WHAT ARE YOUR SPIRITUAL GIFTS? PART TWO

Mercy
The ability to cheerfully and practically help those who are suffering or are in need, compassion moved to action. People with this gift- focus upon alleviating the sources of pain or discomfort in suffering people; address the needs of the lonely and forgotten; express love, grace, and dignity to those facing hardships and crisis; serve in difficult or unsightly circumstances and do so cheerfully; concern themselves with individual or social issues that oppress people.

Prophecy
The ability to reveal truth and proclaim it in a timely and relevant manner for understanding, correction, repentance, or edification. There may be immediate or future implications. People with this gift: expose sin or deception in others for the purpose of reconciliation; speak a timely word from God causing conviction, repentance, and edification; see truth that others often fail to see and challenge them to respond; warn of God's immediate or future judgment if there is no repentance: understand God's heart and mind through experience he takes them through.

Shepherding
The ability to nurture, care for, and guide people toward ongoing spiritual maturity and becoming like Christ. People with this gift: take responsibility to nurture the whole person in their walk with God; provide guidance and oversight to a group of God's people; model with their life what it means to be a fully devoted follower of Jesus; establish trust and confidence through long relationships; lead and protect those within their span of care.

Teaching
The ability to understand, clearly explain, and apply the word of God causing greater Christlikeness in the lives of listeners. People with this gift communicate Biblical truth that inspires greater obedience to the word; challenge listeners simply and practically with the truths of scripture; present the whole counsel of God for maximum life change, give attention to detail and accuracy, prepare through extended times of study and reflection.

Wisdom
The ability to apply spiritual truth effectively to meet a need in a specific situation. People with this gift: focus on the unseen consequences in determining the next steps to take, receive an Understanding of what is necessary to meet the needs of the body; provide divinely given solutions in the midst of conflict and confusion; hear the Spirit provide direction for God's best in a given situation; apply spiritual truth in specific and practical ways.

Copyright 1997-2000, Lake Highlands Baptist Church. All Rights Reserved.

God Bless you as you serve The Lord Jesus Christ this day.
In Christ........brother bob.........<><

Bible verses about Spiritual Gifts

Rom 12:4-6a (KJV)
For as we have many members in one body,
and all members have not the same office{Grk=function}:
{5} So we, being many, are one body in Christ,
and every one members one of another.
{6} Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us...

1 Cor 12:4-7 (KJV)
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
{5} And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
{6} And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
{7} But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit {from it}.
{8} For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
{9} To another faith by the same Spirit;
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
{10} 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:
{11} But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit,
dividing to every man severally{Web=respectively} as he will.
{12} For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:
so also is Christ.
{13} For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free;
and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
{14} For the body is not one member, but many.

1 Tim 4:8-16 (KJV)
For bodily exercise profiteth little:
but godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
{9} This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
{10} For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of those that believe.
{11} These things command and teach.
{12} Let no man despise thy youth;
but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation,
in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
{13} Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
{14} Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
{15} Meditate upon these things;
give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
{16} Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;
continue in them:
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself,
and them that hear thee.


IXTHEUS CHRISTIAN GROWTH DEVOTIONALS
ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE
(but not necessarily free of COST)
Feel free to redistribute these materials to whomever you want...
Be careful to observe copyright information where appropriate...
Please submit all questions, comments, suggestions, or requests for subscriptions to
ixtheus@execpc.com

Request a free copy of my evangelistic presentation:
"The God Who is Really There"
from ixtheus@execpc.com

God's Blessings on each of you,
rECj/LJG