By Elimu Assistant Team 
Gifts of the Holy Spirit and what is their Purpose
- The Gifts of the Holy Spirit:
Gifts of the Holy Spirit are special powers or abilities to carry out special tasks - Gift of wisdom:
having a deep understanding of issues- ‘seeing far’, being perceptive. - Gift of knowledge:
ability to understand the basic facts about Jesus, His mission, and knowledge about spiritual issues. - The gift of faith:
refers to the confidence in God’s help. It is a deep trust in God. - The Gift of Healing:
ability, and power to heal all forms of sickness by calling upon the name of Jesus Christ. - The gift of performing miracles:
gift of healing miracles, creative miracles, for example, dead legs becoming alive. - The gift of preaching
- The gift of prophecy:
the ability to interpret God’s word. The ability to foresee what will happen in the future as revealed by God. - The gift of distinguishing spirits or discernment:
the ability to know whether a spiritual gift is from God, the Holy Spirit or from the evil spirit - The gift of speaking in tongues:
The ability to utter, and speak in a tongue, language unknown to the believer. Tongues are used when addressing God for self-edification. It is personal growth. - The gift of interpretation of tongues:
the ability to understand and interpret the messages of those speaking in tongues. - The gift of love. (1 Corinthians 13)
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
