Gifts of the Holy Spirit

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I hear one needs to be baptized before one receives the gifts that Paul mentioned. I'm just curious as to what gifts people have received after they got baptized? Do you use it often to show people God's power and grace?
 
I was baptized about 12 years ago when I was 13 I believe. I don't know the exact date because at the time I didn't know I was supposed to keep track, and now I'm dying to find my baptism certificate. Anyway, I was going to post that I never noticed any changes, but that isn't true now that I look back. I think I received the gift of wisdom because at that time my outlook and understanding of the world started to change. Without any guidance though I simply drifted through life with people thinking I was weird :p. My mom always told me "People think you're weird and you don't understand them because you're in the world but you're not of the world".

Around the time I was baptized I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit all around me. Eventually it faded away though, and from the ages of 15-24 I felt pretty empty. Long story short, I went through a re-awakening and now I feel the Holy Spirit more strongly than ever. I know for sure that I have received Wisdom, but it's much deeper now than it was before.

To answer the second part of your question, I can't help but use wisdom in my day to day life. I don't think people know it's from God, but I try to be as Christ like as I can.
 
To be honest, I'm hoping for something with a bang! lol but I guess I definitely won't get that since it's what I want ;)
 
I regrew the end of my middle finger when it was bitten off by my uncle, it took two months. I'll post a picture, doctors crapper themselves. During the first week after my baptism I would randomly start gibbering later Michele told me this was tongues and told me not to goto a mental hospital-which is what I had lplanned to do. Lol. There's heaps, one time I lifted one of those beetle cars off troys foot. I've lived a very blessed life honestly, I am very loved by the lord and I'm quite sure I don't deserve it.

As for wowing people it doesn't, people will see what they want to see. My friends are athiests and although they have seen so much **** they (and I) couldn't explain they just think I am a luck/ unlucky freak. Oh....... The coolest blessing I have though is I have NEVER lost a fight. I can always protect anyone, I think that's why god made me strong but I am really really alone and lost and not sure how to use these gifts or who orcwhat he needs me to protect.
 
Well I didn't notice any changes at the time. Since than I was babtised in the Holy Spirit. I have been slain in the spirit as well. Not sure if that goes along with getting babtised or what? I have had weird short visions in the middle of worship. Not really sure what half of them mean.
 
I don't know what to expect. How sad it is though that even if some people see the miracle, they still refuse to believe. I wonder what they would say if Moses parted the Pacific today.
 
On the same note, I hear of miracles being performed in third world countries all the time - just... I hear almost nothing in Western civilization... it's so "quiet" here. o.O
 
We ste taught our limits, conditioned to beleive in an agnostic god, and never forced to grow so few people ever learn to look past what they know. Because my friend everything you have been taught, even this, is a lie.
 
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