Miraculous Powers: Spiritual Gifts Definitions, Scriptures, and Ways to Serve

[If you have not already done so, please take a moment now to take this free spiritual gifts assessment. Once you have your results, come back to this and the corresponding 22 blog posts for a detailed description of each of the gifts, focusing on your own as well as becoming familiar with all of them so you can spot and call them out in others.]

 

Miraculous Powers

Miraculous powers (the ability to perform miracles) are given to individuals in the Body of Christ to authenticate a ministry, encourage a body of believers, and to show the power of God. In the life and ministry of Jesus, His miracles included feeding the multitudes, turning water into wine, raising the dead and walking on water.

 

Scriptures that reference miracles or show someone exhibiting this gift:

Exodus 15 (Moses); Matthew 16; Mark 4; Luke 5; Luke 10; John 2 (Jesus); Acts 2); Acts 5 (the apostles); Acts 6: Acts 15 (Barnabas and Paul); 1 Corinthians 12.

 

Questions on the assessment that pertain to Miraculous Powers:

  • I have seen God do something miraculous in connection with a prayer I have prayed.

  • I have sometimes felt powerfully led by God to perform an extraordinary act.

  • God has authenticated a message or a ministry by working through me to perform something supernatural.

 

Some words that describe people with these gifts:

  • Authentic

  • God-glorifying

  • Faithful

  • Spirit-sensitive

  • Alert

  • Courageous

 

Potential negatives to this gift:

  • Temptation to focus on the gift and not the Giver of the gift.

  • Pride in ability to perform miracles.

  • Desire to demand that God do something or command or repeat a previous miracle.

 

Some possible ways to serve using this gift:

  • Anywhere God directs

 

Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition), and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping at her church.

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