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SPIRITUAL GIFTS CLASS - Healing of the Spirit Ministries

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DEFINITION<br />

VOLUNTARY POVERTY<br />

The special ability to renounce material comfort and luxury and adopt a personal life-style equivalent to<br />

those living at <strong>the</strong> poverty level in a given society in order to serve God more effectively.<br />

CHARACTERISTICS<br />

1. Able to live simply with less comfort and luxury without complaint.<br />

2. Are satisfied with very little goods and means.<br />

3. Willing to sacrifice all material things.<br />

4. Probably also have gifts <strong>of</strong> giving.<br />

SCRIPTURES<br />

EXAMPLES<br />

I Cor. 13:1-3 Acts :44-45<br />

II Cor 6:10 Acts 4:34-37<br />

II Cor 8:9<br />

Acts 4:36-37 –Joses-Barnabus voluntarily sold his fields<br />

Acts 2:44-45, 4:32-35, The believers voluntarily sold all <strong>the</strong>y had.<br />

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