Many people have an idea of if they received a prophecy saying that they have this or that spiritual gift, then they will have those spiritual gifts; if they never receive any, then, it is too bad, they have none. I think this is a myth that we need to bust it. Actually we didn't see any evident in the Bible says so. But the Bible did ask us to EARNESTLY DESIRE spiritual gifts (1 Cor 12 : 31; 14 : 1).
This morning as the pastoral team are praying for the church, God spoke to me about spiritual gifts. If you want any of the spiritual gifts listed at 1 Cor 12 : 7-10, you just need to desire it.
I ask the Lord how to desire? He then shows me an example of how a youth crazily desire to have an IPhone or PSP. Have you ever seen one? I have. They will talk about it with their friends, go to the shop to look at it, tried it, search the Internet for the info, find out the functions and literally memorize every features. If their friend got it, they will admire the friend and ask the friend to show them or let them play it. They will bargain with their parent for it, do some part time job to earn extra money in order to get it, so on and so for...
That is how you should desire for spiritual gifts! Talk about it passionately with God and your friends, ask God for it, find out what and how it function and go to places where you can see it been operated, ‘shop’ it in the Internet – well, what I mean is, search the Internet for the info, see for yourself from YouTube the video clips about the operation of those gifts..... Then go ahead and try it, use it, just like the youth that will not stop playing his friend PSP once it is in his hand.
Dear fellow brothers and sisters let us pursue love, and crazily desire after spiritual gifts. If you are passionate about it, let's start shopping! (below is a link that you may not want to miss)
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxF8eHePzs
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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