THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
THE GIFT OF WISDOM
a. What are the wisdom gifts ? Word of wisdom, word of knowledge,
and discerning of spirits
b. Natural abilities (talents) versus spiritual gifts
c. The mind of Christ
d. Worldly wisdom and the wisdom of God
e. Interpreting revelations, visions, dreams and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. more…
Many Christians desire to be used by God in ministering to others who are in need. We desire to be used by the Lord in growing measure i.e. being able to minister to more and more people progressively. Somehow in the midst of this matter, we may have mixed our “usability” by God with the level of “anointing” which we believe we have received from God. Pastors are concerned that the size of their congregation is reflective of the “anointing” they have received. There are pastors who believed that they have been “anointed” to minister to a hundred only and hence, their congregation is limited to one hundred no matter how hard they work or how many outreach programmes they hold. To another, it might be 1,000 and another 10,000 and some 25,000 or 30,000. Is this true, in the Biblical sense? more…
I was listening to a recorded testimony given by Pastor Dr Philip Lyn on how God raised his four years old daughter, Sarah, from the dead ( http://www.jesushealsmi.com/sarah_lyn.html ). It was a tremendous testimony and a heart warming episode of what goes on in the heart and mind of a parent whose beloved daughter went through coma and the threat of brain damage.
Just a day before her fourth birthday, little Sarah followed her 12 years old brother Andrew to his violin teacher’s home for playtime. Running around the backyard and playing around the cloth lines, Sarah and 3 years old Madeline (the violin teacher’s daughter) were having a joyful time. Somehow, Sarah climbed onto the stool near the cloth lines, where a noose was tied at the end of the line. She might have climbed up the stool and playfully or accidentally placed her head in the noose and when the stool fell she was strung up. By the time little Madeline managed to alert her mother, about 5- 6 minutes had passed and Sarah’s body had turned blackish blue, hanging from the noose. Normally, a deprivation of oxygen to the brain for about 3 minutes would cause an immediate damage to the upper brain. The music teacher cried out to God and did some CPR to try to revive Sarah. Andrew called his dad, Dr Philip who was in his clinic then. Dr Philip rushed Sarah to the hospital but Sarah was in a coma. more…
Last Sunday, I had a wonderful time listening to a first hand account from Pastor Solomon Bulan on the Bario Revival in Sarawak, Malaysia which took place in 1973. A humble Kelabit pastor, Pastor Solomon was a school teacher then. The revival broke out as a result of much prayer for revival among the young people in the Bario church. Bario is in the Kelabit Highlands (Mount Murud). The Kelabit is a small tribe with just about 5,000 persons. The Holy Spirit came upon the people with great power and conviction. The young as well as the old began to cry out and repent of their sins. School children, farmers and almost everyone stopped everything they were doing and went to church from morning till night, everyday, to pray. There were miraculous signs of speaking and interpretation of tongues, healings, casting out of evil spirits, word of knowledge and a great zeal to spread the Gospel to other villages and tribes. Hidden charms kept by the believers were revealed by the Holy Spirit and those convicted had their lives greatly changed. Groups of school boys, aging between 13-15 years, went out into the dense forests, walking for days to preach the Gospel from village to village. Whole villages were converted and set on fire by the Holy Spirit. The journey from one village to another by foot would normally take about 8 – 10 hours. Sometimes, because the team would stop for prayer, the delay may cause them to have to travel at night in pitch darkness. The Holy Spirit would lit up their path by causing leaves to glow in the dark. more…
SARAWAK SIGHTINGS IN BA KELALAN
Report by James Ritchie ( New Straits Times, 3rd December 1985 Malaysia)
HOLDING THE KEY TO THE ‘MIRACLES’
Agung Bangan is a much respected man in the Lun Bawang community because the people believe that he has been gifted with the powers to receive messages from God.Born at Punang Kelalan near Buduk Nur in 1943, the former Pastor said he does not have the power to heal but has the power to foretell religious events as revealed by the Holy Spirit.A simple and unassuming father of seven, Agung is soft-spoken, somewhat shy, is a man of few words and is inquisitive about ‘worldly affairs.’The furthest he has traveled to is Miri. He started his education at Ba Kelalan up to Primary Four before going to Lawas with his family to take up religious studies for four years. more…
Report by James Ritchie ( New Straits Times Malaysia 3rd October 1985)
MAKING OF A ‘CLASSIC’ MOVIE
The phenomenon at Ba Kelalan has all the ingredients of an epic movie similar to Close Encounters … but of the Sarawak kind.
It has all the makings of a classic movie because of the magnificent landforms in the vicinity. To the south-west, about 80 km away, is Sarawak’s highest mountain, Gunung Murud (7,950 feet). (It is believed that it was from the mountain that the name Murut was coined to identify the people living in the general area.) Further southwest is another unique landform called Batu Lawi. Batu Lawi has two peaks, one as tall as 6,700 feet which legend says was once a man, and a shorter peak, which is said to have been a woman. more…
Report by James Ritchi ( New Straits Times Malaysia 3rd October 1985)
CHANGES IN BA KELALAN
Close to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border, in a valley surrounded by a ring of hills about 2,700 feet above sea level, is a cluster of villages named Ba Kelalan. Named after the Kelalan River which meanders through this fertile village, Ba Kelalan is the home of the friendly and hospitable Lun Bawang people (formerly called Murut) of staunch Christian faith and of the Evangelical Church of Sidang Injil Borneo as it is known in Sarawak. more…
THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT II – POWER GIFTS
a. What are the power gifts? Gift of faith, working of miracles and gifts of healings
b. Faith healing and casting out demons
c. Natural laws and Supernatural laws
d. Counterfeits more…
THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT – VOCAL GIFTS
a. What are the vocal gifts ? Speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecies and singing in the spirit.
b. Speaking in tongues the needed sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit?
c. Personal Prophecies and public prophecies.
d. Biblical Prophecies
e. Praying and Singing in the spirit
f. Speaking with understanding and without understanding. more…
THE MANIFESTED PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
a. Recognising the manifested presence of the Holy Spirit
b Responding to the Holy Spirit’s presence
c. Flowing in the power of the Holy Spirit
d. Hearing the Holy Spirit
e. Obeying the Voice of the Holy Spirit
f. Recognising manifestation of false spirits, human imagination and delusions. more…
