The Holy Spirit - Spiritual Gifts: Book 2: Surprisingly Supernatural Service Gifts (Illuminated Bible Study Guides)

Amazing book ! This books is awesome ! In this book, Susan Rohrer continues teaching the readers about the Holy Spirit. I highly recommend this book because the content is rarely seen in the books about the Holy Spirit. In her first book she delves into who the Holy Spirit is and goes into detail about all the Spiritual gifts, as given in 1st Corinthians 12! It also helped the reader to come to know and love the Holy Spirit as a Person and to experience an intimate, life changing relationship with Him. She does more than to inform with knowledge and experience, but with the Word of God. In addition, I find her writing style refreshing. Even though much is learned, the writing style feels fresh to the reader and one can really get into the text. !! Also sometime that is amazing is that she not only teaches what the gifts of the Spirit are, like many of the the other books do, but guides the reader PRACTICALLY how to operate and grow in these Spiritual gifts! Now, in her second book !!! She not only goes deeper and builds on the first book, revealing more details and practical guidance on how to operate the power gifts of the Spirit, but also how these power gifts can be used with the service gifts!. She shows us how service work works closely alongside and not separately from the full range of supernatural gifts as outlined by 1st Corinthians 12, for example, the word of Knowledge, word of Wisdom, healing, the work of Miracles, the gift distinguishing of spirits, and gift of faith, and of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues, and prophecy ! How do we use these precious spiritual gifts God gave to us by his grace with our talents, with encouragement, giving, mercy, ministry, service, helps, for example, and how to use it alongside the offices of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers. She guides the reader step by step how these are related, again, as in the first book, with her testimony and experience, and the Word of God. If you haven't read her 1st book. The Holy Spirit - SpiritualGifts: Book 1 : Amazing Power for Everyday People, I would recommend reading it first. Which is gives a good foundation on the spiritual gifts and how to practically operate in them. This book then builds upon that book and makes the teaching more complete in this second book ! I feel blessed and much better equipped after reading both book !!! I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to continue to be more intimate with God, and to understand and use their spiritual gifts better, and to use these gifts to serve others and to spread the Gospel boldly to the ends of the earth !.

Susan Rohrer really is a fantastic author, she expresses her points to ponder on with clarity and grace. I really enjoy her detailed understanding of various topics covered. The author includes experience life to further add an idea that could further broad your ability to connect with a mental picture of things shared. I was mostly touched by the part of not being hired at one point in a particular area, it was very sad but I seem to see the author is far beyond and blessed with discernment...You know them by their fruits! There's a lot of fruit. I read the previous first book and loved all shared and do recommend both books. Will be looking for future materials in this area and thank the author for their service, very good work and very humbled by all the personal things share involving their life journey and walk.

One of the key things I’ve discovered, when reading any of Susan Rohrer’s books is this: there is never a dull moment. Rohrer uses her background as a TV/Movie producer, screenwriter, director, and author to expertly weave a flowing narrative, regardless of the genre of book project she explores at the time. I have read all of Rohrer’s previous nonfiction titles (The Holy Spirit – Spiritual Gifts: Book 1, Is God Saying He’s the One?, Secrets of the Dry Bones) and her entire Redeeming fiction series. The latter were novels with wholesome, beautiful, romantic themes that I’ve reviewed from my point of view of a minister. Rohrer’s novels are fast moving, dynamic, with the high-quality dialogue you would find in one of her screenplays or movies.It is that literary quality that the reader will find in her second book in the Illuminated Bible Study Guides series, The Holy Spirit – Spiritual Gifts: Book 2: Surprisingly Supernatural Service Gifts. What Susan Rohrer has done in this comprehensive study of the Gifts of the Spirit, examined in detail, fleshed out with the appropriate in-context Scripture and with the healthiest dose of personal story and testimony, is just remarkable. She has rendered some extremely difficult to explain and comprehend Biblical principles in easy to grasp terms.If you’re a regular “Rohrer Reader” (i.e. a fan of her books like I am), the conversational literary style is recognizable from her novels. If you look at Jesus’ simple stories in the Gospels, He speaks plainly all the time. When a Christian speaks plainly and truthfully in context with the Bible, he or she operates in the gifts and blessings embedded in us by our Heavenly Father. Herein lies the key to unlocking the riches found in Susan Rohrer’s new book.Whether one has directed national award-winning films or CBS television specials like Susan Rohrer or is like the rest of us with our little daily VBS comedy skits annually, there is one significant common denominator needed – attention to detail. Attention to detail shows commitment, confidence in the knowledge of the subject matter, and a healthy respect for the work with which one is tasked. The effective communication of vision and message requires not just a grasp of detail, but also how it applies or does not apply in certain situations. This is what the author does in her book here. She goes into some really solid insight by paying attention to the details and application of each of our God-given spiritual gifts. This is not an easy thing to do, especially in today’s five-second sound bite world, even in Christianity.What has resulted from Susan Rohrer’s long labor of love to mine the depths of the meaning and application of these graces is this wonderful manual on Divine Giftings. Her book is more than worth the investment of both time and resources. Not just that, I may even venture to say that it should be kept as a reference book so we may readily refer to it, in order to assist others in discovering how to discern which gifts they are endowed with for kingdom work.The full range of service gifts are lovingly, firmly, and accurately defined with application in The Holy Spirit – Spiritual Gifts: Book 2. There are chapters on the gifts of encouragement, giving, mercy, and ministry. Among others, the chapter called “Heroic Helps” will inspire, as well as this very sensitive topic: Celestial Celibacy. For those of us who are or were in church or ministry leadership, the final two chapters are particularly important. What really spoke to me, knowing that the author spoke directly from the Word of God, were all her points on godly leadership and administration talents as a function of the high level of stewardship we are expected to deliver as ministry or church leaders. If a deacon, youth pastor, small group leader, or even a senior pastor can honestly assess one’s life in light of the last two chapters, then any portion of the previous chapters on the gifts can be easily explained to one who is searching.Christians of all ages operate way below their talents and potential imparted to them at the point of salvation. There is absolutely no reason why we cannot live life in the fullness of joy and true service. If you want this kind of life—knowing that the God of Heaven saved you and me through Christ, to be His Hands and Feet during our lives here on earth—The Holy Spirit - Spiritual Gifts: Book 2 is for you.Finally, I’ll suggest an even more personal reason to read Susan Rohrer's new offering. What the reader will discover really endearing and, most of all, authentic about this book is the author’s application of her own story. Susan Rohrer is more than transparent about her own victories and even times when things did not go well at all. She uses her amazing life experiences to give itemized warning lights for readers to seriously consider as we journey through her book, sharing her life, in context, with the foundational Truths of Scripture. This book is five star reading.

I loved Susan’s second book as much as her first on the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts. She has the unique writing gift and ability to welcome you into all she has to share in a balanced, Biblically-based foundation, in a non-threatening, loving approach. These two books should be read by every Christian who’s serious about growing in all God has for them and through them to this hurting, searching world. God bless you, Susan, for your faithful obedience in bringing these teachings to so many of us.

Whether you are new and want to study the gifts of the Spirit or are looking g for a refreshing, this book does a terrific job. It carefully explains characteristics, motivation and even pitfalls to serving in these areas. I loved the humor and honesty behind each story. It is truly a perfect compliment to the first Holy Spirit book...enjoy.

great book for spiritual readers

Bought for my lovely friend to bring alive her gifts.

Great but plain grammar would be ideal

Good

A great encouragement and outline of how we should walk closely with the Holy Spirit and be attuned to his will instead of our own