HOW Your gift WILL make ROOM for you

hello honey is is yall's and welcome back to midweek motivation today I'm going to talk about something interesting that I've kind of gone through since January I suppose which is the reality of your gift making room for you you know I used to always say that University and I just say that to my friends you get to make room for you proverbs 18 verse 16 your gift will make room for you until the day came which I mean you know what I'm so mad the ball and melinda gates collaboration and i had to sit back pinch myself and realize that if i had not started putting this camera up and literally speaking my truth speaking about my journey to people i don't know that opportunity would have never come you know i would not have seen that and that in itself was just proof that my gift didn't make room for myself and i just want to talk about your gift because a lot of the times some of us are too shy to even talk about our gifts some of us don't really know how to explore them and i want us to dig into that so yeah let's get straight into this video you know what to do if you do enjoy it give it a massive thumbs up comment down below and let me know your gift if you don't know your gift please start praying and searching for your gift and of course don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already [Music] so let's actually start straight in the Bible I actually haven't worked out Scripture in any of my midweek motivation videos I've been tempted to but today's the day because it is in the word that means that's true it's truthful it is the case your gift definitely real but where is it in the word let's open our Bibles that is proverbs 18 verse 16 and it says a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men now the easiest example is always let's let's make the example the man behind the camera mr. Brendan praise Brendon in lead wobba right he sings and when you think about where his journey started how he's been singing for a long time besides the fact that he's a PK you know let's let's see you are PK me the besides all of that the fact that he knew his gift and he nurtured it and he practiced day in and day out and he stood before crowds on idols and he sang and now he's living that very gift that is his purpose I believe a part of his perfect purpose rather because they are we are all gifted in many ways and our purpose can be broader than what we actually think so in his case his is very obvious in a sense a lot of people think all our kids are as obvious but no mine may not be like his to stand before multiple men and actually sing and touch their lives through singing yours could be simply like mine sitting in a room with one or two people right now and talk and impact them and encourage them other people have a gift of literally just praying you know actually in Vaasa tea when I was searching and asking the Lord to reveal to me I actually used to believe that my gift was intercession which was praying for other people and I would look and ask people if I've met them and they have a need and I pray towards that need and pray with them but then I got to understand that is part of the bigger picture and now on a bigger scale every single night I do bring you guys in prayer but more than that I get to sit in front of a camera and talk to multiple women on my own in my own room but at the same time to so many differents screens you know and in that way my gift has made room even before men like Bill Gates himself and his wife Melinda Gates you know who easily could have just looked away looked away from my channel looked at in fact the examples they gave me they gave me the simile to videos of what they wanted like similar collab they've done and both these youtubers one had 4 million subscribers the other one had 10 million subscribers and I was like there I'm sitting on like 40 thousand something what you know but I got to realize that it is not the numbers it is not the fame it is the gift that is what has opened the door so whatever the gift may be in your case it could be literally I mean I'm trying to think of things that are outside of what the world sort of pushes because a lot of the times it was in the forefront that we think looks glamorous and what we think is a real gift when it could be as simple as praying for people it could be as simple as you being a prayer warrior for your family praying them out of poverty paying them out of real struggles circumstances that are hard praying them out of heartache you know I have a church member who's diagnosed with cancer and it's so difficult I every Thursday every Sunday I see him I know how hard the work is and sometimes it's hard for me to say to him but in prayer I fight and I pray for healing daily you know and I believe I'm still gifted in that area but no one needs to know that no other church knows how hard I pray for him no one needs to know that but that is my gift and I know even though it's not making room for me evidently before men I know that on the outer that before Christ that on the throne of God it is I've got rule there and that is more than enough you know a lot of the times our dreams we want them to be validated by the world we want them to be seen by many people but it need not be seen you know time we were here I think I was speaking about I don't even know which topic we were told my but I was talking about somebody being a whisper of of hope and encouragement among their friends you don't have to be the loudest mouth to to be gifted you don't have to be the person I even speak in the workplace how I've seen people work through their talents that have made them stand up before men you know I used to see the Swan girl ad at work she was a researcher she was a brilliant brilliant researcher and the moment she got out of feeling as though this is not a gift and started reaching out to people with her research papers she sat on the news on TV she was interviewed multiple times things you can even dream of because she's not that person but her research brought so much value not only in the company that we worked at but in South Africa as a whole people wanted to know her opinion on the economy people wanted to know I'm not even gonna mention her name people wanted her opinion on where we see the markets you know time and time again especially related to property and all of those things so that gift was reading she loved reading and she loved extracting certain things and putting it in her own opinion and they look and therefore looking at how she would forecast things in the next three to six months and in the next year and she's somebody who is now even advising people like the the SAR be you know Saab the Reserve Bank because they want to know her opinion but it's sorrow for somebody sitting in her desk and realizing that my gift is interpreting all this research all this raw data and translating it in my own words that's understandable and then only did she was she able to really translate that interpret it before a lot of people who found that valuable and now we see her on our screens you know so again I wish I had better examples that did not have to do with screens and TVs and performers like were pregnant prayers but I wanted to understand that your gift has got nothing to do with the world but it will make room for you in the world because we are in this world and we've got a purpose in this world therefore there's already room you know it is that gift that's gonna open the doors for you don't shy away from lifting your hand in the boardroom in fact let's make that conversation let's make that example in a corporate space how do you cultivate that gift how do you know I am gifted in a certain area well look for gaps most of the time our natural talents will come up when we do find gaps and the first instinct in your mind will be well what can I personally do in my own capacity to fix this or to resolve certain things that people may not see your eye is already been channeled in the direction of your gift that's literally what I always believed so for me being an extrovert and a speaker in a board room full of people and I'm not saying anything right usually I would sit there and keep quiet but then I realize well I do have an opinion and my gap in this market was I would not see women of color young black women in my space and every time we had sat in a meeting I'd first find out what are we talking about in this meeting so I do a little bit of research which I hated and then come to the meeting and add value with it's a question that I'm asking related to this one idea so after hearing what we're gonna be talking about I would represent my gift by actually pitching something new that maybe no one else thought about or someone did think about but didn't focus it because they were too shy or they were just too busy to explore more of it for somebody else it could be organizing okay somebody did something as simple as literally deciding to create a shared folder for our team believe it or not she got a promotion because she literally put herself in a position where she looked like the most organized person in the team so every single thing that we needed she only needed to lift her hand and be like wow what if we had a shared folder okay guys and then four things where we are traveling what happens if we can well how can we organize it in a way that it works out better she was doing our events she would organize literally every single thing to a point where our bosses would take it to meetings just because she had the organizational skills she did not have the talking skills but she was always organized so it's not necessarily about standing out because you are louder or standing out because you seem brighter but it's about standing out because your gift is enough and your gift can open that door whatever it is some people have better writing skills you know why aren't you writing the papers at work you've read the papers you've seen the errors me I can be a red pen at times but I always appreciated that one person who was quiet who said yours I know you've done a bit of research and you've you've written this memorandum can I have a look at it you know they have copyright skills they don't even know that they've got copyright skills why aren't you using that there are other people who have an eye for color and formatting why aren't you using that in the workplace even if you in a team that doesn't look at those things find room where your gift can fit in and trust me it will make a bigger room for you for other people to see it and more especially for you to grow in that field and hopefully live out your gift and your purpose I always say that your gift is part of your purpose you're given it may not necessarily be the bigger purpose like the biggest example is Brendon Brendon sings but there's a lot more about him than just singing his gift has made room for him yes but it's open other doors more than just singing you know in more opportunities like being a videographer having his own production company and things that he's passionate about but more than that you know things that he says and does and touches lives through living out his purpose not just the gift in itself so don't shy away from seeking that and I always encourage people when somebody says I wanna start a YouTube channel okay fine the first place is to dig your why to dig into your why to understand what your why is the only way you really want to know that is if you do understand where your gifting lies right so I really want to encourage you to go and dig in how did I know my gift jaw's how did you know you could speak I think the biggest and easiest way for me was my love for people every single time I met somebody I had a passion to know more about them and I always found myself giving more than hours receive right I remember even as a kid that speak in front of the mirror but it was always about me either encouraging the mirror singing to the mirror doing something that was giving to the mirror and the minute I picked up the camera if you watch one of my first few videos it was about driving and getting in the front seat of your life it's always been about speaking into people's lives and impacting them and not necessarily to be heard no but rather to impart something some knowledge where do I get this knowledge and the Lord alone knows he alone has given me that you know so that's how I really got to understand that in high school I didn't even explore that but I knew I loved the speaking part of me and only when I jumped in to varsity did I actually discover that this is actually a gift when I enter competitions and I was winning for speaking radio gigs TV gigs and that kind of thing and I was like actually this is actually a thing and every time I did that it felt good people don't talk about that feeling so for instance I can imagine for Brendon who's standing behind this camera every time you sing Brendon I'm next to you bro every time you sing whether or not you knew it was your gift does it feel good yeah does it give you yeah that feeling of fulfillment that that's what I mean so let's take another small scale example of you being the red pin at work after you've done over a painting does that feel good does it make you feel fulfilled I mean it shouldn't make you feel better than the next person absolutely not shouldn't make you feel like as in I know everything this is wrong indeed your red pen no but it should have a sense of I'm at the right place I'm doing what I need to be doing this is purpose if your gift does feed into your purpose therefore it will make you feel as though you are at the right place at the right time that is how you discover your gifts how do I discover without exploring unless you have to look back into your your your past and think about things that used to enjoy that used to make you feel as though you are actually living you know now how do I know I'm still living off my my gift because when I wake up I wake up with that zeal that enthusiasm you know I wake up with a much better self-esteem than I did when I was working for almost five years in corporate I wake up knowing very well that I'm at the right place at the right time and that every time I put in the time to live out my gift something inside of me tells me that this is it this is me my element it feels it feels right that's literally the only way I can describe it and I really want you to go back home and take that practical step and really rethink rethink the things that you are doing in your life whether it is in corporate whether you are an entrepreneur and try and pinpoint the things that do make you feel as though you in your element when you are doing them it is in that where you find your gift and hopefully you can ask the Lord to cultivate that and groom that because a gift in itself needs to be polished you know I always talk about practicing practicing practicing and sometimes we miss it and think ah you know yours just wakes up sitting around the camera and just speaks it takes practice to make it easier and better doesn't mean that since you know your gift that's gonna be very easy no it feels good doing it but doesn't mean that the nerves aren't there goodness every time I stand on stage and I speak to a card I get nervous I'm sure for for Brendon I don't know do you still get nervous yeah right exactly you know you can discern but over time it's not fear you won't fear what is part of you I love that right so it's almost like so what he's saying is it's almost as though you you are anticipating so those nerves are there nerves are good anticipation because you know you're about to do it and once you release it it feels good once you in it right I know and I start talking it I just go on and on and on but he's yeah you get into the full zone of doing it so I want you to go and find that because that is part of you finding you why it's part of you finding the bigger picture and your gift will make room for you but I think if I could add you can add scripture but if I could add to that in real life your gift also redirects your steps towards your bigger purpose it has to start with you understanding your initial gift where God has originally placed inside of your heart that thing that his place cultivate that and you'll be able to find your bigger purpose and hopefully live it out for him I love you guys so so much that is it from me and I hope you do enjoy searching for your gift I can't wait to see what is in the comment section there if you do know your gift please don't be shy let me know down in the comments below and of course don't forget subscribe if you haven't already mwah [Music]

Channel: Yolz Channel

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Length: 17min 30sec (1050 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 19 2020