All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

in dealing with manifestations of the Spirit, and insisted that
they must serve some useful purpose ("edifying" -
1Corinthians14:26). We should not get excited over every
phenomenon that seems to support our witness to the
supernatural. Are we such "children" as that? Lusting for
miracles can be an evidence of lack of faith. "Except ye see
signs and wonders ye will not believe" (John 4:48).
A favourite cliché concerning spiritual gifts is that they are
"100% supernatural." Just what do we mean? If we mean that
they involve no mixture of the human with the divine we are
manifestly inaccurate. Ever since the beginning of the
Pentecostal revival there have been local difficulties where
speaking with tongues is concerned because the speakers have
wanted to affirm that it was "the Holy Spirit" speaking, with
no mixture of themselves. Yet Acts 2:4 states that "they spake
with tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance," and in
1Corinthians14:14 Paul says: "If I pray in an unknown tongue
my spirit prayeth." In the same chapter he gives directions for
the orderly use of gifts of the Spirit. Such directions are
obviously absurd and almost blasphemous if these gifts are
"100% supernatural" in a crude sense that they involve no
human element. Many of us within the world Pentecostal
revival hold that the gifts of the "word of wisdom" and the
"word of knowledge" are primarily for government and
teaching under the anointing and revelation of the Holy
Spirit. The constant objection to this concept has been that it
robs them of their "100% supernatural" quality. Therefore we
have been treated to ideas of the "word of knowledge" that
are far-fetched to say the least. But once the basic principle is
accepted that a human element accompanies all
manifestations of the Spirit in members of the Body of
Christ the road is cleared for a saner definition of these two
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