Spiritual Gifts Inventory

I have done these in the past...I always find it interesting how the gifts change with where I am in life and what my focus and interests are at that time. The top 10 are usually pretty consistent but they move around to different rankings over the years...My last test gave me this as my top five:

1. Faith
2. Wisdom (tied with Exhortation and Evangelism)
3. Mercy
4. Teaching
5. Pastor/Teacher

At that point in my life I was soaking up all the newly found awesomeness of being free from alot of toxic junk I had picked up over the years. I was reading a ton and learning about praying for others on the spot, sharing my faith and sharing the freedom I had found...

Today I am in a different place. I am allowing myself to ask the questions I have always had, going deeper into owning my own faith which is exactly what I was taught to do and was set free to do - in the previous 'season' of life (sorry, Steve, for the season reference!). I am also coming back around to focusing on my creative gifts and seeing them as a more primary focus rather than a side-note or a secondary thing. It is scary, exhilarating, liberating...All of that...And as always, forces me to rely on Papa to teach me. I love that I can talk to Him now as a beloved child whose thoughts and ideas He is interested in and not as a subservient/robot/slave which was what I subconsciously thought I had to be before (even though something inside told me there was something wrong with that idea).

Here are the top 10 results of the test I took today

1. Writing
2. Music
3. Encouragement
4. Miracles
5. Faith
6. Speaking in Tongues
7. Knowledge
8. Discernment
9. Healing
10. Wisdom

The odd thing for me is that teaching fell to number 13 on the list...Not sure why...I enjoy teaching and I teach everyday and has usually been a top ranking gift. Weird...

Here is a link to the test if you are interested in taking it.

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