The Key To Maximizing Your Ministry Is Wisdom

Sermon The Key to Maximizing Your Ministry

Proverbs 30:24-28

“There are four things on earth That are small but unusually wise: 25 Ants—they aren’t strong, but they store up food all summer. 26 Rock Badger—they aren’t powerful, but they make their homes among the rocks. 27 Locusts—they have no king, but they march in formation. 28 Lizards—they are easy to catch, but they are found even in kings’ palaces.”

Introduction: Have you ever thought about your full potential? What does it take to maximize your potential in Ministry? Human beings are created by God, in his image to fulfill our god given purpose. Jesus came that we might live life to the fullest measure. What do think hinder us from maximizing our full potential? I believe that we sometimes fail to realize who we really are, what we have been given and what we can achieve in life.

Hosea 4:6 “If My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Priests are those that have favor and power with God and with men. If we are going to fulfil our purpose and maximize our potential, we must understand how life works. Two things are key. First there is a law of use. In Matthew 25, Jesus tells the parable of the talents. We have all some talent. It may be only one, but we are responsible for it. Are we acting up to the measure of our ability? Many wish they had more talents, but this is wrong, for the Lord has entrusted us with as many gifts as we shall be able to give a good account of. Our great concern should be to be found faithful stewards of such things as we have. If we fail to use it, we will lose it. The law of use. Second is the law of reciprocity. Ga 6:7 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap.” These governing laws are assigned to life. They control how things works. They not governed by how you feel, what you think nor whether you like them or not. We can never maximize our gifts unless we understand how things work. They allow us to change! Listen again to the text from Proverbs 30:24-28.

The four little things of our lesson learned how to maximize their potential and overcome their limitations, not by bodily bulk, external beauty, or even supernatural strength, but by their wisdom, conduct, industry, application, and adaptation. We tend to judge and value men by the external advantages. I believe we are given examples like this to help us realize the real measure of a man is found in his character. To maximize our potential, we must learn how things work, then use that knowledge wisely by conducting ourselves accordingly. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Weak men tend to wait for opportunities wise men make them.

These four little things shows us that God is not limited by our weakness. Often God will use our weakness for his glory. God has a way of compensating for our shortcomings in life. Making sure we have everything we need. Satan's number job is deception. He uses his strategies, strength and energies to convince us that we are too small or too weak to do anything great for God. How true it is, for we in our own strength are too weak, too small and too limited. But with Christ, we can do all things through his mighty strength and power.

God seems to delight in using weak instruments for his service. When God needed a deliverer, he raised up a Moses and gave him a rod. When Samson needed a great weapon, God gave him the jawbone of an ass. When David faced Goliath, God gave him a sling and 5 smooth stones. When God want to save a widow woman and her son, he used a hand full of meal. After three and a half year of drought, God used a cloud about the size of a man's hand. In Zechariah 4:10, there is a word of caution when God says, "For who hath despised the day of small things. There is an old adage that says, "Big things sometimes come in small packages." When Jesus fed the multitude, he used two fish and five barley biscuits. Jesus said to move mountains we only need mustard seed faith.

I Corinthians 1:27-29 "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence."