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6 Reasons Spiritual Gifts are Critical for You Today

Your spiritual gift was given to you for a powerful reason.
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Spiritual gifts are a primary way to demonstrate the Spirit’s power in our lives.

How the early church grew was incredibly simple: they prayed all the time. They listened to the Spirit and did whatever he told them to do. And they demonstrated the Spirit’s power and told their Jesus story. So if a key component in our Christian life is to demonstrate the Spirit’s power in our lives, if we’re supposed to be a walking testament that there is a God and he is alive in us, how do we do that? How do we demonstrate God’s power to the world? Look at what Paul says in verse 7, “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit.” The other times that word manifest is used in the New Testament is when God broke through from the spiritual world into the physical world and did something supernatural. When we discover and develop our spiritual gifts, we’re literally manifesting the Spirit’s power in our lives. We’re demonstrating the Spirit’s power in our life.

If your Christian life is stuck in a rut and you can’t even remember the last time God did something supernatural in your life, perhaps it’s because you’ve neglected your spiritual gifts. Do you want to see the power of the Holy Spirit present and active in your life? Discover and develop your spiritual gifts.

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