Discovering your Spiritual Gift(s)
 1 Cor 12:1-11 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says ‘Let Jesus be cursed!’ and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.
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Following are a list of spiritual gifts mentioned or described in the bible.
Administration: ability to organize people and tasks
Apostleship: ability to start and oversee new ministries or churches
Craftsmanship: ability to design and construct items for ministry
Creative Communication: ability to express God’s truth through the arts
Discernment: ability to distinguish the truth from falsehood, true motives, or the presence of evil
Encouragement: ability to strengthen and comfort
Evangelism: ability to communicate the gospel in a compelling way
Faith: ability to act on God’s promises with unwavering belief
Giving: ability to give resources with cheerfulness and generosity
Healing: ability to bring people toward wholeness
Helps: ability to joyfully serve others
Hospitality: ability to welcome and nurture others
Intercession: ability to pray intensely and often for others
Interpretation: ability to make known a message spoken in an unknown language
Knowledge: ability to understand truth through biblical insight
Leadership: ability to cast vision, motivate and direct people to accomplish tasks
Mercy: ability to help and comfort those who are suffering
Miracles: ability to perform supernatural actions that glorify Christ
Prophecy: ability to speak God’s message to a particular issue or event
Shepherding: ability to nurture and guide people toward maturity
Teaching: ability to explain clearly God’s truth
Tongues: ability to speak or pray in an unknown language
Wisdom: ability to apply spiritual insight to specific issues or situations. |
