Gifts Are For Today! (More to Come)

We sent out a quick email newsletter sharing with folks about our opportunity to go to the Rez and work with Virginia. A dear brother responded back that same day with a Word of Knowledge from the LORD. The Bible has this to say about “A Word of Knowledge” found 1^st Corinthians 12:4-11...

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same LORD. GOD works in different ways, but it is the same GOD who does the work in all of us. A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice.

To another the same Spirit gives a word of knowledge.

The same Spirit gives great faith to another.

To someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing.

HE gives one person the power to perform miracles.

And to another the ability to prophesy.

To someone else the ability to distinguished between spirits.

To another the ability to speak in unknown languages

While another is given the interpretation.

It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. HE alone decides which gift each person should have.

I realized some Christians don't believe that these gifts are for today. But the Word says otherwise and our family has seen plenty of evidence that these gifts of the Holy Spirit are alive and well today. So when we received the email from Randy, who GOD had used many times over the years to encourage and caution us. We had learned to take seriously what Randy lovingly put forth which was this...

Kerry, I feel the LORD has given me this message for you. I hope it is of some comfort to you...

Persevere. The day I will prove MYSELF in your life is nigh.

I will not give you fear for peace.

Kerry, I do not know what this last part means, but I know that you or someone in your family does. May HE bless you well. I love you all. Randy

About two weeks later we were scheduled to meet up with Virginia to do ministry on the reservation. Even though we felt inadequate in so many ways, GOD was more than able to accomplish HIS purposes. We were awed to witness HIS power at work. We had left Bonita Springs early Saturday morning and headed deep into the Everglades. We met up with Virginia and spent the day on the reservation praying and touring around meeting people. We still didn't know for sure where we could do a service the next day. But that afternoon GOD opened a door on the reservation behind a local store under a pavilion! That night we followed Virginia to her home where we spent the night. Her two grandchildren were also staying the night and had been helping us all day. It was neat how our children connected.