The Gifts of the Holy Spirit: - Vital Christianity

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He discovered soon after that they were ‘words of knowledge’ when he passed on a ‘crazy’
thought to a crippled woman in a wheelchair—‘God wants me to tell you that you can walk. He
has touched your body and commands you to stand up and walk.’ Not daring to wait and see
what happened, Cho turned and walked away. But the crowd started shouting. What was the
commotion? The woman was standing up and walking to and fro in front of the platform. It was
God who had been speaking to him after all.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE WITH THIS GIFT
1. Great sensitivity to the Spirit of God.
2. Tends to be subjective.
3. Faith for the miraculous.
4. Deep insight into God’s ways--how He works by His Spirit.
5. Great love and interest in truth.
6. Ability to share a specific word or message from God to a specific situation.
7. Serious student of God’s Word.
8. Tends to be patient in dealing with people.
9. Tends to be theologically oriented with leanings toward the theoretical rather than the
practical.
10. Tends to be mystical (meditative) in his approach to spiritual things.
11. Speaks with authority when he shares insight.
12. Independent—not dependent on the approval of others. Self assured—he believes he
knows what he is saying because of his relationship to God, and his giftedness.
13. Firm and confident in what he says.
14. Great ability to distinguish between what is cultural and temporary and what is universal
and eternal.
15. Great perception in being able to see the meaning beyond the gathered facts and data.
Ability to form doctrinal truth founded on principles rather than on words and events.
Ability to see the big theological picture.
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