Motivation is the process of being inspired and made enthusiastic to do something.
The person who has a motivational gift is inspired and enthusiastic to do a particular thing for which he is enabled by God.
Motivational gifts help to keep the Body of Christ motivated and lively.
8 Facts regarding the Motivational Gifts:
1. Everyone has at least one motivational gift, apart from the 9 Gifts of the Spirit (Rom.12:3)
2. Motivational gift is grace that a person is given; however, ministry gifts are persons that Christ gives to the church (Rom.12:3)
3. Motivational gifts are not mere natural talents; for example, prophecy is not a natural psychical ability; they are gifts from God that identify our fuctional role in the church (Rom.12:6)
4. Motivational gifts are given according to grace (Rom.12:3)
5. Motivational gifts are given to each according to the measure of faith which God gives to one to operate in the gift (Ro.12:3)
6. We can only operate in the motivational gift in proportion to our faith (Rom.12:6)
7. Motivational gifts can only flow out of self-surrender and humility (Rom.12:1-3)
8. Motivational gifts are action gifts, which must be used in the particular action (or ministry in ministering.. etc)
Foundations of the Motivational Gifts
1. Spiritual Worship - Sacrifice of Body (Rim.12:1)
2. Transformation of Self by Renewing of Mind - Discernment of Good and Evil (Pure Conscience) (Rom.12:2)
3. Right View of Self, God, and the Body of Christ - Relationships (Rom.12:3-5)
4. Operation in the Gifts - The Act of Service
Drivers: Grace, Faith
Qualities: Reverence, Humility, Love, Action
Showing posts with label Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Show all posts
July 31, 2014
Motivational Gifts (Rom.12:3-7)
June 29, 2014
Earnestly Desiring the Best Gifts of the Spirit
God wants each of us to be filled with His Holy Spirit and be loaded with the gifts of the Spirit for His ministry.
He wants to use each one of us:
"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all" (1Co 12:7 NKJ)
We are members of His body. No man would ever want any part of his body to be left unused. Nobody would say, "I will shut my nose off and not use it". God wants to use each one of us.
However, the question is do we want to be used of God? Really?
There are two things spoken to us in 1Corinthians 12-14 that are essential in the pursuit of the gifts of the Spirit.
1. Zeal and Intense Passion for the Gifts
"Earnestly desire the best gifts. (1Co 12:31 NKJ)
"Desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (1Co 14:1 NKJ)
The word for "desire" is zeloo and means "intense zeal". It is the same word from which the word "zealot" comes. The zealots were a terrorist group, a do or die people. To be zealous for the best gifts is to be so fully consumed of desire for the gifts that it is like a do or die situation. Jesus said that if we genuinely and persistently ask for the Spirit, the Father will give. He won't give His precious gifts to those who only half-heartedly seek them. Because, then, they never understand the value of the same. A really zealous person is like a thirsty man who cannot give up looking for water till he found water to drink. So, a person who is zealously seeking the gifts of the Spirit cannot find rest until God has filled him. Such person will not sleep and slumber in prayer. He will not get bored of prayer times. He will pray in the Spirit; he will enquire, seek, follow.
2. The More Excellent Way Called Love
"And yet I show you a more excellent way." (ICor 12:31)
"Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts." (ICor 14:1)
God will never entrust His power to somebody who doesn't have God's love.
-Power without Love is destructive. It will destroy both the one who possesses the power and those around that person.
-Power without Love is immoral. Love is the fulfillment of Law; therefore, power without love is immoral and lawless.
-Power without Love is godless. God is love; therefore, power without love is godless.
-Power without Love cannot work the righteousness of God.
Smith Wigglesworth said: Faith+Compassion=Miracle
Jesus was moved with compassion and healed people. Love is the more excellent way. It is the way that remains. Love is the greatest of all.
Be rooted in the love of Christ and your life will bear fruit for Christ.
We all can have the gifts of the Spirit if we are zealous for them and if we cherish the love of Christ in our hearts for all.
He wants to use each one of us:
"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all" (1Co 12:7 NKJ)
We are members of His body. No man would ever want any part of his body to be left unused. Nobody would say, "I will shut my nose off and not use it". God wants to use each one of us.
However, the question is do we want to be used of God? Really?
There are two things spoken to us in 1Corinthians 12-14 that are essential in the pursuit of the gifts of the Spirit.
1. Zeal and Intense Passion for the Gifts
"Earnestly desire the best gifts. (1Co 12:31 NKJ)
"Desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (1Co 14:1 NKJ)
The word for "desire" is zeloo and means "intense zeal". It is the same word from which the word "zealot" comes. The zealots were a terrorist group, a do or die people. To be zealous for the best gifts is to be so fully consumed of desire for the gifts that it is like a do or die situation. Jesus said that if we genuinely and persistently ask for the Spirit, the Father will give. He won't give His precious gifts to those who only half-heartedly seek them. Because, then, they never understand the value of the same. A really zealous person is like a thirsty man who cannot give up looking for water till he found water to drink. So, a person who is zealously seeking the gifts of the Spirit cannot find rest until God has filled him. Such person will not sleep and slumber in prayer. He will not get bored of prayer times. He will pray in the Spirit; he will enquire, seek, follow.
2. The More Excellent Way Called Love
"And yet I show you a more excellent way." (ICor 12:31)
"Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts." (ICor 14:1)
God will never entrust His power to somebody who doesn't have God's love.
-Power without Love is destructive. It will destroy both the one who possesses the power and those around that person.
-Power without Love is immoral. Love is the fulfillment of Law; therefore, power without love is immoral and lawless.
-Power without Love is godless. God is love; therefore, power without love is godless.
-Power without Love cannot work the righteousness of God.
Smith Wigglesworth said: Faith+Compassion=Miracle
Jesus was moved with compassion and healed people. Love is the more excellent way. It is the way that remains. Love is the greatest of all.
Be rooted in the love of Christ and your life will bear fruit for Christ.
We all can have the gifts of the Spirit if we are zealous for them and if we cherish the love of Christ in our hearts for all.
November 28, 2012
Glossolalia (Speaking in Tongues) in Early Church History - Quotes from Eusebius, Novatian, and Tertullian
Eusebius Pamphilius (c. AD 263 – 339): Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine Chapter VII
Quotes Irenæus (AD 140-203)
6. And in another place the same author [Irenæus] writes:
“As also we hear that many brethren in the Church possess prophetic gifts, and speak, through the Spirit, with all kinds of tongues, and bring to light the secret things of men for their good, and declare the mysteries of God.”
Novatian (210-280): Treatise Concerning the Trinity. Chapter 29.
This is He who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, offers discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata; and thus make the Lord’s Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.
Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 225 AD): Against Marcion, Book V, Chapter 8.
Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his. Now all these signs (of spiritual gifts) are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty, and they agree, too, with the rules, and the dispensations, and the instructions of the Creator; therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the apostle, belong severally to my God. Here, then, is my frank avowal for any one who cares to require it.
Quotes Irenæus (AD 140-203)
6. And in another place the same author [Irenæus] writes:
“As also we hear that many brethren in the Church possess prophetic gifts, and speak, through the Spirit, with all kinds of tongues, and bring to light the secret things of men for their good, and declare the mysteries of God.”
Novatian (210-280): Treatise Concerning the Trinity. Chapter 29.
This is He who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, offers discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata; and thus make the Lord’s Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.
Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 225 AD): Against Marcion, Book V, Chapter 8.
Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his. Now all these signs (of spiritual gifts) are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty, and they agree, too, with the rules, and the dispensations, and the instructions of the Creator; therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the apostle, belong severally to my God. Here, then, is my frank avowal for any one who cares to require it.
February 02, 2012
Glossolalia - Speaking in Tongues
In 1972, William J. Samarin, a linguist from the University of Toronto, published a thorough assessment of glossolalia (the phenomena of "speaking in tongues" among pentecostals and charismatics). He concluded that it was "neither internally organized nor systematically related to the world man perceives".
Of course, if it could be, then it would be open for linguistic dicepherment and would no longer fall under the class of "unknown tongues" or "mysteries"!!
"For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries." (1Cor.14:12)
Of course, if it could be, then it would be open for linguistic dicepherment and would no longer fall under the class of "unknown tongues" or "mysteries"!!
"For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries." (1Cor.14:12)
November 12, 2005
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Fruit, and the Gifts
Itarsi, 11 December 2005 | Domenic Marbaniang
Promise of the Baptism
Promise of the Baptism
- Acts 1:5, 11:16
- Mt. 3.11, Mk. 1.8, Lk. 3:16: With- en (in) “in Holy Spirit and fire” avoid with in italics
Acts 2.38, 39: Promise to
- you: the immediate audience
- your children: the coming generations
- all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call: all believers: Jew & Gentile
Difference Between Baptism Into the Body and Baptism Into the Spirit
BAPTISM INTO CHRIST | BAPTISM INTO THE SPIRIT | |
Baptizer | Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12. 13)* | Christ (Mt 3.11, Mk 1.8, Lk. 3.16) |
Element | The Church (Body Of Christ) | The Holy Spirit, Fire |
Purpose | Salvation | Power, Witness |
Spirit Work | Regenerative Work (Tit.3.5, Jn 3.5) | Empowering Work (Acts 1.8) |
Spirit Presence | Indwelling (made to drink 1 Cor 12.13) | Infilling (Acts 2.4) |
Envelop | Christ (Gal 3:27) | Power (Lk 24.49) |
Maintain | Continue in Faith (Rom 13.14, Col 1.23) | Continue to be Filled (Eph 5:18) |
Description | Receiving the Lord, His coming in us (Jn. 1.12, 14.23) | Receiving the Spirit, His falling upon us (Acts 8.15, 2.4) |
Evidence | Inner Witness of the Spirit (sonship and the Gift of New Life) (Rom. 8:16, 6.23) | The Gift of New Tongues (Mk 16.17, Acts 2.4) |
* The Scripture doesn’t confuse terms: that would lead to ambiguous statements and conclusions
Pre-Pentecost Experience of Spirit-filling
- Spirit-filling for word (prophecy and psalm) or work (1 Sam 10.10, Judg 3.10)
- For office: Anointing with oil (figurative) and the coming of the Holy Spirit (1 Sam 16.13)
- John filled with Spirit from womb – continuous filling as contrasted to the Spirit coming and going (Lk 1.15, greater prophet Lk 7.28)
The Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit
- Anointing of Spirit mentioned in relation to Christ (Messiah- the anointed one) (Isa 61. 1, Acts 10.38) Anointed with Holy Spirit and with Power.
- Christ is the one who baptizes into the Spirit not the one who receives the baptism of the Spirit. John didn’t need to receive John’s Baptism; neither did Christ need either re-baptism in Jesus’ Name (Acts 19) or baptism in Holy Spirit. He never spoke in tongues.
- The Baptism of the Holy Spirit was in fulfillment of the Feast of the Pentecost which had to follow Christ’s crucifixion prophetically foreshadowed by the Feast of Passover and Resurrection foreshadowed by the Feast of the First Fruits.
Terms
a. Receiving the Holy Spirit: John 7: 39, Acts 1:8; 8:15; 19:2 Focus on Giftedness of Spirit Baptism
b. Being Filled with the Spirit: Acts 2:4, Focus on the full control of the Spirit over the human soul – Mind, Emotions, Will. The inner man being in perfect communion with the Spirit of God, sanctified by His very Presence.
c. Being Baptized In the Spirit (Mtt. 3:11; Acts 1:5; 11:6) Focus on the Transforming Power of the Spirit. Gk writers often used baptismo for sinking, being intoxicated. The Spirit baptized is Spirit-filled Spiritual.
d. Release of the Spirit (2 Cor. 3: 17). Focus on the Freedom of the spirit from the corruption of the flesh (the soulish sinful tendencies).
Purpose of Spirit-Baptism
- Conformation to the Image of Christ (2 Cor. 3:17ff., Rom. 8:14, 29)
- Strengthening of the Inner Man (Eph. 3:16; Jude 20)
- Power to be Witness (not merely to witness) (Acts 1:8)
- Power for Spiritual Warfare (Eph. 6: 10, 17, 18). Overcoming
- Power in Prayer (1 Cor 14:2, Rom 8: 26,27)
- Abundant Life (Jn 7.38): the Overflow of Spirit-Life over being.
Initial Evidence of Spirit-Baptism
a. Tongues (Acts 2.4, 10.46).- Prophesied: Isa 28:11
- Evidence of Total Personality Control: James 3:2
- Means of Spiritual Release and Freedom: Jn. 7: 38, Lk 6:45 (laleo: 1 Cor 14.2)
E.g. Psychoanalysis (Free speaking, writing, or scribbling) vs Spirit-controlled prayer & Speaking. Tongues as spontaneous and not meditated.
- The Attunement to God through Spirit. Speaketh Mysteries.
Contrast Between the Fruit and Gifts of the Spirit
The Gifts are related to Spiritual Capabilities, the Fruit is related to Spiritual Character.- Joy Is Love Exulting
- Peace Is Love Reposing
- Longsuffering Is Love Untiring
- Gentleness Is Love Enduring
- Goodness Is Love In Action
- Faith Is Love On The Battlefield
- Meekness Is Love Under Discipline
- Temperance Is Love In Training
Relationship with God: Love, Joy, Peace
Relationship with Others: Patience, Kindness, Goodness
Relationship with Self: Faith, Meekness, Temperance (Self Control).
The Gifts of the Spirit as Described in 1 Cor. 12
- Knowledge Gifts: Wisdom, Discerning, Knowledge
- Verbal Gifts: Tongues, Interpretation, Prophecy
- Power Gifts: Faith, Healing, Miracles.
- Gifts are Operated by the Will of the Spirit and not at human disposal
- 1 Cor. 14: Tongues as Prayer Language
- Gifts as Serving to Glorify Christ.
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