Power Gifts
1 Cor 12:4-11 NKJV
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
HE SPEAKS THROUGH THE GIFT OF FAITH
There are different kinds of faith recorded in the Bible. We are each given a measure of faith and that faith can grow. However, the one recorded in the above 1 Corinthians 12 is miracle faith. It’s believing for a specific circumstance based on Who God is and what He said. It is a sudden surge of assurance God will move and perform His Word.
The Gift of Faith was manifested in Elijah’s life when confronting the prophets of Baal. He challenged them to have their false god answer by fire. They did their incantations to no avail. Then Elijah had 12 barrels of water poured on his altar.
He prayed, “Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.” (1 Kings 18:37-38 NKJV)
As an example of the Gift of Faith, I was in the Doctor’s office with a friend who had just undergone laser surgery for glaucoma. When the nurse took her eye pressure, the reading was worse than before the surgery, and I knew in my heart that it was a lie of the enemy. After the nurse left, my voice rose up firmly and said that it was a lie, and that I did not accept that reading! I rebuked the enemy and told him he could not steal from us in Jesus’ Name. When the Doctor came in, he rechecked the pressure. It was much better and he apologized for the error. I do not know if the nurse read it wrong, or if she read it correctly and that the pressure was a “gift” from the enemy, and then after my faith rose against it, the pressure came down. Either way, I truly experienced a Gift of Faith that was not my normal mode of operation. I knew, without a doubt, that the enemy was trying to steal something, and I simply was not going to accept it. The faith in my heart was a gift and was a strong and firm force against opposition.
Faith is the creative element that dispatches forces with assignment in the unseen world.
HE SPEAKS THROUGH GIFTS OF HEALING
Gifts of healing are divinely imparted to mend and make well. Healing can take place as an immediate event, or through a process. Gifts of healing have authority over the enemy to release the shackles of infirmity. This brings deliverance to the captive.
A scriptural example of immediate healing was: “And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.” (Luke 6:19 KJ) An example of a progressive healing was when Jesus led the blind man out of town, made mud and placed it on his eyes. When Jesus asked if he saw anything, he replied, “I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.” (Mark 8:24,25 KJ)
Anna had a friend who was very ill at the hospital. She had suffered heart problems for years and was on heavy medication for it. After anointing her friend’s feet with her chap-stick, (I’m sure the Lord chuckled at that!) she held onto them like she did another man’s the week before. [That man’s heart had been shocked many times and he was on a respirator. After thinking about praying for him, she had awakened one morning with a picture of her holding onto his feet and praying. As it turned out, when she and four others filed into the intensive care room, the only place for her was at his feet. He was miraculously healed of heart problems while they prayed.]
This experience with the man’s healing, gave her tremendous faith to pray for her friend that day. After the chap-stick anointing and as she prayed in tongues, her friend received great heat and tingling through her arms and chest. They both had waves and waves of goose bumps and physically felt the Lord’s Presence with great joy. They were anything but religious, laughing uproariously, and wondering what would happen if a real pastor walked in and saw them. They knew she was healed but she had promised to have an Angiogram done with a catheter going into her heart, and she decided to go ahead with it. Anna had absolutely no peace about the test and pleaded with the Lord about it. As it turned out, her friend seriously convulsed during the test. However, the good news about the Angiogram was that they found a healed heart. Later, when she went to the Dr. for her checkup, she told him the Lord had healed her heart and he said, “I don’t know who healed your heart, but you came out the winner!”
HE SPEAKS THROUGH WORKING OF MIRACLES
Miracles are a display of God’s “super,” over our natural. They are often manifested in both creative healing and power over the natural forces of this world. The account of Elisha and the floating ax is an example of a miracle: “…but as one of them was chopping, his axhead fell into the river. “Oh sir,” he cried, “it was borrowed!” “Where did it fall?” the prophet asked. The youth showed him the place, and Elisha cut a stick, and threw it into the water; and the axhead rose to the surface and floated!” (2 Kings 6:5-6 TLB)
In the last days we are going to witness many miracles. People will walk on water and air. I have had dreams of visions of these things taking place. Since then, I have heard testimonies where walking on water is common in uncivilized countries where missionaries have to cross flood waters to get to villages. I have also heard of several testimonies of people walking, but they are air lifted and not literally walking on the ground.
In the last days, people will walk through violent mobs and be unharmed. Some will minister in a crowd and then disappear to some other place. Others will be sent to multiply food. You name it, we’ll probably see it. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” (John 14:12 NKJV)
We tend to forget that miracles are a display of “God’s super over our natural”, and think less of miracles occurring in our every day lives. However, they are none the less outstanding. Anna has a story of her “miracle well”.
A CREATIVE HEALING MIRACLE
Testimony from a Member of our QW Class
“On a Friday in May 2007, my Father 82 was rushed to the hospital with excruciating abdominal pain. The test showed that part of his intestines were dead. They took him immediately into surgery and removed part of the dead intestines. My sister called and told me what had happened and said that the surgery was going to be too long to remove all of the damage so the doctors decided to wait until Sunday so that my Father could have a days rest.
I felt so strongly the need to lay hands on him and pray, that I drove the 8 hours on Saturday to be with him and pray. They didn’t expect him to live. I got to the ICU late, but was able to pray for about 3 hours. He was in a medically induced coma to keep him comfortable as possible. His surgery was very intensive. They let me stay over because I was his daughter. While I was praying, I saw in the Spirit the remaining part of the intestine and it was all pink, totally healed. (I had not ever thought about it being pink). So I prayed and proclaimed that to be the case in Jesus Name.
As I was driving home on Sunday, my sister called me and told me that the doctor said, “Well, we have had a miracle. The dead intestine is now ‘pink’ and healed except for about 3 inches, which they removed.” WOW!! I was totally blown away. I could hardly drive. I kept saying, “He did it. He did it. He did it!!
I had also prayed that he would not die before there was a needed reconciliation. He died 7 months later, 10 days after a reconciliation took place.”
Another testimony of healing from our QW Class member:
“Early on in our walk with the Lord, we learned about healing and often didn’t have the money to go to a doctor even for the co-payment. Sometimes God has healed instantly, other times it was through pressing through for a couple of days. One of my boys hurt their ankle and while we prayed one of them said he sees an angel coming and working on my sons ankle. The next morning his ankle was healed.”
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