How to KNOW and USE Your SPIRITUAL GIFTS (PART 4)

No matter what spiritual gift we consider, whether they are the spectacular ones or less spectacular, the procedure for their use is inherent in the gift itself. Gifts of speech have a spiritual source, but the same mechanics. Like with the virgin birth, for example. Once the Holy Spirit “impregnated” Mary, she went through the same nine months that every woman goes through. A prophet receives inspiration within to share a revelation, but uses words according to the same rules of grammar he always uses. The healer receives healing power in her hands, and touches the one she heals. The extension of her hand to touch the sick is by the same muscles she uses to extend her hand to pass the salt across the table. In one instant, she has faith that she can reach and pass the salt shaker. In the other, she believes power from the Spirit is transmitted from her hands. When Jesus told a man with a maimed hand to “stretch out his hand," the act of stretching out his hand wasn’t supernatural. The word of the one who commanded, and the faith of the one who obeyed, had power to heal.