Hello brothers and Sisters Of The Steemchurch and welcome to today's topic tagged "Speaking In Tongues | Gifts Of The Holy Spirit, How To Receive The Gifts Of The Holyspirit And How To be Sensitive To The Spirit And Skilled In The Operations Of The Gifts". What does speaking in tongue mean, is it a language and way of relating/communicating with the father?. Of course we will see all that today as well as the importance of speaking of tongues.

Speaking In Tongues

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1 Corinthians 14 vs 14-15 says;

14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.

This is a supernatural ability in which a beleiver communicates directly with God from His spirit in a language which cannot be understood by the human mind.

What Are The Importance Of Speaking In Tongues

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The following are the importance or benefits we derive from speaking in tongues;

• It builds and strenghtens your spirit as can be seen in 1 Corinthians 14 vss 14 above.
• It helps you pray in God's will as can be seen in Romans 8 vs 26-27 which says;

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

• Opens up the flow of the supernatural (the gifts of the Holy spirit) in your life as seen in 1 Corinthians 14 vs 18 as well as in 1 Corinthians 12 vs 7-11.

However what are the gifts of the Holyspirit being talked about here??. Lets quickly see what it is about below;

The Gifts Of The Spirit

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1 Corinthians 12 vs 7-11 says that;

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 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:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

The gifts of the Spirit are meant for every believer. Therefore I will talk about the diverse gifts of the spirit and how to receive and function effectively in them. Nonetheless, I will also be dropping scriptural references that we can read up on later.

The Diverse Gifts Of The Spirit

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• The Word of Wisdom
  This is a divine rebelation from God concerning a specific future occurence and how to apply His word or the counsel for it. See Acts 11 vs 28-30, Acts 21 vs 10-11.

• The Word of Knowledge
  This is a divine revelation about the past or present concerning certain facts (knowledge) in the mind of God about certain people or circumstances that the speaker couldn't have possibly known by himself. See Acts 5 vs 1-10, Jogn 4 vs 17-18.

• Discerning of Spirits
  This is the divine insight (revelation) into the spirit realm to discern (distinguish) good and eveil spirits and also to judge prophecies. it is also the ability to detect the Spirit behind certain human activities. See Acts 16 vs 16-18, Isaiah 6 vs 1-3, Revelation 1 vs 10-13.

• Prophecy
  This isa divine utterance to speak out a revelation directly from God under the influence of the Holyspirit for the exhortation, edification and comfort of the hearers. See 1Corinthians 14 vs 3

• Diverse Kinds Of Tongues
  These are supernatural utterance in other languages not known to the speaker (except by interpretation) but to the hearers or is interpreted also to them. See 1 Corinthians 12 vs 10.

Note that diverse kinds of tongues are different from personal edification. below are the differences;

1. Diverse tongues is a gift given by the spirit of God to believers as He wills while tongues for personal edification is for all believers that have been baptized in the Holy Spirit (it is the same as the tongue received as the intial evidence duriing Holy spirit baptism)

2. Diverse tongues is for the edification of the church hence it is must be interpreted while tongues for personal edification is not for the church. In other words it is communication strictly between God and you.

• Interpretation of Tongues
  This is the supernatural ability to understand and make known in a common language an utterance spoken in tongues. 1 Corinthians 14 vs 12-14.

• The Gift Of Faith
  This is the supernatural ability to believe God absolutely (not affected by doubt or uncertainity) for the miraculous to happen. 1 Corinthians 12 vs 9, Daniel 6 vs 23, mark 4 vs 38.

• Working Of Miracles
  This is the supernatural ability to alter the normal course of nature. See John 6 vs 11-13.

• The Gifts of Healings
  This is the supernatural power to heal all the manner of diseases and sickness without any human aids or medicine. See Mathew 9 vs 33-25, Mathew 28 vs 7-9.

How To Receive The Gifts Of The Spirit

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it is important to mention that these gifts are given to every believer as He wills but we are to desire them. The following are ways to receive the gifts of the spirit;

1. Desire by faith (Hebrews 11 vs 6 and Mathew 7 vs 7)
2. Walking In Love (1 Corinthians 13 vs 1-3, 14 vs 1)

How To Be Sensitive To The Spirit And Skilled In The Operations Of The Gifts

1. desire by faith, being motivated by love for the body of Christ. (1 Corinthians 12 vs 7, 1 Corinthians 13 vs 1-end, 1 Corinthians 14 vs 1)

2. Stay within the confines of Love (John 15 vs 9) and seek to grow in the knowledge of God ( Philipians 1:9-10, Ephesians 3 vs 17-19)

3. Depth in God's word through study and meditation (Colossians 3 vs 16, 2 Timothy 2 vs 15, Josh 1 vs 8, Psalm 1 vs 1-2.

4. Learn to walk by faith (2 Corinthians 5 vs 7, Hebrew 11 vs 6, Romans 1 vs 7, Hebrew 2 vs 4. Also seek to grow your faith.

5. Obedience to instructions or prompting of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8 vs 14, 1 Corinthians 2 vs 11-16).

6. Pray in the Holy Ghost and learn to minister unto God (Jude 20, Ephesians 5 vs 19, 6 vs 18, Acts 1 vs 1-3).

7. Consciousness and sensitivity to the spirit of God

8. Always stay clearn and open minded by thinking pure thoughts (Philipians 1 vs 4-18, Romans 1 vs 2, Colossians 3 vs 8-15)

9. Don't be afraid to make mistakes

10. be humble to learn from those ahead of you.

Conclusion of The Whole Matter

Now that you know the gifts of the Spirit, make love your highest goal and by it desire these gifts for the sake of edifying the church (1 Corinthians 14 vs 3). The baptism of the Holy Spirit qualifies the believer to operate in the diverse gifts of the Spirit. But start now to build a constant fwllowship with the Holyspirit. Once baptized, you keep being filed with the Holy Spirit (acts 4 vs 31, Ephesians 5 vs 17-19).

Call To Action

1. Do you think the gifts of the Spirit are important for the believer? (Give reason for your answer).
2. A man gets born again and then gets baptized in the Holy Ghost. what differentiate both experiences for him?
3. Is the Baptism of the Holyspirit for all believers? Give reasons for your answers.

Reward For Well Answered Questions

In a bid to make steemchurch comments have more weight, I have decided to gift 3 SBD to whoever answers these questions in the best possible way in the comment box. Goodluck.

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