Episode #34
Ep 34: How Your God Given Gifts Develop...or Don't. (Romans 12:6)
You can be genuinely gifted, successful, useful to other people- and still have your gifts out of order. I've experienced this myself. There have been seasons when I was coaching, motivating, consoling, judging, building, or taking responsibility for someone else's transformation. I could do all of those things, and could even do most of them well . But eventually, I began recognizing that the place where I experience the deepest intrinsic joy is teaching: helping someone understand something they couldn't see before and then helping them embody that wisdom in their actual life. That's my primary motivational gift- the Professor. And when I began looking at the rest of my gifts through that lens, a lot of my own experiences with capacity, exhaustion, restlessness, and joy started making more sense. In Episode 34, we're talking about how knowing your spiritual gifts is valuable, AND why identification is only the beginning. We dive deeper into why we also need to ask how (and why) our gifts were formed, how they are currently being expressed, and (perhaps most importantly) if our gifts are ordered in a way that reflects how God actually designed us. In this episode, we're talking about: The difference between identifying your gifts and actually forming them The role joy plays in understanding how God has designed you Why spiritual gifts still need to be developed through practice, formation, wisdom, experience, obedience, and even failure How past painful experiences and worldly influences can affect the way our gifts develop How your capacity can increase when your gifts are properly ordered What to do next if you’re ready to identify and grow in your Spiritual Gifts One distinction I especially want you to hear in this episode is this: Your primary motivational gift isn't necessarily the thing you're currently best at. You may have spent decades developing another gift because your career required it, your family rewarded it, painful experiences made it feel necessary, or the world told you it was valuable. This is an invitation to look underneath all that competence and ask: How did God design me to experience joy as I serve Him and others? Because your gifts were given by grace- and as we grow in the way we understand, order, develop, and surrender those gifts back to God, they can increasingly become an expression of His goodness through us. Go deeper If you're curious about your own gift expression, there are three ways to continue: Start with the Primary Motivational Gift Assessment- if you want to identify the gift that may most naturally motivate you. Take the SAGE (Spiritual Assessment of Gift Expression) Diagnostic- if you want to look more closely at how all seven gifts are currently being expressed in this season of your life. Join Grow in Your Gifts 10-week Academy- if you're ready to go deeper into the formation process. We'll spend ten weeks learning to recognize our gifts, surrender them to God, develop them with wisdom, and become more discerning about the fruit they're producing. And next week, we're going deeper into Paul's teaching on spiritual gifts and what he calls the “more excellent way.” Because it is possible to possess extraordinary spiritual gifts and express them in ways that become functionally useless (or even harmful.) That's where we're headed next. Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.com Join Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrh Explore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agency Follow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell
