Equipped for every good work

EVERYONE IS GIFTED.

God has uniquely designed each person with specific gifts to glorify Him and further His Kingdom. These gifts include teaching, serving, perceiving, encouraging, administrating, giving, and extending compassion. Bayside has a ministry that helps people to discover their gifts and learn about some of the different ones described in the Bible. Last year in my first year of Twenty-Four Seven, school staff had us take the quiz to rate our motivational gifts from most active to least used. Then we had a class where we received a booklet and some teaching on each of the motivational gifts.

The first two times I took this quiz, once at the beginning of the year and another at the end of the year, I couldn’t see my top gifts being exercised in my daily life so they didn’t make sense. However, as a second year student, I got to take the test again and discovered that I have multiple ties in my three highest gift sets. Having a combination of gifts in the first, second, or third ranking can mean that you switch between the giftings regularly and operate in them at an even level. Now that I know that, it makes sense that my gifts changed between my first and second times taking the quiz.

In my top three I have teaching and serving as my first two gifts, then perceiving, and lastly for third, administrating and giving. These basically mean that I enjoy researching, explaining, and learning new things, as well as helping others with whatever they need whenever I can. I’m also pretty black-and-white and have strong intuition. For administrating and giving I basically enjoy generously giving to causes I support and can delegate, plan, or direct people well. With this combination of gifts, God made me pretty well rounded in general. I can have faith that He has fully equipped me for every good work He has set before me.