THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS GIFTS (5)
Good morning dear reader. I believe you had an amazing and wonderful weekend because I did. I welcome you to a new and wonderful Sunday morning and a new week. I want to appreciate every single one of you who constantly visits this blog to read it and also share to your friends. I say a very big thank you and I pray that the good lord continues to bless you and empower you in Jesus Name. Amen. I also sincerely apologize for not posting this last part of this series as at when due.
In the previous part of this series i.e part 1-4, we treated the name translations of the Holy Spirit, proof of His personality, how to receive Him and some of His gifts. Please I enjoin you to read up the previous parts if you haven't done so to enable you understand this series.
KJV:But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
KJV:For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
KJV:To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
KJV: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:
1 Cor 12:7-10
Let's quickly look at the remaining gifts
3. Gift of faith :
This gift is also called "gift of special faith". This faith here is different from the faith that is listed among the fruits of the Spirit and it is also different from saving faith. You see, saving faith is the faith that enables you to believe in Jesus Christ as your personal lord and saviour. It is this faith that enables you to believe that He has washed you clean and made you His son. You see, without this saving faith, you would not have been a Christain. But thank God you had saving faith and so believed and now you are a Christain. Glory. The faith listed among the fruits of the Spirit is the faith that enables you to remain a Christain despite hardships, trails, difficulties, unbelievably hard moments. It gives you strength to trust, believe and hold on to God even when the going is tougher. The gift of special faith is usually associated with the miraculous. It is the miracle provoking kind of faith. It is the faith that makes you go through life without worries or fears of any kind. It makes you as a minister of the gospel to decree things and know for a fact that it will come to pass. It is the faith that takes hold of you that makes you believe without an iota of a doubt everything God has said. It is what makes you handle big projects, I mean projects bigger than you but with God's backing and not sweat over where resources to carry it out will come from.
4. Gifts of Healing :
Take note of the "gifts" it is plural. The reason why this is so is because there are diverse kinds of diseases and sicknesses. That is why you see ministers who can only open deaf ears or blind eyes or you see one who can only make the lame work or heal cancer. So if you know God has given you the gifts of healing then you should go ahead laying hands on the sick, praying for them and believing and recording the cases where you have more successes.
5. Working of miracles:
This means miracles are worked. Unlike healing were most of the time you just have to speak or lay hands, for miracles it usually involves a little action. What are miracles? Miracles are supernatural intervention in the natural order of things. It usually disrupts the law of nature and as such they look crazy. Take for instance, the floating axe that Elisha had to cut a wood and throw in the water for it to float or Jesus feeding five thousand people with 5 loaves and two fishes, or moses striking the rock for water to flow out. These are all working of miracles. Many a time what we call miracles are miraclous healings and not working of miracles in itself.
5. Prophecy :
Prophecy is saying the mind of God concerning a particular situation in the language of men. Simple plain prophecy is just telling someone what God has in mind concerning what the person is doing. The fact that you give prophecies doesn't make you a prophet. It only means the gift of prophecy is at work in your life. Once again, I say this gift isn't given for the shame, disgrace and reproach of believers. Any prophecy given to you must have a confirmation on your spirit man. If it doesn't, please discard or take it to a matured prophet to help you discern. Remember to test all spirits.
6. Discerning of spirits:
Notice it called the gift of discerning of spirits and not the gift of discernment. The gift of discerning of spirits is the ability to see into the spirit world and see what spirit is behind a man's action. It is the ability to pick up signals in the spirit that enables you to know what force is at work in a particular place. We need a release of this on more believers in this end time, so we will not be fooled by everyone that calls him or herself a man of God. It was this gift that was at work that made Paul know that the girl prophesying after them had an unclean spirit.
7. Divers kinds of tongues:
This particular gift is a very big controversy in the body of Christ. At your baptism with the Holy Spirit, he gives you utterance to talk to your father in a secret language that just the both of you understand. He gives the utterance while you do the talking. He only gives the utterance. I can tell you this and I know that many believers the world over will agree with me. Speaking in tongues is so much fun. Must all believers speak in tongues, absolutely yes. There is one scripture most persons give as excuses for not speaking in tongues, I will like us to look at that passage. 1 cor 12:27-31. If you notice in that passage, apostle Paul was talking about ministry gifts i.e apostles, prophets etc. Then he began to ask can all be prophets or apostles and of course we know the answer to that already. No, not everyone can be apostles, some will be apostles while others will be prophets while others will be pastors etc. So when he asked can all speak in tongues, he was speaking of the ministry of speaking of tongues. It is this ministry that you see the operation of preaching or teaching the word of God with tongues and interpretations. As for the gift of speaking with tongues, all believers baptized with the Holy Spirit should be able to. But for operating in the ministry of speaking in tongues not every believer will. And painfully we have very very very few believers who operate in this kind of ministry mostly because many of us are unaware of its existence.
8. Interpretation of tongues :
This gift is even more scare and most persons think it an impossibility. Interpretation of tongues is when God gives a message through an unknown language but is later interpreted in the language of man. That is when one person speaks in tongues, another or the same person interprets the tongues. Please note not all tongues are to be interpreted. If God gives a message in a congregation through tongues He will surely give someone the interpretation. It is not the same as translation, tongues cannot be translated they can only be interpreted. I really wish more believers will desire this gift. I have been opportuned to interpret tongues twice. And am happy about that.
Personally, I believe as a believer that all the gifts of the spirit should be manifested in my life ( just my personal belief) and thank God that He has manifested all of these gifts through me even though some more than others.
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