HOW TO AVOID LOSING YOUR GIFT

SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER JOHNSON
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH

What is your gift?
Salvation is your gift
Finding yourself in the university is a gift. People you applied with, had better marks than you, yet you were admitted.

Everything you have today, wherever you are today, someone was supposed to be there, but then you were grafted and put there. It's a gift (favour)

Read Romans 11:17-24

The same way God can remove you from the tree and graft the original there.

Verse 24
So if God was willing to do something contrary to nature by grafting you unto His cultivated tree, He will be far more eager to graft the original branches back into the tree where they belong.

So if you find yourself using your gift,
* Don't consider people's reactions
* Do it from your heart to please God not man
Lest you lose it.

The gift is not for fun.
The gift isn't for titles.
The gift is for work..
Work to show the glory of God unto man.

TIME TO USE YOUR TALENT

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER JOHNSON

To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability.
                    Matthew 25:15

With your five bags of silver, two or one bag of silver (talent ), God expects you to utilize it. Lest you lose it. Whatever gift you have, it's good for you.

Vs 15b  according to his ability.  According to your ability God gave you your one talent, two talents, or five talents.  So why struggle and compare your one talent to someone's five talent,  when you will all be rewarded the same, provided your talent is utilized.

"As many as I have entrusted into your hands, keep them "

You don't want to lose your talent? Use it or use  them. At the end of the day, when the Lord God Almighty is rewarding you, He will say to you.... 
Vs 21
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’