7 Gifts Of Holy Spirit Flashcards
WISDOM
allows someone to order all things in accordance with God’s will. This gift has an element of contemplation—or a deep thought process of the divine. Wisdom sees all things with a supernatural value—good, joyful, sorrowful, successful and even painful things.
UNDERSTANDING
The gift of understanding is a gift that gives deeper insight to a revealed truth. This gift allows someone to go beyond the surface of a revealed truth and penetrate into the heart of the truth. The gift of understanding can also help reveal the ways in which God is moving in someone’s life.
Fortitude
The gift of fortitude allows a person to overcome difficulties and endure pain and suffering with the strength infused by God. In other words, the gift of fortitude helps someone grow stronger in hardship, stand against evil and persevere to everlasting life. Fortitude also carries with it a confidence in the success of suffering. It gives someone the ability to live heroically, suffer with patience and joy and overcome lukewarmness.
COUNSEL
The gift of counsel helps a person discern what acts are good and should be done and what acts are evil and should be avoided. The discernment of the actions leads a person to ask “will this lead me into holiness or away from holiness?” The gift of counsel helps preserve a good conscience and gives others counsel in matters of personal holiness.
KNOWLEDGE
The gift of knowledge isn’t a gift that will make you smarter. The gift of knowledge allows our intellect make the right judgment on how earthly things are related to eternal life and Christian perfection. Knowledge helps show us that the worth and value of earthly things so that they cannot block our union with God. Although earthly materials hold very minimal value, the gift of knowledge helps us use earthy goods in a holy way as instruments for union with God. Knowledge produces three effects: introspection, detachment and repentance. Introspection helps us see the state of our soul by taking time to examine our lives and our choices. Through the gift of knowledge, we detach our lives from material goods to seek God. Knowledge leads us to repent for the times we have misused material things and put them before God, blocking our relationship with him.
PIETY
The gift of piety allows a person to give worship to God
as Father. Through this gift of worship a person is able
to see and love people as God’s children. This gift helps us fulfill the commandments: love God above all else and love your neighbor as yourself. Describing someone as “pious” means he or she is devoted to God in a daily life of reverence and prayer. He or she treats others with respect and dignity.
FEAR OF THE LORD
The gift of Fear of the Lord is the foundation for all the other gifts of the Spirit. From this gift, all the other gifts arise. Fear of the Lord (also called wonder and awe) allows a person be detached from sin and material goods out
of love and reverence for God. This fear is motivated by love of God because we are his children. For example, a child should not obey his or her parents out of fear of their punishment but out of love and respect.
