Knowing Him Daily

02.March.2026

Yesterday I asked you to make a list. Everything you would do if you knew you could not fail. I hope you wrote it down, because today we are going to talk about the thing that makes that list possible, the gift God already placed inside you, and what it is going to take to actually do something with it.

Because here is the truth, nobody put in a greeting card: that gift does not stir itself.

“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” 
2 Timothy 1:6, NKJV

Paul did not say wait for God to fan it. He did not say pray and hope it catches. He said you fan it. That word fan is active, intentional, deliberate. It is something you do on purpose, every single day, because if you don’t, the flame gets smaller. Not because God pulled back. Because you stopped tending it.

I’ll be honest with you. For most of my life I had this backwards. I assumed that stirring the gift, keeping the fire alive, staying spiritually sharp, I thought that was something God did to me when He was ready for me to be useful. I was waiting on Him to show up and light something in me. What I did not understand until fairly recently is that He already did that part. The gift was already in me and is already in you. The Holy Spirit is already there. What He is waiting on now is for you to pick up the fan.

God is a gentleman. He will not force His way into your daily life and demand that you engage. He does not override your will or strong-arm your schedule. He wants to be chosen. Every single day, with every part of who you are, He is waiting for you to turn toward Him and say yes again. Not because yesterday’s yes wore off, but because love chooses. Over and over and over again.

And that choosing is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is as simple as letting Him shape the back of your mind while you go about your day. While you are making coffee, returning emails, sitting in traffic, there is a part of you that can stay tuned to Him, letting Him speak into the margins of ordinary life. That is not multitasking with God. That is what it looks like to walk in the Spirit rather than just visit Him on Sunday.

“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” 
2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV

Power, love, self-discipline. Not timidity. Not passivity. Not sitting on the sidelines waiting for you to feel ready. The Spirit inside you is not a shy suggestion, He is power. But power that is never activated looks exactly the same as no power at all. Nothing.

Jesus said “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20, NKJV A mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds in existence. Your gift does not have to be fully developed to be usable. It just has to be stirred. It just has to be moving.

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10, NKJV Faithful stewards. There is that word again. Faithfulness is not just about showing up to the Word in the morning, anyone can read. It extends to what you do with what He put in your hands. You are a steward of grace. His grace, expressed through your specific, irreplaceable gift, poured out on the people around you. That is not small. That is the assignment.

So today the challenge is simple but it will cost you something. Identify one gift, just one, that God placed in you. Not the one you wish you had. The one you actually have. And then do one small thing with it today. Write the post. Make the call. Pray for the stranger. Speak the word of encouragement you have been sitting on. You do not have to have it all figured out. You just have to fan the flame and trust that He will do the rest.

The fire is already in you. It is time to tend to it.

Father, I don’t want to be someone who carries a gift they never opened. Forgive me for the times I waited on You to do what You were waiting on me to do. Today I choose You. I choose to fan this flame, to steward what You placed in me, to show up on purpose. Have Your way in me and through me. I am available. 
In Jesus’ name, 
Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​