What is a Spiritual Gift?

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10

I think the best way to start is to first answer some questions about spiritual gifts. The first question is, “What is a spiritual gift?”
It is a God given capacity given to a believer, through which the Holy Spirit supernaturally expresses the person of Jesus Christ through us, to minister to the body.

> It was given to you at salvation, and it is something you did not possess before you were saved.
> It is not a talent. A talent was given to you at your physical birth. A spiritual gift was given to you at your second birth.
Both of them can be used by God, and mis-used by the person.

Our talents were not given to us necessarily to be the instrument by which we serve God. Our spiritual gifts on the other hand, were given to us for the expressed purpose of ministering to and building up the body of Christ.

The second question we need to understand is, “Does everybody have a gift, or several, or none? I Peter 4:10; I Corinthians 12:11
However talented or untalented you think you are, if you’re a born again believer, you have at least one spiritual gift. Our job is to discover what our gifts are, and then use them to minister to the body.

Do you know what your spiritual gift is? Are you using it to minister to the body, or are you sitting on it?!

Here's a thought - “Can you use your gift to minister to the body of Christ, if you’re not involved in His church?”