By Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
When people work, supporting each other, their advanced gifts begin to surface.
The first level is in the natural....gifts we are born with, the ones that begin emerging throughout one's life time.
The second level are the Spiritual Gifts. Spiritual gifts are truly "gifts". Given from Jesus Spirit in response to the need of a group and for the need that a group is desiring to meet… regardless of a person's natural or trained abilities.
Talent Birth Gifts
Today's world is recognizing that discovering natural talent is important as it affects people's contribution and motivation they have at work. Recent research is showing businesses and people how to discover their birth-gifts and put them to use.
One study by Gallup Poll came up with 34 talent strengths people may have.
The book, Now, Discover Your Strengths, provides a way to find these through a talent discovery test on the Internet. (www.strengthsfinder.com)
The following lend clues to what yours may be.
Spontaneous, top of the mind reactions
In a given situation, what comes to your mind first… how to solve the problem, an emotional reaction, ways to explain it to someone else…etc. Observe how you think. This is the first sign of a natural birth gift.
Yearnings
What you yearn for, really would like to be part of your life is another gauge to use. An intense desire and something you feel strongly about doing. Some refer to this as your passion or what you love to do.
Rapid Learning
What comes easily, naturally without conscious effort may be traces of talent. When you notice others may struggle with something, but it comes easy for you. When you seem to grasp certain information quickly, may reveal a true underlining talent.
Satisfactions
What gives you a great amount of satisfaction. Note what you really enjoy doing that gives you a great amount of fulfillment doing it.
(Gallup has additional information on this at:
http://gmj.gallup.com/book_center/NDYS/ )
"How has God uniquely gifted you in (1) skills and abilities, (2) personality traits, (3) values, dreams and passions? Finding the work you love is not a self serving goal, it is a required component of fulfilling our true calling.” 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller
http://www.48days.com/
This can lead us to our natural birth talents which everyone has. We are now just recognizing the importance of knowing these and getting people involved in their strengths...birth talents. This adds the most to being effective, motivated and making one's best contribution in what we do. When we force people out of these, research has shown people perform poorly, are unhappy, lose hope, and may even be led to self-defeating behaviors.
The highly-effective business is finding it is better to mold a position around someone's natural talents than try to make a person fit a position. Every person has unique, exceptional abilities. Find them, develop them and your growth will expand exceptionally as well.
Beyond Birth Gifts are Spiritual Gifts
There are Gifts of a level higher, greater, and move advanced than our birth talents. If our natural talents were discovered in each person and then we each add Spiritual Gifts, we would function at Super-Natural Levels... if I may be bold enough to say... beyond anything we have ever seen in a society yet.
The Spirit gives Spiritual gifts regardless of intelligence, age, education, position....so be open to them coming through members of a group where these are not naturally characteristic of them. Here are some supernatural gifts that may surface above natural gifts in a group that supports, respects each other and works for the good of all present.
Wise Advice
This is a thought, idea that has great depths in wisdom in that it solves a problem both short-term and long-term, relationships are built up and each person saves face.
Special Knowledge
With this gift the person just “knows” or gleans information, through Supernatural awareness.
Faith
Some have great faith and without seeing the evidence of a potential result will just believe, without the least doubt, that it will happen. We have power over nature's events with just pure faith.
Healing
A person is healed Supernaturally through other’s prayers and faith. Be open again to unlikely sources who many have this gift. It may not be the most distinguished one in a group.
Performing Miracles
Miracles can be the common activity by groups united, One in Jesus Spirit and following the pattern of lifestyle Jesus taught.
Knowing the Difference between True Spirit and False spirit.
To have an accurate sense if someone is telling the truth and making up something. When dealing with others within and outside of a business, this spirit of discernment is a tremendous asset.
Predictive Intelligence
This person gets clear picture on what will happen and literally can predict, foretell, future events. These people are sometimes called prophets as they hear from Jesus Spirit on what will happen. They have a keen connection to the Spirit of the Universe that goes through everything and knows everything. It takes a lot of integrity for this Gift. A person has to be proven to be a very trustworthy person, humble, not self centered, also having exceptional wisdom.
Jesus said He would tell us what is to come.
It is an incredible thought that we all, as the Great Apostle Paul suggested, should have this Gift.
(For more note: Supernatural Gifts exceed natural Birth Gifts, by Geffry Fields, August, 19, 2005, at JesusIsUs.blogspot.com
http://jesusisus.blogspot.com/2005/08/supernatural-gifts-exceed-natural.html
Through love to each other, ALL the Indefinable Powers of creation can be part of our every day life. Spiritual Gifts are for a Spiritual purpose, providing what is needed Super-naturally, when natural talents are inadequate to meet challenges above our human abilities.
When any task force, partners, staff commits to a Jesus Spirit life, these can be manifested through individuals in the group. It may come from unlikely sources demonstrating a dramatic display of Supernatural ability…not normally seen in that person before.
When love abounds, generosity is rampant, kindness and humility prevail,
miracles can be the every day part of our lives.
Remember, for Spiritual power, small is better. The Power comes out of close knit relationships. Take time to build relationships and acknowledge gifts in others. Put them where they serve a valuable purpose in your business... where birth and Spiritual gifts can be used at its greatest level.
The miraculous and Supernatural Gifts are all accessible to every group who lives in Jesus Spirit and seeks His Power. Those who depend on human institutions have limitations.
Although Jesus said of those in His Kingdom,
“humanly speaking, it is impossible.
But with God everything is possible."
(Matt. 19:26)
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