Read the Bible to understand about your ministry gift (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Peter 4:10-11). Consider your ability to minister or serve others. Look at the opportunities God is giving you. Remember how God has used you in the past. Every believer has a ministry gift. God will confirm your ministry gift through prayer and experience.
Millard Erickson wrote,"The Holy Spirit dispenses his ministry gifts to the church wisely and sovereignly. Possession or lack of a particular gift is no cause for pride or regret. His gifts are not rewards to those who seek or qualify for them."
Your ministry gift enables you to serve God through the church. All members of the body of Christ have a ministry. These gifts are used to serve others to the glory of God. Each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God (1 Peter 4:10).
But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills (1 Corinthians 12:11). God decides our ministry gifts. Dr. Erickson wrote, "He bestows them sovereignly; he alone determines the recipients." The Holy Spirit gives ministry gifts. You have a ministry gift according to God's will. Every believer has a ministry gift.
