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The Bible is full of mysteries. Spiritual mysteries. “The wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God.” (1Cor.2:7) Paul wrote, “Servants of Christ have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.” (1Cor.4:1)  And “Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…” (1Tim.3:17, NKJV) Mysteries are all about the spirit world, where there are angels and demons, Satan and God, and YOU! You are a spirit-being in an earth suit. You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body. One day, all saved people will have new earth suits, glorified, resurrected bodies.
Born again people feed on the mysteries of God. Mysteries are what we need to hear to break us loose from the ordinary mundane material things of this earth. We spend all week in that material world and our souls hunger to hear about the spirit world, something greater than ourselves and our earthbound life.

Spiritual gifts are part of that mystery. They are spiritual gifts. Gifts from the ultimate Spirit-being to us for our help and good. They take us into the realm of the invisible God when He manifests Himself to us through the body of Christ.

Chapter 13 is the great love chapter, but sandwiched on either side of that great chapter are these words about desiring spiritual gifts. Sure, love is the better way, but let me explain that. It’s not love or gifts. He wouldn’t tell us to earnestly desire spiritual gifts on both sides of the love chapter if that were so. The love chapter is between two important chapters on spiritual gifts. There’s a reason for that and this is it. God’s love is best shown by spiritual gifts. Gifts are the best way to love. Gifts are how you show your love. Don’t just tell your honey you love her on Valentine’s Day, show her. Give her flowers and/or candy. Spiritual gifts are the best way to show love, God’s kind of love, which is miraculous, supernatural, and spiritual love.

Earnestly desire means to passionately want something. You want something so badly you are obsessed with it, hot after it. You have affection for and are zealous for it. Be enthusiastic about what you want. We are to earnestly desire charisma (the Greek word for spiritual gifts). What do you passionately and enthusiastically desire? Like you are about your keys when you lose them, or your wallet, or your debit or credit card, or your phone when one of them is lost?  We should desire spiritual gifts more than those things. Do you earnestly desire spiritual gifts?... To read more click the following link: http://www.gracehouseclinton.com/2022/07/do-you-earnestly-desire-spiritual-gifts

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UNITY: One Body

“We have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit and we all share the same Spirit.”

1 Corinthians 12:13

To some people these glorious, wonderful and powerful truths about spiritual gifts may seem irrelevant. They are dealing with financial loss and problems, serious health issues, family and relationship problems and a plethora of other mental, emotional, career and domestic problems. But look at Acts 2:42-47 and Acts 4:32-36. This is what unity looks like and produces in a church community. We want a Revival, a Restoration of what the church was in the Bible, when individual and family lives and nations were changed for the better. The one-word Biblical term for that is - saved. “And each day the Lord added to their church those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:47)

God never answers our questions or gives us His solutions with a straight answer. Jesus never gave a straight answer to people’s questions. His answer came in the form of a curve ball. The mighty prophet Elijah went to a dark cave to have his own pity-party. He repeatedly prayed for God to kill him. He was so depressed he wanted to die. God came to him and He didn’t say, “There, there, My son, bless your darling heart. It’s going to be alright. I love you.” No, Gd told him to leave the cave and go forth and anoint his replacement. Not exactly what he was hoping to hear, I’m sure. And while he was going, he was to anoint the next kings of Aram (Syria) and Israel. God gave him the cure for depression: leave your pity-party and go do something for others. But it came in the form of a curve ball.

A man came to Jesus asking Him to make his brother share the family inheritance with him. After all, he was his brother. “I’m a member of the family!” Jesus’ answer was, “Beware! Guard against every form of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” Then He tells a story about a man who put his abundant crops in a larger barn (Lk.12:13-21). God plants the answers beneath the soil. The church is the field (1Cor.3:9). You expect God to give you a straight answer? He won’t do it. He will throw you a curve every time. It won’t be obvious, not to us. After we see it, it will. Jesus told parables that nobody understood them, but later they would.

You want an answer to your marriage problem? He says, “The church is your answer. I’ve given my children words of wisdom and the gift of praying for one another. Next question.” You want an answer to your drug, anger or lust problem? “The church, where I have gifted members of My body with power to cast out demons and to pray.” Health problems? “I have given to My church gifts of healings.” You need financial help? “I have given to the church some with the gift of giving; they can help you if they know about it. And there are teachers God has gifted the church with and those with words of wisdom to help you with financial advice.

This truth of spiritual gifts is not irrelevant at all. God has deposited His solutions and the answers to your problems in the church, which is His body with supernatural power to help one another. That help comes in the form of spiritual gifts.
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Seek the Lord

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  (Deuteronomy 4:29)

I want to balance the gist and bulk of this lesson out, but not too much because people seem to already be out of balance in favor of the introduction than the body of this teaching.

INTRODUCTION: I understand the sovereignty of God and recognize that He is prevenient in all His works of grace. No one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him (John 6:44). Romans 3:11 says, “No one seeks God.” Not unless the Father is drawing him. Until the Spirit of God moves on the face of the waters, they will remain dark and void and dead (Genesis 1:1-3). God must speak before cosmos comes out of chaos. God initiates all good things. He called Abraham, Moses, David, the apostles, including Paul; and He calls everyone He is going to save. He is Lord. But people can let that glorious truth of God’s sovereign grace take from them one of the first acts of grace in our lives, and that is His grace puts something in us – a desire to know Him and have him in our lives, working on our behalf. Paul wrote this in 1Cor.15:10, “By the grace of God I am what I am and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” The grace of God in Paul’s life moved him to labor more abundantly than any other apostle. Phil.2:13 says, “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good
pleasure.” God is at work in us to what end? To desire and do what pleases Him. One of the things that pleases God is for us to seek Him. Our text declares this.
We all know 2 Chronicles 7:14, “If My people who are called by My name will humble
themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.” God hearing us, forgiving us, and healing our land depends upon us seeking His face.

Psalm 27:8 says, “When You said, ‘Seek My face,’ My heart said to You, ‘Your face, Lord, I will
seek.” Why wouldn’t’ you seek Him? He can do everything good for you: save, heal, provide, deliver, give you peace... to read more click on the following link...  http://www.gracehouseclinton.com/2022/06/seek-the-lord

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