| November 18, 2018 "Created for Extraordinary Purpose"
Elaine Tavolacci, Staten Island, NY From the Desk of Steve Shultz:  I really appreciate Elaine Tavolacci sharing this article...and I believe many of you need to receive it over yourself!
All too often, we compare ourselves to others and don't see the unique gifts and qualities God gave just to us, individually. Just read this by Elaine: Although you may be attracted to someone's charisma, magnetism and the way they minister, Jesus has created you uniquely and wants to use you with your own personality, mannerisms and makeup. The gift that the Lord has for you is befitting to your personal characteristics. Don't try to be someone that you were not created to be, but just be a submissive, yielded vessel and watch what the Lord will do. Amen, I couldn't say it any better. Stop comparing yourself to others and start walking in the extraordinary purpose God created just for YOU! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.) Note: Do these free emails bless you? Would you consider your part in the financial support of ELIJAH LIST MINISTRIES? Here's a button you can click on if you are able to help us: Please forward this word to your friends! Encourage them to subscribe to the Elijah List right here: http://elijahlist.com/subscribe. Enjoy! Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
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Elaine Tavolacci, Staten Island, NY  A Unique Piece of the Puzzle Many of you are having what I call a spiritual identity crisis by not knowing what your gifts and callings are. You are trying to find your place in the Body of Christ. It is comparable to the structure of a jigsaw puzzle. You know that you are a piece of this puzzle, but you are searching to see where you fit in. There are also those of you who have been watching ministers for some time now and you covet their anointing. There is nothing wrong with admiring a minister's gift and character, but the Lord has a unique ministry and anointing for each one of us. Although you may be attracted to someone's charisma, magnetism and the way they minister, Jesus has created you uniquely and wants to use you with your own personality, mannerisms and makeup. The gift that the Lord has for you is befitting to your personal characteristics. Don't try to be someone that you were not created to be, but just be a submissive, yielded vessel and watch what the Lord will do. The apostle Paul tells us to desire spiritual gifts and this should be natural for every Believer. The Lord has created each one of us to be used with a particular presentation, teaching, writing or prophetic word. Each one of us has been created for a purpose. He has created you for such a time as this, just the way that you are, and wants to use you just the same. He has a commission for you that only you can fulfill. Jesus delights in using ordinary people to do extraordinary things for His glory. 1 Corinthians 14:1, "Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy." Designed to Be a Survivor and a Thriver The Lord says, "I have designed you not only to survive, but to thrive in the environment in which you have been created. You have been strategically placed where you are, and have been uniquely designed for My specific plan for your life. You have been born for this time and season in which you are living. It is no accident that you were born on a particular day, month and year, created with a distinct height, weight and gender. Even your personality has been engrafted into My master plan for your life. "Just as I have equipped and called the prophets of old to do great works, I am also equipping you for great exploits in the days ahead. You have been chosen to have visitations with the King of kings. You have been created to have encounters in the Kingdom of Heaven. Take your focus off your natural situations and focus on spiritual realities. Do not say that these times are too difficult to survive, because I have created you to be a survivor. "Release your old ways of thinking and the mindsets that have kept you from advancing. Do not fear what lies ahead because you have been created in My image. Do not allow the enemy to divert your attention off your purpose and My plan for your life. You are a threat to the enemy, not by who you are, but by what you carry. I have placed My anointing on the inside of you in which there is no competition with the kingdom of darkness. I have strategically designed you with a purpose, plan and a destiny for greater works," says the Lord. Psalm 139:13- 16, "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.) Elaine Tavolacci
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Website: www.awordinseason.info Elaine Tavolacci resides in Staten Island, New York. She has been a student of the Word for twenty-nine years. She has a prophetic gift as well as a ministry of encouragement, which teaches the Body of Christ to walk in the fullness of what the Lord has called them to. She teaches others how to be overcomers in every area of their lives and understands the power and authority that Jesus has assigned to them. Her ministry, "A Word in Season," has been an encouragement to others for nine years. She has learned the transforming power of the Word of God and encourages others that nothing is impossible with God. ************************************* To receive daily, encouraging prophetic emails from The Elijah List to your in box CLICK HERE or go to: http://elijahlist.com/subscribe Visit our webstore and check out Alveda King's book by Elijah List Publications: America Return to God: www.americareturntogod.com Also check out Steve Shultz's Revised and 2nd Edition book Can't You Talk Louder, God?: http://www.elijahshopper.com/cant-you-talk-louder-god-secrets-to-hearing-the-voice-of-god-revised-and-updated-edition-by-steve-shultz/ Permission is granted (and you are also encouraged) to reprint these articles in hard copy form, as well as sending them to your own email lists and posting them on your own websites. We ask only that you keep Elijah List website, email contact info, and author contact information intact. Elijah List Publications
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The Shulamite's encounter with the abusive watchmen is a picture of those who are meant to be our protectors, and yet, one or more of them has hurt us along the way. It may have been a parent or loved one; an overseer, a financial or medical advisor, a spiritual leader or boss. It may have been someone in our own employ, ministry or church. They held a position of trust. But instead of shielding us, they stripped away our covering, leaving us hurt and wounded. (Photo via Unsplash)
