Do you know about yourself? Are you growing into the person God designed you to be?
It was a privilege to attend the mini conference "Discovering your calling in your life" organized by IFI last weekend (12/20-12/21). It was an opportunity to discover more about myself and my potential. We did some personality assessments, identified our spiritual gifts, and evaluated our life experience in order to have a more clear picture of God's calling. I have learned a lot and gained more confidence.
We had about 27 students attending the meeting. It was fun!
This is the place we had training. Thanks to Charley who was so generous to give his home for our use!
Something I discovered are: 1. For personality, I am an "ISFJ" type person. I am a caretaker. I am quite thankful that it fits me well and I do want to fully utilize my personality. 2. For spiritual gift, I have the gift of "exhortation". It was interesting to see how Exhorters can misuse their gift because I did make lots of mistakes! >< One thing is to carry others' burden too much..Well, I admit that I am not God! 3. For life experience, I discovered that God put some important people to lead me to Him, such as my junior high schoolmate. She asked me whether I believed there is spirit after we die. The question has been in my mind for so many years. Now that I recalled, she actually helped me to be more open to God and miracles. How much I hope I can see her in heaven! Also, I had some teachers in my young age that cultivated the desire for me to go abroad!
Other things like abilities & skills and value also matter in God's calling. When they are integrated by God's hand, we are bringing Him glory by being whom we were designed to be and doing what He calls to do.
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." This hit me hard. I was concerned about my inadequacy in counseling field. But I believe that I can be prepared and when the door is opened I am ready for it!
Are you ready to discover your potential? Let's plan for 2015!
