The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

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The Interpretation of TonguesThe interpretation of tongues is the supernatural ability given by God tointerpret a message in an unknown tongue. The person who interprets thetongues does not understand the tongue but he receives the interpretation asa message from the Holy Spirit. Sometimes he may receive just the first partof the interpretation but at other times he may receive it as a whole message.At other times the interpretation may be accompanied by a vision.It is important for us to understand that it is an interpretation of tonguesand not a translation. As such the amount of time required to interpret amessage in tongues may sometimes be longer than the message in tongues.Sometimes only the gist of the message in tongues is given which wouldmake it shorter than the message in tongues. Different people receiving thesame interpretation may sometimes convey it using different words.For example, the interpretation of a tongue may be "Fear not, I am withyou." Another highly educated person may interpret it as "God says do nothold to any phobias for His presence is with us." A young person whoreceives the same interpretation may give it as "Don’t be scared for He isnear us." The gist of the message is given.Daniel interpreted the four words ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’ in threelong sentences (Dan. 5:25-28). A strict translation would have been‘Number, Number, Weigh, Divide.’ The interpretation of tongues bringsforth an application of the message of God.Private InterpretationWe can pray for the ability to interpret our tongues (1 Cor. 14:13). Godwould not require us to understand everything that we pray in tongues aboutbut as we develop and grow in the things of the Spirit, we can receive anunderstanding of the gist of what we are praying about. This spiritualsensitiveness can be nurtured and developed. It is an out working of theanointing within whereas the interpretation of tongues is an outworking ofthe anointing upon.We can also learn to sing in the spirit in our private lives and then sing theinterpretation. This is a very powerful way of edifying oneself. Sometimes,as we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, we can speak to ourselves intongues and then interpret it as a message for ourselves. Such times havealways been very edifying.© Copyright 2008 Peter Tan Evangelism. All rights reserved. 24
CHAPTER 5HOW TO FLOW IN THE GIFTS© Copyright 2008 Peter Tan Evangelism. All rights reserved. 25
Page 3 and 4: PREFACEIn this book we seek to focu
Page 5 and 6: The Holy Spirit will never manifest
Page 7 and 8: Quenching and Grieving the Holy Spi
Page 9 and 10: THE REVELATION GIFTSThe revelation
Page 11 and 12: The word of knowledge is a revelati
Page 13 and 14: vision. Precisely, it is seeing wit
Page 15 and 16: The power gifts of the Holy Spirit
Page 17 and 18: The gift of the working of miracles
Page 19 and 20: Exercising our faith for miracles i
Page 21 and 22: THE VOCAL GIFTSThe most common and
Page 23: The Bible calls this the gift of va

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