{"id":2191,"date":"2010-02-23T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:57:39","slug":"gift-of-exhortation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/gift-of-exhortation.htm","title":{"rendered":"I Know Some Servants . . . with the Spiritual Gift of Exhortation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spiritual Gift of Exhortation Defined<\/h2>\n

to come along side of someone with words of encouragement, comfort, consolation, and counsel to help them be all God wants them to be<\/em><\/p>\n

Examples of Servants of God Using the Gift of Exhortation in Varying Ways<\/h2>\n

Servant #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 This person enjoys counseling others to reach their potential in Christ, to make decisions that line up with His Word, and to trust Him with their past, present, and future.\u00a0 This servant of God prays with people as they seek to process life in healthier ways.<\/p>\n

Servant #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 This person loves to teach children and has done so for many years.\u00a0 She was quite surprised, though, to recently find out she did not have the gift of teaching but rather the spiritual gift of exhortation.\u00a0 After explaining the difference between teaching and exhortation and how teaching can be a platform for using the gift of exhortation, she could see that indeed this was her gifting. (For an explanation of these differences go to: Speaking Types of Spiritual Gifts<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Servant #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 This person makes up a bag of encouraging Bible verses for people going on short term mission trips to take with them and read one each day.\u00a0 People return commenting how the verses were just what they needed for each day.<\/p>\n

All of these servants have the spiritual gift of exhortation but use it in different ways.<\/p>\n

Lesson to be learned:<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s be careful we do not limit how God might want to use us by too narrowly defining how a spiritual gift can be exercised.<\/p>\n

\"Ministry<\/a>Get this example of the ways the spiritual gift of exhortation can be used, along with 20 other gifts, in the Ministry Handbook: Spiritual Gifts in Use<\/a><\/strong>. In addition, the handbook suggests spiritual gifts most typically used in 16 broad ministry areas and 27 specific tasks that may need to be accomplished in most of those areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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