1. Wisdom: How would God respond, how you apply the facts/information, helps us bring out God’s perspective, God’s mind in a situation, Revelation of God’s future purposes.
2. Knowledge: Information/Facts
3. Word of Knowledge: Information God shares with you that you didn’t know of. It produces faith to fulfill the miracle. Stimulates faith, peace of information that cannot be received outside of God.
4. Discerning of Spirit: Demonic, Angelic, Holy Spirit, Human Spirit. Help you detect a true spirit behind acts that are taking place.
5. Kind of Tongues/Speaking in Tongues
Gift of tongues: Corporate tongue setting, Prayer language for private communication with God.
When you speak in tongues in your private prayer time you are charging/edifying yourself. Speaking mysteries in your spirit to God while creating spiritual stamina.
1 Corinthians 14:2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.
Jude 20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
1. Interpretation of tongues: ability to interpret what the Holy Spirit is saying to the audience. Giving the general idea of what God is saying.
2. Prophesy: ability to speak words from the Holy Spirit in a language known to man. Speaking God's will.
1 Corinthians 14:31-32 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets.
3. Power Gifts, Faith, Healing, Miracles
Saving Faith: Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Measure of Faith: Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Healing: Relates to the body, a process, gradual process, restoring
Miracles: Instant
4. Motivational Gifts: A deep motivation to express God’s love and his word.
Romans 12:6-8 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
5. Exhortation: lead, guide, comfort, encouraging, lifting others up.
6. Leadership Gifts: Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher
Apostle: Someone who gets sent out by the church to go and do a new work.
Prophets: Speak God’s will into people's lives. They go to God in prayer and say “Lord, what are you doing today They have a gift to hear him really clear and then go and speak that into people’s lives.
Evangelists: They tell people about Jesus.
Pastors: A person who hangs with people for the long term, who walks them through difficult times, who cares and encourages and prays.
Teachers: teaching the word of God.
Leadership roles are to build up the body of Christ. Leadership gifts are not given to all believers, so here are some simple tests that you can apply to see whether God is calling you to be a leader in a given situation.
Ephesians 4:11-12 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.
Spiritual Gifts (Supernatural Gifts)
-Ability to give wise advice, a message of special knowledge, great faith, gift of healing, power to perform miracles, power to prophesy, ability to speak in unknown languages, ability to discern if a message is from the spirit of God or another spirit, ability to interpret what is being said.
-The Holy Spirit distributes all these gifts. He decides which gift each person should have.
- It is the Holy Spirits role, his desire, to gift us. It's our role to discover our gifts, nurture them, grown them and use them to take the blessings of God into the lives of others.
-The Holy Spirit is loaded with spiritual gifts and he's ready to give any believer who desires them.
1 Corinthians 12:31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.
1 Corinthians 14:39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
1 Corinthians 14:12 So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.
4 Steps to Spiritual Gifts
Learn my gifts, things that comes easy to me.
Leverage my gifts, put it to use for blessing other people.
Love their gifts, love other people's gifts.
Look to God's gift, look to Jesus and the gift he gave us on the cross.
Exercise
Ask yourself: Do I feel a strong call and motivation to lead in this particular situation?
Ask yourself: What do other people say and think?
Seek confirmation from the Holy Spirit.
What are the things you really enjoy doing?
What are you really good at, better than most people you know?
Ask God to help you determine or confirm your motivational gifting.
Ask God to reveal to you how you can use those good gifts to reach others with his love.