Do you know the gifts of the Spirit? Which Ones Do You See Manifest in Your Life?
Don't be discouraged if you don't know or understand much about spiritual gifts. I've noticed that most Christians are not taught much or even if they are taught on spiritual gifts it is by someone that has only experienced their own ability of teaching. So the teacher especially in the baptist church is not very accustomed to understanding gifts like healing, miracles, prophecy and tongues. So you end up getting opinion exalted over the Word of God which is in fact iniquity and a complete mess.
We are told to seek the greater gifts.
1 Corinthians 12:31 KJV
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
gift defined here is:
G5486 χάρισμα charisma (cha'-riyz-ma) n.
1. a (divine) gratuity, i.e. a kindness, pardon or rescue (from danger or passion).
2. (specially) a gracious bestowment (spiritual).
3. (subjectively) religious qualification.
4. (objectively) miraculous faculty.
Many of us think of the spiritual gifts as simply a gift but it is more than that. It is a gift that has an accompanying ability. The ability must be developed. I have seen many healings, but I had to have some direction on how to walk that out with confidence. The word says believers will lay hands on the sick and the sick will recover. So that much I could just try out through the word. But sometimes it is good to hear what people that have been walking in the spiritual gifts of healing miracles and observe how they pray and why they trust this God given gift. It helps in believing in the heart that God's promises are true and by the power of the Holy Spirit we can boldly minister to people and share the gospel with them also.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 KJV
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to
another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
Romans 12:6-8
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that
ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
We use our gifts in love or we are not using them properly the bible seems to indicate:
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Don't be discouraged if you don't know or understand much about spiritual gifts. I've noticed that most Christians are not taught much or even if they are taught on spiritual gifts it is by someone that has only experienced their own ability of teaching. So the teacher especially in the baptist church is not very accustomed to understanding gifts like healing, miracles, prophecy and tongues. So you end up getting opinion exalted over the Word of God which is in fact iniquity and a complete mess.
We are told to seek the greater gifts.
1 Corinthians 12:31 KJV
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
gift defined here is:
G5486 χάρισμα charisma (cha'-riyz-ma) n.
1. a (divine) gratuity, i.e. a kindness, pardon or rescue (from danger or passion).
2. (specially) a gracious bestowment (spiritual).
3. (subjectively) religious qualification.
4. (objectively) miraculous faculty.
Many of us think of the spiritual gifts as simply a gift but it is more than that. It is a gift that has an accompanying ability. The ability must be developed. I have seen many healings, but I had to have some direction on how to walk that out with confidence. The word says believers will lay hands on the sick and the sick will recover. So that much I could just try out through the word. But sometimes it is good to hear what people that have been walking in the spiritual gifts of healing miracles and observe how they pray and why they trust this God given gift. It helps in believing in the heart that God's promises are true and by the power of the Holy Spirit we can boldly minister to people and share the gospel with them also.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 KJV
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to
another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
Romans 12:6-8
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that
ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
We use our gifts in love or we are not using them properly the bible seems to indicate:
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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