Month: March 2024

The Kitchen Table Dvotional

1 Corinthians 14 Day 3

I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; ¹⁹ however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 14:18-19

True love brings clarity and credibility with it and that’s how it works in the spiritual realm too.  The Holy Spirit brings gifts of Jesus to live the life of Jesus in this world.  The gifts are given to minister the love of God to those God loves and that love becomes clearer and more credible as the mental begins to understand the spiritual.   That’s a active work of the Holy Spirit.  It’s a powerful and wonderful thing.

The Kitchen Table Devotional

1 Corinthians 14 Day 2

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

1 Corinthians 14:6

True love brings clarity and credibility with it.  Love lives of something bigger than self and it cannot be quiet.  In fact, love cannot be known by itself, it’s communal.  Love cannot be known isolation but is fully known in revelation.  God so loved the world that He sent His Son.  Love doesn’t travel by itself but takes others with it.  So, the gifts then are meant to communicate the love of God to others, not just to me.

The Kitchen Table Devotional

1 Corinthians 14 Day 1

Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. ² For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. ³ But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation. ⁴ One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.

1 Corinthians 14:1-4

True love brings credibility and clarification with it.   Once we’ve learned to submit to the love of God, God situates us to be the love of God in this world.  Now all the gifts and the fruit and the power of the Holy Spirit are essential, not just electives.  The presence of the Holy Spirit brings us the ability to know love and be God’s love in our world speaking and sharing God’s love with others.