My Testimony

In early middle school, I was not interested in God. I never read my bible or prayed. I lived a double life. I was a completely different person in church than I was around my friends. I lived solely for the acceptance of my peers. I was totally absorbed in popularity, and would do anything to be “cool.” I swore all the time and had a horrible relationship with my parents: it got to the point that I would even deny that I was a Christian if people asked me.
Well, my actions finally caught up with me. I had ditched my friends in my own grade to hang out with the popular girls in the grade above me. Well, the older girls were graduating, and I realized I wouldn’t have any friends the next year because of the way I had treated the girls in my class. At that point, God really opened my eyes. He made me realize how shallow my life was, and how I had been trying to gain fulfillment by seeking approval from my “friends”, instead of seeking his approval. In that moment, I gave my life to Christ and focused my efforts on getting to know him more and doing his will.
After I made that decision, I concluded that I needed to make some changes. I started reading my bible and spending time with God regularly. I completely switched schools, and made an entirely new group of friends. People from my old school noticed huge changes in me, and so did my parents. My relationship with my parents improved so much and I don’t swear anymore. Since I have started living for Christ, he has worked in my life in amazing ways. Now, my parents and I live in Panama as missionaries! I feel so blessed when I think about what could have become of me if God had not come into my life and changed me. I know God will always be by my side, and even now as I’m preparing to go to college, I can’t wait to see what he’ll do next!

Talking with my parents

I talked to my parents about my spiritual gifts and personality profile. They agreed with my spiritual gifts of having discernment, wisdom, and prophecy (also called exhortation). They felt they worked well with interacting with people. They can see how I exhort my friends and that is possible because of my straightforward personality. My parents could see that I God was using me in my friendships to strengthen others faith, and also by being so involved in Crossfire.

Spiritual Gifts

I'm a student leader, so we all took a spiritual gifts quiz to see what gifts we thought we might have. After we went around and shared what we each individually thought we had, the group told each person what gifts they saw in them. The gifts that I feel God has given me are wisdom, discernment, and prophecy. Prophecy surprised me, but God uses me often to speak truth into other christian friends' lives, so I guess it is one.

Personality- ESFJ

My scores were: Extraverted - 56, Sensing - 38, Feeling - 38, and Judging - 30. As i was reading what an extraverted, sensing, feeling, and judging person is like, i found alot of similiarities to myself. I like being around people, and I do enjoy being incharge and taking care of other's.
This can be helpful for the group in that I care alot about other people's concerns and enjoy caring for others. I also like working as a team. However, I can get hurt by other's criticism, and may need to back off when other's are leading.