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1. THE PURPOSE OF THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

All the life and ministry of the new covenant is based on the fact that Jesus serves us first in the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit influences and changes us, we are equipped to serve others with the gifts we have received. The ministry of the old covenant took place on the level of natural understanding and natural faith. The Holy Spirit spoke to the prophets from the outside. The Holy Spirit rested upon the prophets but was not inside them. The law of sin and death prevented it.

Now we have a new covenant built on a unity in the spirit through Jesus. We have unity with the Holy Spirit in our spirits. God the Father has given us the Holy Spirit through Jesus. He has given a promise to be even immersed in the Holy Spirit and Fire in all areas of our life. With this foundation, believers who have received Jesus, can pursue and own all the gifts and blessings that the Father has prepared for His sons / daughters in Jesus.

The Father's heart rules in the ministry of His Kingdom. It is necessary for you to know the Father's heart deeply, so that you can minister people as He desires and in His love and power. God's purposes and revelation are greater than we understand. In the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire God cleanses us, transforms us and equips us to proclaim and demonstrate His Kingdom as He wants. All God's revelation in Jesus contains a redeeming reality and immense grace. The message of Jesus and the ministry of the Holy Spirit aims to deliver people and to destroy the works of the enemy.

Everything in God's Kingdom happens and works through relationship. Our salvation is the result of our relationship with God the Father through Jesus. The relationship is born by the Holy Spirit, who fills and revives the spirit of the believer. The Holy Spirit connects you with the Father's love, power, wisdom and eternal life altogether. Your life in the Kingdom of God is result of the increase, intimacy and depth of your love relationship with Jesus and the Father in the Holy Spirit.

We can serve people with the gifts of the Holy Spirit only when we surrender to God and assume His love for ourselves and other people. When we minister people, we must first create a relationship and connection of God's love with them. Then we can enter into the faith agreement in unity with them, and ask Jesus touch them.

God the Father looks at each person through Jesus' work of salvation. When you received Jesus, God the Father gave you His spirit into your spirit and your sprit was born again. Now your Father knows you completely through His Spirit in you. You need not to explain anything to Him. God knows you better than you know yourself. Therefore, your loving Father can give you excellent gifts that satisfy your life completely. Your part is to surrender unto His love and grace in the Holy Spirit.

1 Cor. 2:9-11: ...but as it is written: "What eye has not seen, nor ear heard, what has not entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love him". But God has revealed it to us through His Spirit, because the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a man what is in a man, except the spirit of man that is in him? Likewise, no one knows what is in God except the Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit leads you to minister people like Jesus does. In the Holy Spirit, you have all necessary gifts and capacity to touch people's lives with the loving grace and transforming power of the Father. You proclaim the Good News of the salvation and reign of Jesus. The Holy Spirit confirms your words by the signs and wonders that will follow your ministry. You are the ambassador of the Great Anointed One when you minister in your anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus led the disciples to be immersed in the fire of the Holy Spirit so that they would merge with God's love and be able to serve in the gifts and offices of the Holy Spirit. The fire of the Holy Spirit burned all the hatred, anger and other darkness from the disciples and merged them into the love of God the Father.

Jesus wants to anoint you too to bring forth His reign with all power of the Holy Spirit. You need to surrender into immersion in the Holy Spirit and Fire. Then "the Christ (the Anointed One) will manifest in you. Therefore, do not ask the gifts of ministries of the Holy Spirit for you, but ask, seek and knock the immersion in the Holy Spirit and Fire. When you allow Jesus to overwhelm you with His Fire and Love, all the known and unknown gifts and the ministries of the Holy Spirit can operate through you.

Luke 24:45-49: Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures. And he said to them, "Thus it is written that Christ suffered and rose from the dead on the third day, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of this. And behold, I am sending you that which I My father has promised; but you stay in this city until you are clothed with power from on high."

1 Cor. 12:1-13: But as for spiritual gifts, I do not want you to be ignorant of them, brothers. You know that when you were heathens, you were taken to dumb idols as they pleased. Therefore I make it known to you that no one - speaking in the Spirit of God - says, "Jesus be accursed," and that no one can say, "Jesus be Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

Paul is expressing an extremely radical truth here. The Holy Spirit brings a dividing line into people's lives. The Holy Spirit is the glory of God the Father. He does not meddle with any of the influences of darkness, nor with man's own theories or reason. Jesus has prepared for you a purification and glory where you will own the mind of Christ. You are delivered from the law of sin and death. You live under the law the Spirit of Life. You are delivered to live in the glory of God and minister His Life and blessings to people. In the anointing of the Holy Spirit, you proclaim and demonstrate Jesus' reign, salvation and transforming power to all people.

The body of Christ is suffering, because there is not adequate teaching about the baptism in the Holy Spirit and Fire. There is too much human thinking, traditions and religions that lead God's people astray. God knows this problem and He is now pouring out new apostolic anointing for hungry people. We are now in the time of the fulfillment of the Gospel. Therefore, seek diligently apostolic faith and immersion in the fire of the Holy Spirit. All the vast reality of the Holy Spirit is within your reach. Abandon unbelief, disappointments, skepticism, religious lies and grasp the reality of God's kingdom in the Holy Spirit!

You have to understand the character of the gifts of the Spirit correctly. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are in the Spirit. No man owns them. But through the cleansing, healing and restoring power of the Holy Spirit you will become a vessel and channel for the operations of the Holy Spirit. The mind of Christ, love of the Father and leadership of your spirit makes you capable to transmit gifts of the Spirit to people, whom God wants to bless with these gifts. In the anointing of the Holy Spirit, you will represent Jesus to the people around you. Your giftings and qualifications are not the point. The point is the manifestation of Jesus as the Savior, Healer, Deliverer and King on the throne of the Father.

The goals of the gifts and offices of the Holy Spirit in you are the same as Jesus' goal:

Luke 4:18-19: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to preach release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord".

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are the touch of Jesus. You can receive the touch of the Holy Spirit directly from Jesus in your personal worship. Jesus has saved you into full unity with the Holy Spirit. But you may not always have adequate faith or ability to receive the filling with the Holy Spirit, deliverance, healing and other solutions from Jesus directly. In this situation, you need to seek anointed unity of faith where other people can minister you. Jesus has a special desire to manifest in the loving and humble fellowship of His people. Do not neglect this blessing because you need to grow and unite with the global and heavenly body of Christ.

2 Tim. 2:22: But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.