Are You Manifesting ?

This past Wednesday night we were fellowshipping in prayer at the New Life Center @ 220 Adelaide when I was keyed up with the question from their pastor: Are You Manifesting? He was talking about the importance of the Spiritual gifts in the life of believer.
I am posing this same question to you: Are You manifesting?
There are few principles that Bible teaches about the Spiritual gifts:

• The Spiritual gifts are received by all who are baptized.
  
• The gifts are for service to others not ourselves.
  
• Individuals receive gifts according to their place & role in God’s plan.
  
• Gifts are supernatural character & are not the same as natural talents.
  
• Gifts are identified and defined in the New Testament
  
• They all contribute to the Church’s mission of evangelization.
  
• They are to be used in the work places and neighborhoods of the world where lay people live and not only in the church or among Christians.
  

As Christ forms His Body – the Church – he also enables it to function by equipping it through giving various gifts.
Apostle Paul writing to Romans (12:4-13) say we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of Christ’s Body of chosen people. A chopped-off finger, or a cut-off toe wouldn’t amount to much, would it? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s Body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.
Live from the center of Who You Are, of who God made you to be. When we function from the Spiritual gifts we will not burn out, and will be always fueled and aflame.
It is only through the Spiritual gifts that Jesus can be made manifest in our mortal flesh. When we live out of the Spiritual Giftedness then the Fruits of the Spirit are produced.
The true and lasting love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control can be manifested only through the use of Spiritual Gifts. Paul says that we can walk in the Spirit only if we live in the Spirit, and vice versa.
When we live out our Spiritual Gifts we are not desirous of vain glory, we will not be provoking one another, or envying one another. (Galatians 5:22-26) I invite you as my fellowservants in the Grace of Gospel to discover your Spiritual giftedness, your place in the Body and manifest it!
Are you Manifesting?