How refreshing it must be for the Holy Spirit to be able at this time, to in each of the children be able use the gift, or gifts that each child of the Father has been given, and them be used freely.
It is so exciting! How many times have you sat with an elderly person and they poured out a life story, and in it is all kinds of advice? What are they telling you that they learned from the past, and advice to you from what they learned? WIsdom? Exhortation? Encouragement? Discernment? Joy? They are serving you with information.
We see that all children of the Father have a gift.
This older person has the gift in many ways, and no one even considered it as a gift. They had the gift of talking. Talking is imparting knowledge, if it is a gift of the Father then He will use it to minister to you with..
In Romans 12:6 - 8 We see many unrecognized gifts. The Father in His kindness gave each of us different gifts. If your gift is speaking the Fathers word, make sure what you say agrees with the Bible. { Many are gifted with words of wisdom, exhortation, encouragement and all of it is words right from the scriptures. Not all stand up in the front, and are what one calls ministers, yet these people are ministers of the Word.}
verse 7. If your gift is serving, then devote yourself to serving. How many do you know are always helping someone? You can do it in word ,or in action of physically help.
If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching. Moms and dads teach their children, Women are told for the older women to teach the younger women. Some can not teach and say they do not have the knack for it while brother or sister so and so are a whiz at it? Tell you anything? Someone has a gift. Yes a heaven sent gift to help the body of the Messiah with.
verse 8. If it is encouraging others devote yourself to giving encouragement. Ever lost for words, yet someone else always seems to know what to say?
If it is sharing, be generous.
If it is leadership, lead enthusiastically.
If it is helping people in need, help them cheerfully.
verse 9. Love sincerely, Hate evil. Hold on to what is good, verse 10. Be devoted to each other like a loving family
We are many parts of a body, and we all have been given gifts. We all serve in different ways just as the human body does, yet we do not tie down or cut off a member because it has a different function. Yet it takes the body as a whole to be just that, whole.
1 Cor.12:27-29
1 Peter 4:10 -11. Each of you as a good manager must use the gift that the father has given you to serve others.
verse 11. Whoever speaks must speak the Fathers words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength the Father supplies so that in every way the Father receives glory through his Son. Glory and power belong to the Messiah for ever and ever! The purpose of the gifts.
Put this with 1 Cor 13:, and the Powers mentioned in 1 Cor. 12 which we are told each one has that is baptized with the Holy Spirit, and you have a powerful, fully functioning, loving family!
It takes our Fathers Spirit in us to be,and do those things. His gift in us. When anyone starts saying this is how the Spirit will be allowed to function either in a Church or ones self the Holy Spirit is quench. It will go where it can function! No one has the right over another person to say they can, or can not use any gift that the Father in heaven gave them.
We all are a part of the body. None of us are suppose to say since
you do not do or have the gift I have, some one else is not a apart of
the body. Yet each of us has something no matter how old or young.
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