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0:02 We wanna honor God because he sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.Your Gifts Will Make Room for You 0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today, we're gonna be talking about how your gifts, your callings, your talents will make room for you. And there's a scripture about1:08 that, so we know it's true. And it's in Proverbs 16 18. It says, your gifts will make room for you and bring you before great men. And in another translation, it says it will open1:19 great doors for you. And so we're gonna talk all about that today because this is so important because God has put gifts and talents in every single 1 of us, and especially for here and now for1:31 such a time as this. And, you know, the 1 thing we all have is the ability to go and advance the kingdom of God. And so we're gonna talk about what God's got in store for you today because there's1:43 some really amazing things. When I got a hold of the scripture, it was just like piercing.1:48 True. And, you know, out of everything that we're asked, I think the number 1 thing is what does God want me to do? You know, the the people will2:00 say, well, I'm a Christian and I got saved when I was however old, but I don't know what God wants me to do. But, you know, I think the answer is pretty clear because2:12 this scripture that that that your gifts will make room for you is it makes it abundantly clear because the Bible says that the gifts and callings of2:24 God are without repentance. So if you have a gift like something that you're naturally good at, then maybe you need to think about using that gift for the Lord,2:36 and and don't lay it down like you, you know, like some people say, well, I haven't done that in years. Well, maybe pick it back up and get back, you know, on the horse, so to2:47 speak, and get working for God in the area of your gifts and talents. You know, Naina, whenever I was in college, I would, go to we would go to church2:59 Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, you know, And I remember Sunday night, so there's something always about Sunday night when God would really meet up with the body of believers. I think it's because3:11 we weren't just blowing in, blowing up, and blowing out. You know, we were there to, to really hear from God and to really pray through. And, I we would have evangelists3:23 and different speakers and all of that. In 3 different times, the Lord said to me when I was in college that he was increasing my talents. And I would be like, what does that even3:35 mean, increasing my talents? You know? So I think that, you know, like the Bible says, when we when we have a talent and we use a talent, God will increase our talents. And so I think that3:47 that's, you know, short of the the a a law of the kingdom.3:51 Well, the Bible says apart from him, we can do nothing anyway. Right. And so and we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength. And I love the scripture. It it's in Romans 12 6. It says, having then gifts4:03 differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. You know, you have gifts that no 1 else has. Everybody's different. And and, you know, what is your bend even since you were a child?4:15 And I know, you know, for me, you know, I I, used to do design work before, I was in ministry. And even as a little kid, I would be decorating my doll houses, and I'll be using my4:26 grandmother's, like, potholders and handkerchief to make drapes and and all those things even from a child. And then I remember, years ago, many years ago, probably about 25, 284:38 years ago now, when I moved to Houston, I was not an established designer at all. And in here because I moved from Chicago where I had a a pretty well known business4:50 there, and God just made room for me. He gave me right off the bat a a celebrity's home in Houston, which made 0 sense because I wasn't an5:02 established designer in Houston at all. I didn't have a storefront, it was just like some word-of-mouth and, you know, God can make room for you. He can advance you. He can make you go to the head and5:14 skip over other people. It I mean, God knows what you're designed to do, and he can cause those things. He can cause, you know, people to just notice you. He can cause your name to5:25 pop up and to rise up. He can cause you to be at the right place at the right time. He can put an anointing on what you're doing and what you're called to do. And so but what are you speaking about it? You know,5:37 if if you're gonna be 1 of oh, it's never gonna happen to me or I can't or I won't, you know, we have to watch our mouths because if you would speak the blessing and announce it's the the Bible says I I read5:49 this that it says like your your gifts will announce themselves. That's over in The Message Bible. But it's like, you know, they will those that's God. He will, like, basically announce you to other people,6:01 to people who might need your services and your talents. And and you'll everything that you do, you'll have an opportunity to talk to somebody about the Lord. You'll be in rooms maybe where people have not heard about6:12 the Lord, or maybe they're gonna wonder what it is about you because, you know, people will see Jesus in you. They will see the light in you. And everything you do and every gift you have is an6:24 opportunity. It's an opportunity for the kingdom.6:26 Well, absolutely. And I and I'm thinking about what you're saying about don't speak against Mhmm. Your gift. Right. I, last week, was reading about Zacharias, you know,6:38 John the Baptist's father who was a priest, and his mother Elizabeth was getting too old to have a child and so it was his turn to go6:50 into the holy of holies. And, you know, people used to come out of there dead. They would hook them out, you know, because they weren't right with God. So, Elizabeth said, you7:02 know, hey. Think about me, kind of. You know, that's she she wanted a baby. So Zacharias is probably looking at her going, but really, Elizabeth? You know?7:14 Too old. All the negative stuff.7:15 He goes in and the Lord says you're you know, an angel says you're gonna have a baby, and he began to kind of speak against it and his mouth was sealed. And I believe I7:27 I you know, I've really been thinking about that this last week, and I thought, you know, it's probably because he he was going to speak against the gift that God was giving them who7:39 made way for the living Christ. You know, he John the Baptist is who their child was and his tongue was not loosed until Elizabeth7:52 had that baby. And it was time to name him, and he said his name will be John because that's what the angel had said. And so then his tongue was loosed and everyone marveled8:04 and but the message to me was don't speak against what God wants to do. No matter how ridiculous it sounds to you in the flesh, if it's not bigger8:16 than you and then it's probably not God in it.8:19 It's true because, you know, nothing can stop what God ordains, and we are gonna talk more about that when we come right back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right there.8:30 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.8:42 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the8:53 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by9:05 logging on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 6315b FM 14 889:17 Road, number 122, Magnolia, Texas 7 7 3 5 4. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission9:29 today. Give now.9:33 Welcome back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are talking about how your gifts will make room for you, and that is a scripture. And so that means everything else has to get out of the way9:44 because there is room for what God has gifted you with and what God has called you to do. And, you know, you think about David, you know, a teenager, you know, who who took a rock to a sword fight. But do you know when9:56 you when you when you went and picked up his staff, do you know what his staff was? Back in the those days, your staff was your history. They would carve on their staffs all kinds of different things. They would carve10:07 maybe, things that they had accomplished and things they did and you know what his staff was? His staff was his resume. I'm sure he had it on there because the Bible says he killed a bear, he killed a lion,10:19 and it if you go and research those staffs and what they wrote and what they they they carved into them, and a lot of times there were blessings carved into them from family members and prayers and all these different10:31 things. But he grabbed his staff, and and he knew who he was. He knew his gifts because he was so accurate with his stones that he was gifted in that area, that he could10:42 kill a bear, and he could kill a lion, wild animals. And this is when he's even younger than when he is out to kill Goliath. And so imagine this ruddy little teenager that the10:54 armor doesn't even fit him and he's just and and and Goliath is out there just, you know, you know, lipping off about everything that he's gonna do and yet he had that11:06 gift and he had that staff that he was reminded of his gifts and knew what he had, the talents and the gifts that God had, given him with the accuracy that he would have, that he11:18 had such confidence in his gift that he could go and kill that giant. And, you know, just just think about that, like how that was he was preordained to do that because of11:30 he's been gifted and he had practiced and accomplished those things already.11:34 That is awesome. I love that story. And and it makes me think about, years ago, there was this old, old lady, just precious, just tiny, old lady11:46 who had fostered a young man. He was a I guess he would have probably been about in middle school, and she took him in just because she has such a love for the Lord.11:58 And she was taking that scripture that God gives gifts. And and she knew she had he had given this, you know, child a gift, and12:10 he was very disabled. He he, he couldn't really hear. He was blind, and she kept calling out for God to pull up this12:22 gift in this young man, and she would not give up. You know, the Bible talks about asking and seeking and knocking, and she was fervent and and it says that the effectual12:34 fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much. And she woke up 1 night to the most beautiful piano music.12:46 She said he she got up and she thought who was in my house, and he was playing spectacularly. He just knew how to do it, and12:58 she would get under that piano he played during that TV show, I think it was on an old 700 club, and she sat underneath the piano. She was this tiny little lady, and she13:10 just marveled and prayed and he praised God because she knew that was impossible. But everyone has a talent.13:19 I don't care who you are. There's a gifting. And it will make room for you. And, you know, I I was recently, at Pat Robertson's funeral and, I mean,13:31 talk about, you know, an absolute pioneer, absolute everything that that man did. And when you really start hearing his stories, like, we've we've, Michelle and13:43 I have been around CBN and the 700 Club for many years, but the way he started out, you know, as a lawyer and he was kind of a partier and all these things that he was he he wasn't serving the13:54 Lord, he wasn't doing any of those things, but his mother, his grandmother, he had all these praying people around him that were praying him into the Lord. And then it was amazing what God used him for and the14:06 gifts that he had to to preach the gospel all over the world, which is which is if you go to the to the CBN campus, you'll see huge huge satellite dishes14:18 that the this this program is all over the world in many many languages, but when he started off, he didn't even have a TV and he he was running down the14:30 street to see if it was showing up at a drugstore TV when he very first started the 700 Club, and he had the foresight to call it what he was calling it and he called it the Christian Broadcasting14:41 Network when at that time there was no Christian broadcasting like that at all, and God just gifted him and and showed him what to do. And when God does that14:53 you're the 1 who gets to obey and that's what Pat Robertson would always say and I love because you know don't just read the word do what it says, and if God is calling you to do something go do it and you don't have to15:05 think it all through. I am very very certain that Pat Robertson did not see all that he would have accomplished in his 50 plus years and what God would lead him to do because if he would have15:16 known that whole story ahead of time he would have said, no way, I'm out. I couldn't do it. I I I mean, I'm not speaking for him, but I'm guessing. Because that's what we would all do. And, you know, none of us needs to15:27 know the whole story because God already knows it. He knows the end. He knows what he's called you to do, and we just don't wanna miss it. You know, the Israelites missed the promised land,15:39 except for 2 of them, because they they were grumbling and complaining and denying and and not believing, and they wandered around. They were taken care of, you know, but they they missed the promised15:51 land because they didn't really believe they could get there or do it or that it was there for them. And, you know, what God is calling you to do, you don't have to have the whole thing. You don't have to know. You16:03 just take a step. You do it today. Maybe you write some things down. You declare some things. You get some scriptures about it. Maybe you make a couple of phone calls. Every day do a little bit more and just ask the Lord16:15 to bless it because I promise you, when you start seeking him, he will order your steps. He will. He will make your vision plain and very clear, and he will cause people to to16:27 you'll have favor, cause people to to pour into what God's got for you to do. Yes. People will supernaturally come alongside you and it will all work out. It's amazing, but we have so many16:39 stories like that. Well and and Pat didn't just I mean, he stepped out in faith with everything that he did.16:47 He was always asking God, what do I do next?16:50 Yes.16:51 And he obeyed God. And there was such a culture of faith. Yes. And I love that. And I remember at their fiftieth anniversary, I worked with them for years. And at their fiftieth anniversary it17:02 was raining so hard and I leaned over. I was brand new to the organization at that time. I leaned over to the guy next to me and I said, do you notice that it's raining and we're not getting wet? We were17:14 outside. And he goes, yeah. And I said, it's a miracle. And he goes, well, yeah. Like, no big deal, but that's how they rolled. And I love that about the the Christian Broadcasting Network. And17:26 when we get back, we're gonna talk more about your gifts.17:31 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.17:42 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the17:54 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungry to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging18:06 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 road18:17 number 122 Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.18:30 Give now.18:32 Welcome back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we are talking about how your gifts will make room for you and put you before great men and open doors for you.18:44 That's that's how God has designed it all to to be. And, you know, when you are just diligently seeking him first, the Bible says seek him first and then he will add all these18:55 things to it. You if you start to sit and ask him, it I promise you it will sound something like this, maybe he's going to ask you to step out like you're gonna hear something that is probably19:07 nothing you ever thought of or maybe like when, he very first told me to write a blog or when he started telling when we heard about how we should have a TV show, it made no sense to us. It was never anything that we19:18 wanted or thought of or but we let it be him. If this is a view, you have to do it, and he has. So when it really kind of sounds like something that you probably wouldn't have thought of when you start19:30 to hear or have that idea pop in your head, you know, your first thought is gonna be like, nah, I couldn't do that or that's not that's not That's not deep. You know, but that's the that's kind of what you need to19:41 investigate because it's not your thought, you know? So because that's how the notion is. It's like that wouldn't have been my notion. I wouldn't have thought that up. But God, when he gives you19:53 that, then you start just praying into it and just you may be looking up some things about it. Just kind of be led in that direction in what you feel like he's saying to you, and he will open the doors.20:05 He will cause it to be blessed because he's the 1 again, apart from him, we can't do anything on our own, but he can do exceedingly, abundantly, more than we could20:17 ever ask or think. And so when you let him do it by just walking it out and being obedient, I promise you, you're gonna have so much joy and so much peace because there's20:29 nothing like working in your calling and what God has called you to do. You know, a man can make his plans, but God is gonna be the 1 who orders the steps and there's nothing like it.20:39 Amen. And and you know if if you want to know what your gifts are, think about, like, how what were you like when you were 7 and 8 years old? What were you20:50 doing? What were you playing? You know? And if I think about that, it's a little crazy because I'm kinda doing what I was doing. It's it's strange. It is so21:02 strange. And in high school, I'm kinda doing what I was I was doing then. It's just in a much larger scale now. And when you think about that, it's like, wow. You're21:14 hardwired. You're hardwired to do something great for God, and the Bible says that, you know, that that he prepared in advance good works for you to21:26 do. And honestly, when you think about that, like ask the Lord, just, you know, sometimes he'll answer immediately and sometimes just keep asking him and and things will begin to unfold and21:38 you'll realize where your talents are because I assure you everyone has talents and it's the law of use. As long as you are using your talents, he's going to continue21:50 to increase your talents. And let me just say, I'm I'm at a point now where I'm like face down on the floor because I'm like, god, there is no way I can do the next step without you.22:02 Yeah. I mean, if I fail, it's gonna be epic because now I'm at a different stage in my life, you know. And I mean seriously, when we when we arrived here, I dropped to my knees. I'm like, you22:14 gotta help. This is it. I I mean, in in everything that I'm doing right now because it's like way different than anything I had dreamed of doing before and yet amazing.22:26 Right? It's so much fun. It's an adventure for sure.22:28 It is. And he has opened doors for us and he has put us in rooms with people that, you know, we would have never dreamed of. And he has allowed us to to you know, it's got nothing to do with us. Like, it is22:40 100 percent God opening every door for us because, be because I think we are a man him, and we're saying yes to him, and we'll do it and, you know, we he's looking for his faithful servants and,22:52 we when when you follow those kind of rules and those kind of principles, he's going to keep giving you more and he's gonna keep perfecting you in your craft, you23:03 know, if23:04 but you know the antithesis of all of this is there's how many people that have amazing gifts and amazing platforms and use it for horrible things. And there's people who23:16 have music and actors and all of these different things and and even even, you know, professional ballplayers and stuff, and they get on these these tangents and they they they they they have all23:28 these people following them and then they use these platforms for evil or for Grieves. And to the Lord. And so, you know, to see God's given talents and gifts that people are23:40 wasting and causing other people to fall into Fall. To to, you know, the what the devil's plots are. Oh, true. And so, you know, you have to be very careful because to whom much is given, much23:52 is expected. And so when you are given these great gifts and these great callings, we need to ask the Lord and know, you know, am I am I using this for your good? I don't wanna step 1 foot outside of what you24:04 want me to do, and don't let us air in our speech or in our in our actions in any way. And because there is there is a there is sort of like just a great anointing on24:15 things if you're following him, but the gifts and callings are without repentance.24:20 Amen.24:20 But you can use them for the wrong way, and you have God's gonna hold you accountable. And so that's why we always ask, you know, you know, God show us, don't let us we we pray about24:32 everything that we do, don't let us get away from your path because the this is what we are called to do for him and we always wanna be right before him. And so that should always be a check that you always check. You24:44 always watch out and say, am I using my gift Amen. For the Lord?24:48 And if you've left your gifts, if you've left your ministry, right now we're gonna pray for you to come back.24:55 Yes.24:55 In Jesus' name, I thank you, Lord, that you, God, are going to bring people back because the gifts and callings of God, this is what your word says, are without repentance. So, God, that means25:07 you never take it off of them. Even if they're saying right now that I've done too many wrong things, I've I've gone down the wrong path, the Lord is saying to you, come back my child.25:19 I have a great work for you. And and Lord, I thank you that your anointing is coming down on them like like oil, Lord. You're pouring oil over their head as as25:32 as Samuel did over David, and we thank you for this in Jesus' name.25:37 Amen. Amen. We are so glad you joined us today. So with that, go write the book. Go go search out your idea that God gave you. Go do what he's called you to do. I promise he's gonna25:49 bless you. You just keep listening, obeying, and follow his it he does line by line, precept by precept. He will take you there. That is a scripture, and he's got amazing plan for you. So stay tuned.26:01 You can go follow us all over social media. We are on Facebook, Instagram, where we have daily devotions filled with God's word. We have a couple of books available. Also, wherever books are sold, that's a hundred days26:13 with God 1 and 2. And also stay tuned, you're gonna wanna listen to this message from our dear friend Daryl Youngblood. He is awesome. God bless you. We love you guys. 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