What's So Spiritual About Your Gifts? by Henry & Mel Blackaby

God has been in the work of using people who have had no ability of their own, from Gideon to Amos to Peter to Moses to many other characters throughout the Bible. Just as God showed Himself powerful in these people, He desires to show Himself powerful in Christians of this age. Too often, "we are seeking the gifts of the Holy Spirit and not the Holy Spirit Himself." The Spirit is sent to accomplish the Father's will through us. Two things that often squelch the Spirit's power in us, is either natural talents and abilities or no natural talents at all. Many Christians use the excuse of not having any natural talents for not doing anything for God. But these people are the ones that God uses to reveal Himself to a watching world. "If you don't have a lot of natural talent, you can thank God that you're the perfect vessel for Him to show Himself powerful in you." Yet in another sense, if those with natural talents operate according to their abilities, then they get the glory and not God. "Too often, we are content to serve God by giving our own greatest effort." "Once a persons talents become a substitute for the work of the Holy Spirit, that person is of no use to God." As Christians we shy away from doing what the Spirit is leading because we don't feel we are equipped for the calling. But, "the enabling of the Holy Spirit follows the assignment, it never precedes it."

This book poses the question, "Why watch the activity of God from a distance when you can experience the thrill of being involved in the Spirit's active work?" Wow! How awesome, that we are called and chosen to be involved in the work of the Holy Spirit! "What does the world need to see, what we can do or what God can do? Do we want to give the world our best or let the world experience God's best?"

The working of God through the Holy Spirit in our lives, can be summed up best in the following passage:

Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the
LORD is His name): Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and
mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:2-3

So chances are, God will ask you to do something that you are not able to do and it is then that He will show Himself most powerful! God does not need us to show His power, but He allows us to take part in it! Now that's GRACE!!