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Spiritual Gifts
After spending time in class talking over the list of spiritual gifts and learning more about each I feel like I can better decide what my gifts are. As we went over them I felt that my gifts are encouragement, wisdom, service. I feel like these gifts are the ones God has given to me. Encouragement is the gift of seeing the glass as “half full”. It is being able to find the positive spiritual and emotional outcome of a situation. The gift of Wisdom is the gift of being able to work through situations. Service is pretty much what it seems it would be. It is the gift of putting others first and wanting to help those who need it rather than worry about yourself. Faith is the gift of trusting in God and knowing he has the best for you in all areas of your life. The gifts that God has given to me is for a purpose, just as everything else he does. Although at this time in my life, I may not know why He has given these gifts to me, I trust that when I do discover the reason, I will continue to praise Him with these spiritual gifts God has provided to me.
Encouragement and wisdom has always been something I’ve had, but once I accepted Christ, it just became clearer. I have always been the friend in a situation to help those who are struggling and want to see that everything is worked out for the best. I have always wanted to make sure that those I care about are happy and that they get along. I am always the friend that will hear each side and work through the problem and try to find a resolution that can be good for both sides. I feel that wisdom and often goes along with encouragement. Wanting to work through a situation and making sure that if someone needs encouragement in a bad time of their life, wisdom can very easily go along with that. Knowing the best way to work out a problem between people and knowing how each side feels is important for everything to work out for the best. I always feel better too knowing that my friends and those I care about are happy

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