Gift = Purpose

“We arrive in this world with birthright gifts—then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting others disabuse us of them.” The moment you enter into this word is the moment the noise starts…

“We come into this world carrying birthright gifts—God-designed strengths, purpose, identity, and calling.

But the moment we arrive, the noise starts.

Noise from people.

Noise from culture.

Noise from trauma.

Noise from expectations.

Noise from comparison.

I know I have been teaching about “A walking Gift” but What am I suppose to be giving when I walk in the room?

What is the difference from a gift and a calling?

A gift is something God created you to do well, naturally, consistently, and for His purpose.

Notice what brings you life and energy.

Gifts don’t drain you — they activate you.

Ask: What do I feel most alive doing? That usually points toward an area God wired you for.

Childhood tendencies often reveal original giftedness before life tried to cover it.

Ask:

What was I good at early?

What did I naturally drift toward?

What did I love before self-doubt showed up?

Early interests are often prophetic hints.

Identify the problems you naturally feel called to fix.

Your gift is always connected to a burden or a problem you want to see solved:

Brokenness draws healers

Confusion draws teachers

Disorganization draws administrators

Injustice draws advocates

Loneliness draws encouragers

Your gift is God’s solution to a problem He designed you to carry.

Your gift is your ability.

Your calling is your assignment.

Gift = what God put in you.

Calling = what God wants to do through you.

Gift is the tool.

Calling is the mission.*

“We are disabused of original giftedness in the first half of our lives. Then—if we are awake, aware, and able to admit our loss—we spend the second half trying to recover and reclaim the gift we once possessed.”

I don’t agree with the idea that a person can lose their gift…

Romans 11:29 “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”

So what happens?

1. Gifts can become suppressed.

Life pressures, trauma, criticism, or environments can cause a person to push the gift down, hide it, or stop using it.

The gift is still present—but silent.

2. Gifts can become buried under false identities.

Over time, a child learns to survive by:

people-pleasing

performing

hiding

shrinking

conforming

And the God-given uniqueness gets covered beneath layers of fear, shame, distraction, or insecurity.

The gift doesn't disappear—it gets buried under the noise.

3. Gifts can become distorted.

Many natural gifts get twisted by life:

A leader becomes controlling

A creative becomes chaotic

A sensitive child becomes anxious

A truth-teller becomes harsh

A passionate child becomes angry

The gift is still there—it’s just misdirected instead of redeemed.

4. Gifts can become dormant.

Just like a muscle not used, a dormant gift:

weakens

grows quiet

loses confidence

stops being expressed

Dormant ≠ gone. It simply sleeps until awakened.

Paul told Timothy: “Stir up the gift.” You can’t stir up what no longer exists. It’s there—but inactive.

5. Gifts can be overshadowed by wounds.

Wounds create survival patterns that overshadow the gift:

“I’m not good enough.”

“No one values this.”

“It’s safer to stay quiet.”

The negative words spoken over your life!

Vocation does not come from a voice “out there” calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice “in here” calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

That’s why your life has been opposed from the beginning:

because of what God placed in you

because of who you were born to become

because of the future your gift threatens to bring

because of the purpose your presence activates

The attack is not proof you’re weak —

it’s proof you’re called.

Exodus 2:2 “The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.”

Moses mother knew that he was Special!

Fine: good adj. — having desirable or positive qualities; especially those suitable for a thing specified.

The thing didn’t come until he was 80…..

But God! Covered and protected him.

You are not here today, just to be here!

Look back over your life…

Luke 4:42–43 ESV

And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”