17 August 2024
Gift of Faith
●1 Corinthians 12:8 reads
8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
●The 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit
The 9 Gifts of the Spirit are classified as :
1.Revelation Gifts
- Word of Wisdom
- Word of Knowledge
- Decerning of Spirits
*Power Gifts * or
*Gifts that do something * - The Gift of Faith
- The Gift of Healings
- Working of miracles
Gifts that say something
or Speaking Gifts - The Gift of Prophesy
- Different kinds of tounges
- Interpretation of tongues
●Spiritual gifts are not natural, they are supernatural.
●1 Corinthians 12:9 says about the gift 🎁 of faith .
●This faith is different from ordinary, saving faith.
●This gift of Faith is a special faith, the AMP Bible refers to this faith as “Wonder working faith”
●Ephesians 2:8 mentions about ” saving faith “
●”For by grace you have been saved through faith”
●This is the simple basic faith that causes one to be saved
●Romans 12:3 also speaks about this simple saving faith
“3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. “
●This faith refers to saving faith and not about one of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
●1 Corinthians 12:9
“9 to another faith by the same Spirit”
●The faith you received at the time of salvation, this faith is one that can be developed on.
● How can this faith be developed?
Romans 10:7
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
●So saving faith is one that grows by hearing the Word of God.
●But this faith is different from the gift of Faith mentioned in
1 Corinthians 12:9
●This is something different from general faith or saving faith.
●It is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit where by ,a beliver is empowered with special faith or a Wonder working faith.
● Of the 3 power gifts
1.The Gift of Faith - The Gift of Healings
- Working of miracles
Gift of Faith can be considered to be the greatest among the 3 power gifts.
●It can be called a ” miraculous ” gift
●Infact all the 9 gifts are miraculous gifts !
●Gift of Faith is a gift given to a beliver so as to enable him to receive miracles .
●Working of miracles or gift of Miracles you *do(perform *, work) miracles
●Different gifts often are seen to work together in a person
●The Gift of Faith and the gift of Healings work together.
● the gift of tounges and the gift of interpretation are seen to work together.
●The word of knowledge and the gift of prophesy are often seen to work together in an individual.
●The base of all these gifts is the saving (general) faith one received at the time he/she was saved.
●Ephesians 2:8 ,Romans 10:17 and Romans 12:3 all mention this type of faith.
●We live by saving faith
●Our daily needs are provided through prayer which is actually a result of saving faith.
●In certain situations saving faith may not be enough.
●All of a sudden you might receive a supernatural faith to receive that miracle .
●This faith that is received is the *Gift of Faith *
●This is a special faith given supernaturally by the Spirit of God as ” He wills “.
●Those who operate in special faith -” the Gift of the Spirit ” can belive God in such a way that God houners their word as his own and miraculously brings to pass the desired result!
●Smith Wigglesworth said
If you take a step of ordinary faith ,move ahead and then you will come to a place which we can call the end of ones ordinary faith , a.point where this ordinary faith is no longer sufficient to move forward, you will need special faith faith to move ahead from that point.
●The ordinary faith you have will not be good enough beyond that point.
●It’s at that point that the special faith will have to take over.
●It describes a particular event in Smith Wiggleworth’s life where he comes to know that his friend Michael’s is nearing death.
●As he reaches Michael’s home ,Smith Wiggleworth sees his wife who informs him that Michael’s already dead
●Smith speaks of an extraordinary faith that arose in him after he heard the words of his own wife saying that Michael’s passed away.
●He says ” I got as far as I did with my faith ,but the Lord God’s hand took hold of me ,so that I could believe for anything “
“A solid peace came upon my heart, the dead man rose again and he lives even today”
●He infact had the Gift of Faith, which gave him the courage to believe for anything.
●This gift 🎁 of faith is one of the greatest of Gifts!!
God bless