Gifts of the Spirit in you

[jonathanbchristian]

Gifts can be confusing to people who do not understand they are taking stir up the gift in you with the wrong belief that you can do it yourself. The Holy Spirit is working in the gifts. The gifts are designations that the Holy Spirit will use you. There is no reason to believe you could have the Holy Spirit do something. Gifts are not going to be worked up by us. In Greek Stir up the gift was really reverence the gift. Stir up was Greek for almost worshiping over something or worshiping God for it. Holy Spirit is obviously working in the gifts because nothing can be giving from God especially a Thus saith the Lord without it being God. The Bible says the Spirit gives the gifts as He wishes. The designation of a gift means that God will use you in something as your ministry that He will operate in you. There is no magical spell in you to just stir around and most people get that. The best thing to believe is that if you want to be in a gift you need to impleed God for one. Impeed means to ask God for something with a request of the soul. And to be reverent in gifts is really to stir them up.

 

[Joidevivre]

In II Tim 1, to "stir" in the Greek means to rekindle. We are to rekindle the gifts in us. I believe that means to not neglect an opportunity to use them. A part of rekindling is to continue thanking God for the gifts that you discern in you.

 

[oldthennew]

Amen Joi,

what an honor and privilege to receive heavenly gifts and blessings...especially the gift
of The Holy Son....

1COR.14:12. -
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

 

[crossnote]

Stir up anazopureo (329), denotes “to kindle afresh,” or “keep in full flame” (ana, “up,” or “again,” zoos, “alive,” pur, “fire”), and is used metaphorically in 2 Tim. 1:6, where “the gift of God” is regarded as a fire capable of dying out through neglect. The verb was in common use in the vernacular of the time....Vines Word Pictures.

 

[mar09]

I was thinking to ask in a thread like Spiritual Gifts Evaluation, but found this thread. I'd like to ask others if you had those spiritual gifts 'tests' in you church and were these really helpful in leading you to your ministry now?

 

[MessageOfTheCross]

Revelation 1:6 says, "And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

We need "The Golden Bells (The Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the spirit) and the Pomegranates (The Fruit of the Holy Spirit that gives us victory over sin) Exodus 28:34 NIV. If you have two bells and no fruit bouncing against each other you have 1 Corinthians 13:1, clanging cymbals.

One without the other produces an inconsistency and it is a problem. To say you don't need both is doubt and unbelief which is never acceptable to God. The Bell presents the power and the Pomegranate presents relationship. You must have the development of both. These are two different works of the Holy Spirit; the fruits and the gifts. The Golden Bells and the Pomegranate is a TYPE.

JSM

 

[mar09]

By the way, I was referring to such survey/questionnaire as the Wagner-Modified Houts questionnaire w/ I think 125 questions to see which traits or attitudes reflect what we are. (But this is NOT a test of our spirituality.)