Charisma – INTERCESSION, TONGUES, and INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES
The explosive growth of the Church didn’t happen just because of social innovation. Its growth was miraculous—divine action through human instruments. Deposited in each follower of Jesus are spiritual gifts that build up the Church and that are for the common good. Do you know how you’ve been gifted? And are you courageous enough to live them out?
In this week’s podcast, Jamie N. and Jamie A. talk about the spiritual gifts of intercession, tongues and interpretation of tongues.
Intercession, while not in the formal list of gifts but strongly inferred throughout Scripture, is the spiritual capacity to demonstrate God’s Fatherhood by praying for extended periods of time on a regular basis and seeing frequent and specific answers to prayers to a degree greater than the average Christian experience.
Tongues (1 Corinthians 12:10, 28; 14:2ff)is the spiritual capacity to reveal God’s thoughts by speaking a message in an unknown language—a spontaneous, but self-controlled utterance from God in unknown words.
Interpretation of Tongues (1 Corinthians 12:10) is the spiritual capacity to reveal God’s thoughts by understanding and clearly communicating a message that was spoken in tongues.