{"id":152,"date":"2013-07-09T04:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itzhiz.wordpress.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:52:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:52:02","slug":"10-reasons-why-spiritual-gifts-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Why Spiritual Gifts are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, here is a quick explanation of a Spiritual Gift as defined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbyclinton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. J. Robert &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Clinton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A spiritual gift<\/strong> is an <strong>unique capacity<\/strong> given by the <strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong> given to each believer <strong>for service<\/strong> in connection with the church to <strong>cause the church to progress quantitatively, qualitatively, and organically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here are <strong>10 Biblical reasons<\/strong> why it is important for you to <strong>know<\/strong> your gifts, <strong>understand<\/strong> your gifts and <strong>use<\/strong> your gifts for the edification of the Church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1.<\/strong> Every single believer has at least one manifestation of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:7)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2.<\/strong> God created each member of the body to do a specific task (1 Cor. 12:14-18)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3.<\/strong> Our differences in the body of Christ are essential and remind us how much we need each other (1 Cor. 12: 19-20)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4.<\/strong> Every member without exception is absolutely essential to the body (1 Cor. 12:22-24)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5.<\/strong> We are most happy and enjoy a loving unity when each member functions properly (1 Cor. 12: 25-26, Eph. 4:16)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#6.<\/strong> We are not to be ignorant of our gifts (1 Cor. 12:1-6, 1 Peter 4:10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#7.<\/strong> We are not to neglect our gifts (1 Tim. 4:14) but rather stir them up (2 Tim. 1:6)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#8.<\/strong> We are to desire strongly to have gifts that edify (1 Cor. 12:31)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#9.<\/strong> Once God gives a gift, it will not be recalled (Rom. 11:29)<\/p>\n<p><strong>#10.<\/strong> The Spirit seeks to find those things through whom He can manifest (Gen. 1:2, Num. 11:26-30, Joel 2:28-29, Acts 2:14-21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, here is a quick explanation of a Spiritual Gift as defined by Dr. J. Robert &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Clinton: A spiritual gift is an unique capacity given by the Holy Spirit given to each believer for service in connection with the church to cause the church to progress quantitatively, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-five-fold","category-power-living","category-spiritual-gifts","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nEgq-2s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itzhiz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}