Gifts of the Holy Spirit

• Message Notes

  The Holy Spirit is not our roommate, He’s actually our landlord.

  1 Corinthians 6:19-20
  19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

  John 16:13
  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. - NLT

  The Holy Spirit gives you a Holy Advantage by bringing you assurance, giving you guidance and empowering you with confidence.

  The Holy Spirit promises to reveal to you God’s plan and purpose even in the midst of the problems that may come your way.

  1 Corinthians 12:1,4-11
  1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant… 4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by [f]the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

  Power for effectively ministering and helping people comes from personal intimacy with God. 

  1 Corinthians 12:7
  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

  The word of wisdom
  The word of knowledge
  The gift of faith
  The gifts of healings
  The working of miracles,
  The gift of prophecy
  The gift of discernment of spirits
  The gift of tongues
  The gift of interpretation of tongues.

  Gifts that know something,

  Gifts that do something,

  Gifts that say something

  GIFTS THAT KNOW SOMETHING:

  Gifts of Revelation 

  Word of wisdom - supernatural revelation by the Holy Spirit concerning the divine insight and reasoning residing in the mind of God.

  Word of knowledge -supernatural revelation by the Holy Spirit pertaining to certain facts and specific information residing in the mind of God.

  Discerning of spirits - supernatural insight into the spirit world for the purpose of knowing the spiritual source of a person, place, or matter.

  GIFTS THAT DO SOMETHING:

  Gifts of Power

  Gift of Faith - A supernatural manifestation of faith to believe that God will miraculously honor His personally spoken Word given to a believer.

  Working of Miracles - A supernatural intervention in the normal course of things suspending the laws of nature and allowing the impossible to become reality.

  Gift of Healing - A supernatural healing of sickness and disease that destroys the works of the devil within the human body.

  GIFTS THAT SAY SOMETHING:

  Gifts of Utterance or Inspiration

  Gift of Tongues - A supernatural utterance by the Holy Spirit in languages never learned by the speaker or seldom understood by the speaker.

  Interpretation of Tongues - A supernatural understanding of an unknown tongue and declaring it to the church in a commonly known language.

  Prophecy - The supernatural voice of God through a believer to divenely edify, exhort, comfort and confirm.

  Testing the Prophetic Word

  1. TEST THE WORD

  1 Thessalonians 5:19-22
  19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.

  2. TEST THE SOURCE

  Does the one delivering the prophetic word have anything to gain or personally benefit from the potential outcome of the prophet word?

  1 Corinthians 13:5
  Love is not self-seeking.

  3. TEST THE EFFECT

  1 Corinthians 14:3
  But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them.

  4. TEST IN COMMUNITY

  1 Corinthians 14:29
  Let two or three people prophesy, and let the others evaluate what is said.

  Prayer:
  Thank you Holy Spirit for giving your gifts so that we encourage and build up your church. Stir the gift of God in me that I may be used to influence people with with the person and power of the Holy Spirit living in me and through me.