Back in the day I took a spiritual gifts test at my church. I was young when I took the test. I would say I was about 13 years old. My spiritual gift at that time was "Discernment of Spirits." To this day I believe that is still one of my gifts based on what I have experienced. Today I am taking the test again to see if anything has changed. there are several different versions of this test, but I will just give the link for one.
After taking the test my results were as follows; Wi, Di, Fa which stand for Wisdom, Discernment, and Faith. I tried to answer truthfully. Some of the answer options might leave you hanging on a cliff. You are not a bad person just because your answer is "Never" instead of "Always."
I wanted to take this test again because recently I tried to witness to a man who did not want to hear anything that I had to say about the lord. I want to be sure that I was even speaking on the right grounds, for myself.
I am not sure if I started my conversation with this man the right way, or if he just did not want to hear me. It reminded me of when a priest in a scary movie hovers the silver cross closer to the evil one, and the demon goes crazy. The intensity of the conversation was at that level, and I say this with no exaggeration. Let me add that this conversation was through text. Though we can not technically feel the tone of texts, I was able to feel the heat coming from this mans words.
I tried to invite the man to church and he totally went off on me telling me that I was trying to shove my religious opinions and views down his throat. I honestly had not even began the conversation before he went haywire on me.
So then I decided to try something different sharing a little bit about myself. This man at times mentioned that I was weird and that I am different and that I think I know everything.
NOT the case at all! I think the very words that came out of my mouth convicted him from time to time. This man professes to be the ultimate Alpha male. Who announces what male type they are?
So I began to share what my spiritual gifts were with him. I think he might have witnessed me using my gifts and that was what he saw.
Well, I got shut down for a 2nd time. So I just stopped conversing with him. At one point during my knowing him, I heard him talking about Jesus, but it did not occur to me for one minute, that he might be mocking my Lord and mocking me! The guy told me that he had not been to church in ages and that he was not ready for the religion talk.
I had made the mistake of thinking that he was a Christian, as I am. I am not sure what was truth and what was not, but I did have to apologize because I am not the one to have the religious bible arguments about Christ, I am not the one to try and shove the bible down anyone's throat. I thought we were on the same page.
This is why you have to be careful when you meet someone and emotions get involved. I totally missed something somewhere that I probably should have seen that would have let me know that he was not a Christian. Everyone who calls on the name of Jesus is not a Christian. Sure the Lord has a sense of humor, but I did not for one minute think that when I met this guy he would be mocking the lord. It hurt me deep. It hurt me when I realized that again, I have put my own heart in the hands of the evil one.
The evil one moves in an out of people at any given time.
As a female I have learned that I can not put my immediate trust in a person just because they say Lord, Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, or church (Matthew 7:21-27). People often times put on a fa sad (a front). Not that the person does not believe, but they may not be on the same spiritual level as you. And when your emotions get involved, a friend once told me that, as females sometimes we make up stories in our head of how we want our relationships to be. But the current relationship that you are in is not a relationship because it was made up in your head.
Why do we want so bad to have the things which we should not have or that God does not want us to have? Wait on the Lord, but continue to use your spiritual God given gifts. Amen
After taking the test my results were as follows; Wi, Di, Fa which stand for Wisdom, Discernment, and Faith. I tried to answer truthfully. Some of the answer options might leave you hanging on a cliff. You are not a bad person just because your answer is "Never" instead of "Always."
I wanted to take this test again because recently I tried to witness to a man who did not want to hear anything that I had to say about the lord. I want to be sure that I was even speaking on the right grounds, for myself.
I am not sure if I started my conversation with this man the right way, or if he just did not want to hear me. It reminded me of when a priest in a scary movie hovers the silver cross closer to the evil one, and the demon goes crazy. The intensity of the conversation was at that level, and I say this with no exaggeration. Let me add that this conversation was through text. Though we can not technically feel the tone of texts, I was able to feel the heat coming from this mans words.
I tried to invite the man to church and he totally went off on me telling me that I was trying to shove my religious opinions and views down his throat. I honestly had not even began the conversation before he went haywire on me.
So then I decided to try something different sharing a little bit about myself. This man at times mentioned that I was weird and that I am different and that I think I know everything.
NOT the case at all! I think the very words that came out of my mouth convicted him from time to time. This man professes to be the ultimate Alpha male. Who announces what male type they are?
So I began to share what my spiritual gifts were with him. I think he might have witnessed me using my gifts and that was what he saw.
Well, I got shut down for a 2nd time. So I just stopped conversing with him. At one point during my knowing him, I heard him talking about Jesus, but it did not occur to me for one minute, that he might be mocking my Lord and mocking me! The guy told me that he had not been to church in ages and that he was not ready for the religion talk.
I had made the mistake of thinking that he was a Christian, as I am. I am not sure what was truth and what was not, but I did have to apologize because I am not the one to have the religious bible arguments about Christ, I am not the one to try and shove the bible down anyone's throat. I thought we were on the same page.
This is why you have to be careful when you meet someone and emotions get involved. I totally missed something somewhere that I probably should have seen that would have let me know that he was not a Christian. Everyone who calls on the name of Jesus is not a Christian. Sure the Lord has a sense of humor, but I did not for one minute think that when I met this guy he would be mocking the lord. It hurt me deep. It hurt me when I realized that again, I have put my own heart in the hands of the evil one.
The evil one moves in an out of people at any given time.
As a female I have learned that I can not put my immediate trust in a person just because they say Lord, Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, or church (Matthew 7:21-27). People often times put on a fa sad (a front). Not that the person does not believe, but they may not be on the same spiritual level as you. And when your emotions get involved, a friend once told me that, as females sometimes we make up stories in our head of how we want our relationships to be. But the current relationship that you are in is not a relationship because it was made up in your head.
Why do we want so bad to have the things which we should not have or that God does not want us to have? Wait on the Lord, but continue to use your spiritual God given gifts. Amen
