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To Every One Is Given a Gift, Fabruary 2
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the
gift of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7
The talents that Christ entrusts to His church represent especially
the gifts and blessings imparted by the Holy Spirit. “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; to another divers
kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these
worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally
as He will.” All men do not receive the same gifts, but to every servant
of the Master some gift of the Spirit is promised.
Before He left His disciples, Christ “breathed on them, and saith
unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” Again he said, “Behold, I send
the promise of My Father upon you.” ... “Unto every one of us is given
grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,” the Spirit “dividing
to every man severally as He will.” The gifts are already ours in Christ,
but their actual possession depends upon our reception of the Spirit of
God.
God does not ask us to do in our own strength the work before us.
He has provided divine assistance for all the emergencies to which our
human resources are unequal. He gives the Holy Spirit to help in every
strait, to strengthen our hope and assurance, to illuminate our minds and
purify our hearts.... There is no limit to the usefulness of the one who,
putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon
his heart and lives a life wholly consecrated to God.... Christ declared
that the divine influence of the Spirit was to be with His followers unto
the end.
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