“Power for a Purpose”

Sermon Series: I Believe in the Holy Spirit

(1 Corinthians 12:1-11)

12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. ² You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. ³ Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. ⁵ There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

⁷ Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. ⁸ To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,^[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.^[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

_____________ Christian has at least one Spiritual _________.   

Charis_________________ 

Charis_________________

A Spiritual gift is a ____________________ ability, given by God, to enable 

Christians to _________ His people for the expansion of His __________________.   

A Spiritual _________ is different from a human _________________.

A Spiritual gift always exalts _____________.

We don’t get to ______________ our gift.  (1 Corinthians 12:11)

1 Peter 4:10 (NLT) – God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts.  Use them well to serve one another.

Romans 12:3-8

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

1 Corinthians 14

Ephesians 4:11-13

Who is benefitting from the gift(s) God has given you?

God doesn’t give you and me gifts so we can do ___________ thing,

but so we can do _______ thing.

Discovering your spiritual gift flows out of _________ ______.  

What does Moses teach us about discovering our spiritual gift(s)?

To know your spiritual gift, get busy _________________.