Min. Pia McNeill

Do you wish you had more faith? I’m sure you do. You must realize this fact: YOU CAN ONLY HAVE FAITH BASED ON YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! The same principle stands true regarding the gift of the ministries of the Holy Spirit. These gifts and ministries function with greatest accuracy through people who understand them.

The first thing to understand about the gift of the spirit is that there are two foundation stones: Unity and love. Without them, the gifts cannot work!

UNITY: as in a body, requires all limbs and parts to work together in unison. One is not more important than the other. The stronger parts must consider the weaker parts. We must understand that we are ONE body with different parts that all need to work together in unity, all for the good of each other.

LOVE: The Apostle Paul explains that in his first letter to the Corinthian Church. Chapter 13 of I Corinthians is read as if there were no chapter divisions and is an amplification of the gifts of the Spirit. Paul explains it like this: “Without LOVE the gifts of tongues are like clanking cymbals. I can give of my excess to the poor, but without love (God’s love in me), I gain nothing. I can have faith to move mountains, know the mysteries of God in the word of wisdom, or His knowledge, but without LOVE it is useless.”

I Corinthians 12:1-11  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man (woman) 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 the 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.

There is no other subject as important to the world scene today as the operation of the spiritual gifts in the body of Christ. The gifts of the Spirit are the weapons of our warfare and they can destroy any force the Devil might use against the Body of Christ.

The working of the Spirit in your life can be tremendous, and you are a candidate for not only one of these gifts, but you can have all nine of them!