this is an important attribute here okay why because we want to be able to
motivate people to serve God okay we want to motivate people to serve God we
want our words to be as goads that motivate them to serve the Lord and we
want to be able to instill faith in that individual to do so okay encourage that
person and a good way to say that a good way to explain this is this is that you
know this is kind of like the gift of confidence where you're able to instill
confidence in another individual and within reason by the way okay within
reason which you have to you know have wisdom to know you know you don't want
to just kind of instill confidence in an individual who has they're not
predisposed to play an instrument or something you know what I mean you know
you it's like you know what uh who can I pick without offending someone let's see
who's not offended they can't play an instrument at all all right let's get
more here like Maureen you're John doesn't do this but I'm just giving an
example you know I think you could play the piano I think you can in fact you
will play the piano those hands are made to play the piano black people know how
to play piano I know they can and you just build up Maureen you're just like
giving them that confidence and what happens he tries and just fails
miserably okay more he's not offended I promise you okay his wife may be
offended he volunteered no I'm just kidding what I'm saying is that you know
faith the gift of faith is the ability to instill confidence in individual
within reason of what they're capable of doing so the person who has the gift of
faith to couple that gift with the gift of wisdom to be able to spot someone who
has potential you understand because the person who has potential has the
building blocks for whatever task needs to be accomplished and the person who
has the gift of faith is able to instill the confidence in that individual to say
develop that gift develop that talent develop those leadership skills and you
can do something with that in the future but that requires someone with the gift
of faith they're able to basically you know instill vision in someone else's
life for what could be okay and that is an important thing to do there now it
goes on to say to another the gifts of healing by the same spirit now one thing
you notice in this list of gifts that are being mentioned is that there are
some that are being mentioned that you would say well I thought those are null
and void I thought those one don't exist anymore you got the gifts of healing you
got the gifts of miracles we see the gifts of being an apostle what's going
on with that well obviously some of these are null and void he said then why
are they being mentioned well because there it was necessary during that time
when it was being written to the Corinthians for example we love the Ten
Commandments but we don't keep the Sabbath anymore right but it's on the
list but we obviously know okay this is one that we don't have to keep because
that's already been fulfilled you understand well in like manner we could
look at a list like this and see the gift of miracles we can see the gift of
being an apostle or a prophet and understand okay obviously these gifts
don't they no longer exist we can basically scratch these off these aren't
what God is referring to for us today in 2021 but I will say this when it comes
to the gift of healing automatically the thing that comes to mind is well you
know the ability to heal a leper right heal someone who's blind deaf they're
mute or whatever it may be that's what comes to mind but you know this could
also be referring to someone who just understands medicine right you know
someone who has the gift of healing is someone who understands the science of
medicine okay you know dr. Rita for example she has a thorough understanding
of medicine and I would say that she has the gift of healing because she knows
basically all the ins and outs of the medical world okay she's a general
practitioner who understands these things and she can drop that info at the
drop of a hat and she uses it to be a blessing to people you know people
consult with her etc we have a person like that in the Bible named Luke right
Luke was the beloved physician who was serving God but we obviously see that he
was an actual doctor we would say that he had the gift of healing he just
understood medicine the way other people would not be able to understand medicine
you know some of us is like that kind of goes over our heads we're not really
interested in those things I'm not really you know kind of keen to medical
terms and all that whereas someone like a dr. Rita that heightens her senses
that's what she's gifted with is the ability to understand those things okay