Work Places a Demand on Your Potential.

(Proverbs 18:16) "A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men."

No one comes into this world without gifts, talents, and a calling, and everybody has potential. But without work, these gifts and talents remain underdeveloped.

God uses work to place a demand on our potential because potential needs demand to draw it out🧑‍🔧 You must tap into your niche.

Work is activating stored energy. Through work, your potential is expressed in tangible form.🧑‍🔧

If you refuse to work, your ability or potential to express God's creative ability within you remains sealed up inside of you.

"Potential without work equals poverty." Potential means hidden abilities.

The dictionary definition of potential is; "personal development: capable of development into productivity....expressing what is possible.

Eight Reasons Why You Should Work For a Living:

• Work is the way you give something of value to the world.
• Work releases and develops your gifts and talents.
• Work keeps you mentally healthy and creative by focusing your mind on something productive.
• Work is a means by which dreams, ideas, and goals become a reality.
• Work makes you a blessing to your employer and coworkers.
• Work allows you to become a co-creator with God.
• You will not fulfill your potential and purpose here on earth without work.
• Work provides revenues by which finances can be directed into your hands.

Your Work Gains favorable Attention:

• The most concrete evidence of your work is your paycheck.
• If you are dissatisfied with your paycheck, remember; until you begin to render more service than you are already being paid for, you are not entitled to any more pay.
• People who need your work have things to offer you. What will distinguish you from your coworkers?

Become Indispensable in Your Work:

• Going the extra mile in your work assignments makes you Indispensable to others.
• You must do for your employer what no one else is willing to do.
• You will never command more than average compensation until you become Indispensable to your employer.
• Make yourself so useful that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to replace you.
• People who have distinguished themselves from the (average crowd) and have included the priceless value of going the extra mile in their work, virtually write their own paychecks.

You Develop Self-Improvement & Discipline By Working:

• Going the extra mile means that you strengthen your performance to do your job and do it well.
• You carry out your tasks in a state of mind that focused on providing the best service possible, in the best attitude.
• Always stay focused on providing your best service/work possible.

Your Work Performance will Gain favorable Opportunities:

• When you make yourself indispensable, you gain job security by your outstanding performance. You stand out from others.
• You will gain recognition and the ability to select the work or projects you desire to choose.
• Perhaps this will mean a promotion, a job of leadership within another department.
• Going the extra mile is a way of writing your own paycheck or job security within your industry.

Take Personal Initiatives to Perform Your Work with Excellence:

• Personal initiative means doing what needs to be done without being told what to do.
• It's the most outstanding trait of human personality, yet sadly it is a quality missing in many working people today.
• If you render more and better service than your coworkers, you will naturally stand out in bold contrast,
• Wise employers are very alert to the power of contrast, and they reward those employees to whom it highlights.
• Going the extra mile develops personal initiative because you don't wait for things to happen, but make them happen.