"Being a Positive in a Negative" Part 4

In studying scripture recently I have discovered that God will often complete His training in your life by putting you in a place where you are using a secondary gift and not a dominant gift. In other words you are doing something you tolerate but you are pretty good at, waiting for the thing you love. Most people only spend about 20% of the time in their dominant gift. It is a difficult thing to structure your life, family and career so that you can spend most of your time operating in your dominant gift doing what you love.

God will usually put you in an area where the secondary gift is functioning and develop the fruit of the spirit there. He will make you have self control right there, long suffering, peace... God trains you in your secondary gifts with the focus of developing character. he will put you in a place you don't like, with people you don't like, doing a job you don't like. Why? God wants to see if you can be in bad place but still be good. Can you be in a sad place but still smile? Can you be in a sinful place but maintain your integrity? Can you be in a negative environment and be a positive?

The reason some of you are experiencing great difficulty is because God is about to put you in the arena the real you can break forth!

Examples:

David could sing, play the harp, write Psalms but those were his secondary gifts, what was his dominant gift? He was a warrior. He had been faithful in my playing, songwriting, praise, taking care of the sheep and now this Goliath is my opportunity for the real me to show up! Your greatest problem is your greatest opportunity for the greatest you to be revealed! He looked at Goliath and didn't even hesitate or think about running. Why? He knew that there was something extraordinary in him, and Goliath was the door for it to come forth. The only way for this to happen was to engage his enemy and run to his greatest problem and cut it's head off.

Jesus was 30 before He stepped into His dominate gifting. He lived most of his life out of a secondary gift, he could build. In fact he didn't just build, he was so good at it that he took over his father's business and ran it. Then he walked into the temple picked up the scroll and said the spirit of the Lord is upon me and he has anointed me.... He then rolled up the scroll and said today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. Because of his faithfulness in his secondary gifting, He now was being launched into his dominant gifting. And people said of him, where did he get this wisdom and authority? Is this not Joseph's boy? Is this not the son of a carpenter?

Most people have labeled you by your secondary gifting, but the real you is going to blow their world.

Moses was 80 years old before he would step into his dominate gifting. I believe that God is moving you into a place where you won't have to tolerate the present, but you will do what you love. The people around you haven't seen it but God is about to expose the greatness in you.

Tomorrow, "Your Greatest Treasure is in the Mouth of the Negative Voices".

Blessings,
Craig