#48: Join me for a heartfelt, final solo episode for 2024 as I unveil exciting plans for the Spirit Led Life podcast in 2025. This episode sets the stage for a deep dive into discovering our purpose in 2025 through Spiritual Gifts. I'll also share other topics that will be covered in 2025 all which build upon the foundation we have set in 2024.

This episode serves as a reflective pause, allowing you to consider your own paths as I outline the plans for the upcoming year.

Let's go to the show.

Key Take-aways:

• 03:31 - Looking Ahead to 2025
• 11:24 - Introduction to Motivational Gifts and Spiritual Growth
• 16:02 - Reflecting on the Year Ahead
• 21:18 - Reflecting on the New Year and Future Intentions

Resources:

• Discover Your God-Given Gifts - by Don & Katie Fortune
• The Power of a Praying Woman by Stormie Omartian
• Ep. 23 Two Way Communication with God - The Foundation
• Ep. 11 Caring for Your Soul

Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s HPS Challenge, take out your journal and I want you to take some time and think about 2025 and what your intention is for it. What is it that you hope to experience in 2025? Do you want to be joyful? Do you want to be excited? Do you want to be intentional?

Think of all the words that might describe something and see what you really want 2025 to hold and be in prayer about it with God and actually pray with Him to help you and guide you.

Ask Him, Father, what is mine to do in 2025 and sit with Him. May be you get some answers right away or you may have to sit with it for a while, but He'll be faithful to answer.

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I'm Angie Robertson and you're listening to the Spirit Led Life podcast, episode 48 on today's episode.

I can't wait to share with you the topics we are going to cover because God's given me an outline of what is to come and here's a hint.

Everybody wants to know their purpose.

Well, guess what?

Let's go to the show.

Welcome to the show.

If you are new here, I am glad you are joining us.

On this podcast we explore who God is so we can know who he has made us to be and learn to live our lives by the Holy Spirit.

Before we get into today's topic, I want to encourage you to follow, share and leave a comment on this podcast.

It would mean so much to me if you would just take a few minutes.

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Thank you again for taking the time to do that.

We will have one more episode for the year and it'll be a very special interview which I want to invite you.

If you have a loved one who is battling in an illness or someone that needs some encouragement and wants to see God move, I would invite you to tell them about this podcast so they can tune in to next week's episode.

It's going to be a very special, raw, deep, powerful episode and a very strong testimony to God's grace and love and all the things.

So be sure to check out next week's episode.

I can't wait to bring you this special interview.

So just to give you a heads up, we are actually going to take the week of Christmas and the week of New Year's off, so there will be no podcasts released during those weeks.

I'm going to miss you guys a lot, but I am going to take that time to take a break, refresh myself, and then also be with my family.

And I want to encourage you to do the same.

It will also give you a chance to catch up on anything that you might have missed or re listen to an episode that was your favorite episode.

Or maybe there's an episode that you listened to and you want to revisit again.

This is your opportunity to do that.

And also remember to take time with your family as well.

Or maybe you might need a respite from them.

So pop your headphones on and I'd be delighted to be in your ear.

Or if you find yourself driving a long distance, you can catch up on a podcast or like I said, just take a break and rest.

It doesn't hurt to rest our souls and rest our bodies.

If I haven't said that already, the one thing that I am super passionate about and love to talk about and let me back up and just say that, you know, I talk about the Enneagram here a lot, which is a personality test of sorts.

It's a personality test on steroids, in my opinion, and I am a personality test queen.

I love them so much.

I've probably taken every personality test there is out there.

In fact, I was going into career counseling and personality tests are predominantly what is used when helping students identify their future careers.

I am actually a certified career coach, so I love learning about personalities and what makes us up and how each of us are unique and individual.

But did you know that the Bible really is the foundation of all of that?

Your Enneagram, Myers Briggs Strength Finders?

All those tests really can stem from the Bible and where, you might ask Spiritual gifts The Bible actually talks about three categories of gifts.

There are the manifestation gifts, the ministry gifts, and the motivational gifts.

The motivational gifts are where we're going to spend our time next year because that is for us individually as humans.

That is how God designed us from the start.

And each of us has a specific set of motivational Gifts that's unique for us and for what God has called us to do on this earth.

And these gifts aren't for us though.

They are for us to use with others to further the kingdom of God.

So I can't wait to share with you what those are and really dive deep into each one.

We're going to explore each of them.

There are actually seven motivational gifts and you can have a combination of any of them.

And someone may have the same gift with you, the main gift, but because of the secondary gift, it makes you set apart and different, which makes it so much more fascinating.

And the other thing that we will talk about and uncover is that you've been operating in your motivational gift all your life.

It's not something that you're just going to discover and all of a sudden say, oh my gosh, I've got my purpose and now I can live it.

You've already been operating in this gift and we'll explore that.

I did this with my virtual assistant students a few years ago.

We went over the motivational gifts and I was able to show each student how she has already been operating in her gift all throughout her life.

It wasn't something new, she just had discovered.

So now the students could combine their knowledge with their history and with what God was calling them to do and their desires of their heart to continue to further operating in their motivational gifts.

I was so honored to witness that kind of light bulb moment each of them had, and that moment meant everything to me.

I am looking forward to exploring that with each of you and helping you find your motivational gift and ways for me to work with you one on one to be able to discover that for yourself if you need further assistance.

It is a topic that I am so passionate about and I cannot wait to dive into it.

It really lights me up if you can't tell.

For those of you who have been longtime listeners, you might remember back when we did the two way communication with God and I did that whole series on how to hear from God and I wanted to do it early in the year, but God was like, nope, you can't do that.

We have to build a foundation.

We've got some healing of our souls to do before we can move forward.

And we did that with the Soul Care series.

And now we have laid the foundation on how to hear from God to prepare us now to be able to hear and really understand who God is and how he designed us So I can't wait to share with you these motivational gifts.

It's going to be so amazing and so special.

We'll also talk a little bit about the other two gifts, the ministry gifts and the manifestation gifts.

Not going to spend a ton of time on them.

I'm going to give you just enough information so that you understand what they are, how they come about and how they operate.

But our main focus is going to be on the motivational gifts each of us has as a believer and that we've been given by God.

And once you uncover it, it unlocks a whole other layer of knowing who you are, which in turn helps you to understand who God is more, which is what I say at the beginning of every episode.

I also want to say that I'm not doing this blindly.

I actually took training through Don and Katie Fortune.

I found a book called Discover your God given Gifts, and it's written by Don and Katie Fortune, and we'll use this as our reference guide.

Now, Don and Katie had both passed away by the time I discovered the book, but I reached out to the organization because I learned that they had certified people in the spiritual or the motivational gifts training.

It was a little bit difficult because everything was kind of in litigation since Katie had passed fairly recently.

But now their son is kind of taking over everything and moving forward with being able to certify people.

So I reached out to them to get my certification so that I could speak on this.

So I'm not going blindly into this.

So I'll put the link to the book in the show notes in case you want to get a jumpstart and be prepared for when we begin covering these gifts.

But you don't have to.

So don't worry.

You don't need to buy the book.

We're not going to go verbatim.

I'm not going to be reading specifically out of the book.

I'll definitely be sharing.

But the book does help.

And a lot of what I'll be sharing is pulled from the book.

Now, one of my hopes is I would love to get individuals who know what their motivational gift is and that have been operating in that and have them come on the show and have like seven different people on in each of the gift areas.

That's my hope.

I don't know if that's going to be possible because not a lot of people talk about spiritual gifts.

I think the church and we as believers, we have lumped these three categories all into one and just called it spiritual gifts.

And you Take a test and you can be all the things.

But really and truly, there are very.

They're very different.

There's three distinct categories.

The Bible lays out the three distinct categories and names them as such.

And each of those gifts in those categories are very specific in how they show up.

And we will really suss them out and understand what the Bible says about the different gifts and the different categories of gifts and the purpose and the way that they show up and how they are used and how we can further walk in our gifts and those gifts.

And when I learned what my gifts are, it really helped me in how I show up and to really embrace the way that God designed me and embrace the way that what he was calling me to do.

And I'm not going to share my gifts yet.

So stay tuned for more and I will be sure to share my gifts.

What my gifts are.

I'm not sure if I'll share it at the beginning or at the end.

I'll probably share it at the end because you'll need to understand what the gifts are to or in order for you to understand what my gifts are.

God wants me to talk about the fruit of the Spirit.

There are nine characteristics of the spirit, which also is the fruit of the Spirit, not fruits, plural.

One fruit with nine characteristics of that fruit.

We have the Holy Spirit residing in us, and the fruit of the Spirit is what comes out of us because he is residing in us.

And the more that we allow the Spirit to lead, the more that the fruit starts to produce.

We'll look at each one of the characteristics of the Fruit of the Spirit and dive deeper into it.

And what does that mean and what does that look like and how do we display that?

Because I don't know about you, but operating in the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, self control, all of them.

It's sometimes challenging, and there are times I can operate more freely in one of the characteristics than I can the other.

But remember, it's one fruit.

It all has to work together.

It is a topic that I've been trying to kind of wrap my head around.

So we'll go do that together.

Why not explore it together?

I'm not going to do it by myself.

Let's just do it together.

So when we do that in January, the first episode in January, it'll be my December reflection.

So I'm going to do it a little different.

Usually I do a reflection of our body, soul and spirit.

I am actually this month, I'm recording this in December.

You're hearing this in December.

I'm actually doing my goals and my word of the year.

I'll also share what my word of the year is and how I go about finding it and why I do the word of the year.

And I share these things as an encouragement for you to kind of reflect for yourself.

Certainly it's not something that you have to do.

I was listening to a podcast recently where a person was talking about our minds being like, we don't want to go.

Our minds don't want to go.

Our souls don't want to go into the unknown.

It doesn't light the unknown.

Whereas the Holy Spirit wants to be in the unknown.

That's where everything that we want to experience, if we allow, if we live by our spirits, everything that we want to experience of God is there.

And it's also the unknown.

It come.

What comes within are unknown things.

And she likened it to, like, going to Target and how you walk into Target and you can see all the things.

It has things that you want.

You're going there for a specific purpose, and it has things that you don't want.

And if you've ever been to Target and you, you're going in there for, let's say, a can of hairspray, and you walk out with a buggy full of stuff later, you know what I'm talking about, you go in with the intention of one thing, but you come out with others.

And some of those things are things that you didn't know that you needed.

And some things are things that you did need and you forgot.

But you go in and there's everything that you can need is in the store.

And there's also things in there that you don't need.

Like maybe you don't need hemorrhoid cream.

I mean, I know that's pretty out there.

I'm sure you're probably laughing to hear me say that, but it's there, right?

It's the same with when we set our intentions.

And she said that if we go in and we don't have a list of what, you know, like we go in with our intentions of what we want, then we're basically on a subscription basis, meaning that we're just going to keep getting the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.

And I loved that analogy.

And it also the way she didn't say this, but I took it a step further and say that while I go in there into the unknown and I get things that I need and I might get things that I didn't know that I needed, I also don't have to necessarily get the things that I don't want either.

I don't have to get that hemorrhoid cream.

It can sit there on the shelf.

A lot of times we fear going into the unknown because we're afraid of the bad things that are going to happen and that's what stops us.

In fact, Dave and I sat down and I'm not putting this up on a pedestal because we don't normally do this.

We don't normally sit down and do goals for the year.

But this particular year we are, because it has been, as I've shared in the last episode, the last five years have been very, very challenging and I really wanted to sit down and get on the same page together.

We looked at our personal life, our ministry life, what we wanted as a couple, what we wanted as individuals.

We also talked about kind of doing a mid year check in because we set a goal that we want to track.

It's something that's super important to us and it's kind of critical and it affects a lot of other areas in our life.

So we are going to do a mid year check in that will help us to know if we have more clarity on this goal or if we need to adjust it or whatever.

And we're going to ask ourselves questions like did we resolve it and we just need to be all in on it or Are there things that need to shift and now is the time to actually make that change?

What does that mean to make the change?

What is our place to make those shifts?

And where do we lean into God to make those shifts?

I can't wait to kind of dive into that.

It's one of my favorite things to do, is kind of a year and wrap up and do my own reflection of the year and what's to come.

I really enjoy doing those.

I get a lot of great feedback.

I think it really inspires you to do your own reflection.

It also gives you some resources and things to think about.

And I might tweak them and adjust them a little bit and have a little more engagement for each of the areas.

So we'll see.

I'm kind of playing with that.

But we'll still do the monthly reflections.

Something else I'm exploring with God is sharing pages from my journal where I've had a dialogue with Him.

It is something that's kind of intrigued me, and I'm asking Him a little bit more about that and what that would look like, because there's a lot of dialogue that he and I have sometimes.

And there's things that are kind of universal that anyone could hear, and some things are not.

So we've been doing these journaling with Jesus sessions, and on one of the sessions, he gave me something to share with the participants.

So it could even be just journaling with him and then asking him something that he wants to share.

And I mean, I do that every week with these episodes.

I build them with him.

Whatever I'm sharing with you is something that he and I have worked on together.

But these are specific messages from him, actually, dialogue that I've had in my journal.

That's something else that I'm considering sharing next year as kind of pages from my journal, if you will, something that he's given me to share with you.

I feel like that could help inspire you and encourage you to have your own dialogue with him and really start to hear his voice.

Because sometimes if we hear others experience of hearing God's voice, it encourages us.

Also, in January, we will be celebrating a year of this podcast, so I can't wait.

We have so much and so many more exciting things.

To come.

I'm doing a refresh of the Spirit Led Life brand, a new episode song, and all these amazing topics.

If I haven't said that like 5,000 times already by now, it's always a time of hope and I love that about the end of a year and the beginning of the year.

It's just something for me.

It's.

It's special.

So before we wrap up, I have two more things.

First, I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.

I know the holidays can be a time of extreme joy for some and painful for others.

I completely understand and I want to encourage you that everything is a season.

We talked about this in the last episode.

I have been in a season where December was challenging for me.

It's the month that I lost my dad many, many, many years ago.

It has also been a time of extreme joy for me as well.

Either way, we can all agree that Jesus being born on this earth is the Savior we all need and he can fill all those gaps.

He's with you in joy and in mourning.

You're never alone.

I also want to take this time to invite you to be a part of the Spirit Led Life community if you're not already.

And how you can do that is by joining our mailing list.

If you go to spiritledlifepodcast.com you will see the subscriber form and down towards the bottom you can fill it out and you'll be added to the list.

You'll be notified when new episodes release and I share things in those emails that I don't share anywhere else.

You'll also learn about the Journaling with Jesus sessions that you can join as well as other things.

So be sure to sign up@spiritledlifepodcast.com and you won't miss another episode.

And now you're a part of this wonderful growing community.

Do you want to be joyful?

Do you want to be excited?

Do you want to be intentional?

And it may be you get some answers right away or you may have to sit with it for a while, but he'll be faithful to answer.

I encourage you to take these weeks where we'll have no episodes and sit with this question and just ask him.

As I close I am going to read a prayer out of the Power of a Praying Woman.

I've read out of this book many, many times and I'll be sure to link to it in the show notes.

The title of this prayer is Lord, lead me into the future you have for me.

Lord, I put my future in your hands and ask that you would give me total peace about it.

I want to be in the center of your plans for my life knowing you have given me everything I need for what is ahead.

I pray you would give me strength to endure without giving up.

You have said that he who endures to the end will be saved.

Help me to run the race in a way that I shall finish strong and receive the prize you have for me.

Help me to be always watchful in my prayers because I don't know when the end of my life will be.

Amen.

Thank you for joining me on today's episode.

This episode was produced, recorded and edited by me, Angie Robertson.

I look forward to joining you each Thursday for a new episode as we explore together how to have a spirit led life.