DESIGN

DESIGN

I my lifetime I've thought a lot about the question, “Who Am I?” and this subject of DESIGN. I have often thought, “God, why did you make me like this?” For so long I have wanted to be like so many other people. I wanted to fit in.

I sensed the Lord say to me one day, “You are growing in self awareness”.

As my soul was in the process of healing and restoring; it still is;I am seeing more clearly how and why God made me. There are so many levels to a human being. It is so true that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I have thought of at least 12 levels.

1.    We were thought of and designed before the foundation of the world.

Jeremiah 1:4-5 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, [5] “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

2.    We were seen and formed uniquely in our mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13-16 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  [15] My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, [16] your eyes saw my unformed body.

3.    Our parents were assigned to us

4.    Our gender was established

5.    Our race and nationality was set-Acts 17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

6.    Our time in history is set-Acts 13:36 “For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.

7.    Our destiny set-Psalm 139:16 All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

8.    Our brothers and sisters

9.    Our birth order

10.  Our temperament/personality

There are many assessments to help us understand the way God made us and to understand  each other; to find out our God-given design, talents, gifts, etc.

Personality Tests

http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

Online DISC Demo

https://www.talentsmart.com/idisc

Understanding your MBTI (Myers-Briggs)

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

Motivational Gifts, Don and Katie Fortune https://www.discoveryourgifts.org/?getpage=detail&ItemID=82&ItemCatID=3

Ministry Gifts

Talents

11. Our gifts, callings, talents all set before the foundations of the earth --GOD GIVEN DESIGN

What about you? Do you know who you are and who you aren’t?  Do you know who you are in Christ and who He is in you?