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The other day one of my RA(resident assistants) posted on our floor FB page and asked if anyone would be interested in going to this Prism Women: Gift event and I had absolutely no clue what that meant, so out of curiosity, I looked at the description to find that this event would help reveal to me what my spiritual gift/s was/are to me and I would be lead by women who are more experienced in knowledge of their own spiritual gifts.
BY THE WAY...The twelve motivational spiritual gifts are administrator, apostle, evangelist, exhorter(encourager), giver, helper, leader, mercy(comforter), prophets, server, shepherd, and teacher...
Any who, I went to the event today and got to worship, take a general assessment of what my spiritual gift is and then a more specific assessment that helped me to see my top gift. My main spiritual gifts are Helper at number one, and then Mercy, and it is crazy how much I learned today. I learned my downfalls and best qualities of my gifts, as well as how to use that gift to serve others and the Lord.
Here's the coolest part though that I experienced, I had women with the gift of prophecy and encouragement speak over me and tell me what they heard God speak to their hearts about me. They lifted me up in prayer and I got to hear other testimonies from other women who have discovered their spiritual gifts as well. All the while, God was working so diligently on and in my heart that when the song "No Longer Slaves" was played for a short worship session, I was unable to even sing, I was so choked up and moved by the spirit of God working in my heart, telling me that I am a child of God and the chains I have been bound by are most certainly breakable, and he's going to break them and free me!
Something else pretty cool was hearing one woman speak in tongues in a prayer over broken marriages, and another translate her speaking to "Grace grace grace grace grace", basically that grace is the answer to the problems in this one woman's marriage, and that when she shows her husband grace and love for how he is in his broken state, he will come before the Lord and bow and worship and praise His name.
All this wonderful stuff happened and it was really cool and I learned a lot, but the best part for me was simply the moving and working of God in my heart and mind and spirit, and just feeling His presence there with me to comfort me and guide me and assure me of His love for me. To know the truth of his love for me and how valuable I am to Him is so important, and if you don't know what your spiritual gift is, I so encourage you to find out what it may be and how you can use that to advance the kingdom and serve the Lord. I can assure you, it's one of the best choices you could ever make. <3
Thank you for reading this my dearies. I know it's different than my usual posts, but I felt the need to share what God is doing in my heart and I hope this has encouraged you to lay down you burdens before God and let him break your chains. Discover what He has for you, friends. You have a gift and a purpose; you were made for this.
~Abby Lynn
