Discovering Spiritual Gifts

1. The Advantages of Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

Discovering our spiritual gifts will help lead us into the areas of ministry, that the Lord has called us to.
Not knowing our gifts may cause us to get involved in the wrong areas of ministry.
When the members of the Church discover their gift areas, it frees the pastor to concentrate on the priorities of his ministry.
Discovering our gift areas brings greater personal stability and contentment. The more aware and honest we are about our abilities, the more secure and confident we are in the Lord.
As the members of the Church discover and develop their gifts, the Church will experience increased maturity, strength and potential for quality growth.

Step 1: We must come under the Lordship of Christ and commit ourselves to fulfilling His will in our lives.
Step 2: We must trust the Lord and accept His timetable for anointing our gifts and using us in areas of ministry.
Step 3: We should study the different spiritual gifts and seek the Lord for an anointing, in the gifts you feel He has given to you.
Step 4: We should experiment by exercising the gifts that we can express.
Step 5: We can usually discover our spiritual gift areas by identifying our abilities and the things that we consistently prefer doing.
Step 6: We should seek out the opinions of other mature Christians. Three groups of people who can be especially helpful in evaluating us:
1. Marriage partners
2. Close friends
3. Experienced leaders
Step 7: A prophetic word can help us discover our spiritual gifts.
Step 8: We should give priority attention to developing our main gift areas.
Step 9: Discovering our spiritual gifts can be helped by taking a “Spiritual Gifts Discovery Test."