The Gifts Of The Holy Spirit – The Gifts Of Revelation

Word of knowledge most of the time works hand in hand with prophetic insight and healing – the Holy Spirit impressing a situation in the body needing healing – physical, emotional, financial, relational, etc.

3. Discerning of spirit – This gift is not of judging people, but judging the spirit behind the manifestation, whether Holy, evil or human.

Gk: deakreisis – “to discern,” “to discriminate” “to distinguish”

1 Cor 14:29 - Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judge.

APPLICATION: MY OWN STORY – like any marriages, our marriage is not bullet-proof. We’ve gone through heartbreaking season. The first blow happened between 2004 to 2007. The voice of the Devil was telling me that my marriage was done! But God sent a stranger in Hillsong Conference to tell me otherwise, He brought a word of knowledge. He came up to me and said, “xxxxx”, nothing happened visibly after that, our situation did not improve but inwardly, I felt a seemingly tons and tons of baggage lifted. I was fully energized and cared less of what was happening around me. And again in Hillsong conference in 2007, TD Jakes was speaking on that Friday final night rally, and he said this words, “I travelled thousands of miles to tell somebody that this is your last night on the boat and he was referring to the disciples in the middle of storm while Jesus was pretty sleeping in one corner of the boat.” I felt that those words hit me to the core, and I could not stop sobbing. I knew that God was speaking to me and comforting me and building my confidence and faith up. True enough, when I got home that night, my husband had returned home. Your story may not have the same ending as mine. Yours might be way better. Regardless, you will praise God, you will worship Him, you will see miracles beneath your fiery storm, you will repent and surrender, You will put your faith in Him. You will persevere, you will pursue Him and not the gifts. You will be a much better of yourself. You will be much more aware of the presence of God!

ACTIVATING THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT

1. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. (Eph 5:18) Don’t get drunk with wine, because it makes you lose control. Instead, keep on being filled with the Spirit —

2. Stay close to Jesus – (Acts 4:13) Now when the men of the Sanhedrin (Jewish High Court) saw the confidence and boldness of Peter and John, and grasped the fact that they were uneducated and untrained [ordinary] men, they were astounded, and began to recognize that they had been with Jesus.

3. Get God’s heart for the lost and the broken.

4. Ask, seek, knock – (Matt 7:7-8) 7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

5. Take a step in faith. Take risks! (Luke 17:5) 5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

6. Do whatever He tells you (John 2:1-12 - wedding in Cana)

7. Know your authority in Christ (Matthew 8:8-9) 8 But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,[a] ‘Do this,’ and he does it.