1. Invest your Talents Psalm 139

4. Truths about Talent 1.You have talent! ① Natural abilities

5. 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”

6. 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.

7. 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...

8. Truths about Talent 1.You have talent! ③ Spiritual Gifts (1 Corinthians 12) ONLY for believers For ALL believers

9. Spiritual Gifts Apostleship Prophecy Tongues Interpretation of Tongues Healing Miracles Evangelism Teaching Exhortation Administration Leadership Pastoring Discernment Wisdom Knowledge Faith Giving Service Helps Mercy sign gifts

10. Truths about Talent 1.You have talent! ① Natural abilities ② Learned skills & knowledge ③ Spiritual gifts

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. How to Glorify God with your Talents... Provide for your family Serve the church Reach the lost