Revealer
Congratulations on taking an important step toward discovering your destiny! The Ministry Gift Assessment reveals your Ministry Gift. We also call it your Destiny Orientation (D.O.). It’s your core trait or design, and it influences the basic way you relate to your world.
General Orientation Traits
You are a Revealer and have a prophetic orientation based on the gift of prophet named in Ephesians 4:11, and are "wired" by God to function in prophetic gifting, thinking and action. You are a revealer who sees into the heart of people, situations and circumstances; and reveals what is right, what is wrong and what is needed in a given matter.
You are an intuitive person who cares deeply about the spiritual reality around us, and you are committed to manifesting this reality in word, deed, and creative expression. You are discerning and sensitive to the heart motives of those around you. You are perceptive and passionate and you elevate those around you by helping them see the world more clearly and definitively. Your influence and impact on others helps them to understand more fully what is right, what is real, and how to live to make a difference. You care about individuals being people of quality and integrity and are concerned about personal and organizational values. You are most fulfilled when you are leading others into a deeper revelation and experience of God’s presence and power. You prefer to address issues with an outcome based on quality and value rather than focusing on programs or quantity.
You see the heart of an issue as most important and have the mentality that says, “This is THE most important issue!”
Issues
As a revealer, you tend to see things only one way, black or white, and may miss the middle ground. Your insight and discernment into spiritual things, core values, and intangibles can lead you to speak things that you believe are vital and true, but you may have a tendency to be judgmental or too quick to make pronouncements. People with the prophetic orientation can benefit from learning how to speak the truth in love, with an emphasis on love.
You are deeply concerned about justice, fairness, and issues of right and wrong; as a result, you sometimes can be perfectionistic and impatient. You can be vulnerable to various kinds of fears, particularly fear of rejection or fear of being misunderstood. These fears, if not managed, can make you feel like you need to control relationships and situations around you in order to feel safe and protected. Instead of increasing safety, controlling situations will almost always lead to greater distrust of others and inaccurate feelings or suspicions that you are not wanted or that you don’t belong.
You may sometimes even see rejection or disagreement from others as a form of validation and can be quite closed off to anything that would change your mind. Be careful to monitor your heart to make sure you are not motivated by fear. Don’t seek to avoid rejection by rejecting others first; in the end you will only hurt yourself. It is important to build several stable relationships with people who are your peers, people who are like family, and people who can have a voice to speak into your life in a role that has more oversight. Love takes courage, but it is worth it to let down your walls and become more authentic. Avoid taking things personally, and develop a heart that is ready to stay committed for the long haul. Being part of a diverse team or community can soften your rough edges, provide balance for any extremes you have and bring you healing where you need it.
The Revealer in the Workplace
In the workplace, you are most likely to be the one who is driving the organization toward quality and purity of purpose, striving to maintain the desired culture and core values, and raising up new leaders who carry your same passion for purpose. You are probably well-suited for a career that includes implementing quality assurance, strategy, privacy, legal compliance, law, science, music, entertainment, arts, or other creative areas. In business and social settings you are often the one who is looked to for insight and approval.
Church and Ministry Settings
In ministry and service to others, you are usually the one who influences the spiritual atmosphere and helps to champion the emphasis, core values, or heart of any organization. In a ministry setting, revealers are normally those who are focused on the presence and power of God. The word prophet literally means one who “speaks forth in the anointing and authority of God.” Prophetic people tend to be most “tuned in” to God’s heart, His holiness, and His immediate purpose for His people. Because of their passion for God’s perspective, they can sometimes be intolerant of other people’s perspectives. Remember that the whole body is needed and every joint contributes to get the greatest outcome.
It is essential that the prophetic orientation be expressed in the Church because the revealer acts as a “spiritual plumbline” to help keep the church true to God. Paul warned us against: “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.” Prophetic revealers bring the “word of the Lord” to people and organizations, and they help each member, without regard to orientation, to stay connected to God and to keep God’s presence and power as an ongoing part of his or her life.
The prophetic orientation expresses itself in different ways in different people but those with this design tend to be creative, spiritually sensitive, deeply discerning and fluent in various gifts of the Holy Spirit. Most people with this orientation are able to function effectively in areas of prayer, worship and prophetic ministry and/or in positions dealing with quality, values and integrity.
Relationship to Other Orientations
Revealers, or those with a prophetic orientation, work most effectively in partnership with the apostolic orientation. If these five traits were the fingers on a hand, the revealer would be the index finger, pointing to God but also pointing out areas of weakness or strength in the people and organizations around them. Sometimes people with a connector orientation will feel troubled by the intensity of the revealer’s black and white approach to situations and the way it can upset the rest of the body.
The teaching orientation is similar in some ways to the prophetic but they differ in their point of reference. Trainers/teachers are passionate about truth and want everything to be theologically exact. Revealers/prophetic people tend to speak with authority from what God shows them and instinct rather than from scriptural text. Revealers should be mindful to integrate their personal revelation with the revelation of Scripture, which is our final authority. Regardless of point of reference, revealer leaders function well under the oversight of a healthy apostolic leader; the result is unity, harmony and greater kingdom impact.
Biblical Example
A good biblical example of a revealer is found in the man named Agabus. Paul was under much persecution for spreading the gospel and when he met Agabus, he took the belt that belonged to Paul, wrapped himself in it, and said that the man who owned the belt would be wrapped in it much the same, literally prophesying Paul’s imprisonment and death. What Agabus revealed came true, and his gift was noted in the Bible.
You are made to express the heart of the matter. Go for it!