Preparation for Gifts (part III)

By Odon Bulamba (summary only)

Most servants of God have gifts but they don’t work. Why is that? It is because they lack faith. For instance, if someone has the gift of healing and someone is sick, first you must be in good contact with your God, you must ask God, “am I ready to do that or not?” If God allows you, do it and if he doesn’t allow you, don’t do it. Also, don’t be influenced by anyone, if you are influenced by this world, the Spirit cannot work in you because the Spirit needs to rule everything in your life. God told us that those who want to follow Me must bear their cross, it’s not about other people’s crosses it’s about yourself, you must know yourself, you must know who you really are and admit your spiritual weaknesses. Ask yourself, “Do I have faith so that my gift can work? When I pray am I influenced by someone else?”

Many Christians when they gather together to pray, they want to show others how good they are in praying. If you have the gift of prayer it will not work if you want to show men that you can pray. Sometimes Christians when they pray in front of others they are very careful with the words they choose and try to show everyone they are grammatically perfect. This is zero for God. You will find that some people preach and they will say this is written this and that and this man says that but after the preaching you will find emptiness. When we want to show people that we have something special and we are able to pray or preach, the Spirit of God will leave us.

Jesus gave us a good example to follow, after His baptism He went to the desert for 40 days and Satan came to Him. Satan knew that he was the Son of God but Satan said to Him if, if you are the Son of God change those stones so you can eat bread because you are hungry. Can you see how Satan wants us to be proud? There was nobody else other than Satan and Jesus there but Jesus answered and said no. Satan did not give up, he knows that God created the earth and everything on the earth belongs to God, but Satan said to Jesus, “I will give you all this if you accept to do whatever I ask you”. Satan knew that this didn’t belong to him but he still wanted to give it to someone else. For us Christians, when we have the gift of the Spirit we can be sure that we will be invited by servants of God, by churches, by families and by groups of people, they will respect us and give us the first place in everything. But when we pray and speak in front of them we must ask God’s opinion first, if you don’t ask God’s opinion the gift you have in you won’t work.

SUMMARY
- For our gifts to work we must have faith
- We must not be influenced by others
- The Holy Spirit must rule everything in our lives
- We must be humble
- We must ask God first before doing anything

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