INTERPRETATION (SUPPORT GIFTS)

The God-given special ability to serve and strengthen the body of Christ by understanding, at a specific time, God’s message when spoken by another using a special language unknown to the others attendance.

People with this gift:

• Respond to a message spoken in tongues by giving an interpretation.
• Glorify God and demonstrate His power through this miraculous manifestation.
• Be able to translate words and messages of God in a way that edifies comforts and exhorts believers by interpreting a timely message from God.
• Understand an unlearned language and communicate that message to the body of Christ. Convey the meaning of sounds, words, and utterances that glorify God, made by others.
• Are sometimes prophetic when exercising an interpretation of tongues for the church.

Traits: Obedient, responsive, devoted, responsible, spiritually sensitive, discerning, wise.

Cautions: People with this gift:

• Need to remember that the message being interpreted should reflect the will of God and not man.
• Should remember that this gift is to provide edification, it’s to build up the church.
• Use it in conjunction with tongues and it should be used in an orderly manner.

References: I Cor. 12:10, 14-5, 14:26-28