Gifts of the Spirit:

Holy Spirit has a two-fold ministry in your life. First in you (the new birth) and then upon you (baptism in Holy Spirit)

When you are born again, Holy Spirit comes to live in your spirit 
When you are filled with the Spirit, or receive the baptism in Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit comes upon you for service (a witness).

Holy Spirit wants to use every Spirit-filled believer in the gifts of the Spirit.

There are nine gifts of the Spirit that can operate in the life of a Spirit-filled believer 

These gifts are divided to each Spirit-filled believer as Holy Spirit desires, and we are to desire these gifts.

The nine gifts of the Spirit listed in I Cor. 12:8-10 are defined as follows:

Relation gifts: These three gifts frequently operate together. 
 
1. Word of Wisdom a - supernatural revelation by the Spirit of God concerning the divine purpose in the mind and will of God concerning things in the future. Paul & Agabus Acts 21:10-11

2. Word of knowledge- the supernatural revelation by the Holly Spirit of certain facts in the mind of God about things concerning the past or present. (II Kings 5:25-26)

3. Discerning of Spirits – The supernatural ability to see into the spirit realm as Holy Spirit wills; to discern the type of spirit behind a supernatural manifestation, whether it is good or evil. Not mind reading. Paul saw a spirit of divination. See demons or angels.

Power Gifts 
4. Gift of Faith – a supernatural endowment by the Spirit of God whereby that which is uttered or designed by man or spoken by God shall eventually come to pass (Faith is a servant). It is a special faith. We already have faith. 
The gift of faith is a gift of the Spirit to the believer that he might receive a miracle, whereas the working of miracles is a gift of the spirit to the believer that he might work a miracle. (One gift receives something, and the other does something.)

5. Working of Miracles – a supernatural intervention in the ordinary course of nature; a temporary suspension of the accustomed order through the Spirit of God. It is a speeded up process. (Jesus turning the water into wine.)

The working of miracles performs a miracle, but the gift of faith receives a miracle. So the working of miracles is more of an act, whereas the gift of faith is more of a process. 

6. Gifts of Healings – the supernatural healing of disease without natural means of any kind. They are supernatural manifestations of the Spirit that are manifested through someone to someone else. 

Some characteristics of the Healing Anointing:

It is measurable. Jesus had the anointing without measure. John 3:34 Members of the Body of Christ have the anointing in a measure. Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah’s anointing. 

People sought to touch Jesus’ garment. Paul sent out cloths. So the anointing is also measurable. 

It is tangible. The word tangible means perceptible or detectable to the touch. In other words, something that is tangible is capable of being touched. 

It is transferred. One way is by the laying on of hands. The contact of your hands with the sick one permits the healing anointing, or the power of God in you, to flow into the sick one. Can be transferred through a cloth. Such as a garment or handkerchief. 

In other words the healing anointing, emanating from Holy Spirit from you can transform those handkerchiefs into “storage batteries” of Holy Ghost power. When they are laid on the sick they charge the body with the healing anointing, and the diseases will depart from them. 

Utterance Gifts:
7. The Gift of Prophesy – a supernatural utterance in a known tongue. (It always edifies and exhorts, builds up, and comforts).

8. Divers Kinds of Tongues – a supernatural utterance by Holy spirit in languages never learned by the speaker, not understood by the mind of the speaker, not necessarily always understood by the hearer. 
There is a difference between divers kinds of tongues in I Cor. 12 and unknown tongues talked about in I Cor. 14.
The unknown tongues is received when you are filled with Holy Spirit. Unknown tongues are primarily for private devotional use (I Cor. 14:2, 4). (Prayer language)

Praying in the Spirit is for our edification. Jude 20.

The gift of diver’s kinds of tongues is a spiritual gift given to Spirit-filled believers and used as the Holy Spirit desires. It should always be accompanied by the gift of interpretation of tongues to be profitable. Used in this manner, it is equal to prophesy which always edifies exhorts, and comforts (I Corinthians 12:10, 30).

Unknown tongues and divers kinds of tongues are the same in essence, but different in use. 

9. Interpretation of Tongues – It is not a translation but rather an interpretation given by Holy Spirit of the meaning of an utterance in diver’s kinds of tongues.