Q. I have a spiritual gifts question for you this time. I know I have a gift of listening but is that a spiritual gift or just a natural gift?  Also sometimes people will come up to me for no reason and start venting. Does that sound like anything to you? I was just wondering. I’ve taken numerous gifts tests and stuff like that but they don’t really seem to accomplish much. I just wanted to get your opinion that’s all. Thanks in advance and God bless.

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Q. What is your understanding of ‘Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit’. We have members in our group – which by the way is a mix of denominations incl. RC – on this subject. All agree we need to be baptized to witness to others our faith in Christ and that this is by immersion. However some maintain that you receive the Spirit after the water baptism.

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Q. Thank you for an informative and sound Bible based doctrine.

My question is ( a ) do we need prophets today in the church and (b) if we do what role do they play in the church?

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Q. I am new to your website and am enjoying it very much.  Thank you for your obedience to our Lord.  I have a friend who buys into everything (blows with the wind) and I am very worried for her.  She has come to me with things like soaking prayer and healing rooms and such.  I have worked at finding scriptures on my own and now with the help of your wonderful website.  I would appreciate knowing any information you have on these things.

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Q. I am not sure which of the spiritual gifts that I have. I have searched the scriptures and I can not seem to find anything that fits the ability that I have. What bothers me is my mother, who is half Cherokee, tells me it is from her side of the family and that they were “healers” and “seers”. I find that very disturbing.

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Q. I am going to be very bold and say I am gifted with discernment.  I know immediately, sometimes I feel I know upon seeing someone, if they are a false teacher.  I can also sense spirits who hang on people, either good or bad.

This question concerns false teaching–I have a hard time “going” to church.  I feel a problem with most of the messages being preached.   And I feel it is a valid concern.  I have young children and cannot have them being taught lies, fallacies, deception, whatever.  I feel it is my responsibility to “train up a child in the way they should go.”  As a result we, as a family,  are isolated from the body of Christ.

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Q. I have a question I’ve wondered about for a number of years. I have been an intercessor and have always considered it a calling of the Lord to pray in  intercession for others.  I understood early on in my Christian walk the importance of prayer and have seen a great many of those prayers answered.  To God goes the glory for those answered prayers. I seem to know things about a person when I pray for them  that I had not known before and I am sure the Holy Spirit gives me what to pray at those times. Is this a calling from the Lord or a gift of the Holy Spirit or both?

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Q. I have a question about giving.  A couple years ago, my wife and I prayed about an opportunity that would enable us to give more to the Lord.  We looked into a small business opportunity that she could run  while I maintained my full time job.  We prayed about this endeavor and felt the green light to move forward.  This was two years ago.  Since that time, we haven’t made any money in the business.

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Q. I read your response to that question, and have to say, I asked the Lord to reveal my spiritual gift, and after many years, I still have no idea what it is! I study Bible prophecy because I’m “obsessed” with it, as some in my former church would say, but I know there is only one Prophet, Priest, and King, so what else is missing? I’ve begun to wonder if I’m really saved because of God’s silence, but I Cor. 2:14 says I would not be able to understand, or accept God’s word as truth if I were unsaved. I tried fasting, but risked my health because I am diabetic and must not skip meals. I tried those surveys, but ended up more confused. Please help me understand just what use God has for me (if any).

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Q. I have read that the office of Apostles and Prophets are not needed today as everything we need to know about the future is answered in scripture.  How can we know that personal prophecies are real?

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