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Snowy said:
1 Corinthians 12/14 is the biggest part of the Bible devoted to the subject, & its very worthy of note that the famous chapter on love, (13), is in the middle
See www.BibleGateway.org
Very briefly, the main emphasis is that, just as "God is love", love should be our motive in both seeking & using the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit - not pride or self-aggrandisement
What you have experience is what 1 Cor 12:8 calls "the word of knowledge" - note how wisdom is rated highest of all - & how verse 31 says, "earnestly desire the greater gifts" - emphasising verse 7 - "to each one, the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good"
The last half of the chapter underlines that we are all the different parts of the 1 Body of Christ, & every part needs every other part, so that the whole body may be strong & healthy
1 Cor 14 highlights very much the goal of building up the whole Body of Christ
It is wonderful that this lovely picture applies to each local body of believers, as well as to the church worldwide
God bless!
Ian
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LilRitt04
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That happens to me sometimes with my boyfriend, I can know what he is thinking alot of the time, and we always finish sentences and things...
But it happens more so in my prayer life...I could be praying for someone and something that that person is going through pops into my head, and I pray for that and alot of times people say to me, I was going through that, or I had that pain and now its gone. So I guess in some ways its God working through you and giving you the opportunity to "read others mail."
But it happens more so in my prayer life...I could be praying for someone and something that that person is going through pops into my head, and I pray for that and alot of times people say to me, I was going through that, or I had that pain and now its gone. So I guess in some ways its God working through you and giving you the opportunity to "read others mail."
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Sometimes God puts things in our way
Even if we don't understand
He does and will work with us
And most of all in us
To help us understand!
Even if we don't understand
He does and will work with us
And most of all in us
To help us understand!
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Confirmation is the word that comes to mind.
You need confirmation of this gift's genuineness.
God creted us with powerful imaginations. Keeping the Imagination and true words of Knowledge apart is a gift in of itself!
You need confirmation of this gift's genuineness.
God creted us with powerful imaginations. Keeping the Imagination and true words of Knowledge apart is a gift in of itself!
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wow...I was reading this and crying...I know it is a gift but I have to be honest in saying I have no idea how to use it...it isn't something I can control it just happens.
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Grace and peace from God and from His Christ.
It is that one of your spiritual senses is more exercised and you are able to percieve (see, discern or understand) the hearts of some people. What sight is to the physical, understanding is to the spiritual. We see in the spirit by the spirit of understanding.
It is up to you to keep it exercised in the service of God according to His will. Be led by the Spirit of God!
You can read in scriptures where Jesus Christ (and other saints) could perceive the hearts of men around him.
Understanding (perceiving or discerning) what is going on in another person's heart is different from finding yourself spiritually feeling exactly what such other person is feeling.
The later is classic intercession and it is the highest form of love.
On one hand, you can spiritually feel the weakness/pain/corruption of another person. Then, it is important and good that you obtain power from God to overcome such feeling within yourself and minister same power unto the person interceded for in order for such person to be delivered from the weakness/pain/corruption.
On the other hand, you can spiritually feel strength/joy/all goodness of another saint. It happened when two pregnant women, Elizabeth Zacharias and Mary Joseph, met before John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born. In such a case, praise God, be joyful and thankful unto God - for you are partaking with the spirit of another saint made perfect.
May God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know the hope of His calling, and the riches of His glory in you.
It is that one of your spiritual senses is more exercised and you are able to percieve (see, discern or understand) the hearts of some people. What sight is to the physical, understanding is to the spiritual. We see in the spirit by the spirit of understanding.
It is up to you to keep it exercised in the service of God according to His will. Be led by the Spirit of God!
You can read in scriptures where Jesus Christ (and other saints) could perceive the hearts of men around him.
Understanding (perceiving or discerning) what is going on in another person's heart is different from finding yourself spiritually feeling exactly what such other person is feeling.
The later is classic intercession and it is the highest form of love.
On one hand, you can spiritually feel the weakness/pain/corruption of another person. Then, it is important and good that you obtain power from God to overcome such feeling within yourself and minister same power unto the person interceded for in order for such person to be delivered from the weakness/pain/corruption.
On the other hand, you can spiritually feel strength/joy/all goodness of another saint. It happened when two pregnant women, Elizabeth Zacharias and Mary Joseph, met before John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ were born. In such a case, praise God, be joyful and thankful unto God - for you are partaking with the spirit of another saint made perfect.
May God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know the hope of His calling, and the riches of His glory in you.
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