S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life

I have seen that people discover their gifts as they minister to others. The more you serve God in ministry, the more clearly you will see your gifts.

8 The personality God created in you is meant to be embraced because it is a reflection of your overall S.H.A.P.E.—the way he made you in order to use you for his glory. God does not create anything that does not have tremendous value and enormous potential—and he will not use anyone who does not have a willing spirit.

Connecting with your God-given passions transforms your everyday life. Passions make work seem like play. And our gifts and passions ignite like spiritual rocket fuel, propelling us to new heights of service, when we mix them with our natural abilities.

In her book, Discovering Your Divine Assignment, Robin Chaddock asks, “Have you ever had someone say to you ‘Thank you so much’ and your response was ‘But I didn’t do anything’? . . . People will be healed by God through you just being and doing what God meant you to be and do, not by all the things you think you should be and do to benefit the wor

In Seizing Your Divine Moment, Erwin McManus says: “Don’t look for God to fill in all the blanks. Don’t wait for Him to remove all the uncertainty. Realize He may actually increase the uncertainty and leverage all the odds against you, just so you will know in the end that it wasn’t your gifts but His power through your gifts that fulfilled His pur

In his essay, “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis writes: “It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is mean

The mismatch has caused these individuals to come to a point of total frustration with their jobs. God did not create you to live in a state of frustration or discouragement; he intended you to experience deep fulfillment that only comes from being who he made you to be.

God has instilled a unique personality in each one of us for his glory.

The key is to discover the cravings the Creator has put in you;