Activate the 9 Gifts of the Spirit: Unlock God’s Power for Healing and Miracles
Excerpted from Activating the Gifts of the Spirit.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will (1 Corinthians 12:1, 7–11).
The nine gifts of the Spirit come in three categories: power gifts, revelation gifts, and vocal gifts.
The power gifts are faith, miracles, and healing; the revelation gifts are word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and discerning of spirits; and the vocal gifts are prophecy, tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
The gift of faith is a gift of power where God’s power explodes and comes on you and changes you into what God needs you to be at that moment. The gift of healing is God’s healing power that comes into manifestation all of a sudden. The third power gift is the working of miracles.
There are three revelation gifts. The word of wisdom points toward the future. The word of knowledge supernaturally shows you things about the present. It’s a manifestation of the Spirit where God shows you the condition of things in your house or your business or somebody’s life He wants you to help. The other revelation gift is the discerning of spirits. The Holy Spirit will manifest Himself and show you things in the spirit realm. God will show you things He doesn’t want you involved in or show you spirits that are not of God.
The vocal gifts are prophecy, tongues, and interpretation. Prophecy is when God’s power comes to you and the Holy Spirit manifests Himself on the inside of you. The ministry gift boils up supernaturally with words in a known language (words that you know) that God wants you to speak out. With tongues, the Spirit of God will manifest Himself in a supernatural unknown language (words you don’t know) that flow out of you. Then God’s power will come on another person in manifestation and give him or her the interpretation in English of what you said in tongues.
These nine gifts of the Spirit are very important to the Church today. They are the weapons of our warfare. A church that is trying to fight a spiritual battle without the gifts of the Spirit will never win. The devil will rob them of the very thing God wants them to have simply because they don’t know anything about the gifts of the Spirit.
Activating the Nine Gifts of the Spirit
Norvel Hayes
The Holy Spirit is stronger than the devil, and the gifts of the Spirit provide the power to overcome the devil.
You might say, “Do you mean the Lord wants me to speak in tongues in a church service?” Not necessarily. The gift of tongues is a calling, a tool for public ministry. You may never do that, but God does want you to speak in tongues, to pray in the Spirit.
Praying in the Spirit or praying in tongues is the most powerful way to pray. God doesn’t want us ignorant when it comes to praying and speaking in tongues.
You may say, “Well, my church doesn’t believe in that.” It doesn’t make any difference what your church believes or even what I say; it’s what the Bible says that counts. The Bible is for all churches.
God changes not. He is not going to throw out 1 Corinthians 12 just because you don’t believe in it; it’s going to operate for those who believe it. The gifts of the Spirit will operate through those who are available.
The Gifts Are Weapons
The gifts are given to profit withal—every man, every woman, everybody who belongs to God’s Church. The gifts come down from heaven and are called weapons.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4).
You’re in a battle. You say, “What do you mean I’m in a battle? The battle has already been won. It’s already been won by Jesus.” But you’re not Jesus. Is that clear?
The battle has already been won by Jesus. The price has already been paid. On the cross, the price has already been paid by the stripes on His back for your healing. He’s already been to hell. He’s already taken the keys away from the devil.
Keys
Jesus got a set of keys to give you.
Jesus said of the Church He built, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). But the Church needs the gifts of the Spirit operating. The Church needs God’s weapons operating to let you put a stop to what the devil is trying to do to you.
The gifts give you power by faith to do anything: healing, miracles, tongues and interpretation to build you up, and prophecy to build the whole Church up.
Jesus said, “When you get born again by the Spirit of God and become part of the Church, I’ll give you a set of keys, believer.”
That’s all you’re ever going to get on this earth. That’s all. You inherited heaven when you got born again. But this is the thing that the Lord Jesus Christ wants you to understand: you’re not in heaven yet. You’re living here on earth. You have to work every day, and you have to fight devils.
Jesus said, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 16:19). There are a lot of things in the kingdom of heaven. But that’s no sign that you’ll ever get them. It all depends on if you find the right key or not.
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The supernatural equipment every believer possesses.
The operation and function of each of the nine gifts.
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Three key components of revival.
The Church as a house of victory.
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