My responsibility: obedience; God's responsibility: my success

Give what you have to somebody; it may be better than you think. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

How many times have I kept my talents hidden because...  I felt what I had wasn’t good enough?   There have been many times when I’ve had an idea to write about a particular article, book or an idea for something else, and I just wouldn’t complete the task because...  I felt that it wouldn’t make a difference or be important to anyone else. Many of us have talents and the ability to do many wonderfully unique things. Sometimes I think... what I have to offer will most likely fail or I will embarrass myself so I don’t even attempt it. There have been many ideas dropped into my spirit; and up until now, I’ve let most of them just fall by the wayside. God gives me ideas on how to use the talents He has given me in many ways and through many different people. I have decided from now on, whenever God gives me an idea to act upon, I will do it no matter how strange or unprofitable it may seem at first.

My responsibility is to be obedient and do whatever He has told me to do. Let Him worry about making it a success. It is up to God to make it successful. It’s been said several times in His word:

Isaiah 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Job 36:11 If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.

Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.


Nothing of God is without purpose. Even what seems unimportant may be what someone else has been searching years for. 

I won’t be afraid to put those talents to work for God’s glory, define what success is to me and get ready for it. It’s what He promises and He cannot tell a lie.

* I will not procratinate but obey God's commandments
* I will practice the Fruits of the Spirit...
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,    self- control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
* I will start and maintain an Overeaters Anonymous meeting in Marathon
* I will work on the ACS Relay for Life... 
and coordinate The Doerfels performance at the Relay
* I will write my book