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THE INDWELLING GIFTS | IMPACT THE CHURCHTHE INDWELLING GIFTS OF THE SPIRITHot Off the Press: August 4, 2023 The Lord Jesus reveals to us in 1 Timothy 4:14; ”Do not neglect the spiritual gifts within you, which was bestowed upon you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery (church leadership).”I desire each person who goes through this book to experience the fullness of His gifting from within. It is the responsibility of your church leadership to help you discover your gifting. Do not hesitate to contact your pastor to get your questions answered. If your pastor is of the modality that spiritual gifts are no longer in effect, you will need to contact a leader who does embrace spiritual gifting. This series is to start the process of embracing all God has for you regarding His spiritual gifts. DON’T LOOK DOWN ON YOUR YOUTHFULNESSMany people think they need to be more mature to use their gifting! Most think they have not been saved long enough to be used by God fully. Nothing could be further from the truth. Once you have received the Holy Spirit upon salvation, you are qualified to be used by God. 1 Timothy 4:11-16 tells us: “Prescribe and teach these things. Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, exhortation, and teaching. Do not neglect the spiritual gifts within you, which were bestowed upon you; through the prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery. Take pains with these things; be absorbed, so your progress may be evident to all. Pay close attention to yourself and your teaching; preserve in these things; as you do this, you will ensure salvation both for yourself and those who hear you.” God wants us to prescribe and teach these things—prescribing meaning, writing them down and then teaching them to the Body of Christ. God is calling us to know our gifting. We are not to look down on our youthfulness. He wants us to speak with the power of God, allowing the Holy Spirit to speak through us - my favorite thing about being a believer. He allows the fruit of the Holy Spirit to show Himself through our conduct, His love, appropriating the measure of faith He has put within us. Thus, walk in the purity of His light while we live. We are to be examples to those who are new to the reality of being filled with the gifting of Christ in us - teaching them by example how to walk in & through the Spirit. All are resulting in operating in the fullness of His gifting within us. How do we accomplish this? It is accomplished by being devoted to the scriptures & the reality that He lives within us. Since the Word of God is alive and sharper than a two-edged sword, we will exhort one another to function in their God-given gifts by teaching what God's Word says. God wants us to take pains with these things – take this matter on as a burden. He desires us to absorb them, soak them up like a sponge. This is how we reveal our progress in our walk with Him to the world around us. When people see God’s gifting flowing through us, they see God! Lastly, God wants us to pay close attention to our teachings regarding this topic. This topic needs to be managed by God through us. Many churches have been divided over the topic of spiritual gifts. The gifts are for unity, not to bring more division. DISCOVERING YOUR SPIRITUAL GIFTSYou have just begun the process of discovering your spiritual gifts. Some of you have known for years, while others are just “looking into it.” In either case, God knows you want to know your Spiritual Gifts. Here is a list of items to keep in mind as you explore the realities of God’s gifts:
It is my hope and prayer that this study blesses you. I spent 12 years researching and studying the Scriptures through pictorial Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and Greek texts. A spiritual gift or charism (plural: charisms or charismata; in Greek singular: χάρισμα charism, plural: χαρίσματα charismata) is an endowment or extraordinary power given by the Holy Spirit to those indwelt (born-again) by Christ. These are the supernatural graces that individual indwelt Christians need today (and were needed in the days of the Apostles) to fulfill the mission of the first and following generations of the Church – the Bride of Christ. In the narrowest sense, it is a theological term for the extraordinary graces given to those filled with the Holy Spirit - each to advance others in the indwelling Life of Jesus. Each gift is also for personal sanctification, such as the fruit manifested through the Holy Spirit. These extraordinary spiritual gifts, connected with certain offices in the Church, are gifts given by the Holy Spirit to all authentic believers to build up the entire Church. As you study, may you, too, be built up for His services to advance the indwelling Life of Christ. By the way, there is a Spiritual Gifts Test within the book. -Stephen
The book covers all “Occupational Gifts” and the “Manifestation Gifts.” I detail the liabilities as well as the Biblical traits. Get a copy of the book below: You’re on the free list for The End Times Chronicles. We are a non-profit outreach. To bless our ministry, become a paying subscriber. or donate. Dr. Stephen R. Phinney is the President & Founder of Lion of Judah Films, Identity Matters Worldview Institute & IOM America. He is an author, teacher, film producer & podcaster.Hey, fellow writers/readers, would you be open to buying me a cup of coffee? Check out this fun way of supporting my writing: https://bmc.link/drphinney
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