The Spirit will give
us spiritual gifts to profit with. What
is this profit? Is it for the recipients profit, or another's?
Clearly, anyone who knows Christ as their
Savior would know the answer to that question. Christ lived and died to serve
others. We are entreated to live with Christ in us, living as He lived- serving
others. The Holy Spirit will gift us with His gifts SEVERALLY as He wills.
The gifts of the
Holy Spirit are not like tangible gifts that are given, held, and even kept for
as long as the person desires to keep them. The gifts of the Spirit are given
as NEEDED.
We need not despair that we won't have the faith we need from the Holy Spirit, we will have that faith as it is needed. We will have wisdom, knowledge and all that are necessary for us to be USED BY GOD.
We need not despair that we won't have the faith we need from the Holy Spirit, we will have that faith as it is needed. We will have wisdom, knowledge and all that are necessary for us to be USED BY GOD.
We need to be used
by God and He will use us if we are receptive to the Holy Spirit, truly
desiring to be used by God in any way HE reveals to us.
You may never need
to speak in a foreign language. You may never need to interpret a foreign
language, you might not need to have a gift of healing, or work a single
miracle, you may only ever be given faith as you needed it, or wisdom that you
need. God will give us WHAT we need, WHEN we need it and there is no reason to
give us any gift of the Spirit otherwise.
His gifts will not be squandered, His gifts are not given to us to be
useless. The power of the Holy Spirit is so incredible that it is not something
to even speak of frivolously.
More on this
tomorrow by the GRACE and WILL, the LOVE and MERCY of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS
CHRIST!
1Co 12:7 But
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1Co 12:8 For
to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:9 To
another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same
Spirit;
1Co 12:10 To
another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of
spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues:
1Co 12:11 But
all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will.
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