Step 4. Analyze Your Self
After you have submitted your body, are cleansing your mind (soul), and are proving your spirit that is connected to God’s Spirit, the next step is to analyze yourself.
Romans 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
Part of finding out what it is God wants you to do is to analyze yourself. Here it says to not think too highly of yourself but to think soberly. I heard once that the definition of humility is not thinking too high of yourself and not thinking too low of yourself. It is just not thinking about yourself! That is good. However, when seeking the will of God, you must look at your talents, intellect, and bodily strength. An honest estimation of yourself is what is needed. Often you can get this by asking older Christians. Be careful because God may call you to do something you are not capable of! God has a way of enabling, training, and forming people to do his will.
Isaiah 6:8 “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”
This is a great verse on the will of God. He says, “Whom shall I send?” Notice God is looking for someone to go. He is looking for the best qualified, most talented man or woman He can find. The problem many times is that the best qualified, most talented are too busy to respond to God. So God asks this question, “Who will go?” So God accepts the most willing and then enables him to do the job. (1 Timothy 1:12)
Remember Jonah. He wasn’t willing at first. Later through the storm and whale's belly, he became not only willing, but enabled to do the job!
The important thing to do is present your talents and weaknesses to God, renew your mind, then prove the spiritual call that God has for you.
The last part of Romans 12:3 gives a basic truth about faith. God gives faith to people by measure. Some people have a lot of faith, and some have a little. Part of God’s training is to take the faith that He has given to us and for us to exercise it and increase it. Be aware of Romans 10:17
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
This is more than just reading the Bible. It is highly important for a Christian to be an active member in a good Bible-believing, Bible preaching local church! God uses his preachers to explain the Bible to others. This verse is often misapplied to mean that faith comes from the Bible. That is part true. This is how it works: A Christian reads his Bible, prays, meditates on what it says. Then he sits under good Bible preaching. God uses the preaching to "stir"him up to do something for Him. He may start out with a little measure of faith, but before long, he develops a faith that will move mountains and sustain him for life. It is important to see that little word “by” in this verse. Notice that faith doesn’t just come by hearing the word of God. It comes by comparing what is heard with what the Bible actually says!