The Easy-to-Use Guide

That Helps You Identify and Understand

Your Unique God-Given Spiritual Gifts

DISCOVER YOUR SPIRITUAL GIFTS

C. Peter Wagner

Published by Regal Books

From Gospel Light

Ventura, California, U.S.A.

All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

© 2002, 2005, 2012 C. Peter Wagner

All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wagner, C. Peter.

Discover your spiritual gifts / C. Peter Wagner.—Updated and expanded ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8307-6231-6

1. Gifts, Spiritual. I. Title.

BT767.3.W33 2005

234’.13—dc2

22004026309

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Contents

Chapter 1

A Fast Track for Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

Chapter 2

Being Everything That God Wants You to Be

Chapter 3

How Many Gifts Are There?

Chapter 4

Four Pitfalls to Avoid

Chapter 5

Clearing Away the Confusion

Chapter 6

The Five Steps for Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

Chapter 7

Let’s Get Started!

Study Guide

Glossary of Spiritual Gifts

CHAPTER ONE

A Fast Track

for Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

You may have heard of spiritual gifts. Most Christian believers have, but not all. Possibly you are among those who have identified their spiritual gifts and have been using them on a regular basis. But a surprising number of believers who have heard of spiritual gifts are not sure what theirs may be. And there are even those who feel that, for some reason, they have been left out and do not have any of the gifts.

It is possible to be a member of a church, attend almost every Sunday and go for, let’s say, a whole year without hearing anything about spiritual gifts. This is too bad. Why? Because in the first place, the teaching on spiritual gifts is so prominent in the New Testament. The apostle Paul says to the believers in the church in Corinth, “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant” (1 Cor. 12:1). All churches should make sure that they are moving in spiritual gifts. And in the second place, if you don’t know about spiritual gifts, you may well miss out on God’s best plan for your personal life.

This book will help you understand that if you are sure that you are a born-again member of the Body of Christ, you can be equally sure that you have one or more spiritual gifts. It will also set you on the road toward accurately identifying your gifts and then using them for their intended purposes. In fact, many readers will soon realize that they actually have been using one or more gifts without even recognizing that they are true spiritual gifts.

Once you start identifying your gifts, you will find that there are many ...