I WILL TRADE YOU, MY GIFTS FOR YOUR TALENTS

I WILL TRADE YOU,  MY GIFTS FOR YOUR TALENTS

When the enemy comes in like a flood and you are being overwhelmed those who have traded their talents for My gifts, will be greatly sought after. Your gifts are called talents, they are natural born. They are possessed by sinner and saint alike. Talents are used to make some people very rich. They greater the talent the greater the gain. Some and talented comedians and people will pay large sums to make them laugh. Talented artists will paint, paintings that will bring as much as a million dollars. 

There are talented singers, musicians, speakers, dancers, and others. There also talented tradesmen and craftsmen, that work with their hands to produce services and products that people are anxious to purchase and own.

These are all natural born and therefore of the flesh and not usable in the kingdom. Talents are not sin, but are born of sinful flesh and therefore corrupt by the nature of there birthplace, the soul of sinful man. All talent finds it's origin in the soul. When a soul is cast down it cannot produce the talent needed to overcome, thus depraved human nature will seek relieve in sinful pleasures where many loose their life to addictions.

When a person becomes born again, it means their spirit is made alive by My presence in the core of their being. All else is unaffected until it is surrendered to Me. A thief becomes a born again thief, he just steals in different ways until I change his thieving character. 

In the same way when you are born again, the talents you possess are not converted, they are still part of the natural man. Many carnal leaders hungry for talent will snatch up new believers for their talent, and attempt to use them in worshiping Me. It looks good and sounds good and even feels good but it is only temporary because it is from the soul not the spirit. Many of these new believers burn out quickly because unknowingly they are fighting wickedness in high places with carnal weapons. 

No matter how good they may sound it's an offering of strange fire to Me. Talent loves and thrives on praise, the praise that belongs only to Me. The only worship excepted in My kingdom must come from the spirit not the soul. Soul talent can only minister to the soul, which is very temporary and shallow. Spiritual people will recognize the shallowness seek out gifted worshipers to lead them. 

The born again professional thief cannot go out and begin stealing for Me, but must surrender his thieving ways to Me so I can redeem that portion of his character. So it is with the talents of man. Wether you are a talented thief, dancer, singer, speaker, teacher, painter, or craftsman, your talent's birthplace is all the same, the unregenerate soul.

EVERY TALENT MUST BE SURRENDERED TO ME, to do with as I please. I will then give it back as a gift, now it becomes a privilege, an anointed gift that will flow from your new born spirit, which is able to lift up even the most downcast soul. Even if the talents of the unregenerate soul are considered masterful in the natural, they are never taken seriously or even heard in the spirit realms. Even the least of gifts can penetrate spiritual walls that the greatest talents will bounce off of.

Whatever you use to worship Me, it must originate in Me, nothing less will be accepted. There is no limit to the power of a totally surrendered life, where I control everything, on a moment by moment voluntary basis. Surrender your talents today and watch where My gifts will take you tomorrow.

Leviticus 10:1-3 (AMP)
AND NADAB and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange and unholy fire before the Lord, as He had not commanded them. [2] And there came forth fire from before the Lord and killed them, and they died before the Lord. [3] Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord meant when He said, I and My will, not their own will be acknowledged as hallowed by those who come near Me, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron said nothing.

Exodus 30:28-33 (AMP)
And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver for cleansing and its base. [29] You shall sanctify (separate) them, that they may be most holy; whoever and whatever touches them must be holy (set apart to God). [30] And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify (separate) them, that they may minister to Me as priests. [31] And say to the Israelites, This is a holy anointing oil symbol of the Holy Spirit, sacred to Me alone throughout your generations. [32] It shall not be poured upon a layman''s body, nor shall you make any other like it in composition; it is holy, and you shall hold it sacred. [33] Whoever compounds any like it or puts any of it upon an outsider shall be cut off from his people.

John 4:24 (AMP)
God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).

John 3:6 (AMP)
What is born of from the flesh is flesh of the physical is physical; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

1 Corinthians 15:45-50 (AMP)
Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit restoring the dead to life. [46] But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual. [47] The first man was from out of earth, made of dust (earthly-minded); the second Man is the Lord from out of heaven. [48] Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly-minded); and as is the Man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven (heavenly-minded). [49] And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so shall we and so let us also bear the image of the Man of heaven. [50] But I tell you this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot become partakers of eternal salvation and inherit or share in the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (that which is decaying) inherit or share in the imperishable (the immortal).

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (AMP)
For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. [4] For the weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons of flesh and blood, but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [5] Inasmuch as we refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),

Psalm 24:3-10 (AMP)
Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place? [4] He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully. [5] He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. [6] This is the generation description of those who seek Him who inquire of and for Him and of necessity require Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah pause, and think of that! [7] Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in. [8] Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. [9] Lift up your heads, O you gates; yes, lift them up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in. [10] Who is He then this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah pause, and think of that!