It indicates that God endows us with distinctive desires to serve Christ in specific ways. The point, then, is that we should each view our gifts, situations, and motivational patterns as vital indications of God’s guidance for our lives. Finally, there is another important way in which the New Testament points to God having an individual will for believers, and that is through Jesus’ use of the twin concepts of "work" and "works" in the Gospel of John. Jesus speaks both of His work and His works