Invest your Talents
Psalm 139
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
① Natural abilities
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
② Learned skills & knowledge
Exodus 31:2–4
“See, I have called by name Bezalel... I have filled him with
the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge,
and in all kinds of craftsmanship, to make artistic designs for
work in gold, in silver, and in bronze”
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
② Learned skills & knowledge
Exodus 35:25–26
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what
they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in
fine linen. All the women whose heart stirred with a skill spun
the goats’ hair.
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
② Learned skills & knowledge
Daniel 1:17
As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and
intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom...
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
③ Spiritual Gifts (1 Corinthians 12)
• ONLY for believers
• For ALL believers
sign gifts
Spiritual Gifts
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Apostleship
Prophecy
Tongues
Interpretation of Tongues
Healing
Miracles
Evangelism
Teaching
Exhortation
Administration
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Leadership
Pastoring
Discernment
Wisdom
Knowledge
Faith
Giving
Service
Helps
Mercy
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
① Natural abilities
② Learned skills & knowledge
③ Spiritual gifts
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
2. Your talents aren’t yours!
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The
world, and those who dwell in it.
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
2. Your talents aren’t yours!
• God gets all the credit
• Our talents are for Him, not us
Truths about Talent
1. You have talent!
2. Your talents aren’t yours!
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God
the Father.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and
especially for those of his household, he has
denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
Proverbs 31:10, 13
An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is
far above jewels... She looks for wool and flax and
works with her hands in delight.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
Proverbs 31:16, 24
She considers a field and buys it; from her
earnings she plants a vineyard... She makes linen
garments and sells them, and supplies belts to the
tradesmen.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and
does not eat the bread of idleness.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
• Serve the church
Ephesians 4:15–16
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all
aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom
the whole body, being fitted and held together by what
every joint supplies, according to the proper working of
each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the
building up of itself in love.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
• Serve the church
1 Peter 4:10
As each one has received a special gift, employ it
in serving one another as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God.
How to Glorify God with
your Talents...
• Provide for your family
• Serve the church
• Reach the lost