Impartation and Discernment

The article linked below is written by Bill Jackson and is an in depth study of God's divine impartation from the Holy Spirit.

One day I asked the Lord why I could not speak in tongues as so many others do? I had spoken in tongues when I was first saved as a young teenager but had fallen away for a very long time and have never since that time received this gift.

The Lord said this to me; "My child these gifts are a divine impartation. You will receive many more gifts." This has turned out to be true. I was also given the scripture Hebrews 2:4 "God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?"

I believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are something we should expect and seek. But in these days of "revival" breaking out here and "revival" breaking out there, I tend to be skeptical at first whether something is from God.

I know that many of you can relate to this after the way things turned out for the so called "Lakeland / Todd Bentley revival." The fallout from this showed the true "fruit" of that and as we know the Bible instructs us that we will "know them by their fruit."

I don't want to write something off if in fact it is from God. So we must test the spirits and of course good discernment is something that we must pray for continually. Especially since many false signs and wonders are prophesied for these days.

This article is very helpful and breaks down many of the questions we all have about God's divine impartation to His people. Bible scripture should be our plumb line in all things and this article does a good job of laying out the scriptural foundations pertaining to manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

http://www.evanwiggs.com/revival/manifest/holylaff.html

In Christ, Sara