I have been in the ministry since I was twenty years old and have always been fascinated with the Spiritual Gifts. Currently I am the Executive Pastor at Calvary Church in Orland Park, Illinois. www.calvaryop.org
I have been in both church ministry, as well as, ministering in many social causes. Besides the church I have worked for World Relief, Central Baptist Children’s Services and Adventures In Missions and have seen God use His Spiritual Gifts in many wonderful exciting ways through people just like you and me. But sadly most Christians know nothing of their giftedness. Thus the majority of Christians are not involved in ministry. This has caused the church to be woefully short on fulfilling the mission that Christ gave to us, that is to love the world. Instead of having Churches that are mission stations, helping those in need, we have created “country clubs” meeting our own needs. I believe part of this is due to the fact that we do not teach on the Spiritual Gifts.
Now, I will be the first one to say that the topic of Spiritual Gifts is full of ambiguity and is difficult to understand, but we must try. If the church is going to be relevant in the future then we must be involved in ministry using the gifts that He has given us.
I invite you to go to www.layministry.com and download your FREE copy of the Spiritual Gifts workbook and subscribe for the FREE RSS feed of this Blog. And then, let’s go viral! Send this Blog link, www.spiritualgifts.wordpress.com to everyone you know that could benefit from it. Together, exercising the Gifts He empowers us with, we can be the salt and light that Jesus intended us to be.
Ron Ovitt
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Amen & Amen again, Bro. Ron. Hi I’m Prophet Dent of Living Epistles Ministries, I have be laboring is this field for the past 15 yrs. We stated our first spiritual gift activation school in a local Baptist church. It was amazing what God did during those 6 years of ministry. We we were first to start a school there and put on as a full time staff. Now we have currently adding church and leader to equip and train the saint in walking in their gifts and calling. I just want to encourage you Bro. Ron and say continue the great work. I will be passing on some of your e-books and your web site to those i connect with. Our ministry site is: http://www.prophetdent.net be bless, if we can be on any service to you please contact us at propheticschooL1@yahoo.com, or call at 803-414-1396,
Have an awesome Spirit-led day.
In His Service
Bro. Rick
Hi Ron, may god continue to bless you.
we need more people like you who are dedicated to the word of god, to spread the good news of salvation. sharon
Pastor Ron you know I love you right and your wirfe . You are so amazing. If only people knew that you are close to the heart of God. If they only knew that you are trying to bridge the gap of racism. If they only knew like I do that we truly having a living disciple of strong encouragement. . From a friend that knows!!!
Sister Stacie sent this information to me as I am very blessed reading it. This information is vital for my spiritual growth in our body of Christ which is the Bible Studies Outreach Ministry. Thank you
Hi, nice to meet you !
I have spiritual gifts. I see things before they happen and know things without knowing. I hear things unspoken and just know what I am supposed to know when I know it. I have been able to do this since I was 7 years old, I am 37 now. I have had a major series of visions and acquired much information from my visions pertaining to a specific individual and a series of events that led to me having the visions. GOD has given me many gifts besides visions. My visions are my strongest gift, though I am humbly appreciative and grateful that GOD loves me and trusts me enough with the gifts that have been granted to me, a flaw filled individual who is an imperfectly-perfect being. Though, I want to learn how to control my visions. Is there a way that I can make them come when I want or need them to come or am I just the vessel used? If that is the case, I will continue to be satisfied with that. I looked you up because I want to learn what to do with my gifts other then how GOD uses them in my life already. I know I was created with a ‘special’ purpose because I have been ‘different’ all my life from a child to an adult. For the mean time, I just continue to follow the Most High in all ways that I am lead in the Spirit.
hi sunshine
i dont know you but by reading what you sent,i just want to say to you, you have a powerful gift that the lord has giving you i wish and pray it was me that had that gift. Our God is an awesome God and he saw it fit to give you the gift of visions to help people and the church so be in courage and contineu to give God all the praise and glory keep the faith. desiree from grand cayman
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Sunshine,
Thank you for your e-mail. We get e-mail from all around the world and it seems that the gift of Prophecy in one in particular that people are curious about. For whatever reason God chose not to give us a manual on the various gifts. However, He did give us the Holy Spirit and the Church. This is crucial. The Bible makes it clear that God is not a God of confusion. Paul writes to the Corinth church, where there was some struggles with the gifts, and seems to give some order to the use of gifts. Here are a few suggestions to help with your gifting.
1. Do not exercise the gifts by yourself. Submit yourself to a local church and those in authority there. Work with others who are mature in the Lord so when you exercise your gift there is a checks and balance. Gifts were made to be used the parts of a body. They work together for the purpose of the body. So have someone with the gift of discernment and another with the gift of teacher and perhaps a person with gifts of knowledge. This way you can get their impressions. We are spiritual beings and can have impressions, visions and predicitions that are manifested in our own mind. We need others to help us discern what is from God and what He is trying to do. It is a beautiful thing to work together.
2. Do not contradict the scriptures. I believe the Bible is our guide in these matters and God will not contradict what He has already made plain in His written word.
3. The use of Gifts are on God’s timing and He is committed to our growth. Santification is a growth process and God wll continue to help us mature and grow in Him as we use the gifts.
I am working on a book on How To Use The Spiritual Gifts and will make available soon. I pray that God will help you in your walk with Him and using the gifts He has given you.
Ron Ovitt