BILL: You know, after 59 years of marriage, you know, my wife and I we love each other, we just don’t feel the same way we did as teenagers. But, you walk by faith, you got saved by faith, you got filled with faith, you move these gifts by faith. Now, 1 Corinthians 12:7 says the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every saint. That means all 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit are sent to your Holy Ghost bodies. And you take them to work, take them home, take them to school, take them to bed and never take them out to bless anybody. Amen. That’s the reason Paul told Timothy, Timothy, you stir up the gift of God, 2 Timothy 1:7 Timothy, you stir up the gift of God for God’s not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind. You quote that scripture but it’s related to stirring up your gifts. They’re in you. You don’t have to pray them down or work them up, let them flow. Now I’m going to show you how to release them, amen. And so, then it says, then it talks about the 9 gifts of the Spirit which is the verbal gifts, tongues and interpretation, prophecy, and the revelation gifts, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discernment, and the power gifts, faith, healing, and miracles. Now, according to God’s illustration in Matthew there is 1, 2 and 5 every one of you has 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, 6 or 8. You see I might have 6, but if I only use 3, then I am in worse shape than you are if you have 1 and use it. Are you with me? So you need to know what you got and so we have activations, we have over 50 activations, it’s like Geiger counters that help determine where there is oil or gold or what, we have activations that determine what gifts you have within you. I could take this group right here, have you 3 days and have you all prophesying. Or you could go sit in church for the rest of your life and never activate. Come on. And so, it’s time to activate. Amen. And I’m going to activate you today.
Audience: [Applause]
BILL: Now, when I was in Pentecost, we would quote 1 Corinthians 12:11 and it says now all these works are one of the same spirit divided to every man separately as he will. Now, we would say it’s the Holy Spirit who operates the gifts. How many has ever heard that? But that’s not what it says. I’m just giving you the tops of the mountain as we skip across. Gifts are sovereignly given by the choice and will of the Holy Spirit, but they’re activated and operated by the faith of the believer. How many believers we got here? God’s sovereignty gives you the gift of eternal life, but you have to believe and receive, which is activating. Amen. He gives you your spirit language, but you have to speak. They spoke as the Spirit gave them the ability, but you do the talking. Some people want to cut their head off and talk out of here. Now what scripture we use a lot is Hebrews 5, he says milk belongs to babes but strong meat for grownups. And he says those who are reason of use have their senses exercised to discern what is good and evil. Good, the mind of the Lord, revelation, thoughts of Christ, evil, man’s thoughts, imagination.
