Spiritual Gifts Assessment

DIRECTIONS:

For this test to be valid, do not respond on the basis of what you think you ought to say, but rather on the basis of your interest and experience. Do not let modesty hinder you from answering honestly.

0 - The statement is not relevant to my experience, or not true of me

1 - Not quite zero, but close

2 - Only a slight response

3 - Medium or moderate response

4 - Greater than average response

5 - Strong agreement with statement

Indicate your response for each statement by placing the appropriate number 1-5 next to the statement.

1. _____I feel empowered to stand alone for Christ in a hostile, unbelieving environment.

2. _____Often I have a burning desire to speak God’s word when I know it will not be well received.

3. _____I seem to have insight on when people are ready to give their lives to Christ.

4. _____God has shown me sources of sound teaching and rich fellowship, and I guide people to such.

5._____I love to meditate on the patterns of God and His ways, and speak to others of such things.

6. _____I enjoy serving others so that they, in turn, may perform their ministries.

7. _____I can identify with weakness and temptation so as to encourage people to repent and believe.

8. _____When I give to others, they do not feel as if they owe me anything.

9. _____Other Christians have imitated me when I have led the way in serving the needs of others.

10. _____I often am overcome with emotion for the person I am praying for.

11. _____God sometimes prompts me to pray for the total healing of others in body, mind, and emotions.

12. _____I find it easy to believe that God can miraculously alter circumstances if we pray.

13. _____I often speak in tongues.

14. _____I have interpreted tongues so as to help others worship God without confusion.

15. _____Sometimes God gives me an insight into the proper course of action others should take.

16. _____God often quickens Scripture to my mind that is useful for the moment.

17. _____I have an extraordinary confidence in God and an ability to embolden others.

18. _____I usually detect spiritual truth from spiritual error before fellow-believers.

19. _____The Spirit often leads me to do a favor for someone that touches them deeply.

20. _____I can serve others by organizing and harnessing their gifts to solve a particular problem.

21. _____I often think that God is calling me to be a missionary.

22. _____My words often bring conviction to others, leading to repentance.

23. _____I find it easy to ask people to believe in and commit to Christ

24. _____I tend to be patient with Christians who are making slow spiritual progress.

25. _____I think it is very important to use words accurately and in context.

26. _____I believe my ministry in life is to be humbled before men by being obedient in service.

27. _____I have a special gift of helping others get "reset" emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

28. _____I believe God has given me the ability to make and share money.

29. _____I am willing to "go first" when it comes to meeting the needs of others.

30. _____I believe that God wants to reach out to people by using me to share in their suffering.

31. _____I am irritated when the physical pain of others is overlooked or ignored.

32. _____I believe God wishes to use me to publicly cast out demons.

33. _____Praying in tongues has been meaningful to me in my personal prayer life.

34. _____When others have prayed in tongues, I felt that I understood the meaning of their prayer.

35. _____Other Christians seek my advice when they are uncertain of their direction.

36. _____God has made me aware of a deep need in someone that they were careful to hide.

37. _____I am not moved from my personal belief in the truth by ridicule, apparent failure, or pain.

38. _____God has often used me to encourage others to accept difficult, but biblical teaching.

39. _____People often try to give me glory for helping them, which I am able to direct to God.

40. _____I can recognize talents and gifts in others, and find ways of using these for God.

41. _____I desire to learn another language, culture, or religion so that I could be a better witness.

42. _____Ridicule or rejection for speaking forth the truth, by family or friends, does not effect me.

43. _____I tend to conclude my vocal witness with an appeal for others to become Christians.

44. _____I want to be in unity with other mature believers to earnestly seek God’s will for the body.

45. _____I get troubled by "testimonies" which contain false teaching or unsound advice.

46. _____I often recognize ways that I can minister to others indirectly without speaking or teaching.

47. _____I can challenge others without making them feel condemned.

48. _____I have strongly sensed the Spirit leading me to give money to a specific person or cause.

49. _____Obeying Christ now is my passion in life. It is not about mere words, but deeds.

50. _____Sometimes God gives me a taste of other people’s pain.

51. _____Often I have a strong sense that God wants to heal someone through my prayers or words.

52. _____I believe God will use me to speak forth a miracle when the situation looks most hopeless.

53. _____I never publicly speak forth in tongues unless I strongly believe it will be interpreted.

54. _____I feel that God wishes to use me to build the fellowship with the interpretation of tongues.

55. _____God uses me to dispel confusion about God’s will with supernatural insight.

56. _____I often find I know things that I have never learned, which are confirmed by mature believers.

57. _____I am totally convinced God will fulfill his word even if He is not doing so yet.

58. _____I often sense when people are moved by the Holy Spirit, evil spirits, or by their own flesh.

59. _____In the church, I gravitate to undone work, even if unpopular.

60. _____People often look to me for guidance in coordination, organization, and ministry opportunities.

61. _____Strange customs, cultures, and unusual behavior don’t offend me or my faith.

62. _____I love to find creative ways to confront people with the truth of God.

63. _____I minister better to the spiritually "unborn" than baby, adolescent, or mature believers.

64. _____God has shown fruit in my life in the effective discipling of other believers.

65. _____I love to learn Biblical principles from my studies and then share them with others.

66. _____I don’t mind helping others even if they are not deserving or if they take advantage of me.

67. _____People will take correction from me because they know I am on their side.

68. _____I strive to seek ways to give to others without calling attention to myself.

69. _____God has given me an ability to "rally the troops" in giving aid to others.

70. _____Sometimes I feel so much love for others that I am at a loss for words.

71. _____Though prayer, God sometimes helps me to impart physical healing to others.

72. _____I believe that if we trusted God more, we would see dramatic, public miracles.

73. _____When I first prayed in tongues, no one pressured me to do so.

74. _____When I hear others speak in tongues, I am compelled to explain the meaning.

75. _____My advice to others has led them into mature Christian living.

76. _____God has given me words to say in witnessing situations that surprised even me.

77. _____I seem to be less "shakable" than most Christians.

78. _____I sometimes get the sense that what I am reading or hearing is divinely inspired.

79. _____God often supernaturally enhances my service to others.

80. _____I have a knack for getting people together in the body of Christ, and enjoy doing this.

81. _____I have a deep understanding of the Gospel, and I want to tell others about the good news.

82. _____I am more interested in saying the right thing than making people feel good.

83. _____I’m troubled when salvation is not emphasized.

84. _____I feel that I am responsible to help protect weak Christians from dangerous influences.

85. _____I reflect on my own life so that I can learn to help others to grow and know what to expect.

86. _____I would rather work in secret than have my work recognized publicly.

87. _____The Spirit gives me the ability to call forth the best that is in others.

88. _____Everything I own is Christ’s, and this is no secret among the brethren.

89. _____I can motivate others to obey Christ by the living testimony of my life.

90. _____I have a desire to visit prisons and rest-homes in order to minister comfort and hope.

91. _____When I pray for healing, I check to see if it really happened, and I don’t give up until it does.

92. _____The Holy Spirit leads me to pray for impossible things that really come true.

93. _____Praying in tongues does not make me feel superior to other Christians who do not.

94. _____My interpretations of tongues are confirmed by mature believers.

95. _____God uses me to bring clarity to other believers when they are uncertain what to do.

96. _____I often know about a real problem another person is hiding through a layer of deception.

97. _____My hope in God, against all odds, is inspiring to others.

98. _____God has used me to warn others of the danger of a certain teaching.

99._____I cannot stand idly by while things go undone.

100. _____People come to me when they need help in desperate situations, and I know people who can help.

 

The next column of questions are a self-rating of God-placed desire to exercise a particular gift. Dreams and desires can be useful clues to the reality of a latent gift. Continue to rate your relative agreement from 0 to 5.

101. _____I dream of being a missionary to some group of people who have never heard the gospel.

102. _____I dream of God speaking through me in a powerful way.

103. _____I dream of winning many souls to Christ.

104. _____I dream of myself and other leaders working together in unity, love, sound doctrine, and mutual

submission.

105. _____I dream of teaching God's Word so as to help others in the way of faith.

106. _____I dream that I will experience the presence of God by serving others.

107. _____I dream of speaking words of hope that God will confirm in others by the Holy Spirit.

108. _____I dream of being used of God to meet someone's financial or material need.

109. _____I dream of being first to lead the way in finding new ways to minister to others.

110. _____I dream that God will use my emotions to feel His feelings for others.

111. _____I dream of being used by God to radically heal hurting people.

112. _____I dream that God will use me to perform awesome miracles.

113. _____I dream of praising God by speaking in tongues.

114. _____I dream of publicly interpret tongues so that the Body may be edified.

115. _____I dream of being used of God to help people know what God's will is.

116. _____I dream that God will give me the knowledge needed to help at just the right moment.

117. _____I dream that I will be stronger than others when persecution comes.

118. _____I dream that I could help those who are confused about teachings, spirits, and events.

119. _____I dream that God would anoint my every move as I give help to others.

120. _____I dream of coordinating the gifts of others so that they will be at their best in Christ.

 

What gifts are lacking among the believer's you know? You may be surprised at how differently people perceive these needs. This can be a useful clue as to what problems God wants you to solve by allowing the Holy Spirit to give you grace. What requirement has God put on your heart to meet? Rate from 0 to 5 the relative intensity of need in the Body of Christ from your perspective.

121. _____We need more people to take what we have and go out as missionaries.

122. _____We need more prophets in the Church to preach against sin and of the coming judgment.

123. _____We aren't spending enough time trying to win souls to Christ.

124. _____We need more people who are willing to take care of the spiritually newborn and young.

125. _____We need more, and better teaching.

126. _____We lack people willing to be humble and serve the brethren and outsiders.

127. _____We need more exhortation and encouragement to do the right things.

128. _____We have un-met, real financial or material needs among us.

129. _____We need someone to take the first step in starting a new initiative to help others.

130. _____We lack compassion for the hurts, pains, and struggles of people.

131. _____We need more believers with the true gift of healing in the Church.

132. _____We, or unbelievers, need to see a miracle.

133. _____We need more speaking in tongues to build up the individual believers.

134. _____We need interpretation so that we can be obedient to Scripture concerning public tongues.

135. _____We need wisdom from above to know what God would have us do next.

136. _____We need the gift of divine knowledge to make up for our deficiencies.

137. _____We need more examples of faith that has stood the test of adversity.

138. _____We lack discernment in identifying unclean spirits, the flesh, and false teaching.

139. _____We need to stop talking and start really helping people in practical ways.

140. _____We need someone to direct the spiritual gifts of our group more effectively.

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Now move your answers from the above pages into the table below.

Next, add the scores in each horizontal line and place total in the far right column. Since some people tend to respond more conservatively than others, the important thing is the relative scores. Highlight or check the five highest gifts, taking note of the highest value.

I Dream Of

We Need

Spiritual Gift

Totals

1

21

41

61

81

101

121

A

2

22

42

62

82

102

122

B

3

23

43

63

83

103

123

C

4

24

44

64

84

104

124

D

5

25

45

65

85

105

125

E

6

26

46

66

86

106

126

F

7

27

47

67

87

107

127

G

8

28

48

68

88

108

128

H

9

29

49

69

89

109

129

I

10

30

50

70

90

110

130

J

11

31

51

71

91

111

131

K

12

32

52

72

92

112

132

L

13

33

53

73

93

113

133

M

14

34

54

74

94

114

134

N

15

35

55

75

95

115

135

O

16

36

56

76

96

116

136

P

17

37

57

77

97

117

137

Q

18

38

58

78

98

118

138

R

19

39

59

79

99

119

139

S

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

T

 

 

Then you can match the highest five with the gifts below:

A = Apostleship, B = Prophecy, C = Evangelism, D = Pastoring, E = Teaching, F = Serving,

G= Exhortation, H = Giving, I = Leadership, J = Compassion, K = Healing, L = Miracles,

M = Tongues, N = Interpretation, O = Wisdom, P = Knowledge, Q = Faith, R = Discernment,

S = Helps , T = Administration.

 

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