S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you Laura Hvala for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored (in alphabetical order):

40%

90%

93%

56%

81%

65%

53%

46%

90%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am very aware of what God has done for me – he did not condemn me. I was truly lost in sin and He called me back to Him. So I have absolute faith (and hope – non judgemental of others) that God is able to reach all people in His great mercy and in His timing and by His means.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am not conflicted by fear of people; and I love the Lord and no that he is my shield and protector, so I can testify about His truth without fear of being persecuted or rejected.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I walking beside people, encouraging and teaching from beside them – not in front). I can teach nothing except point them to the source of all knowledge and wisdom. I believe that all people inherently search for Truth (God) – noone goes looking for lies and deception….but we all find it somewhere on our search for Truth – I recognise this and enjoy guiding people away from deception (chaos) and towards truth (sustaining order, prosperity good fruit & blessings).

[H]eart

1. clarifying and discerning ideological truth/wisdom from deception – in all realms (relationship, family, community, institutions politics, cultural media, academics, government religious institutions etc)

2. teaching my daughters

3. helping others

adults, looking for truth, those that suffer trauma, guiding and helping establish healthier life principles, navigating life direction, helping them understand how they got into life dilema’s and how to transform and renew their hearts and minds

intercessional prayer, deliverance ministry, women’s ministry, and Christian counselling

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Abuse/violence

[A]bilities

Counselling Psychotherapist – Trauma informed therapy

Teaching – health and human development, psychology, science, genetics, biochemistry
Naturopathy – natural health and nutrition

people skills – good communicator
practical hands on skills, creative, problem solver

many subjects – biochemistry, Human anatomy & physiology (developmental health), psychology & counselling, christian faith

faith and love of Jesus Christ & the presence of the Holy Spirit
my communication skills,

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

Otter- Otters are very social creature. Otter personalities love people. They enjoys being popular and influencing and motivating others. Otter can sometimes be hurt when people do not like them. Otter personalities usually have lots of friends, but not deep relationships. They love to goof-off. (They are notorious for messy rooms.) Otters like to hurry and finish jobs. (Jobs are not often done well.) The otter personality is like Tigger in Winnie The Pooh.

Strength: People person, open, positive
Weakness: Talks too much, too permissive
Limitation: Remembering past commitments, follow through with discipline

[E]xperience

I was always a Christian, although I was brought up as a Catholic I don’t think a deep love of Christ or the Holy Spirit was nourished. I also felt a lot of contradiction in the Church, so I walked away. But I was continually searching for Truthful experience of God. After many years of feeling lost, I came back to a Pentacostal Church and was overcome with the Holy Spirit. I was baptised (born again) with my two adolescent daughters and have given my life to Christ.

Recently I started serving in my local church as a Womens Ministry Leader – Encourage Church, Romsey 3434, Victoria Australia

Raised in large, God loving (Catholic) family – 2nd eldest of 7 siblings – 2 sisters and 4 brothers.

Mother and Father instilled Christian values and modelled health Christian values in their relationship together

My husband and I have 2 beautiful (adopted) daughters that are now 16 and 20 – being a mother has brought so much joy and love and satisfied the greatest purpose in my life.

Struggles in marriage with a husband who has different faith beliefs. He has very many gifts and is generally a kind and loving man however he has hurt and disappointed me greatly at times. This has helped me become more defined and assertive and respectful of my relationship expectations, better in my communication and explicit about my boundaries and relationship expectations

i have a brother with a mental health disorder which is very difficult on the entire family dynamics. He is very difficult to communicate with because of his paranoia and lack of insight into his condition and also very difficult to help because of his lack of functioning. But I love him and continue to help him with very little acknowledgement or regard, which is very hard sometimes.

My brother died in a car accident when I was 21 years old and because of the grief that we all went through but particularly my parents, I became a caregiver for my younger brothers and sisters for a time.

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. to work in a prayer and deliverance ministry

4. to work in a christian counselling setting with traumatised individuals

5. to travel to Israel and Egypt and visit old and new testament biblical-historical sites