Do You Have one of these Gifts?

All of us in the body of Christ have been commissioned to go and tell the world about Christ. He gave us the Holy Ghost to accomplish this command. The Holy Ghost enables and equips us to not only tell about our Savior, but to do works even greater than Christ did. Most important these gifts benefit the whole body. How?

The Holy Spirit gives within the body several gifts. We have looked at the gift of word of wisdom, gift of word of knowledge, gifts of healing, the gift of working of miracles, and the gift of prophecy– discussed in previous posts. 7) To another the Spirit gives the gift of discerning of spirits. How this is so needed in the churches making up the body of Christ. Let us begin by defining the term discerning–“someone with keen insight and good judgement, particularly when it comes to making careful assessments of quality or details. They can distinguish subtle differences and are able to evaluate things with a critical eye, often recognizing the nuances that others might miss.” In discerning spirits, the individual with this gift can easily see what spirit (disembodied entities) is operating on those around him/her. This person can accurately tell if the spirit of God is the one interacting within the group or if it is demonic spirits come to disrupt or misled. If people possessing this gift would rise up and be the voice when wolves in sheep’s clothing are at the pulpit and shut them down, my belief is that less people genuinely seeking the kingdom of God, would be misled.

To another individual the Spirit gives divers kinds of tongues. Now this is a very debatable definition that I am going to give about tongue, but if you search in the bible, it is very evident that tongues is a language spoken is some part of the world, not babblings as we see in today’s church. My favorite verses to show this state “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Thus, the tongues spoken in church are a real language that the speaker does not know or has learned, but someone in the congregation will fully understand every word, thus interpret what was said. I must add that this is given by the Holy Ghost and perfected by the Holy Ghost; no man can teach another how to speak in tongues; teaching tongues is not in the bible. Am I then disputing the babblings that we hear? These may be for private use between the creature and creator; the ones heard in church can only be pure languages of a people in the earth.

Problem: giving clergy powers that are not theirs. They cannot give you a calling on anyone, they can hand you the right hand of fellowship and pray over you and send you on your way once they recognize the call of God on your life.

Solution: read the Word of God for yourself asking the Holy Ghost to make it clear to you. You cannot go wrong if the Holy Ghost is your teacher.