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

Thank you Michael Sebastian Almeida 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:

65%

81%

65%

71%

65%

68%

56%

50%

75%

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 have shared the gospel with quite a few people, and feel good to have done something for the Lord Jesus. And when someone accepts the Lord Jesus, it gives me a lot of satisfaction.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been involved in the Prayer Group as a coach and have realized that I am able to convey the messages well. I have also been involved in training in the corporate world which involves a lot of oral communication.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
By God’s grace, we have been blessed financially and this gives us the privilege to give without having to think twice.

[H]eart

1. To connect with Jesus everyday.

2. To keep my family happy.

3. To keep myself productive and active.

I enjoy working with fun-loving people, youngsters and practical people.

To counsel, encourage people who are feeling hopeless.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Health/fitness

[A]bilities

I am currently working as a Sr. Technical Publisher (secular job). In my spiritual life, I am involved in the Prayer Group, and volunteer to meet other needs in the church.

I have experience in teaching and training as well.

I have good oratory skills. I write poetry occasionally. I love to sing.

How to be a good public speaker, which includes:
1) Body language
2) Voice modulation
3) Speech preparation, etc.

As a PG Coach, I have the privilege of sharing Bible messages on a weekly basis.

My dependence on the Holy Spirit to use my abilities in the right way.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

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

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

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 am from a Catholic background. I would always wonder why there were denominations and the ever-disturbing question of idol worship in the Catholic church. After many years of seeking spiritual breakthrough, on 9th January 2006, I had a spiritual experience where the Holy Spirit touched me (I felt a cool ball of air touch me and I began speaking in tongues). The very first question that came across my mind was “If I am able to connect with God directly, why should I be reciting the rosary and pray to Mother Mary. Soon, I began seeing changes in me. The desire for drinking and smoking vanished immediately. Once, me and my wife searched the entire house for 3 days in vain to get the blueprint of our house which we needed badly, to finalize a sale deed. The third night, I prayed while sleeping, and the Holy Spirit prompted me to go out of the house (around 1 AM), and gave me a vision of a black bag. I tiptoed out of the house and found the black bag in the gallery outside. When I opened the bag, only the blueprint of the house was inside the bag. MY GOD!!! I was overwhelmed with gratitude. I knew that Jesus was real. I stopped going to the Catholic church and got baptized on 27th May 2007.

I have been serving in Bethel AG Church from 2012. I am involved in the Prayer Group, serving communion, meeting newcomers to church and following up with them.

I was diagnosed with Thyroid in June 2017. It disturbed me and my family. However, I was encouraged to pray for a miracle. We prayed fervently, and although the doctors advised to get the treatment early, we kept delaying it. When the second opinion was taken, I was compelled to buy the medicines. Yet, I wanted to trust in the Lord Jesus for a miracle. I did not open the bottle of medicine. We kept praying, and after more than 45 days when I did the test again, the Thyroid was NORMAL. PRAISE JESUS!!! My faith level increased.

When I was a new believer in the Lord Jesus, I experienced quite a lot of persecution. On one night, I was in great emotional pain, and in that distressed moment, I cried out to the Lord…..And the faithful Holy Spirit comforted me so much, I could feel a shower of soothing waterfall of His grace and love pouring out on me. I was crying with inner peace and joy.

The day before my wife’s baptism, she had a tough time to get over the Catholic strongholds. She could feel someone watching over her with anger (looked like Mother Mary, she said). In the night, while we were about to sleep that image became more strong, and my wife wanted to delay the baptism. I encouraged her to take the baptism despite all these disturbances. Suddenly I felt faith increase and commanded the spirit to leave in the Name of Jesus! Within seconds my mother who was in the other room began to scream that there is some evil in her room. We rushed to her room and again used the name of Jesus to cast out the evil. Soon there was peace as we felt there were no more disturbances.

My marriage seemed to be on the rocks when I had accepted Christ and my family was still Catholic. With a lot of opposition in the beginning it was a tough time. But with God’s amazing grace, my entire family is saved now. With this experience, I am able to encourage others who go through similar difficulties.

I have experienced a lot of disturbance in human relationships, especially with family and friends. However, the Lord Jesus has taught me to depend on Him for breakthroughs in this area. I have been able to overcome many hurdles with His grace, and I like to encourage people to hope in the Lord.

I have experienced spiritual loneliness at times, and sometimes have even questioned the Lord’s love for me. But by His grace alone, I have returned to Him with renewed faith, and hope. I would like to encourage people with hopeless cases to trust in Jesus, no matter what.

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 help people be delivered from spiritual bondages

4. To lead a spiritually mature life and to become an inspiration to many

5. To encourage people to draw closer to God and enrich their lives