7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit Flashcards
(7 cards)
Wisdom
The gift of wisdom allows someone to order all things in accordance with God’s will. This gift has an element of contemplation—or a deep thought process of the divine. The gift of wisdom includes practicality in human acts.
Understanding
The gift of understanding is a gift that gives deeper insight to a revealed truth. This gift allows someone to go beyond the surface of a revealed truth and penetrate into the heart
of the truth. The gift of understanding can
also help reveal the ways in which God is moving in
someone’s life.
Counsel
The gift of counsel helps a person discern what acts are good and should be done and what acts are evil and should be avoided. The gift of counsel helps preserve a good conscience and gives others counsel in matters of personal holiness.
Fortitude
The gift of fortitude allows a person to overcome difficulties and endure pain and suffering with the strength infused by God. In other words, the gift of fortitude helps someone grow stronger in hardship, stand against evil and persevere to everlasting life. Fortitude also carries with it a confidence in the success of suffering. It gives someone the ability to live heroically, suffer with patience and joy and overcome lukewarmness.
Knowledge
The gift of knowledge allows our intellect make the right judgment on how earthly things are related to eternal life and Christian perfection. Knowledge helps show us that the worth and value of earthly things so that they cannot block our union with God. Knowledge leads us to repent for the times we have misused material things and put them before God, blocking our relationship with him.
Piety
The gift of piety allows a person to give worship to God as Father. Through this gift of worship a person is able to see and love people as God’s children. This gift helps us fulfill the commandments: love God above all else and
love your neighbor as yourself.
Fear of the Lord
The gift of Fear of the Lord is the foundation for all the other gifts of the Spirit. From this gift, all the other gifts arise. Fear of the Lord (also called wonder and awe) allows a person be detached from sin and material goods out of love and reverence for God. Fear of the Lord is not the type of fear where a person loves and serves God because he or she is afraid of punishment or judgment.
