Descriptions of the most common Manifestations of

Supernatural Expressions of the Holy Spirit

1. Prophecy: A spiritual expression enabling a person to reveal God’s truth and

proclaim it in a timely and relevant manner for understanding, correction,
direction, or edification. There can be immediate or future implications to the
message.

2. Word of Knowledge: The supernatural ability to bring a truth or truths to

others through either a spiritual revelation or an applied biblical insight.

3. Word of Wisdom: A supernatural ability to know the right course of action a

person should take when a spiritual truth has been revealed. It is a spiritual
expression that reveals the right application of a truth in a specific situation.

4. Discernment: The spiritual expression that enables a person to distinguish

truth from error. A momentary empowerment to discern the difference between
good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, or demonic vs. angelic.

5. Tongues: A momentary empowerment by the Holy Spirit enabling a person to

speak out in a language that is unknown to them.

6. Interpretation of Tongues: A momentary empowerment by the Holy Spirit

enabling a person to have the understanding of a message that has been given
in “tongues” (a language unknown to the person speaking it).

7. Faith: The spiritual expression that supernaturally enables a person to have

confidence that God is going to do something. A momentary empowerment of
the Holy Spirit giving a person assurance that something is going to happen.

8. Healing: A momentary empowerment by the Holy Spirit enabling a person to

ask God for a supernatural cure and to believe it has happened.

9. Miracles: A momentary empowerment by the Holy Spirit enabling a person to

become a channel for a divine intervention that meets a need with dunamis —
miraculous power.