11/26/23

THR!VE: The Gifts of the Spirit Pt. 2

THR!VE

THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT PT. 2

November 26, 2023

Main Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:1-12

Additional Scriptures: Mark 11:22-23, 1 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 8:26-27, Ephesians 4:16, 3:14-21

POINTS:

  • Power Gifts vividly demonstrate God’s power over disease, demons, death, and every destructive force.

  • Gift of Faith: The capacity to build up the church through a unique ability to see through to the unrealized purposes of God and unwaveringly trust God to accomplish those purposes.

  • Gift of Healing: The ability to exercise faith that results in restoring people to physical, emotional, or spiritual health.

  • Working of Miracles: God partners with His children to work a miracle through that person’s faith and prayer.

  • Jesus says mountains will move but He doesn’t say how fast.

  • Speech gifts are centered around the act of speaking.

  • Prophecy: The ability to receive and proclaim openly a revealed message from God which prepares the church for obedience to Him and to the scriptures.

  • Prophecy makes God’s unchanging revelation in Christ come alive for the present generation.

  • It involves both revelation and application.

  • Speaking in tongues: Speech inspired by the Holy Spirit in a language the speaker does not understand.

  • Tongues as a prayer language is a means by which the Holy Spirit enables a person to pray, praise, and thank God, uninhibited by the need to conceptualize or put into words the movements of the heart.

  • A message in tongues is a gift for the Church, but it must be followed by interpretation to fulfill its purpose.

  • Discernment of Tongues: Receiving an interpretation of the message of tongues by the Holy Spirit.

  • Discerning Gifts: Is it true? Is it loving? Does it give glory to Christ? Does it build up the body of Christ?

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