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GIFTS AND TALENTS

“Everyone is equipped with gifts to give away for a greater purpose. God had already installed the unique customized gifts –it’s all inside of you– before you were born! You just have to find the key to access to the gifts to give away for others to receive. You will find a greater purpose of your life and joy. ASK God* –Ask, Seek, Knock– to find it.” – Eriko Grill

*Ask, Seek, Knock
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” – Matthew 7:7-12

What on earth am I here for,
and what’s the purpose of my life?

Have you ever asked yourself with questions like “Why am I here for? What’s the purpose of my life? What am I going to do with my life?” You’re not alone. During the elementary years, I’m sure you had been asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Or during the college years, have you been asked “What’s your major and minor?” Probably, it might have been easy to give an answer but hard to answer which occupation you would pick. In fact, your answers might have been changing as the time goes by, and you would end up asking yourself the same question again and again, “What on earth am I here for?”

Everyone is equipped with a gift to give for great purpose. God had already installed a gift in you before you were born.

The Bible says, “But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.” – 1 Corinthians 7:7

You are made to do more than just exist.
You are made for greater purpose.

Faith

FAITH COMES FROM RIGHT BELIEVING

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1 “Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.” – Romans 10:17

Jesus Walks on the Water

“Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them, but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, ‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’ Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.” – Mark 6:45-52

Faith comes from right believing and who to trust

“But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That’s why Scripture exclaims, A sight to take your breath away! Grand processions of people telling all the good things of God! But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: ‘Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it?’ The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.” – Romans 10:17 (The Message Bible)

Wisdom From Oswald Chambers

“The Bible is a relation of facts, the truth of which must be tested. Life may go on all right for a while, when suddenly a bereavement comes, or some crisis; unrequited love or a new love, a disaster, a business collapse, or a shocking sin, and we turn up our Bibles again and God’s word comes straight home, and we say,  ‘Why, I never saw that there before.’ ” (Shade of His Hand, 1223 L)

PROGRESSION VS. PERFECTION

“God celebrates your progression, and so can you!” – Eriko Grill

There is nothing wrong with you enjoying every moment of life while having a problem. Stop being mad at yourself because you can’t be perfect for doing everything you do. Be patient with yourself because God gave you grace to be patient. By the grace of God, you are enough. He cares about you for who you are — more than what you do.

Bible Cross-References

The God of Glory | How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. –Ephesians 1:3-6 (The Message Bible)

Wait passionately for God, don’t leave the path. He’ll give you your place in the sun while you watch the wicked lose it. – Psalm 37:34 (The Message Bible)

I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn’t slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God. –Psalm 40:1 (The Message Bible)

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. – Ecclesiastes 7:8 (The Message Bible)

There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit! – Romans 5:3-5 (The Message Bible)

So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith. – Galatians 6:9 (The Message Bible)

Be assured that from the first day we heard of you, we haven’t stopped praying for you, asking God to give you wise minds and spirits attuned to his will, and so acquire a thorough understanding of the ways in which God works. We pray that you’ll live well for the Master, making him proud of you as you work hard in his orchard. As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work. We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. – Colossians 1:11-12 (The Message Bible)

I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you — salvation things! God doesn’t miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you’ve shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. – Hebrews 6:12 (The Message Bible)

Faith Under Pressure | Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. – James 1:2-4 (The Message Bible)

Meanwhile, friends, wait patiently for the Master’s Arrival. You see farmers do this all the time, waiting for their valuable crops to mature, patiently letting the rain do its slow but sure work. Be patient like that. Stay steady and strong. The Master could arrive at any time. –James 5:7-8 (The Message Bible)

Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I’ll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test. – Revelation 3:10 (The Message Bible)

Why was The Message Bible Written?

The Message Bible (MSG)

The best answer to that question comes from Eugene Peterson himself: “While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren’t feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn’t read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become ‘old hat.’”

Peterson’s parishioners simply weren’t connecting with the real meaning of the words and the relevance of the New Testament for their own lives. So he began to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original ancient Greek—writing straight out of the Greek text without looking at other English translations. As he shared his version of Galatians with them, they quit stirring their coffee and started catching Paul’s passion and excitement as he wrote to a group of Christians whom he was guiding in the ways of Jesus Christ. For more than two years, Peterson devoted all his efforts to The Message New Testament. His primary goal was to capture the tone of the text and the original conversational feel of the Greek, in contemporary English.

Language changes. New words are formed. Old words take on new meaning. There is a need in every generation to keep the language of the gospel message current, fresh, and understandable—the way it was for its very first readers. That is what The Message seeks to accomplish for contemporary readers. It is a version for our time—designed to be read by contemporary people in the same way as the original koin Greek and Hebrew manuscripts were savored by people thousands of years ago.

The goal of The Message is to engage people in the reading process and help them understand what they read. This is not a study Bible, but rather “a reading Bible.” The verse numbers, which are not in the original documents, have been left out of the print version to facilitate easy and enjoyable reading. The original books of the Bible were not written in formal language.The Message tries to recapture the Word in the words we use today.

To order a paperback of The Message Bible (MSG), click here: The Message Ministry Edition (Softcover, Green): The Bible in Contemporary Language

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