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Old Dec 29, 2007, 11:24 AM
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EDIT: During my sleepless night, I struggled with a few things. Obviously, the Holy Spirit was convicting me about something. In other words, He was nudging me about some attitudes or behaviors that I need to change.

I'm putting this out here just in case someone else could benefit from the same passages.

Most of my life, I have known how to recite these passages and I've even made use of them for myself and for exorting others. It's time to come back to them to glean something that I hadn't before. This time, they may mean something new to me at this point in my life.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit:

1 Corinthians 12:1-13

Spiritual Gifts
And now, dear brothers and sisters, I will write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of us, for I must correct your misunderstandings about them.
2 You know that when you were still pagans you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols.
3 So I want you to know how to discern what is truly from God: No one speaking by the Spirit of God can curse Jesus, and no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
4 Now there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all.
5 There are different kinds of service in the church, but it is the same Lord we are serving.
6 There are different ways God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work through all of us.
7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us as a means of helping the entire church.
8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another he gives the gift of special knowledge.
9 The Spirit gives special faith to another, and to someone else he gives the power to heal the sick.
10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and to another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to know whether it is really the Spirit of God or another spirit that is speaking. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, and another is given the ability to interpret what is being said.
11 It is the one and only Holy Spirit who distributes these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.

One Body with Many Parts

12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up only one body. So it is with the body of Christ.
13 Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into Christ's body by one Spirit, and we have all received the same Spirit.
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