Hey surfers! So today, as promised, I wanted to talk a little bit about Spiritual gifts. Now before I start, I feel I need to say that I, in no way, am confidently wise on this subject. I just recently became intrigued by it, and thought I would study to learn more about it. That is why I would ESPECIALLY love some feedback this week from everyone. I am really interested in learning more about this subject.
First things first:
What are Spiritual gifts? It states in 1 Corinthians that Spiritual gifts are simply special gifts given to each of us through the Holy Spirit. Just like the physical gifts God has blessed us with, each of us have a special Spiritual gift given to us to help us each serve the Lord better, and in our own unique way. When we, as Christians, all pitch in with our different gifts, we become a whole, working body.
I think 1 Corinthians: 4-6 explains it best:
4 "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work."
Although we all use our Spiritual gifts differently, we use them to serve the same God and the same Spirit issues them to us. (We have a pretty sweet bond that way, don't ya think?)
Soooo....what are the different Spiritual gifts?
They are listed in 1 Corinthians as:
wise counsel
clear understanding
simple trust
healing the sick
miraculous acts
proclamation
distinguishing between spirits
tongues
interpretation of tongues.
If you're like me upon reading that, you may have no idea what your gift is! To that I say: take the online Spiritual gifts quiz. I'm not even kidding. I totally did, (because I think we all know I love my quizzes) and it actually ended up being incredibly helpful! It helped me figure out what my gift is, and it went into more detail and explanation. I know it sounds silly, but I actually loved it! Thank you, Google.
I think it's important to remember, no one has all of the gifts. That would be cray. Plus, this way we all need each other to create one working Spiritual body - just like our human bodies need all of the systems to be there and be working in order for the body to function properly.
I also think it's cool that some of the Spiritual gifts overlap with the gifts we talked about last week. I don't know about you, but I'm just learning all kinds of things about myself! :))
I know I am not a font of information on this subject yet, but hopefully this helped a little. I will definitely keep everyone posted ( <-- data-blogger-escaped-and="" data-blogger-escaped-any="" data-blogger-escaped-are="" data-blogger-escaped-br="" data-blogger-escaped-but="" data-blogger-escaped-gather="" data-blogger-escaped-gifts.="" data-blogger-escaped-haven="" data-blogger-escaped-heard="" data-blogger-escaped-i="" data-blogger-escaped-in="" data-blogger-escaped-information="" data-blogger-escaped-intended="" data-blogger-escaped-interested="" data-blogger-escaped-is="" data-blogger-escaped-it="" data-blogger-escaped-m="" data-blogger-escaped-maybe="" data-blogger-escaped-much="" data-blogger-escaped-new="" data-blogger-escaped-no="" data-blogger-escaped-of="" data-blogger-escaped-on="" data-blogger-escaped-over="" data-blogger-escaped-pun="" data-blogger-escaped-so="" data-blogger-escaped-something="" data-blogger-escaped-spiritual="" data-blogger-escaped-subject="" data-blogger-escaped-t="" data-blogger-escaped-that="" data-blogger-escaped-the="" data-blogger-escaped-too="" data-blogger-escaped-years="" data-blogger-escaped-you="">
I hope everyone is doing well. PLEASE let me know if you want to talk more about this with me, or if you have any prayer requests, if you want to write a blog post, if you just want to talk...whatever! I love it all! :))
Hang loose,
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P.S. I think the website I went to for the Spiritual gifts test was www.spiritualgiftstest.com
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