What does someone with an advanced exercice of spiritual gifts look like?

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​Spiritual gifts are given to those who are in Christ and are expected to be exercised.

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​Someone with an ADVANCED EXERCISE of spiritual gifts will display multiple characteristics reflecting their growth in that. For example:

​1) MULTIPLE SPIRITUAL GIFTS can be EXERCISED TOGETHER by the person with ease.

​2) Spiritual gifts are EXERCISED ANYWHERE the person goes. 

3) ​The person's spiritual gifts are DEVELOPED.

4) ​An individual can be GIVEN MORE SPIRITUAL GIFTS than they originally had. The person may be able to share that MORE SPIRITUAL GIFTS had been ENTRUSTED TO THEM OVER TIME.

5) ​The person has SOUGHT FOR THE GREATER SPIRITUAL GIFTS specifically (and may have even been entrusted with some of them).

6) ​The person is OVERFLOWING in the spiritual gifts to such an extent that they think about GIVING SPIRITUAL GIFTS TO OTHERS.

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1) Multiple spiritual gifts can be exercised together with ease:

​Someone in Christ can HAVE MULTIPLE SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 

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When someone has an advanced exercise of spiritual gifts, MULTIPLE SPIRITUAL GIFTS can be EXERCISED TOGETHER with ease.

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​Instead of operating in only one gift in isolation, the person moves seamlessly between different spiritual gifts as the situation requires, demonstrating a high level of familiarity with the operations of the Spirit.

2) Spiritual gifts are exercised anywhere:

​Spiritual gifts are not only exercised with believers in Christ whenever "the whole church comes-together at the same (place)" (1 Corinthians 14:23), but also ANYWHERE ELSE the person is going.

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​The advanced exercise of gifts means they are not confined to a specific meeting. The person carries the operational power of the Spirit into everyday life, the marketplace, and the streets, ready to exercise the spiritual gifts wherever they go and have been doing so.

3) The spiritual gifts are developed:

​The person's spiritual gifts are DEVELOPED.

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They have met over the years multiple conditions such that their spiritual gifts have taken on a developed form. 

4) May have been given more spiritual gifts over time:

​Someone can be GIVEN MORE SPIRITUAL GIFTS over time.

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​Someone may share accounts where they may have been at some point GIVEN MORE SPIRITUAL GIFTS than they originally had. Indeed God may choose to expand the amount of spiritual gifts over time under certain conditions (which they may have met too). 

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5) Have sought for the greater spiritual gifts:

Someone with an advanced exercise in the spiritual gifts has SOUGHT FOR THE GREATER SPIRITUAL GIFTS specifically (and may have even been entrusted with some of them at some point). 

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​They do not remain complacent with the lesser spiritual gifts. Instead, they are actively ZEALOUS for the greater gifts, obeying the biblical instruction where Paul wrote: "But BE-ZEALOUS-FOR the GREATER GIFTS" (1 Corinthians 12:31).

6) Thinking about giving spiritual gifts to others:

​It is possible for someone in Christ to GIVE spiritual gifts TO SOMEONE ELSE. 

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​The person is OVERFLOWING in the spiritual gifts to such an extent that they think about GIVING SPIRITUAL GIFTS TO OTHERS.

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