Understanding Spiritual Gifts: Part Three
How to Apply the 9 Charismatic Gifts
This teaching was to be posted last Wednesday, December 30, 2015. However, due to the New Year, it was postponed to today, January 6, 2016.
We always must remember that these Spiritual gifts are for building, edifying, and enriching the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:12-16, 1 Corinthians 12:1-12
Its depending upon God’s will, and the Spirit of God that He gives these gifts freely to those who are the spiritual heads of the Body of Christ. Everyone in the church doesn’t need to go around healing people. It says in that spiritual gifts aren’t given to everyone. Its used for the purpose of the building up of that ministry, that church, or the Body of Christ.
How to apply these gifts? One has to remember that these gifts are not to be taken lightly to use at your own whims, but the Holy Ghost guides you and gives you unction to use that gifts. They want to use it for their own benefit, cause or price.
For instance when the Sons of Sceva tried to utilize a gift of casting out spirits, the resultant went very bad for them. The spirit answered back and said to them “Jesus I know, Paul I know; but who are ye?” Acts 19:15. For those who think they have a gift, if its being utilized out of selfishness, anger, greed, and not being led by the Holy Ghost, you are subject to 3 things happening to you
- Set up on by demons
- Cause your death
- God will take that gift away from you
So you always must remember to be led by the Holy Ghost, and you have to have the power of the Holy Ghost operating in your life to utilize any gift God has given you. One crucial important thing is this: you have to believe what the gift said it would do. If you can’t believe, it will not operate in your life. Before anyone believes they have a gift, they should check with their spiritual head. If you have a gift you have to be trained and taught in the Word of God. You have to stay prayed up, fast and allow the Holy Ghost to have its will and way in your life.
Its about applying these gifts, you can’t apply nothing until you know what the gift is. You can’t operate under the gift unless you have love. In other words, your heart has to be right before that gift can be utilized in you. 1 Corinthians 12:19-31, 1 Corinthians 13:1-4. You have to be faithful, the Word of God tells us to be faithful.
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