What are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and what is their Purpose

What are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and what is their Purpose

• The gifts of the Holy Spirit:
  Gifts of the Holy Spirit are special powers or abilities to carry out special tasks
• Gift of wisdom:
  having deep understanding of issues- ‘seeing far’, being perceptive.
• Gift of knowledge:
  ability to understand the basic facts about Jesus, His mission and knowledge about spiritual issues.
• The gift of faith:
  refers to the confidence in God’s help. It is deep trust in God.
• The Gift of healing:
  ability, and power to heal all forms of sickness by calling upon the name of Jesus Christ.
• The gift of performing miracles:
  gift of healing miracles, creative miracles for example, dead legs becoming alive.
• The gift of preaching
• The gift of prophecy:
  the ability to interpret God’s word. The ability to foresee what will happen in the future as revealed by God.

• The gift of distinguishing spirits or discernment:
  the ability to know whether a spiritual gift is from God, the Holy Spirit or from the evil spirit
• The gift of speaking in tongues:
  The ability to utter, speak in a tongue, language unknown to the believer. Tongues are used when addressing God for self-edification. It is personal growth.
• The gift of interpretation of tongues:
  the ability to understand and interpret the messages of those speaking in tongues.
• The gift of love. (1 Corinthians 13) 
  13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
  4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
  8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
  ​13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.​

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