what are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the symbols to represent them?
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Wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.
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The answer is in verse one.\n\n"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw."
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Menorah\n\nSeven-Branched MenorahOne of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith is the menorah, a seven-branched candelabrum used in the Temple. The kohanim lit the menorah in the Sanctuary every evening and cleaned it out every morning, replacing the wicks and putting fresh olive oil into the cups. The illustration at left is based on instructions for construction of the menorah found in Ex. 25:31-40.\n\nIt has been said that the menorah is a symbol of the nation of Israel and our mission to be "a light unto the nations." (Isaiah 42:6). The sages emphasize that light is not a violent force; Israel is to accomplish its mission by setting an example, not by using force. This idea is highlighted in the vision in Zechariah 4:1-6. Zechariah sees a menorah, and G-d explains: "Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit."\n\nThe lamp stand in today's synagogues, called the ner tamid (lit. the continual light, usually translated as the eternal flame), symbolizes the menorah.\n\nThe nine-branched menorah used on Chanukkah is commonly patterned after this menorah, because Chanukkah commemorates the miracle that a day's worth of oil for this menorah lasted eight days.
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Hope you're familiar with the Bible... ;) Please be aware, this is all according to my understanding- not official doctrine from any church.\n\nIn the Gospel of John, chapter 3, a man named Nicodemus comes to Jesus, asks a question- he wanted to know about being born of water and the spirit. Jesus tells him that we all must be "born of water and the spirit" twice- Nicodemus knew and understood the first birth- pregnancy, labor and delivery. He did not understand the second birth- repentance, baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit.\n\nIn Paul's epistle to the Galatians, chapter 5, verses 22, 23, he lists characteristics he calls "the fruits of the Spirit"- Love, joy, peace, longsuffering (patience?), gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. \n\nThese passages tell me that someone who has a desire to be baptized (or has already been baptized) and exhibits these qualities, has received the Holy Spirit, and has been baptized of the Spirit. I know there are other signs and evidences, but these are probably the most common.
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You are mixing Saint Francis of Assisi with Saint Thomas Aquinas.\n\nSaint Thomas usually is depicted with the sunburst medallion around his chest.  \n\nThe dove could represent the Holy Spirit.
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Grace unto you, and peace,\nfrom God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\nSeven last utterances:\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Easter.htm#Utterances\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Easter1.htm\n\nSuch seven are a Menorah Seven:\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Sevens3.htm\n\nMenorah sevens have two things in midst,\nsuch as "My God, my God" as saying two Gods,\nfrom plural Psalms makes one feel "forsaken".\n\nWhich things are an "allegory".\n\nThe "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
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1 John 5:7\nFor there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and theses three are ONE \n\n\nJohn 1:1\nIn the beginning was the WORD and the WORD was with God, adn the WORD was God.
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Christ\nSalvation by Grace through Faith\nTurn the other cheek\nSin is internal before it is external\nThe Church\nInspiration of the Scriptures\nHeaven\nTrinity\nGod living in human flesh\nThat is off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many more.
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Salvation\nThe Wisdom of the Word\nFreedom (in so many aspects)
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1. John\n2. Water to wine\n3. Thou shall not kill\n4. Bethlehem\n5. Moses\n6. Manna\n7. Red Sea\n8. Judas\n9. Lamb\n10. Philistines\n11. Mary\n12 Sword\n\nI answered these real fast. I hope you were looking for snap answers.\nMay GOD richly bless you and your flock.
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That verse is true 100%. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps us when we are fighting sin and we cannot do it in our flesh at all. God will help us with our struggles through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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I like the one that says: "Blessed are the poor in spirit for they shall see God."  It means to me that if I am hungry and needy and not pretending that I "have it all."  That God will reveal Himself to me in the quiet place in the secret place of my heart.\n\nMany are not even seeking God's way today. But you can be assured that He "knows who are His".
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The holy trinity consists of the Father (God), the Son (Jesus Christ), and the holy spirit or holy ghost (the very real part of the first two that you carry within yourself). You know ?  How you feel when you've done something unsellfish & helpfull for someone else or feel really great about someone who showed they care about you & did something similar for you.
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Bible says it is "by thier fruits", and that "the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control."
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The magic of seven \nSignifies creation, the sum of the spiritual three and the material four \nThe seven ages of man, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins (p 1592), the seven league boot, seventh heaven, the seven wonders of the world, the seven pillars of wisdom, Snow White and the seven dwarves, 7-up.... There are an awful lot of sevens around. Numerologists see seven as the sum of the spiritual three and the material four, signifying creation. The Old Testament tells us that the world was created in seven days. The seventh generation after Adam produced Lamech, who lived for 777 years and was to be avenged 77 fold. Psalm 90 sets the human life span at seven decades. Solomon's temple has seven steps, and Noah's dove returns after seven days. \n\nIn the Hippocratic tradition the number seven governs the ailments of the body. In Germany it was believed that people would not catch swine fever if they spent seven days drinking and bathing in water containing asphodel. A Jewish cure for fever involved taking "seven prickles from seven palmtrees, seven chips from seven beams, seven nails from seven doors," and so on up to "seven hairs from the beard of an old dog."1 And in this issue of the BMJ a long but neglected tradition alleging seven year cycles in human development is vindicated in Jos Verhulst and Patrick Onghena's finding of a circaseptennial (roughly seven year) rhythm in the growth of male human ears (p 1597).2 \n\nIn Iranian folklore the cat has seven, not nine, lives and carries her kittens seven times to seven different places.1 "To do the work of seven mullahs" means to accomplish absolutely nothing. In ancient India the most important numbers were three and seven. The ancient Indian text Rigveda talks of seven stars and seven streams of soma (the drink of the gods).1 Indra, the rain god, is "the seven-slayer," the ocean has seven depths, and there are seven concentric continents. The sacred cow has 21 names--three times seven. \n\nIn ancient Greece, seven was associated with Athena, the virgin goddess, because it is neither producing nor produced--that is, it has no multiple in the first decade (1-10) and also no divisor (other than 1). The first property has little mathematical importance, but the second tells us that seven is a prime number--having no divisors other than itself and one. It is the second Mersenne prime--one less than a power of two.3 \n\nSeven numbers suffice to colour every map on a torus--a surface shaped like a doughnut with a central hole--so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour. The smallest regular polygon that cannot be constructed using ruler and compasses is the heptagon, with seven sides. All sufficiently large whole numbers are the sum of seven perfect cubes. And it you want to get more esoteric, the unit sphere in a multidimensional space has the greatest surface area when the space has dimension seven. \n\nSeven is an astronomical number. The week has seven days because successive phases of the moon occur roughly seven days apart. Other astronomical sevens include the "seven sisters," the stars of the constellation of the Pleiades, and--in ancient times only--the seven planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. In Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy the answer to the "Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," is 42 (six times seven).4 In November 1996 the Independent reported the latest measurements of Hubble's constant--a fundamental physical quantity that determines the rate of growth of our expanding universe.5 "Dr Richard Saunders," the newspaper wrote, "sounded a trifle abashed by the result. 'We have taken two measurements for the constant, and the average of them is, well, it's 42.'"
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GOD,ALLAH,LORD,CREATOR,GREAT MYSTERY. You have seen God over a million times:trees, sunsets, beaches, oceans, fling birds, child birth, waterfalls, food, snow, mountains, airplanes, boats, flowers, stars, a sleeping baby, an old couple, twins and more, outerspace, Grand Canyon, animals. Everything that you see, hear, smell, taste and feel is one more gift that God has allowed us to experince.\nI asked this very same question in the sixth grade to three teachers that I had, I didn't get an answer then, I had to find it for myself; the same way you do, the same way we all do. LOOK AROUND YOU.
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write the 10 commandments in the sky. have a firework display when Jesus was born