The Year Of Release Executing Your Talents

1
The Year Of Release Executing Your Talents

• Pastors Leaders Conference
• Thursday, May 3, 2007
• Greater Grace Temple
• (City of David)
• Detroit, Michigan

Bishop Charles H. Ellis IIIPresenter
2
What Is A TALENT?
3
Executing Your Talents
What Is A Talent?
Figurative Talent, like pound, is used
metaphorically in the New Testament for mental
and spiritual attainments or gifts. (Matt
2515-28) (from the International Standard
Bible Encyclopedia)
4
Talents Should Be Multiplied And Not Buried.
5
Executing Your Talents
Talents should be multiplied and not buried.
After a long time the lord of those servants
cometh, reckoneth with them. Matthew
2519 Maximizing a ministry will only occur by
Empowering the pew and lay leadership. The time
has come for each church member to assume
responsibility for its growth or lack of. The
Pastor must un-earth the talents and gifts to the
ministry to maximize its overall effectiveness.
6
3 Truths about the Ministry of TALENTS
7
Executing Your Talents
3 Truths about the Ministry of TALENTS

• Your TALENT is anointed by God you have been
  divinely set in the church for a beneficial
  purpose.
• Your TALENT is just as important as other
  leadership offices like those of the Apostles
  Prophets.
• TALENTS are a supernatural like miracles and
  healing.

8
(No Transcript)
9
Executing Your Talents
TALENTS Need 3 Other Ts for Effectiveness

• Tactfulness -We must pray for the ability to do
  and say the right thing without offending or
  harming a person. We must be able to serve while
  keeping our flesh under control.

10
Executing Your Talents
TALENTS Need 3 Other Ts for Effectiveness

• Timeliness - We must serve with punctuality,
  never being found slothful but always ready,
  willing and prepared to do the Lords business.

11
Executing Your Talents
TALENTS Need 3 Other Ts for Effectiveness

• Teamwork Talented people must work together and
  support one another. Remember how Jesus fed the
  5,000 men their families. He organized them
  into companies of fifty. Each disciple fed a
  group complimented each other because God is
  not the author of confusion and a house divided
  against itself can not stand.

12
Utilizing TALENTS in the Ministry
13
Executing Your Talents
14
Executing Your Talents
15
Executing Your Talents
16
Executing Your Talents The Proper Relationships
of Godly Talents

• Relationship with
• Relationship with
• Relationship with
• Relationship with

Notice how appropriate the pyramid is with GOD as
the focal point.
17
Consider the TALENT Check List
18
Executing Your Talents Consider the TALENT Check
List

• A disciplined PRAYER life
• FAITHFULNESS to the ministry
• FAMILY UNITY
• A TITHER
• Pastor at EASE in their presence
• EASE in pastors presence
• A STRONG STEADY will

19
Executing Your Talents Check List continued

• Avoid GOSSIPPING, MURMURING COMPLAINING
• OPTIMISTIC attitudes
• SUBJECT to authority
• A GOOD LISTENER
• DISCIPLINED MENTALLY PHYSICALLY
• LOYALTY

20
Avoid the TT'S
The Talent Terminators
21
Executing Your TalentsAvoid TTs (Talent
Terminators)
1.
PRIDE James 46 EVIDENCES
OF PRIDE ARE A. An independent spirit. B. A
failure to admit mistakes. C. A rebellious
attitude toward those in authority. D. A proud
countenance. E. Self-centered conversation. F. Int
olerance toward the mistakes of others. G. A
bossy attitude.
22
Executing Your TalentsAvoid TTs (Talent
Terminators)
2.
ANGER Proverbs 1632 EVIDENCES
OF ANGER ARE A. Temper tantrums. B. An angry
reaction to supposed justice. C. Expressed
frustration over unchangeable circumstances. D. Gr
umbling, murmuring complaining. E. Extreme
sensitivity touchiness.
23
Executing Your TalentsAvoid TTs (Talent
Terminators)
3.

• IMMORALITY 2nd Corinthians 71
• EVIDENCES OF A SPIRIT OF
• IMPURITY ARE
• A. Sensual conversations.
• B. The reading of impure materials.
• An impure attitude improper actions
• toward others.
• D. A desire for sensual music.
• E. Sensual dress or appearance.
• F. Carnal curiosity.

24
Executing Your TalentsAvoid TTs (Talent
Terminators)
4.
BITTERNESS Hebrews 1215 EVIDENCES OF
A SPIRIT OF BITTERNESS ARE A. Sarcastic and
critical talk. B. An inability to trust
people. C. Frequent illness. D. Self-pity. E. A
sad countenance.
25
Executing Your Talents
Effective Talents requires teamwork, and a chain
is only as strong as its weakest link. Leaders
must recognize Talent within the ministry, bind
away fear, rid the body of all offense and strive
to do more for Gods Kingdom. Then the Lord will
begin to multiply what we already have. Before
you ask God for more, make sure youre you are
releasing what you have.
And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1st Cor. 1228
26
Executing Your Talents
One must be willing to use ALL that they have in
the service of the Lord. Remember God is the
giver of every good and perfect Gift. The church
is to positively impact the world and in order to
do so
27
You MUST RELEASE YOUR TALENTS GIFTS TO THE LORD
28
The Year Of Release Executing Your Talents

• Pastors Leaders Conference
• Thursday, May 3, 2007
• Greater Grace Temple
• (City of David)
• Detroit, Michigan

Bishop Charles H. Ellis IIIPresenter