For many, if you don’t know already, you'll notice over time you’ve realized you’re good at certain things, really bad at other things and you're alright in all everything else. That was me all through high school. I wanted to be an amazing dancer; however, I’m average, I’m good, I can make it look like I know a lot. I'm terrible at math, and when getting a test back I was always the only kid who never got a passing score. Theatre; I was a theatre nerd for four years and there are ups and downs with that, I got alright roles and as my years at high school became smaller so did my overall parts … I'm good at theatre. I can do it, but I’m not incredible at it.

My first night of Youth I remember seeing other people and hearing about gifts; at the time I had no idea what they were. However, I noticed one kid over there who could see visions from God, another could talk to God, another girl over there could speak in tongues. Going home after learning more and more about it, I wanted it. Like the cat that your buddy down the street has, and because every one in the neighborhood has one.

I wanted something so bad, I prayed about it, I asked people about it. How many of you know the look you get from someone when you start talking about the gift of speaking in tongues and they look at you like ... bro, you need some help … that's OK, we all need help; that's why there's Jesus.

It took me until my senior year of English 12 teacher to say something to me I could never forget. Out of all my teachers and classes in high school, my English teacher said to me, “You have a gift…” Pause right there. Light bulb goes off.

A couple months go by, and I start to get this idea … God finally tells me … writing.

The thought of it made me laugh … “OK, that’s cool God; you can give me a paper and a pencil … hooray…”

He shakes me a little, places my heads back on straight, and I get it.

Speaking and writing in my case go hand in hand.

I was never great at acting, but I knew how to perform. I was never great at being an amazing dancer but I still knew how to move people and how to make a connect.

Writing does the same … I can pick up a pen or a computer and let God speak though me with words and letters. I can write and entire speech in a night, wake up the next morning and not have a clue about what I wrote until I find it the next day after I sent to half my contacts.

I can get up in front of a crowd and easily talk and preach about what I had just written on my paper … when years ago I dropped out of a play because my lines were overwhelming and I was nervous and scared … God said, "Oh you just wait … I'll let you back out of it this time." He certainly did so.

Yes, I’m good at writing, but God makes me an incredible writer. He moves through me, for me to reach to others. He moves through that girl who can heal the sick because that's HER gift, he moves through that boy who can speak in tongues because thats HIS gift. He moves through me with writing because that's MY gift. It took me 18 years to finally have an understanding to my gift … I can promise you, he’ll show you when your time is right.

God one way or another gave you a gift, and it's OK not to know what it is. He'll show you when you're ready. Your talent is what God gave to YOU; it's your job to give it all back to God.

1 Peter 4:10, "Each of you should use whatever gift you received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms."