{"quotes":[{"text":"God's glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.","author":"David Platt","tags":["community","spiritual-gifts","testimony"],"id":14189,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["gifts","giving-perspective","inspirational","perspective","perspective-is-a-gift","realizing-perspective","receiving-perspective","seeing-anew","sight","spiritual-gifts","the-best-gift","the-nature-of-perspective","vision"],"id":21140,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"When healing gifts are exercised, the faith of both the one healed and the one healing is built up and becomes stronger. Faith not only in God, but faith in one’s ability to do the works Jesus did, as He said we would. Many who might otherwise move powerfully in the gifts of the Spirit are not lacking faith in God to want to do them, but in themselves and their own ability to be instrumental in ministering the gifts.","author":"Praying Medic","tags":["faith-in-yourself","faith","healing-insights","praying-medic","spiritual-gifts"],"id":84296,"author_id":"Praying+Medic"},{"text":"In his sermon on the baptism of the Spirit, Chamberlain points out Peter's focus in Acts 2. The amazing work of enabling the apostles to speak languages in which they had not been trained drew the attention of the crowd so Peter could address them. No doubt, they wanted an in-depth explanation. But Peter uses this incident to point to Christ and uses the attention he has to fully explain the Gospel – NOT to sensationalize a gift of the Spirit.","author":"Daniel Chamberlain","tags":["gospel","spiritual-gifts","tongues"],"id":132850,"author_id":"Daniel+Chamberlain"},{"text":"Sometimes, when you have spent a long time rejecting the gifts of the Spirit and come to believe in them, you almost feel as if you are being born again. You feel as if you have a whole new Bible. By that latter statement I mean that the Gospels and Acts come alive for you in a way that they never have before. Things that you had relegated to the first century now become a possibility for today's church.","author":"Jack Deere","tags":["bible","christianity","spiritual-gifts"],"id":140920,"author_id":"Jack+Deere"},{"text":"Jesus gives each of his Followers, not just his first Apostles, authority \u0026 power to heal every sickness, raise the dead, and expel demons plus perform other miracles in His name as He wills in any situation. He did so in Matthew 10:8 via His follow-up command to His early Followers in Matthew 28:19 ~ © gfp '42™.","author":"Gary Patton","tags":["deliverance","healing","jesus","miracles","resurrection","spiritual-gifts"],"id":155452,"author_id":"Gary+Patton"},{"text":"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.","author":"Thomas Merton","tags":["contemplation","god","grace","meditation","psychology","spiritual-disciplines","spiritual-gifts"],"id":182762,"author_id":"Thomas+Merton"},{"text":"God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["discipleship","ministry","spiritual-gifts"],"id":183934,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.","author":"Watchman Nee","tags":["discipleship","holy-spirit","spiritual-gifts"],"id":265131,"author_id":"Watchman+Nee"},{"text":"There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does.","author":"Watchman Nee","tags":["discipleship","holy-spirit","individuality","spiritual-gifts","unity"],"id":309583,"author_id":"Watchman+Nee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}