Your God-given spiritual gifts are a key piece of the puzzle that makes up your ministry profile. They help determine the direction and effect your ministry should take based on God’s special divine empowerments given for you to serve.
Spiritual Gifts Empower You For Ministry So They Must be a Key Component in Ministry
1 Cor. 12:7-11 – Spiritual gifts are given by and operative in our lives by the Holy Spirit and are not personal strengths … so don’t take credit for what God does.
Rom. 12:3, 6-9; Eph. 4:7 – Spiritual gifts are distributed according to grace, not merit … so avoid comparisons and competitions with others.
1 Cor. 12:4-7, 12-31; Rom. 12:4-5 – Spiritual gifts vary and are not all given to each person but God will bring unity out of such diversity …. so accept and appreciate one another’s contribution.
Resources to Help You Understand & Identify your Spiritual Gifts:
Online Training about Spiritual Gifts
Online Spiritual Gifts Test
Spiritual Gifts Materials Published by MinTools.com
God bless you all for a wonderful job done. I will be grateful to be helped be fervent in my gifting.
Praise God for your desire to be fervent in your gifting. The Apostle Paul encouraged Timothy to “fan into flame the gift of God which is in you.” May you too, by God’s power, find this to be true for you as well. I pray the material on this web site can be useful in that process.
All of the nine gifts of the Spirit are available to members of the body of Christ. They are not our permanent possession however; they belong to the Spirit. Some believers may be used more with a certain gift predominantly over time. Paul relied on gifts of the Spirit for persuading men over eloquent speaking.
Indeed, the Spirit is the One who distributes the gift as well as the One who empowers their use (1 Cor. 12:7-11). Effectiveness in speaking or serving in any way therefore does not rely on our own skills but on Him working in and through us.