A prayer to help you discover your gifts and abilities by Dr. Neil Anderson.

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, first Peter

for ten. For the Christian, true fulfillment in life can be summarized by the popular

bumper stickers slogan, Bloom where you're planted. Peter said it this way, as each one

has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, first Peter for ten.

Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities

and use them to edify others and glorify the Lord. God allowed me to understand this

vital principle before entering the ministry, while I was still employed as an aerospace

engineer. I knew God wanted me to be an ambassador for him where I worked, so I started a

breakfast Bible study in the bowling alley next door. My announcement about the Bible

study had only been posted in our office about an hour before a Jewish fellow pulled

it off the wall and brought it to me. You can't bring Jesus in here, he objected. I

can't do otherwise, I said, every day I walk in here, Jesus comes in with me. He was

not impressed with my response. One of the men who found Christ in the Bible study

took over when I left Honeywell to enter seminary. A few months later, I went back to visit my

friends in the Bible study. Do you remember the Jewish fellow the leader asked?

Sure, I remember him, I said, or calling his brash opposition to our Bible study. Well,

he got sick and almost died. I went to the hospital and visited him every night. Finally,

I let him to Christ. I was ecstatic at the realization that I had become a spiritual

grandparent. The sense of fulfillment was exhilarating. And it all happened because I started

a simple little Bible study where I worked, in order to do what Paul said. Do the work

of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. Second Timothy 4, 5. Father, I want to bloom

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