How To Study Your BiblePart II

Studying by Subject and Topic

1. Select a topic for study. The topic you select should be one in which you have a spiritual interest or need information. 

2. List related words. This list should include synonyms, phrases, or ideas that have something in common with your topic. If you are studying the tongue, you might list such related terms and words, speaking, boasting, cursing, blessing, utterance, instruction, reproof, or words of knowledge.

3. Find Bible references to your topic. As you use a concordance and a topical Bible to find references, be careful to collect only verses that relate to your topic.  4. Write an observation or a question about each reference. Be certain that your comments accurately reflect the context of the verses. Your comments might be a summary of the verse, the meanings of important words, insights about why the verse was written, and ways it applies to your life. Include questions about issues you don’t understand.

5. Write an outline. Group Scripture references under appropriate subtopics

Things to do to carry out a good Topical Bible Study

1) Be thorough: Find every passage in the Bible that has something to say about the topic. A concordance, a Topical Bible, and searching for synonyms and antonyms will allow you find every passage in the Bible on that topic.

2) Pursue Accuracy: Seek to find the exact meaning of every passage. Remember that context is King in interpreting the Bible.

3) Be Organized: You may be working with a lot of passages. In order to be able to do good work, you must organize the information in a systematic and logical way. When you have collected the information and start reviewing it, you will see that some of the passages go together nicely. So group them together and arrange your work logically.

Topic: Spiritual Gifts

Romans 11:29(NKJV) 29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 12:3-8(NKJV) 3For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

1 Corinthians 1:4-8(NKJV) 4I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:1-7(NKJV) 1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2You know that£ you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. 4There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

1 Corinthians 12:8-12(NKJV) 8for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by £the same Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. 12For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Ephesians 4:7-11(NKJV) 7But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” £ 9(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also £first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

10He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) 11And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

Ephesians 4:12-16(NKJV) 12for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

1 Corinthians 12:27-31(NKJV) 27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 28And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31But earnestly desire the £best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 14:1-4(NKJV) 1Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 2For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. 3But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 4He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

The term "spiritual gifts" comes from the Greek words charismata (gifts) and pneumatika (spirits). They are the plural forms of charisma, meaning "expression of grace," and pneumatikon meaning "expression of Spirit."

Romans 12

ProphecyMinisteringTeachingExhortationGivingLeadingMercy

Gifts of The FatherMotivational Gifts

1 Corinthians 12

Word of WisdomWord of KnowledgeGift of FaithGifts of HealingsWorking of MiraclesProphecy Discerning of SpiritsDifferent Kinds of TonguesInterpretation of Tongues

Gifts of Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4

ApostlesProphetsEvangelist PastorsTeachers

Gifts of Christ

Define The Gifts That is Your Homework!!!!!