#463: Designed to Make a Difference

The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast

Episode 463 - Show Notes

• I’ve never met a person who didn’t want to make a difference in their life. It’s a sincere desire we have. It’s a God-instilled desire. But for many of us, we don’t know how to make a difference.
• What you have to offer God matters. Your life matters. It matters to those you serve, those you help, those you pray for, those you encourage, those you bless. Your life matters. Only eternity will reveal the difference you have made with your life.
• I believe we have been designed by God to make a difference. Paul said in Ephesians that we were created to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do. Before you were born, God already knew how he wanted to use your life. I believe that while in your mother’s womb, God blessed you with aptitudes, skills, and talents that would be developed over the course of your life. God put in you what you would need to fulfill his purpose.
• So, how do we make a difference? It begins by making yourself available to God. He can use any of us, but we must first make ourselves available to him.
• God is not looking for ability. He is looking for availability.
• God loves to use weak people. Everyone has weaknesses. God has never been impressed with strength or self-sufficiency. The Bible is filled with examples of how God uses imperfect, ordinary people to do extraordinary things in spite of their weaknesses.
• Think about this: If God only used perfect people, nothing would ever get done. God is not limited by our limitations.
• We make a difference by using the talents God has given us.
• The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. Jesus, however, measured greatness in terms of service, not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

1 Peter 4:10-11 - “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.”

1 Corinthians 1:27 - “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”
Romans 12:6 - “We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.”

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