11 Bible Verses About Earnestly Desire Gifts
11 Bible verses about Earnestly Desire Gifts to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Strive for love, and set your hearts on spiritual gifts, most of all on prophesying.
But set your hearts on the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
It is the same with you. Since you are so eager for the workings of the Spirit, aim to have them in abundance for the building up of the church.
So then, my brothers and sisters, set your hearts on prophesying, and do not stop anyone from speaking in tongues.
Never let your eagerness flag; be on fire in the Spirit; serve the Lord.
But someone who prophesies speaks to people, and the words build them up, encourage them and comfort them.
I would be glad for all of you to speak in tongues, but gladder still for you to prophesy. Those who prophesy are greater than those who speak in tongues, unless they also interpret, so that the church receives something that builds it up.
But let everything be done properly and in good order.
What follows, then, brothers and sisters? Whenever you gather, each of you has something: a psalm, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Everything should be done to build up the church.
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through a prophetic word when the elders laid their hands on you.
That is why I remind you to stir up into flame the gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.