The Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Contents

Chapter 1: My Pentecostal Experience

• Raised From the Bed of Sickness
• MARK 11:23,24
• God Is Not Nervous!
• The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
• The Work of the Holy Spirit in the New Birth
• The Work of the Holy Spirit In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
• Tarrying’ Is Not a Formula For Receiving the Holy Spirit.
• Any Believer Can Receive the Holy Spirit
• Biblical Example of Believers Receiving The Holy Spirit Without Tarrying
• Why Wait To Receive a Gift?
• The Ephesian Disciples
• The Samaritan Christians
• Saul of Tarsus
• The Sending End or the Receiving End?
• The Holy Spirit Gives the Utterance

Chapter 2: The Holy Spirit in the Denominational Church

• Denominational Differences Don’t Matter
• The Holy Spirit: God’s Promise to You
• The Holy Spirit Is a Person
• Extreme Teachings in the Church
• Does One Receive the Fullness of the Holy Spirit in the New Birth?
• The Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Rivers of Living Waters
• The Same Holy Spirit in the New Birth As in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
• Speaking in Tongues Is Not The Evidence of the New Birth
• New Wine: A Type of the Holy Spirit
• Born-Again Samaritans Were Filled With the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit: God’s Giving vs. People’s Receiving
• The Ministry of Laying On of Hands
• Did the Baptism in the Holy Spirit ‘Pass Away’ With the Last Apostle?

Chapter 3: Two Separate Experiences: Salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

• The Samaritans Born Again Under Philip’s Ministry
• First Scriptural Witness
• Second Scriptural Witness
• Third Scriptural Witness
• The Samaritans Received the Holy Spirit
• Evidence the Samaritans Received The Holy Spirit
• Two Separate Experiences: Saul’s Conversion and Baptism in the Holy Spirit
• Saul’s Conversion

Chapter 4: The Holy Spirit Within: His Indwelling Presence

• God For Us, With Us, and In Us
• Believers Are the Temple of the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
• Greater Is He That Is in You
• A Thousand Times Bigger on the Inside!
• Dare to act on that scripture!.
• The Role of the Holy Spirit Within
• The Holy Spirit Within: Our Helper and Comforter
• The Holy Spirit Within: Our Guide in the Affairs of Life
• Knowing on the Inside of You What To Do
• 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

Chapter 5: The Holy Spirit Upon: His Infilling Power

• The Holy Spirit Upon
• When the Church Began
• Born Again, but Waiting for the Outpouring
• There Is More To Receive of the Holy Spirit After the New Birth
• Wigglesworth’s Testimony Of Being Filled With the Holy Spirit
• Speaking in Tongues Is Not Evidence Of the New Birth
• The Holy Spirit Upon: The Gateway Into the Supernatural
• My Own Experiences in Prayer
• Cooperating With the Holy Spirit, The Power Source
• Something More
• Basing Our Faith on the Word, Not on Our Feelings

Chapter 6: Is It Scriptural To Tarry for the Holy Ghost?

• Tarrying Is Not a Formula For Receiving the Holy Spirit
• Bible Examples of Receiving the Holy Ghost
• The Samaritan Believers
• Cornelius and His Household
• Is It Scriptural To Tarry for the Holy Ghost?
• Saul of Tarsus
• The Ephesian Disciples
• JOHN 7:37-39
• The Holy Spirit Is a Gift
• Possessing What Is Yours
• Take the Direct Route!
• Chapter 7 How Important Is Speaking in Tongues?
• Have Tongues Been Done Away With?
• Are Tongues Available for All Believers?
• 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-30
• Ministry Gifts vs. Spiritual Gifts
• EPHESIANS 4:11,12
• Miracles and Gifts of Healings
• Helps
• Governments
• Diversities of Tongues
• Tongues and Interpretation in Public Ministry
• The Value of Speaking in Tongues
• Speaking in Tongues: The Door Into the Supernatural

Chapter 8: The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

• Scriptural Witnesses for Tongues As the Evidence of the Baptism of The Holy Spirit
• First Witness: The One Hundred and Twenty
• Second Witness: Cornelius and His Household
• Third Witness: The Ephesian Disciples
• Fourth Witness: The Samaritan Believers
• Fifth Witness: Saul
• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit And Speaking in Tongues Go Hand in Hand
• The Ephesian Disciples: Speaking in Tongues and Prophesying
• The Fruit of the Spirit Is Not the Evidence Of Receiving the Holy Spirit
• The Ministry of the Laying On of Hands
• The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
• Misconceptions About Receiving The Holy Spirit
• Magnify the Word, Not Your Experience
• ROMANS 10:9,10
• Don’t Seek Experiences To Receive the Holy Spirit
• An Example of Wrong Instruction For Receiving the Holy Spirit
• Falling Into a Trance Is Not Biblical Evidence For Receiving the Holy Spirit
• Experiencing Joy Is Not Biblical Evidence For Receiving the Holy Spirit
• Not What You Feel, But What You Do

Chapter 9: Ten Reasons Why Every Believer Should Speak in Tongues

• Reason Number 1
• Reason Number 2
• Reason Number 3
• Reason Number 4
• Reason Number 5
• Reason Number 6
• Reason Number 7
• Reason Number 8
• Reason Number 9
• 1 CORINTHIANS 14:15-17
• Reason Number 10

Chapter 10: Seven Steps To Receiving the Holy Ghost

• Step Number 1
• Step Number 2
• PHILIPPIANS 3:12,13
• Step Number 3
• Step Number 4
• Step Number 5
• Step Number 6
• Step Number 7

Chapter 11: The Gift of the Word of Knowledge Part1

• Don’t Be Ignorant of Spiritual Gifts
• Spiritual Gifts Will Exalt Jesus
• Gifts, Administrations, and Operations
• The Nine Gifts Categorized
• Three revelation gifts
• Spiritual gifts that reveal something
• Three power gifts Spiritual gifts that do something
• Three utterance or inspirational gifts Spiritual gifts that say something
• The Gift of the Word of Knowledge
• The Word of Knowledge Is Not Natural Knowledge
• The Word of Knowledge Is Not A Profound Knowledge of the Bible
• The Word of Knowledge Is Not Knowledge of God Through Close Communion With Him
• Biblical Examples of the Word of Knowledge
• The Word of Knowledge to John
• Word of Knowledge to Ananias
• Modern Examples of the Word of Knowledge

Chapter 12: The Gift of the Word of Knowledge Part 2

• As the Spirit Wills
• The Word of Knowledge To Samuel Regarding Saul
• The Word of Knowledge Manifested To Locate a Lost Daughter
• The Word of Knowledge to Elijah
• The Word of Knowledge To Elisha Regarding Syria

Chapter 13: The Gift of the Word of Wisdom

• The Word of Knowledge vs. The Word of Wisdom
• The Word of Knowledge and the Word of Wisdom Can Operate Together
• The prophet of the Old Testament had to have
• The Gift of the Word of Wisdom
• The Word of Knowledge and the Word of Wisdom Operating Together in The New
• Testament
• Philip
• Old Testament Examples of The Word of Wisdom
• The Word of Wisdom to Joseph
  The Word of Wisdom in the New Testament
• The Word of Wisdom to Paul
• Conditional Words of Wisdom
• Jonah

Chapter 14: The Discerning of Spirits

• What the Discerning of Spirits Is Not
• Discerning of Spirits Is Not Simply Discerning of Devils
• Maintain Balance In Dealing With Demons
• GALATIANS 5:19-21
• Discerning the Similitude of God
• Discerning the Risen Christ
• Discerning the Holy Spirit
• Discerning the Spirit Behind an Operation
• The Inward Witness As Our Guide
• The Word of Knowledge vs. The Discerning of Spirits

Chapter 15: The Gift of Faith

• Gifts of the Spirit Are Supernatural
• The Gift of Special Faith
• The Gift of Special Faith Is Not the Same as Saving Faith
• The Gift of Faith vs. The Gift of the Working of Miracles
• Wigglesworth and the Gift of Faith
• Wigglesworth related his experience
• The Power Gifts Often Work Together
• Casting Out Demons
• GALATIANS 3

Chapter 16: The Gift of the Working of Miracles

• Find Your Place of Ministry
• The Working of Miracles Defined
• Old Testament Examples Of the Working of Miracles
• Moses and the Israelites
• Elijah and the Widow
• Working of Miracles in the New Testament
• Jesus and the Feeding of the Five Thousand
• Ananias and Sapphira
• Paul and Elymas
• The Gift of Faith vs. the Working of Miracles To Deliver From Danger
• Gifts of Healings More Prevalent In the New Testament
• ACTS 6:8
• The Importance of the Working of Miracles
• Desire Earnestly Spiritual Gifts
• Gifts of Healings: Not Medical Science
• Gifts of Healings Prominent in The New Testamen
• Jesus Ministered as a Man Anointed by the Holy Spirit
• The Gifts of Healings
• Gifts of Healings vs. Receiving by Faith
• Ministering by the Gifts of Healings

Chapter 18: Gift of Prophecy

• Divers kinds of tongues is supernatural utterance in an unknown tongue
• The Gift of Prophecy vs. The Office of the Prophet
• New Testament Example Of the Gift of Prophecy
• New Testament Example of The Prophet’s Ministry
• Misuses of the Gift of Prophecy
• The Simple Gift of Prophecy Is Not Prediction
• Manifestations of the Holy Spirit In Corporate Worship
• The Holy Spirit Manifests Himself As We Seek the Lord
• Caution Needed With Personal Prophecies
• Simple Prophecy Edifies, Exhorts, and Comforts
• 1 CORINTHIANS 14:3
• Prophecy in One’s Prayer Life
• Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs By the Gift of Prophecy

Chapter 19: The Gift of Divers Kinds of Tongues

• Tongues: The Most Prominent Gift
• The Gift of Tongues Is a Supernatural Sign
• The Gift of Tongues Is Unique To This Dispensation
• Tongues Is the Evidence Of Being Filled With the Spirit
• Purposes of Speaking in Tongues
• Initial Evidence of Receiving the Holy Spirit
• Speaking Mysteries Supernaturally to God
• Magnifying God
• ACTS 10:45,46
• Edifying Ourselves
• JUDE 20
• Praying in the Spirit
• Be Being Filled With the Spirit
• Spiritual Refreshing
• Interpreting Tongues In Our Private Prayer Life
• The Gift of Tongues in Public Ministry
• Prophecy Is Equivalent To Tongues and Interpretation
• Speaking in Tongues in a Public Setting
• MARK 16:17,18
• Private vs. Public Operation Of the Gift of Tongues
• 1 CORINTHIANS 14:18,19
• Tongues is not a teaching gift or a preaching gift

Chapter 20: The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues

• The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues
• The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues In Our Private Prayer Life
• The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues In Public Ministry
• 1 CORINTHIANS 14:27
• The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues
• The Gift of Interpretation — Not Translation