http://mintools.com/blog/gift-of-prophecy.htm equipping believers for ministry Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://mintools.com/blog/gift-of-prophecy.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2457 MinTools Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:00:28 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2313#comment-2457 I praise God for your teachable spirit. Understanding these tendencies is a starting point to making changes. Truth is ever so important but so is grace. You might want to read the article, <a href="http://mintools.com/blog/grace-truth.htm" rel="nofollow">Grace & Truth – Not a Matter of Balance</a>. If you make a conscientious effort to stop and pray and think about BOTH grace and truth, it should help you in future relationships. I pray you keep that zeal but that it is tempered with grace in its expression. I praise God for your teachable spirit. Understanding these tendencies is a starting point to making changes. Truth is ever so important but so is grace. You might want to read the article, Grace & Truth – Not a Matter of Balance. If you make a conscientious effort to stop and pray and think about BOTH grace and truth, it should help you in future relationships. I pray you keep that zeal but that it is tempered with grace in its expression.

]]> http://mintools.com/blog/gift-of-prophecy.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2455 MarDoor Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:04:57 +0000 http://mintools.com/blog/?p=2313#comment-2455 Thank you so much for this - I had ZERO idea I had this spiritual gift. Now the distinction between these two approaches you show above succinctly captures where I am with others, and what I am doing wrong with friends and colleagues and especially my husband and my children (not believers). Since becoming a Christian two+ years ago, I am full of zeal and love to talk about nothing more than the Lord, but need to be much more sensitive to the above! I know I apparently have worn some of them down, and actually have lost one close friendship to just exactly what is described above. OH!! how this has blessed and illuminated for me what I need to study and put first in my heart...grace grace grace! Thank you so very much for these discernment-filled examples. Thank you so much for this – I had ZERO idea I had this spiritual gift. Now the distinction between these two approaches you show above succinctly captures where I am with others, and what I am doing wrong with friends and colleagues and especially my husband and my children (not believers). Since becoming a Christian two+ years ago, I am full of zeal and love to talk about nothing more than the Lord, but need to be much more sensitive to the above! I know I apparently have worn some of them down, and actually have lost one close friendship to just exactly what is described above. OH!! how this has blessed and illuminated for me what I need to study and put first in my heart…grace grace grace! Thank you so very much for these discernment-filled examples.

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