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October 8, 2008How Do I Uncover My Spiritual Gifts?
Notice the things that energize you and seem to come naturally. Remember the quote from the movie Chariots of Fire when Eric Liddell explained to his sister why he was postponing his return to the mission field in order to race in the Olympics? "Because when I run, I feel the pleasure of God."
Every spiritual gift gives off clues. Your spiritual gift will cause you to react a certain way in a given situation. If there's a problem, people with the spiritual gift of shepherding will be immediately concerned that people are cared for and growing in Christlikeness as a result of the issue. Those with the gift of intercession (prayer) will immediately say, "We need to pray about this," while those with a leadership gift will begin looking at solutions for the problem.
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Comments
It is so refreshing to find articles like this one for gifted Christian women. Thank you for this.
-Cristy S.
http://www.wisdombeyondyears.com
An Online Community for Christian Leaders
Posted By: CristySoh | October 10, 2008 3:50 PM
I saw that you have a blog on spiritual gifts. Looks great!
We're building the blogroll of our spiritual gifts blog on UrbanMinistry.org. We'd like to add your blog to our
blogroll list, and were wondering if you would do the same for us. You could just call the link spiritual gifts at
UrbanMinistry.org. The URL is http://www.urbanministry.org/spiritual_gifts
It's good to see others with a passion for spiritual gifts and linking to each other seems like a great way to
expand the community of people trying to bring social change on this issue.
Let me know if you have any questions or if you have other ideas on how we might collaborate and connect our
communities.
Posted By: oj | December 9, 2008 11:25 AM