Spiritual Gifts

Good morning everyone....God is so good.  I am not going to have a long post this morning because to really tell you what's on my mind would take too long but I want to talk just a little bit about "Spiritual Gifts".  These gifts are spoken of in many places in the word of God but First Corinthians 12 gives us so much knowledge concerning these gifts and then chapters 13 and 14 goes on to teach all about them. There are many people in the world and even in the churches today that accept some of the spiritual gifts as being real and in the same breath they will reject the others.  They may accept the gift of "Faith" or "Healing" but tell you that the "Gift of Tongues" has ceased to exist.  God gave man these gifts to go out among the people that he might be glorified.  If you have a gift, you are blessed and should never take any credit upon yourself, but give God the glory.  

What are the "Spiritual Gifts?  There are many spiritual gifts God has blessed us with but Paul only tells us about nine of them in First Corinthians chapter 12. 

1. Spirit of Wisdom
2. Word of Knowledge
3. Gift of Faith
4. Gift of Healing
5. Working of Miracles
6. Gift of Prophecy
7. Discerning of Spirits
8. Divers kinds of Tongues
9. Interpretation of Tongues

These nine gifts were of significance to what Paul was teaching the people about that day and the point I want to bring out today is that these same exact gifts are still with us today and will not cease to be with us until Jesus Christ steps foot back upon this earth to reign as Lord of Lord and King of Kings.  The reason we don't see them manifest like we should is because "MAN" has failed God and failed to "BELIEVE".  After teaching of these gifts, Paul told us all about charity in the very next chapter of Corinthians and how important it was.  Now hears what causes people to start believing the gifts no longer exist in the church today.  While pointing out the importance of charity (LOVE) Paul also told them that PROPHESY would fail, TONGUES would cease and KNOWLEDGE would vanish away.  Satan takes that one little verse and causes utter confusion in the Christians lives but let me tell you that Satan is a LIAR...READ A LITTLE FURTHER...Paul continued and he told the people we do things in part...in other words, we just do a very little bit of what the Holy Ghost empowers us to do and hears SOME GOOD GOSPEL NEWS FOR YOU....He said "BUT"...there's that wonderful little word, BUT when that which is PERFECT is come, then that which is in part shall be done away with.  Paul is talking about Jesus Christ second coming.  He is explaining to the people that we have the spiritual gifts to help us now but one day Jesus Christ will come again and when he does the Holy Ghost as we know it will no longer be here on earth and there will be no need for the spiritual gifts any longer so they too will cease. 

Don't let Satan lead you down a path of lies. God is not mocked and his word is true.  He does not give you something and then take it away.  The spiritual gifts that he gave to mankind was to help us until Jesus Christ himself comes again to live and rule this earth for eternity and THEY WILL NOT CEASE UNTIL HE COMES AGAIN.  Paul made this clear when he told them, when that which is perfect is come.  Jesus Christ is the only one that is PERFECT .

I Corinthians 12:9-10
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Suggested reading:  Corinthians chapters 12, 13 and 14.

Kathy Wellman

Reference:  King James Bible