DEVELOP YOUR TALENTS

“Unless you put yourself under mental discipline, you will never develop the forces in you that are valuable to the commercial world.”
E.W. Kenyon

Henry Ford said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” When you keep your mind young age will not determine how far you can go in life. You can succeed at twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty or even at eighty.
Moses in the bible began his ministry at the age of eighty. He was no more a young man when he started and he did very well. Whatever you want to start to begin to actualize the fulfillment of your dreams you can start today. Age can never be a barrier to a mind that stays young. They say age is in the mind. I read about Fennyson. He composed his best piece of work at the age of 80? At the age of 81, Plato was still writing and John Wesley was still preaching the gospel at the age of 82. How old are you that you are complaining that you are too old to succeed? I know that you can still make it. You can begin now to set new goals for yourself and create new plans that will ensure your success in life.

The other day I listen to a program on the television, a seventy four year old man was graduating from the university as a doctor with his grandchildren. What does this suggest to you? That man is a disciplined man. He has a goal that he has set for himself and he was determined that age will not stop him from achieving his goals.

Do not allow your present age to stop you from achieving your goals in this life. In spite of your age, your greatest dreams can be achieved. You are not too old or too young to attempt great things in life, even new things. You have what it takes to succeed in this life. You cannot fail.

You have been giving the gift of talents and abilities by God. These talents are your hidden treasures. God deposited them in you for your own good and the good of the world. The world is only waiting for the discovery of your talents. When you develop your dominant talent into strengths and release them the world will discover you and pay you for what you are worth. When you are discovered you will be able to recover all that you have lost in the years of your ignorance of this truth that you are learning now.

You see that talent in you? It is valuable to the commercial world. The world is ready to pay any man; any woman who has done enough to develop the talents that God has given to him in such a way that it is useful for them to also achieve their own dream. For your talent to fulfill someone else dream you have to do all you can in your power to harness the potential of that talent. This calls for discipline on your part.

THE PLACE OF DISCIPLINE IN YOUR LIFE
You have to learn to discipline yourself. If you do not discipline yourself, you will not be able to develop those forces in you that are indeed needed by commercial world. Brother Paul told us what he was used to doing so that he can be fit to fulfill his calling by God.

He said,

“Surely you know that many runners take part in a race, but only one of them wins the prize. Run, then, in such a way as to win the prize. Every athlete in training submits to strict discipline, in order to be crowned with a wreath that will not last; but we do it for one that will last forever. That is why I run straight for the finish line; that is why I am like a boxer who does not waste his punches. I harden my body with blows and bring it under complete control, to keep myself from being disqualified after having called others to the contest.”
(1 Cor 9:24-27)

Can you imagine what this man of God does to keep fit? It is called discipline. He compared himself to an athlete in training for a prize. We all know those who run and win in the Olympic did not win their prize on that Olympic day. They had spent enough time to train themselves for the game that eventually gave them that gold they collected that day. This is the same way we must discipline ourselves in order for us to develop our talent. The talent that you did not develop has no value and cannot add value to your life. The talent that you develop will add value to your life.
The development of your talent is what no man or woman will do for you. You have to do this yourself. You have to know what you want to achieve with your life and put a plan in place for the accomplishment of that purpose