FJWL_01:17
         Your rewards are not a result of what your gifts and talents are or how many you have, but the rewards are a result of what you do with such gifts. I seek not those who are strong and great and mighty in themselves, but I seek those who are willing to glorify Me. I seek those who are willing to acknowledge that all that they have and all that they are comes from Me--that it is My gift, My blessing, My anointing, My power in their lives.
         Someone who has fewer gifts and talents, who is small in his own eyes, who acknowledges his weakness and depends utterly upon Me and gives Me all the glory will be more greatly rewarded than one who is strong and mighty and greatly gifted with many talents and skills, yet who leans to his own strength, and takes the glory to himself. I cannot reward such a one.
         Do not be confused, thinking that heart's desires or crowns of glory go only to those who have many great gifts and talents, for this is not true. No matter what your gifts and talents, whether they be many or few, if you give them all to Me and invest them well and are diligent, careful, prayerful, faithful, and do your very best for Me, this is what will bring the rewards that you seek.



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