Text: 1 Corinthians 12:9-10

 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:

Thursday, 31^st October 2024

THE GIFTS OF POWER Faith

Text: 1 Corinthians 12:9-10

Memory verse: Roman 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Among the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit which He bestows upon the believers according to His sovereign will, three can be classified as the Power or Miracle-working Gifts, namely the gift of Faith, the gifts of Healings, and the Working of Miracles. These gifts are supernatural abilities given to the believers by the Holy Spirit to demonstrate and manifest God’s incredible and supernatural power, resulting in God’s glory, effectiveness, and fruitfulness in God’s service and the edification of God’s people.

The gift of Faith is faith to believe God for miraculous intervention or provision in each situation. It is a supernatural impartation of God’s kind of faith to the believer’s heart to accomplish God’s purpose in a specific situation. When the gift of faith is in operation, the believer is inspired and emboldened to speak and act in an unusual, uncommon, or unprecedented manner resulting in a miraculous, incredible, and supernatural display of God’s power. When the gift of faith is in operation, the believer spontaneously confronts, handles, or deals with adverse circumstances or complex situations with an unusual boldness and confidence as God would and gets the supernatural results that God would get.

The gift of faith is crucial to exercising the other Power Gifts, Healings and Working of Miracles. All the power gifts always flow or work together. It is often difficult to distinguish which one is in operation in some situations. The exercise of any power gifts always produces mighty miracles, signs, and wonders. The gift of faith is not the same as the saving faith or “the measure of faith” that God has distributed to every believer at the New Birth.

Every believer has received “the measure of faith” from God at the New Birth, and he is expected to walk and live by this faith. Every believer has in his born-again spirit the faith he needs to live a daily victorious, overcoming, or prosperous life. 1 John 5:4 Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

1John 5:4 “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world–our faith.” Galatians 2:16 “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”  

The Holy Spirit does this by inspiring and embolden the believers to speak and act spontaneously or unusually at a given time or in a particular situation resulting in unusual great miracles, signs, and wonders. However, the Holy Spirit imparts the gift of faith or supernatural ability to exercise unusual trust and confidence in God to some believers as He wills to demonstrate, manifest, or display God’s supernatural power to the world in unusual manners.

CGDS HYMN 28: SS&S 190: 

COME, HOLY SPIRIT, COME

1. Come, Holy Spirit, come;

Let Thy bright beams arise,

Dispel the darkness from our minds,

And open all our eyes.

2. Revive our drooping faith,

Our doubts and fears remove,

And kindle in our breasts the flame

Of never-dying love.

3. Convince us of our sin,

Then lead to Jesus' blood,

And to our wondering view reveal

The secret love of God.

4. ‘Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,

To sanctify the soul,

To pour fresh life in every part,

And new-create the whole.

5. Dwell therefore in our hearts,

Our minds from bondage free ;

Then we shall know, and praise, and love

The Father, Son, and Thee !  

 Prayers 

1.  Lord Jesus, increase my faith in you and Your gifts in me.

2.  LORD God Almighty, glorify Your name with Your gifts in me in Jesus’ name. Amen.

3.  Pray for others in this regard.