Topic Focus on:-How do you know your calling

From: Dunggate Sent: 05/07/2007 10:16
I hope Lorri this Tool will be of some help for you. No doubt you have prayed asking God for his leading of your place in the body of Christ.
When taking this test many may have low figures this can be of low self esteem of oneself, consider this.

Although it is said, not all are called to preach etc.,
Something I would like to leave with you and others is of the importance each day to wait on the Holy spirit of God.... to pray Lord open doors for me today. for you have saved each one of us for the extension of your Kingdom. You told your disciples to go out and preach the gospel. We may not have an opportunity to preach a sermon but we can give a word in season and out of season, let us hope that we have been attentive to the still small voice of the Holy spirit that the word will be in season.
Let us consider the word out of season. This may make someone back off, but at some point they will remember, something happens in their life and God will bring that word to their rememberance for he is not willing that any will perish.
We are ALL called to evangelise, Pray that God will give you boldness if you do not have this but pray for wisdom and discernment pray pray pray
Pray for the leading of the Holy spirit in our lives at all times that we may be useful servants of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
God bless you
Elaine
From: hope833 Sent: 19/07/2007 01:02
dear elaine

i wanted to say thankyou for the post i really was helped by your post sorry it took so long to answer i have been off the internet for 3 weeks and i finally back on now . i really found the post helpful and i know that god is working in me right now . love from lorrie

Dear Friends in Christ,

Since the Spiritual Gifts Assessment Tool is not available online at this time,
searched around and found this copy of the assessment inventory that they
had provided for off-line use. Follow the instructions, and use the List of
Spiritual Gifts which was provided in yesterday's devotional, " What are
your Spiritual Gifts?".

When you have an indication of what your Spiritual Gift(s) are, what do you
do next? May I suggest that you pray and ask God to provide you with
training and opportunities to develop and use your gift in the body of Christ
to benefit your church or hurting or needy people elsewhere.

1 Cor 12:6-7 (KJV)
{6} And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
{7} But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit {from it}.

The "profit" we are talking about here is not monetary profit, but eternal
gain of souls and character and building up of other people in the body of
Christ. Remember that the over-arching agenda or goal that Christ has
given us is, of course, the Great Commission:

Mat 28:18-20 (KJV)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
{19} Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
{20} Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Your job is to pray and read the Bible and figure out how you and your gift
will be used by Jesus Christ to fulfill this Great Commission.

God Bless you as you minister for the Lord.
In Christ...brother bob...<><
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Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool
Copyright 1997-2000, Lake Highlands Baptist Church. All Rights Reserved.
Instructions For Offline Use:
There are a total of 110 statements. Print this form, then indicate whether you Strongly Agree, Agree Somewhat, are Undecided, Disagree Somewhat or Completely Disagree with each question.
Transfer your answers to the profile sheet at the end of this document.
Total your scores for each of the gifts. Each gift will have a score between ZERO and TWENTY.
Order the gifts in decending order of score. Higher scores indicate your more dominant gifts.
Use the List of Giftshttp://www.cforc.com/sgifts.cgi?help
For further study.

From: Dunggate Sent: 29/06/2007 23:08
Hi Lorri I tried to post up a Test for you but unfortunately it stretched the page
As soon as I can will get this fixed and posted up for you.
God bless you
Love in Jesus
Elaine.

From: hope833 Sent: 29/06/2007 17:40
dear elaine
i am very much excited to be able to look at this topic i really feel the lord is wantuing me to look at where my calling is please i pray that many people help me with this topic has i believe we all have a calling from the lord we have to make the decision what to do with it please i would value your imput on this topic . i may take away to answer replies due to me not having internet access at hiome at the moment but please i would value your imput for next time i come on line

love you very much dear elaine hope yourself and the managers andmembers are doing well
love from lorraine

How do you know your calling

Lorraine (aka Hope833)

Asked would it be possible to do some study on
where is your calling and where does the Lord want you
to go.

This is a very good Topic
If anyone has Testimonies they are able
to share how they were lead in their ministry
also any thoughts on this.
Hopefully will bring light how
we can recognise the ministry God has given to us.