Lord, guide me to have the discipline to develop the gifts you gave me.

Greatness is never achieved nor dreams realized apart from great discipline. 

~~Kay Arthur  

This morning’s prayer and meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Take Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time.

Behind the few seconds of a gymnast’s vault stand hours, weeks, and years of training. For many hours a day, she practiced running and vaulting. She landed hard a few times, developed some bruises, and went back to try again. Run, vault. Run, vault. Run, vault. She practices all those years so that her five seconds of running and vaulting might bring home an Olympic medal.

She will be the first to tell you that greatness and dreams cannot be realized without discipline.

We do not all have Olympic dreams or Olympic abilities, but we have God given gifts. We are responsible to discipline ourselves to develop those gifts for his glory. The greatness we achieve and the dreams we realize may not put our pictures on a cereal box, but we will accomplish what God had in mind when he created us.  

And that is enough.

Prayer for Meditation

Lord, guide me to have the discipline to develop the gifts you gave me.  

Scripture for Meditation

In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly. Romans 12:6-8

Music for Meditation 

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