Operating in the Gifts of the Spirit

The Holy Spirit:

1. The person of the Holy Spirit (our relationship with God)
2. The leading of the Holy Spirit (learning to follow His voice)
3. The fruit of the Holy Spirit (the character of God)
4. The baptism of the Holy Spirit (the power of God)
   Ephesians 1:15-23 NKJ
   Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your
   love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making
   mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
   the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and
   revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding
   being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling,
   what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and
   what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe,
   according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in
   Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right
   hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and
   might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
   age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His
   feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is
   His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Three Revelations:

1. What are you called to do?
2. What has He invested in you?
3. What power is available to you?
   1 Corinthians 2:1-5 NKJ
   And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of
   speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I
   determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and
   Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much
   trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with
   persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
   and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but
   in the power of God.
   1 Corinthians 12:7-11 NKJ
   But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of
   all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to
   another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another
   faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same
   Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to
   another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to
   another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit
   works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He
   wills.

Activating the Gifts of the Spirit:

1. You must believe that God wants to use you supernaturally.
2. You must ask God to anoint you with the gifts!
3. You must put yourself in a position to be used.
   John 14:11-17 NKJ
   “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else
   believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I
   say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also;
   and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
   And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may
   be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. If
   you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father,
   and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you
   forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
   it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells
   with you and will be in you.”