Evidence of the Gift of Holy Spirit: A Way of Life, Part 4
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Persist and Don’t Analyze
You can’t bring to pass most manifestations at will, whenever you want, but you can speak in tongues any time you choose to do so.
I used to think that miracles were something that I had to do. We see them, but God does them.
Some of the miracles in the Bible:
- Creation
- The Flood
- Confusion of languages at Babel
- Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
- Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt
- The birth of Isaac
- The burning bush that was not consumed
- Aaron’s rod turns into a snake
- All the plagues of Egypt
- Blood on the doorpost causing the destroyer to pass over them
- Parting of the Red Sea and Israel passing through
- The waters at Marah sweetened and made drinkable
- Manna provided daily (except for the Sabbath)
- Water came out of the rock when they needed water
- Aaron’s rod budding
- The brazen serpent healed the people of snakebite when they looked up at it
- Baalam’s ass speaking
- The dividing of the Jordan so they could pass over it
- The walls of Jericho fell down
- A hailstorm wiping out Israel’s enemy
- The statue of Dagon falling down before the ark of the covenant
- Withered hands healed
- People raised from the dead
- Fire coming down to consume the prophets of Baal
- Rain did not come down for three years
- Elijah was fed by a raven
- Elishah healed the waters of Jericho
- Jehoshaphat sent out singers who praised God, and God gave them the victory
- Gideon’s fleece
- The coin in the fish’s mouth to pay the tax
- The blind healed
- The command to let down your nets, and they received a load of fishes
- The raising of the widow’s son
- The woman with the spirit of infirmity
- The man with the palsy
- The ten lepers
- The Water turned to wine
- The servant was healed by a word without the personal presence of Jesus
- The man lame for 38 years healed at the pool of Bethesda
- Lazarus was raised from the dead
- 5000+ people fed
- 4000+ people fed
- The fig tree
- Stopping the storm on the Sea of Galilee
- Walking on water
God is not limited by the natural! If we want to see miracles, it’s just as easy as the day we first spoke in tongues. God does the energizing.
1 Corinthians 12:10 APNT:
now for another, miracles, now for another, prophecy, now for another, discerning of spirits, now for another, kinds of tongues, now for another, the interpretation of tongues.
In Aramaic, it says “miracles,” but in Greek, it says “working of miracles.” It’s God who energizes and works the miracle.
It’s not our responsibility to figure out how something is going to happen immediately. We can’t go beyond the natural. That’s not our job. But God can. It’s the “energizing of miracles.”
1 Corinthians 12:6 APNT:
And there are distributions of powers, but God is the one who works all in everyone.
The manifestations of the Spirit are available to every believer in any situation. God is the one who will work it. We can’t analyze it; there’s no method.
1 Corinthians 12:7 APNT:
Now the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one as it is profitable for him [as it is a profiting situation].
In these sessions, we’ve explored the following:
- Look for a profiting opportunity
- Watch and be ready to obey
- Seek the will of the Father
- You have authority—go for it!
- Persist and don’t analyze
1 Corinthians 12:11 APNT:
Now all these [things] the one Spirit works and distributes to everyone as he wills.
People have taught that the manifestations work as he (the person) wills, but that’s only true of Speaking in Tongues. The other manifestations operate by both the person and God. It’s not only up to the person, and it’s not only up to God. It’s both together. As the person desires and wills, God can energize in that situation. However, which manifestations occur and how they work together is up to God.
The central thing is love.
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