- We took a detour from part 1 of "Three Ways to See Your Spiritual Gift." click here to read it.
- We took this detour to examine one spiritual gift in particular: The Gift of healing. click here to read it, and to connect what was said about healing to the three ways to see your spiritual gift.
IMPERMANENT SITUATIONAL GIFTS
I do not have the gifts of healing, or miracles. I very much want the gift of healing because it seems to be the gift I have least experienced or seen, and one I strongly believe in. Yet I don't have it. But this is what I do have: an obligation to seek supernatural healing according to the book of James, and the command given for when believers are sick. Now when I pray the prayer of faith for supernatural healing, I an obeying God, whether healing happens or not. Just as I'm obeying God when I share the gospel, whether the person gets saved or not.
In a sense, we have an obligation to do what all of the gifts do. Let's use the 9 spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12 as examples.
Though we don't all pray in tongues, we can and should all pray "in the Spirit." We don't all prophecy, but we do all share what God has told us. We don't all have the words of wisdom or words of knowledge as spiritual gifts, but we can and should all receive wisdom and knowledge directly from the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge. We don't all have the gift of discernment, but we are commanded to be watchful and test the spirits. We are not all healers, but we can all pray for people to be healed in Jesus' name, and people get healed when needed. Every prayer is asking for a miracle, even though we don't all have miracles as a spiritual gift. And all of us live by mountain moving faith, even though we may not have the gift of faith.
Having considered the three ways to see your spiritual gift or gifts, I come to this conclusion:
The Spirit gives us gifts according to His will, which will also encompass our passions and desires, so that you already have all the gifts the Spirit wills to give you, but you may not be experiencing all of them. When you have the desire for a "new gift," it's really a gift you already had that you are discovering through a desire. I believe we all have permanent gifts, and that we all have the ability to pray in every situation according whatever need is before us.
I see this as the balance of the three views, and I also wrote a book that you can read as a spiritual gifts manual.
Go to the site below and get it for yourself. May God bless you in all that you've read, and in reading my book if the Spirit leads you to.
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