OKAY WOW. OH MY GOSH. so we are learning about our spiritual gifts, and I’M SO OVERWHELMED. i had no idea about the spiritual gifts at all. we’ve been going through them to an intense level, and even practicing them in class to figure out how to use them and what not. i’ve realized especially that i have the gift of discernment of spirits. i’ve always been able to read people to an extent that most people couldn’t. this means like, to be able to tell if someone is genuine or not...or if they are hurt or feeling a certain emotion, or even possessed. i always wondered why no one was able to see things in people that i could, and now i know why! it’s amazing to know that God cares enough about me to bless me with an actual GIFT. i’ve never been good at anything. no sport, no musical talent, not artsy either. i always felt discouraged when people would ask me what i “do for fun.” because usually it would just be hanging out with friends and watching movies and whatnot.
as we were going through the gifts, we got to “words of knowledge” which can be used to show people God’s realness. what it basically is, is the Holy Spirit downloading information to you about someone’s past. this is so that you can prove God’s realness, as well as to discern why someone may act the way they do. so in class the guy teaching us, asked us if we could come up with any “words of knowledge” for him. i got a picture of an elephant...and him and his wife riding it. i had no idea why, and i definitely was not going to speak up about it because it seemed so absurd. finally, i spoke up and said what i saw, and as soon as i said “elephant” someone else in the class said “i got that too!” it was insane! and then i told him exactly what i saw and he said that him and his wife have been talking about going and riding an elephant together for quite a while now. HOW INSANE. WHAT THE HECK. OH MY GOODNESS. WHAT!? DID THIS SERIOUSLY JUST HAPPEN TO MEEE!!!?????? wow. i had no idea that God had placed these things on my life.
Also, when i was telling my one-on-one leader about this, she asked me to do the same for her. i got so uncomfortable, because i figured the one earlier in the afternoon was just coincidence. she was like “i’ll wait for you.” so i just relaxed and asked God to speak something to me. immediately i got a red dress. i asked her if she had one, and she agreed, and asked the age she wore it. i said about 14-15. then described the fit and length of the dress, and she nodded that i was right. then i could see her wearing it at a party... it wasn’t a bad party. there was a purpose for this party. like the celebration of something. there were all ages of people there. astonished, she told me that she wore that same type of red dress, at age 15 or 16, to this party that was celebrating the end of the production of a play. i mean yeah, what i got for her was pretty vague, but STILL. GOD IS FREAKIN’ TALKING TO ME. HOW INSANE IS THIS!? HE IS GIVING ME REAL WORDS OF KNOWLEDGE. also, we are learning that if you want to strengthen a certain spiritual gift, you can easily do that by just making the decision that that is what you want to do! keep practicing, and ask God to help you see what you can do to develop it. And of course, the main key, is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Oh yeah we also learned about the spiritual gift of healing. I watched my friends with bad backs, bad knees, bad necks, etc. be healed by the Holy Spirit through MY FRIENDS. US. THE STUDENTS, HEALING STUDENTS. HOW INSANE!? Just like that, miraculously healed. wow. God is definitely working in the lives of all the students here, and it’s amazing to see that God truly does have a supernatural side and is willing to share it with those who want to use it.
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