If you want to know God's will, re-examine your gifts. If you want to know what God wants

out of you, look at what God put into you, because those gifts are a deposit, and God wants a

return on his investment.

Hello and welcome to another great day on Destin for Victory,

where we feature the teaching and preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

Well, from time to time, we all struggle with the question, why am I here?

And if you want of millions who wants to know your place in this world,

Pastor Paul has a word of encouragement for you today, taken from the life of the Apostle Paul.

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Now, here's today's Destin for Victory Message.

Praise your way through.

If you want to see God grow your faith,

you've got to get with people who can help your faith grow.

If you're believing God for things you never believed him for

or in ways you never believed them,

you want to get around faith-walking people.

I intentionally hang out with ministers whose anointing and whose scope of ministry dwarfs mine

because I want to remain exposed to their faith because I know that God's only doing what

he's doing because they've allowed him to grow them in the

area of faith. And so I get around them. Sometimes I feel really silly, but I hang out with the

right folk. Because if you want to be an eagle, you've got to quit hanging with turkeys.

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