Nino’s Mission

Have You Opened The Gifts God Gave You?

December 18th, 2006

Hello Again and happy holidays! Before I get started, I first want to give thanks. I want to give thanks to God for giving me this opportunity to publish a website. It’s been like an early Christmas gift to me! I also give thanks to HIM for bringing a group of VERY special people into my life, who helped make NINO’S MISSION on the Internet possible!

It’s a privilege and a great GREAT opportunity to be able to share with YOU and many others MY life story, and to share how I’ve overcome so many challenges to get where I am today. It’s all about those two words: NO EXCUSES! To be able to compete in bodybuilding and to share, motivate and inspire others are some of the best gifts that I could ask for.

Although GOD has blessed me with many gifts, the first is that HE gave me life! Just think, if it weren’t for HIM, none of US would even be here on this earth and yet we sometimes take life itself for granted! God has endowed all of us with special gifts from the day we were born. I am truly grateful HE has shown me what my gifts are and MANY ways to utilize my gifts to help others while glorifying him!

I truly believe that God has used me - through my success in bodybuilding - to help show every person that they has a gift and that they can not only achieve personal success, happiness and fulfillment by finding and using their gifts, but also motivate and inspire others in the process!

I’m now going to ask You the million dollar question that everyone should be asking themselves: What gift has GOD given YOU?

Some people feel as if only other people were given special gifts. Sometimes they even feel as though things have been taken away from them or kept out of their reach… maybe due to a disability????

Well, if you don’t think you were given any gifts, boy are YOU in for a SURPRISE! Believe it or not, God has given every single person on this planet a special gift. It simply doesn’t occur to some people that maybe what looks like a disadvantage may turn out to be a gift. Or maybe your gift is plain to see. Maybe it’s in sports, music or even politics -  they’re ALL given to YOU by GOD!

Here’s another MILLION dollar question! Have you been using your gifts to give glory to GOD and to help others? Or have you been giving yourself all the praise instead? I guess in order for you to know that, you have to have a relationship with him!  Personally, I know for a fact, that it was God who gave me my gifts and it’s because of GOD that I’ve been successful in everything I have done to this point in my life, so I give him the credit. I also know that I will continue to use the gifts that I’ve been given, for as long as I’m alive, for GOD’S glory and to help others!

Listen, during this holiday season when we are all focused on the giving and receiving or material gifts, I would like to encourage you to really think about the gifts you already have - the ones you were born with - the ones that can’t be bought or sold. Then ask yourself those big questions again: Have you even recognized and appreciated these gifts you already have, and if so, have you ever even “opened” them?

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