impossible to go very far.
Successful people have diligence as one of their
major hallmarks those who have made outstanding impacts in various fields of
endeavor in life have practiced the principle of diligence, examples abound in
the field of sports, music, arts, literature, science, as well as the
gospel ministry.
Diligence will help you to use your
potential to the fullest, says “………. Be even more diligent to make your call
and election sure”.
Law of use and disuse: What so ever gift you
have, put it to use. Do not hesitate at every opportunity you have to put your
gift to use.
It is a natural law that the more you use
your gift, the better you are at them. This lesson is clearly taught in the
parable of the talents.
Association: The kind of people you associate
with will go a long way to determine how effective you will be in making the
best use of the potentials (i.e. gifts & abilities) that have been embedded
in you.
Be careful who your friends are; be determined to
associate with people that will motivate and inspire you towards excellence.
Be determined to walk with people that will
influence you positively and add value to your personality.
Get information: Information is power. Go for
information in other words, seek knowledge. Get to know more about your area of
gifting.
Read books that are relevant to your area of
interest. Buying books is one of the most important investments you can ever
make.
Furthermore, as much as you can afford, enroll
yourself for formal training. If you’re gifted in music, for instance, try to
enroll at a music school.
Get a mentor: E.g. Do you have a desire to
be a Pastor, then look out for a Pastor you admire most and who has made a
success of the pastoral ministry.
For every area of interest that one has
discovered, it is necessary to seek out someone who has excelled there in; if
possible, one should seek to establish a personal relationship with such a
person.
Such a person will serve as a mentor and a role
model that could be looked up to for guidance, advice, counsel and
encouragement.
Furthermore, as much as you can afford, enroll
yourself for formal training. If you’re gifted in music, for instance, try to
enroll at a music school.
Humility: Pride is one of the greatest enemies of
success. Life is full of stories of peoples who have
fallen from great heights because they were not humble. “…God resists the
proud, but gives grace to the humble”. No matter how gifted you are, remain humble. Only
then will God keep promoting you from one stage to another.
Those who are humble before God will be
made great by Him. In conclusion, many people have lived through
this life without discovering or maximizing their potentials. Such lives are
wasted lives. That is the truth!
May God grant you greater illumination as you put
the above principles to practice.
May your life not be wasted. May you live to express your potentials to the
fullest. May you live to become great!
Furthermore, as much as you can afford, enroll
yourself for formal training.
If you’re gifted in music, for instance,
try to enroll at a music school. It will be of great help if you enroll at a
formal institution that will help you excel in your area of Talent. Have a nice day.
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