wish to tell us what theirs is?
It's hard to see your own but I think God gave me a gift for serving and ministering to others because that is what I love to do most. How about you?
2007-06-27 04:57:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I have the gift of tongues as well.
2007-06-27 05:04:28 · update #1
When a person says they have a gift from God how is that them taking the glory for it? The bible says the Holy Spirits gives us diverse gifts. That means He gives us different gifts. We are not all a foot, are we? Or a hand. Some people don't ever know what their gifts are and some people do. I just wanted to get you thinking. But God gets the glory.
2007-06-27 05:37:25 · update #2
I have more than one... and at times God empowers me for something once and that gift lies dormant after that....
I have the gift of empathy... discernment... music... and hospitality... are probably my strongest...
I have been given the gift of tongues, but it only occurred once, as i was a doubter of that gift and God showed me His power to overcome even the doubters of the world in His time....
2007-06-27 05:00:35 · answer #1 · answered by livinintheword † 6 · 11⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit Himself is the Gift from God. When He lives inside you, you have the fruits of the Spirit. God gives the Holy Spirit assingnments to do, through you. God works through you with the Holy Spirit. I hesitate to say I have a gift other than the Holy Spirit, because then, I am saying that it is me doing the work, instead of God. I want God to have the glory, and not myself, so I don't believe in the gift and talent thing. It is a dangerous thing to believe, because you are taking the glory away from God, where it belongs. Don't get caught in the "talent trap." Then, you get in the "what can I do for you, God" mode, instead of the "use me, Lord, however you see fit." If you get in the other mode, you are restricting God's power to what you think you are able to do, and you will not get out of your "comfort zone" if God calls you to do something you've never done before. Do you see what I mean? Don't confuse NATURAL TALENTS, with the GIFT FROM GOD--THE HOLY SPIRIT, HIMSELF.
2007-06-27 05:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I praise God in tongues. I sometimes get understanding of what I said, by repeating it in my own language. God has gifted me prophetically (Not the office of Prophet.). God has gifted me with a word of wisdom, knowledge or understanding. I have seen visions & have had dreams. I am gifted to serve others. I am gifted to teach & to lead. But mostly I follow the Lords direction to the best of my ability. I have been gifted with a special intercessory prayer life, from when the Holy Spirit poured on me & I praise God in Spirit & also see visions of loved ones or others who I don't really know very much. I believe the speaking in tongues starts out with praising God, but is also intercessory prayer. So, it is loving God & loving others. I have the gift of discernment, and this is a gift necessary for all Christians. Most of the gifts are necessary for all believers at some times. When there is a need for a gift, then God provides. These gifts are to encourage one another in faith & to follow through with our warriar armor in Eph.6. Until the fulness of the Church has come in & the Gospel is preached in all nations.
Also, people who I have prayed for healing for have been healed also, But I was usually agreeing with others in these requests.
Jeanie Marie, the verses you wrote doesn't tell us God doesn't give us spiritual gifts anymore. Just the oposite. Those verses clarify the necessity of love as the root of the spiritual gifts. And the fulness of the Church hasn't come in yet. If you deny the Holy Spirit gifts, you will have trouble. Because they are provided for you. For you to grow in Christ & help others in Christ & preach to Gospel to the lost. As us who are born of God inherit all spiritual blessings.
2007-06-27 05:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God has gifted me with the ability to learn and understand scripture easily, help others through spiritual problems, to present the Gospel in a loving manner, the hunger and thirst to learn more and more about him everyday, and most of all......patience, true love for people, and listening to others.
I read in this forum very often of those who are argumentative and negatively defend their faith. If one follows the teachings of Jesus, he said to love another...most of all your enemies or ones who oppose you.
Some might say that some of the things I mentioned above aren't gifts, but Christians cannot truly say that the above aren't the short-comings of the church today.
God bless the ones who use the gifts given to them....they will not come back to God void, and will lead the lost to Jesus Christ.
2007-06-27 05:18:00 · answer #4 · answered by brian l 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Then Brad is misinformed. Why would one character NOT fill a different? In truth, what else COULD fill a character? Jesus spoke it appears that evidently of the Holy Spirit, and mentioned Him with the individual pronoun "he", now not "it". One instance: John sixteen:12 "I have a lot more to mention to you, greater than you'll be able to now endure. thirteen But while he, the Spirit of reality, comes, he'll advisor you into all reality. He won't talk on his possess; he'll talk handiest what he hears, and he'll inform you what's but to return. Note that Jesus now not handiest makes use of "he" as an alternative of "it", but in addition mentions that The Spirit will talk and listen to, whatever an impersonal drive are not able to do. I'm particularly definite "Brad" any individual you made up, but when he's truly, it could appear he isn't good versed in such concerns. Not handiest does
2016-09-05 09:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think GOD has given me many gifts but I also think GOD gave me the gift of helping people in many ways in my work, friendships and to strangers...
I think I have made a positive difference in many people's lives
2007-06-27 05:01:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, the gifts that are mentioned are spiritual gifts like speaking in languages that everyone can understand like at Pentacost, and prophecy. These gifts have ceased according to the bible
1 corinth 13:
1 Corinthians 13
13:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly *; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Look at 13:10-he word perfect in the greek is:
brought to its end, finished
wanting nothing necessary to completeness
perfect
that which is perfect
consummate human integrity and virtue
of men
full grown, adult, of full age, mature
So, these spiritual gifts we needed for the early church but we not have the complete bible and these gifts are not needed. Ever see anyone raised from the dead? Paul did it, so did Peter. Theses gifts have ceased.
Now we all have talents that's a different story.
†
2007-06-27 05:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He gave me the gift of music. I didn't understand it when I was a kid & hated going to organ lessons but it came so easily. Now I play the organ at church & love it. It is my own special gift & ministry :)
2007-06-27 05:00:50 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsydayne 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He gave me the gift of teaching teenagers and kids.
2007-06-27 05:02:39 · answer #9 · answered by Paul V 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have the gift of tongues (speaking in) as well as discernment.
2007-06-27 05:01:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋