What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit? | Pastor Sam Storms

What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit? | Pastor Sam Storms | Promised Power

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2 жыл бұрын

Many churches and believers today have essentially likened the gifts of the Spirit to a set of decorative hand towels-not for use. Some say they’re no longer in operation. Others are skeptical or cautious because misuse has taken people down “weird” roads leading to chaos and conflict. Nonetheless, amid this confusion, many are still seeking and asking, “Are the gifts still in operation, and should we welcome the gifts of the Spirit in our lives?” In this message, let’s uncover WHY we should desire these gifts in our lives and churches.
Pastor Sam Storms discusses the gifts of the Holy Spirit in a sermon based on 1 Corinthians 12. He shares his personal journey from skepticism to embracing the manifestation of the Spirit. The passage mentions nine gifts, including wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment, tongues, and interpretation. Storms emphasizes the importance of earnestly desiring and utilizing these gifts for the common good and building up the Church. He provides biblical examples and contemporary instances of these gifts in action. The gifts are empowered by the Holy Spirit and distributed according to His will.
Many churches and the lives of many believers in our day suffer from spiritual boredom and the absence of power to change things for the better. In contrast, God’s Word tells us many stories of people who consistently experienced the supernatural-yet too often today we do not. So, why not? Why not with us? What are we missing? In this series, let’s explore who the Holy Spirit is and how to walk in a greater measure of his power.
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@codythomas5059 2 жыл бұрын

This is quite possibly the best (less than an hour long) systematic message on spiritual gifts that I have ever had the pleasure of hearing. I just enjoy Sam Storms so much more every time I hear him speak.

@miltonthompson2991 4 ай бұрын

I agree. This teaching should be implemented by everyone watching.

@DaveRod76 Жыл бұрын

Watching these Reformed Churches receive the Word of God on the Gifts of the Spirit, I can only imagine this is what it was like in the early days of the Pentecostal movement. This is awesome! I hope a lot of the Children of God are receiving the Word!

@krau0728 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think anyone has impacted my life in terms of theological perspective more then Sam Storms.

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

Wish the body would get united like it is supposed to be.

@Loraliegh92 11 ай бұрын

moments like this i am grateful to the Lord for media resources that can permit me to hear and participate in such a wonderful service as this! Truly God is good to Israel as the Psalmist Asaph said in the 73rd Psalm! thank you Pastor Storms!

@jesuschristisrisen3519 Жыл бұрын

God bless you, pastor.

@miguelz8721 Жыл бұрын

Great video !

@williamsebald3912 Ай бұрын

The gift of prophecy in the New testament only rarely means foretelling the future. Paul explains it clearly that tongues is uniteligible and prophecy is speaking inteligible words, explaining the Word of God.

@grahamchown2860 10 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to hear Sam discuss healing with Curry Blake, they would come from opposite directions, that's for sure.

@haninaser4689 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@BryanCurtisSaved 6 ай бұрын

This is one of the pastors who consistently says that God says we are to "pursue the gifts" from 1 Cor 14:1. He misstates it almost every time. It doesn't say to pursue the gifts but to pursue LOVE.

@UltraX34 5 ай бұрын

Earnestly desiring spiritual gifts is in that verse, and that's why we say we should pursue them. What does it mean to pursue other than to earnestly desire something

@BryanCurtisSaved 5 ай бұрын

@@UltraX34the actual translation is to desire spiritual things- not gifts. But the point of the writer is that above all things- even spiritual things we are to go after- pursue LOVE. In the grand scheme of things in 1 Corinthians 12-14 is that Love is and should be the main thing- then desire spiritual THINGS (not gifts).

@UltraX34 4 ай бұрын

That doesn't change that you're disobeying scripture if you think spiritual gifts are unnecessary big boss@@BryanCurtisSaved

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

It tells us to pursue both

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

@@robinhoffeld7584 nope it does not. Read the actual Bible verse. You're wrong. I don't understand why it's so difficult to just read the text. Pursing something is different than to desire. Pursuing is going after it, desire is to want it without chasing it.

@satanson1751 3 ай бұрын

ONE OF MY LEGION.. SS Sam Storm. A beautiful Demoniac.

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

Your a nut

@nldj344 2 ай бұрын

Justin peters needs a prophetic word that he can’t deny He will eat his words someday. It sounds harsh but he will.

@i-jamesazubuike9208 2 ай бұрын

What exactly is it about JP and the gifts of the Spirit? Is it a sin not to desire spiritual gift? Is it a sin to claim to have a gift that God alone decides whether or not to give?

@nldj344 2 ай бұрын

@@i-jamesazubuike9208 idk!! Great question!! My personal opinion is that his agenda stems from his experience. His church hurt that turned into unforgiveness and bitterness. And now here we are. He’s trying to explain it away distorting the scriptures.

@i-jamesazubuike9208 2 ай бұрын

@@nldj344 well, you may be wrong. I personally know that quite a lot of fraud and fake abound in the supposed manifestation of the Spirit, even Storms acknowledges that. And again, it is error to say that it is a sin not to desire spiritual gift. That's distorting the scriptures. But obviously JP wouldn't come into this . JP also is not against a church, he calls out every false teacher he knows, and you also know that such is a false teacher.

@nldj344 2 ай бұрын

@@i-jamesazubuike9208 just bc there’s abuse in the church doesn’t change what scriptures say. I think there can be frauds and fakes who deny the gifts thus doing a disservice to the body as a whole. They can be just as false as the others who take advantage, it goes both a ways

@i-jamesazubuike9208 2 ай бұрын

@@nldj344 we are both on same page. But just becos JP calls out a false teacher doesn't mean he is bitter or hurting and so distorting the scripture. You and I have our opinion and that's fine. But we need to understand the Word of God and apply it correctly.

@HalLeath 6 ай бұрын

Also, an important new revelation and question, how did they know the Holy Spirit was not yet given in Acts 8? Please answer this for me?

@Brii.Z 4 ай бұрын

The gifts/fruits of the Holy Spirit are listed right in Galatians 5: 22-23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

The gift of healing also depends on the person receiving. Maybe it isn't the Lords will they heal maybe they need to learn something from it. Maybe they don't have faith. I do believe some have a gift of healing. It could be emotionally, spiritually or physically

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes when healing doesn't work it is also because the person need deliverance demons manifest and cause health issues often

@canalgracaeterna6189 Жыл бұрын

Just one correction. In Acts 2:11 they heard wonderful works of the Lord, not the gospel as many cessationists assume. The content of those words was praise and worship just like in I Cor 12, 14 the gift of speaking in tongues should be. “Cretans and Arabs-we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

@tomtemple69 7 ай бұрын

is the gopsel not the greatest work of the Lord? the work of the cross not a wonderful work?

@canalgracaeterna6189 7 ай бұрын

@@tomtemple69speaking in tongues are words sent to God, preaching the gospel are words from God to men. Cessassionists do whatever they can to deny what’s clearly written about the gifts of the Spirit.

@tomtemple69 7 ай бұрын

@@canalgracaeterna6189 out of context, you're not only cutting the verse in half youre ignoring the verse right after it And learn what "but" means in a sentence

@i-jamesazubuike9208 2 ай бұрын

And are the languages gibberish, talatala, manshada manshada?

@Notacessasionist Ай бұрын

I don't agree that not earnestly desiring spiritual gifts is a sin. I personally believe Paul is just giving good advice.

@jpwalsh722 9 ай бұрын

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@dansidora 8 ай бұрын

Concerning the thorn of Paul, if you are corect with the context, you have no posibility to say that his thorn was a sickness. He says: ,,there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me". Is God coworker with demons? Is God sending demons to torment us? Did Jesus ever sent a demon to somebody? Acts 10:38 tell us: "even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." We see here God and Jesus working together to heal people and distroy the works of the devil. How is that, in your intrepretation, God is aligned with Satan here tormenting Paul? That messanger of the devil was sent by the devil himself as a result a the great revelations Paul had. The Bible tells us, and the devil knows it, that the more you know Christ and his Word, the more dangereus you become for the kingdom of darkness. For this reason Paul explains before this passage about his persecution. He prayed that this persecution would be stop but God's unswer was: No, but I already gave you power instead." In Acts ch 4 we have the same situation but the church is not praying against persecution (just mentioned it) but praying for power to be victorious in persecution. For this reason your explanation about the gifts of healing has no suport in the Bible. If God is no 100% for healing we don't have any support for faith in healing. Healing becomes a gambling. If the Bible would say God saves everybody except a few, all our ground for faith in salvation is lost. If the Bible would say that we have victory in all things except a few, again, all our ground for faith in victory is gone. Here you used your experience to made theology out of it. Cesationists do the same: They have no support for the cesation of the spiritual gifts so they use their experience: "We haven't experienced it so it shouldn't be true". Also you use few exception that have no explanation to contradict hundreds of pasages that state clearly God is totaly for our healing.

@tomtemple69 7 ай бұрын

yeah, he went from one experience to another experience why does Paul say the signs of a true apostle are signs, wonders and miracles? the apostles were special, no one in history had miracles quite like them because they were chosen by God to authoritatively interpret Scripture and some wrote parts of Scripture too if everyone has the same exact gifts of the apostles, what differentiates them from anyone else? the mormons claim they have apostles and prophets will all the same gifts charismatics claim... how are the apostles different from mormonism? how do catholics have the same gifts (tongues, healing, prophecy, they even claim to have apostolic authority by sucession)? that would mean they have the Spirit too, which means they know the gospel...

@johngraves9237 21 күн бұрын

@dansidor Solid explanation on the thorn in the flesh! 100 percent correct

@BryanCurtisSaved 6 ай бұрын

Since not all will get the gift of tongues not all are to speak or pray in tongues as it is not for all. The actual gift of tongues typically will be accompanied by someone with the gift of interpretation. To do otherwise is sin. Not all will prophecy as well. If not obeying is a sin then to say all will do this or that is to teach sin.

@johngraves9237 21 күн бұрын

@BryanCurtisSaved Tongues at the BASIC LEVEL is the language of YOUR BORN AGAIN SPIRIT. ANYBODY can exercise their heavenly language.

@BryanCurtisSaved 6 ай бұрын

When speaking about healing you are leaving out that God is sovereign. He heals when He wants to. God does what He will to whomever He wills whenever He wills. We are dependent on God's sovereignty. It's not the gift by always God's sovereignty.

@johngraves9237 21 күн бұрын

@BryanCurtisSaved What you said cannot be found in the Word of God, the healing power of God is dependent on us. If a person does not understand how healing works then they simply need to grow in the Lord and acquire the understanding to flow in that kind of authority. God wants all saved and all healed but the fault lies with us and our decisions, keep in mind there is nothing wrong in heaven and God wants his will on heaven to be done on this planet

@BryanCurtisSaved 21 күн бұрын

@@johngraves9237 oh man you are so off!! So tell me how Jesus healed people who literally had no idea who He was or what He could do. An example would be at the pool when Jesus healed the man there. There are other scriptures throughout that would support what I'm saying but I don't want to do a whole sermon for you. I would definitely suggest you read the Word. By the way please site scripture that says you as a Christian has to learn and grow for the God who created all needs to do anything. Scripture not this man's teachings.

@johngraves9237 21 күн бұрын

@BryanCurtisSaved You must be a Calvinist. Calvinism by nature hates the power of God, that is why many of them are cessationists. I notice the catch phrase "God is sovereign" explains away your lack of understanding of the nature of the Father. Jesus said let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The will of God in heaven is perfect but not on this planet. You cannot use the sovereignty of God to overwrite the Word of the Lord but if you are a Calvinist then there are parts of the Word of God you have to get rid of or twist and distort.

@BryanCurtisSaved 21 күн бұрын

@@johngraves9237 first, thank you for your comments. It means that to some extent you have a desire for God. Second no I'm not a Calvinist. Are there certain aspects of it that I believe are Biblical yes, just like I also believe that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit are still active today. Jesus was explaining to us HOW WE ARE TO PRAY- asking that HIS WILL (not ours) be done on earth as it is in Heaven. What does that mean? Does that mean that we are to be healed at all times under all circumstances? NO. The Word never says that we can demand God to do anything or even expect that He will. The speaker literally says it is up to GOD's Will!! Did you not listen to the speaker himself?? Your comment saying that I must hate the Power of God is such an incredibly offensive comment. Is not GOD Sovereign? Does He not have the power to do anything He wants or desires? It seems to me that you have an incorrect and heretical view of the God who is above all. I would ask you where you find the Nature of God? I read the entire scripture in context, not just pulling out a scripture here or there where you want to so that it means something it is not. I think that Sam Storms is a nice man, has a desire for God, but I would never take what he says as correct. You can take any scripture out of context and create whatever you want- which he at times does (multiple times in this video example his comments on Prophecy). I have spent more than 30 years in a charismatic church, prayed for the sick, believed for healing every time for them and myself. But my experiences there are not what make up my beliefs- it is the scriptures. Be a Berean, not a follower of a man.

@johngraves9237 21 күн бұрын

@BryanCurtisSaved I think you ignored what I said and I am glad you are not a Calvinist but none of it is biblical but I think you have a doctrine that if forcing you to overshadow the Word of God. Can you tell me what the phrase "sovereignty of God" is supposed to mean? Can his sovereignty go against the Word of God?

@justdice456 4 ай бұрын

TEACHINGS THAT DRY OUT MUSTARD SEEDS. He literally explains the gift of faith for the gift of healing. Test the spirit, There's too much "I think" & "this is how it worked for me" "I believe" "I don't believe" the word of God says Gods ways are not mans ways and God's understanding is not mans understanding. These teachings weaken the faith in people because they believe Circumstance controls God then you don't desire to prophecy, then you don't covet the best gifts because it's occasional "If it happens, it will happen." Like I've healed cancer I don't have the anointing to heal dementia or blindness. God will heal. Have faith in/ be obedient to who he sends to heal whether Ananias, Peter, or Elisha and test the spirits. Lord knows to describe one here. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Find comfort knowing God of all doesn't require man to experience a thing for it to be done. God requires faith and it will be done. God Bless. Bless God. ✌🏾

@BryanCurtisSaved 6 ай бұрын

My understanding is that you are a theologian. It is disturbing to me that you would add and or assume what is not written in the Word. Basically you are making up what you think Paul is meaning in the text. We are warned not to exceed what is written, which is what you are doing. As an example you state that Peter told them they were dead for lying to the Holy Spirit- false. All Peter did was ask why they did what they did and then they fell down dead. He didn't declare them dead or say they were going to die- they simply fell over dead. When you start adding to the scripture you are making the Holy Spirit a liar and you become a false teacher. I've seen you do this type of thing on Remnant Radio and you were never called out on it. Stop making things up that don't exist and you need to repent for lying- especially at the pulpit.

@BryanCurtisSaved 6 ай бұрын

There no- repeat no biblical text that says tongues is anything other than an actual language- not the gibberish we hear today. I know this because I used to speak gibberish and thought it was actual tongues like the text talks about. That's why there is a need for an interpreter. He speaks in tongues (languages) more than others because he was very well educated.

@CarterLeachFilm 2 ай бұрын

1 Corinthians 12 and 14 quite literally teach two types of tongues. Known languages and heavenly prayer languages.

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

@@CarterLeachFilmyou're Biblically incorrect

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

@@CarterLeachFilmbecause Berean!

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

@@CarterLeachFilmalso this one says we are to "pursue the gifts". He's wrong. Read the actual verse- "Pursue LOVE and desire spiritual things." To say it's a sin to not pursue the gifts shows just how bad someone of his status mislead the church.

@i-jamesazubuike9208 2 ай бұрын

I too thought I was speaking in tongues when indeed, due to faulty education, I was speaking gibberish. When I unlearned, I cease to speak gibberish. If God wills to give me, fine. But never again will I fall for the deceit of men.

@tomtemple69 7 ай бұрын

someone should tell him that Paul commands that 2 at most 3 in the church can speak in tongues and one must interpret is a COMMAND and if you don't follow that, you are SINNING

@Brii.Z 4 ай бұрын

The only unforgivable sin is blasphemy. If you don’t think you sin, you’re only fooling yourself. What is the commandment? Listed right in 1 John 3:23 “And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.” The commandment is to believe.

@jamacook4943 3 ай бұрын

Do you follow that if not you are SINNING Forbid not to speak in tongues

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

You can speak in tongues in your own house and on your own time and you don't need a translator just in case you were not aware of that it's your personal relationship with the Lord

@timothyhollins6010 2 ай бұрын

The gifts of the holy spirit are the ones the NAR twist and mock . I thank the Lord he delivered me and forgave me for following clown's like this guy.

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

Looking back now with his relationship with Mike Bickle it really stands out just how much of a false teacher Sam Storms is. And he has zero discernment or real understanding of the Word- so sad. He is lying about God's word right now.

@ethanchapman842 2 ай бұрын

My brother, the situation with Mike bickle is tragic don’t get me wrong but being deceived by someone you thought was close is not a new thing. If you’re really gonna call Sam storms a false teacher because one of his friends was deceiving him. You really need to take a look back into your word. Sam storms has always been someone who exposits the text fairly

@ethanchapman842 2 ай бұрын

Disciples were in community with Judas yet were deceived by him so we should throw out all of their ministry as well? Non sense. I urge you dear brother to please go back to the word and not let your feelings determine the way you feel about situations. The word is the authority to which we hold to.

@BryanCurtisSaved 2 ай бұрын

@@ethanchapman842there is much to be said- first that they were not filled with the Spirit so they couldn't be held to Biblical standards of decernment. But Sam is teaching a false doctrine in this video. The word is "Pursue LOVE, and desire the spiritual things/ (the word gifts isn't even in the original text) so that you might prophecy. He is reading into it something not there. That's called being a false teacher. And then on top of that to lie and put a sin on you for not doing what it doesn't say is just wrong teaching period. I'm sure he's a nice person but to claim to know Bickle more than you can know anyone and state your decernment on that shows he's not following the Word and is falsely teaching. My point though is not so much about Bickle but about Sam falsely teaching something not in God's word. Yes be a Berean and read for yourself- you will see what he's saying is not true

@ethanchapman842 2 ай бұрын

@@BryanCurtisSaved hey thanks for the reply back. I get what you’re saying but what you’re saying just isn’t true. Spiritual gift is a fine translation. It does not take away from the original Greek word. So what you’re saying is plainly wrong. We absolutely should be Bereans! I’m just saying you need to be careful who you’re calling a false teacher because what you’re saying has no biblical grounds.

@ethanchapman842 2 ай бұрын

@@BryanCurtisSaved and on the bickle situation. People can deceive brother, this isn’t a new thing so to discount someone’s whole ministry is ridiculous

@oldfatbaldguy48 2 ай бұрын

What a wacko

@williamsebald3912 2 ай бұрын

So sad to see Sam go from one extreme to the other. "I don't see the miraculous gifts, so they have ceased" to "fake it till you make it." You now have become so desperate to see it that you change the encouragement to ask for the gift of prophecy into a command that you are sinning against if you have not done it. This is one of the most manipulative messages I have ever heard. No one in this church tested this message and corrected it in any way? How is this possible? This video has not aged well. Yet even after gushing over Mike Bickle for many years as the poster child for spiritual gifts, Sam has not repented of the false testimonies he has given so often over years as has now been revealed.

@robinhoffeld7584 2 ай бұрын

Deep read your Bible and stop believing the seminary schools are the ultimate truth. The Bible G-d is the ultimate truth and every man a liar. Satan had his fingers in the building of mainstream doctrine

@jeffengstrom8657 Жыл бұрын

Sam, you're torturing the Scripture. 1 Cor. 12:31: covet earnestly the best gifts (these are described in chapter 13; faith, hope and love) and yet show I unto you a more excellent way; that is introduced in 14:1. The excellent way IS NOT LOVE!!!!! Love is the greatest of the best gifts BUT NOT THE EXCELLENT WAY!!!! The excellent way is "rather that ye may PROPHESY" To prophesy in this context IS NOT A GIFT!!!! But rather a "way" or method. It is reiterating that which has already been revealed by God. Summary: we desire more faith hope and love. But more importantly we prophesy which is to say we give out that which has already been revealed through Scripture. We certainly don't desire to use our imagination to speak whatever come what may to whoever we deem appropriate.

@jeffengstrom8657 Жыл бұрын

@Yeah! Prove anything I've said wrong by the text and you'll be the first to do it. I would say the same thing to Sam, Jack Deere or any other pentecostal.

@ladym7852 Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should meet with him and tell him that. I'm sure he will be very loving woth your rebuttal.

@jeffengstrom8657 Жыл бұрын

@@ladym7852 I would pay to meet with him. These guys don't know what they don't know.

@ladym7852 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffengstrom8657 I doubt he would read your message.

@jeffengstrom8657 Жыл бұрын

@@ladym7852 You're probably right