Gifts of Joy and Grace/Clip #2/Overview of the gifts
Insight: Declares truth, desires motives, attitudes to be right. Meets spiritual needs
Server: Demonstrates love by fulfilling practical functions. Meets practical needs
Teacher: Searches out and validates truth, facts. Leads others into revealed truth.
Meets mental needs
Exhorter: Gives encouragement to personal growth and achievement.
Meets personal needs
Contributor: Gives support of every kind (material, financial, and spiritual) to God’s work and God’s people. Meets supportive needs
Facilitator: Gives leadership aid. Coordinates various activities of others to meet common and strategic goals. Meets effectiveness needs
Mercy: Gives personal support and empathy. Ability to feel for people and relieve their distress. Meets emotional needs
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Romans 12:4-8
"For as in one physical body we have many parts (organs, members) and all of these parts do not have the same function or use, So we, numerous as we are, are one body in Christ (the Messiah) and individually we are parts one of another [mutually dependent on one another].
Having gifts (faculties, talents, qualities) that differ according to the grace given us, let us use them: [He whose gift is] prophecy, [let him prophesy] according to the proportion of his faith;
[He whose gift is] practical service, let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, to his teaching;
He who exhorts (encourages), to his exhortation; he who contributes, let him do it in simplicity and liberality; he who gives aid and superintends, with zeal and singleness of mind; he who does acts of mercy, with genuine cheerfulness and joyful eagerness." AMP
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*Special acknowledgment to all the ministries and people who have helped me learn about the seven gifts. Specifically, Dr. Roy Blizzard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles.
While the teaching of Spiritual Gifts is not new. This concept was highlighted to me through the material developed by the Institute in Basic Life Principles. In their booklet, "Understanding Spiritual Gifts" the IBLP Ministry asserted several years ago that the gifts listed in Romans 12:6-8 were more than a casual grouping of spiritual gifts, ministry gifts and other miscellaneous callings. In the sharing of the material, they saw the need for a “common denominator” that would bind these seven gifts together. The idea of personal motivation was suggested as that “common denominator”.
I am grateful for that insight as it became an encouragement to me to reflect and research deeper into the beautiful depths of the Scriptures.