 The Holy Spirit has given spiritual gifts to his church, so I want to show you from Scripture and clearly explain the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Every believer has been given a spiritual gift that includes you. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7 says, But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with all. The Holy Spirit has given you a spiritual gift that you might be a benefit to your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ. That includes every believer. Whether you feel like you have a spiritual gift or not, whether you've discovered your spiritual gift or not, the Holy Spirit has given to you a special ability. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, and to another diverse kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these work is that one and the self same Spirit dividing to every man severally as he will. So the Holy Spirit decides who gets these spiritual gifts. So I want to explain to you what each of the spiritual gifts are. Let's start here with the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. Now the spiritual gifts are special abilities that are empowered by the Holy Spirit. So they're supernatural in nature. Now wisdom on its own without a supernatural element is the ability to solve problems, the ability to perceive properly a situation. Knowledge is information. So the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge are similar to there we'll call them material counterparts but in the Spirit they have a supernatural touch. So the word of wisdom is the Spirit empowered ability to see people in situations with the wisdom of God. An example of this in scripture of course is Daniel. We also see it working in Joseph. We see it in the book of Proverbs. That wisdom working through these vessels of God was divine wisdom. Wisdom comes by the Holy Spirit to the one who has the word of wisdom. The word of knowledge is similar but with the distinction. The word of knowledge is the acquisition of information through supernatural means. For example a word of knowledge can be something like what I encountered when I was ministering at a Bible study and the Holy Spirit spoke to me a word to say to a gentleman. The Holy Spirit said to me this man knows someone a woman who was in a car accident two weeks ago she drives a silver car I want to heal her. Now that information had I discovered or had I known through natural means wouldn't have been supernatural. Let's say the man said hey my sister was in a car accident she drives a silver car she's injured and we're praying for her healing. That would be the acquisition of knowledge through natural means but that same knowledge came to me though it was natural knowledge and knowledge that could have been acquired through natural means. It came to me through the Holy Spirit and was therefore a word of knowledge. I got on the phone with that man's sister it turns out everything was true that the Holy Spirit had said and the Lord healed her but that's an example of the word of knowledge in action and again in a similar way the word of wisdom works kind of like the word of knowledge except it's the acquisition of wisdom the supernatural acquisition of wisdom. Then we see the scripture talk about the gift of faith to another faith. Now this could not be saving faith because every believer has been given saving faith. This faith is the gift of faith. Now what is the gift of faith? Is the gift of faith the ability to believe? Is the gift of faith an increase in your faith? I don't think so why? Because 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7 clues us in to the purpose of the spiritual gifts. So the purpose of the spiritual gifts are to help to serve to edify our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ not necessarily ourselves. So the gift of faith couldn't be the increase of my faith. It would have to be the ability to increase the faith of others. I think Miss Catherine Coleman operated in the gift of faith. In her meetings when the people would arrive there would be such a faith for miracles that miracles would abound. So that's an example of the gift of faith in operation. Next we see on the list to another the gifts of healing by the same spirit. Now how is the gift of healing different than the function of healing that we see for example in the book of Mark chapter 16 where the Bible says that those who believe will lay hands on the sick and see them recover? Well it has to be that the gift of healing is a more potent ability to heal the sick. Now I know that doesn't necessarily sound right but again that's the best way I can word it. If the gift of healing wasn't a next level healing ministry then there would be no need of the gift of healing if every believer functioned in healing in the same way and at the same level of power. So the gift of healing has to do with an assignment to the healing ministry and it has to do with the greater level of potency on that healing gift to another the working of miracles. This is the same thing as healing but it also applies to miracles. Every believer is going to see miracles in their lives. Every believer is a miracle because they've been born again. So the gift of miracles again has to be this intensification or potency of the gift of miracles or the operation of miracles whereas all believers can see miracles the one with the gift of miracles is more likely to see miracles and has an assignment in a ministry sense to the ministry of miracles to another prophecy. Now specifically this gift of prophecy has to do with speaking forth the oracles of God and declaring things that will happen in the future. When someone is gifted with the gift of prophecy they are given assignments messages like a mailman. This isn't to say that God doesn't speak by his spirit to other believers rather this is a certain type of ministry where someone receives an assignment to deliver messages to other believers or groups of believers from the Lord himself and this is different from the office of the prophet that we see in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11 and 12 because the gift can be upon any believer whereas the office of the prophet has to do with leadership authority and influence to another the discerning of spirits. Now the gift of discernment is not the gift of criticism and I think all too often we mistake our own discomfort for discernment we say things like well my spirit doesn't feel right I don't know how I feel about this and many times not all the time many times when we say things like that really what we mean is it's not according to my preference so I'm going to try to shift that onto the Holy Spirit when in fact sometimes we mix our emotions and our own thoughts with what the Holy Spirit is actually saying so no the gift of discernment is not the gift of criticism the gift of discernment is not the gift of nitpicking the gift of discernment is not the gift of attacking others in ministry the gift of discernment is simply the ability to tell whether someone is coming in the spirit of God a satanic spirit or the spirit of the world and that's it to another diverse kinds of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues now if you follow my teachings you know that there are three expressions of the gift of tongues there's the personal prayer language there's the gift of tongues that is evidence to the unbeliever but this specific gift of tongues that's mentioned here in 1 Corinthians 12 is what is called the prophetic tongue it's prophetic in that it helps to deliver a message to the local body of believers who are gathered this gift works in conjunction with the interpretation of tongues so no not every believer has the gift of tongues that works with the gift of interpretation of tongues but every believer can have their prayer language as we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 4 and verse 14 here though we're seeing the two gifts the gift of tongues and tongue interpretations that's a very specific type of gift of tongues this is the one that you see in operation in a church setting or public gathering where someone stands speaks in tongues and then another individual stands and interprets those tongues to communicate what God is speaking to his people for that moment that they are gathered now verse 11 ties the threads altogether but all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man as he will the Holy Spirit decides who gets what gifts but we know because of verse 7 that every single believer has a gift from the Holy Spirit so Father I pray in the name of Jesus for that one receiving this prayer right now and I pray Lord that you would cause them to discover their spiritual gift cause them to walk in that spiritual gift and cause them to affect lives all around them we thank you Holy Spirit that you've given to each of us spiritual gifts that we might edify and help one another help us Lord to surrender to your will thank you for equipping us in the mighty name of Jesus we pray and I want you to say it because you believe it say amen well write it in the comment section right now let it be your public declaration simply say use me Lord those three simple words write them in the comment section and again let that be your public declaration and if you love and appreciate what God is doing through this ministry salvation healing deliverance empowerment and I need your help I need you to get involved with this ministry so that we can continue to spread the gospel all around the world through events live streams and media go to day to davidhernanisministries.com slash partner and pray about becoming a monthly financial supporter of this ministry right now again david hernanisministries.com slash partner and if you enjoyed this content and you enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit you love the word of God then make sure that you're subscribed to encounter tv and don't forget to click that notification bell when you do also leave a like on this video and if you enjoyed this teaching then I know that you'll enjoy the anointing clearly explained