Different gifts

Different gifts,
"There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. 
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.  
To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,  to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,  to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.  
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines." 
1Corinthians 12:6-11.
I’ve heard many particularly in the Pentecostal church claim that we can all work in all of the gifts of the spirit. While that may be true after all God can allow us to do anything if he wishes. However that is not what Paul is saying here.
Paul is saying is we are all given different gifts by the same spirit. And that they are for the building up of the body of believers.
We also have to be careful here. I’ve seen too many people turned off by people claiming to have spiritual gifts that do not.
I’ve seen people who claim to have healed someone who was not healed.
A friend of mine a number of years ago went to a church where there was supposedly a faith healer.
I went, and being a magician I recognized the slight of hands he was pulling. He was really for lack of a better term suckering them in.
The final straw did come when my friend someone with a mental illness was said to be healed. He most certainly was not.
The Welland canal runs through our town it is not all that deep but it is treacherous many have drowned in it. Many have committed suicided in it. They found my friend off his medication walking along the canal contemplating  suicide.
In my now forty years plus years of serving the Lord I have only ever gone to the senior pastor of the church I attended and questioned what is going on less than half a dozen times.
This incidentally was the first. I went into the pastors office without an appointment and told him politely but in no uncertain terms what I thought of this so called faith healer. I also showed him some of the slight of hand the man was doing.
He was an out and out fraud.
By that time sadly the man had moved on.
To give him his due our senior pastor at the time spoke out against him as apparently did others.
The man disbanded his offices in Canada and disappeared.
Unfortunately he is just one case. There are many frauds out there.
That church were it all happened now requires doctors to confirm any healings as does the church I currently attend.
It’s the same with other gifts. There are many people out there claiming they have various spiritual gifts that do not.
When it comes to spiritual gifts I think we have to be very careful.
Paul is quick to point out that the gifts should glorify God and not be for the profit or self glory of the individual.
I believe if someone says they have a specific spiritual gift then they should submit themselves to the board and pastor of the church they attend and let them determine if they truly have the gift.
Over the years I’ve seem many people with spiritual gifts. True gifts. Most are very humble and all gave God the glory. Further more none ever asked for money.
All submitted themselves to God and their gifts were verified both by the church board and pastor and by the fact what they did was real.
So when anyone says to you they have this gift or that gift. First see if it lines up with the word of God. Secondly point them to the pastor and board of the church they attend. If they agree then it is probably true.
And always remember the gifts of the spirit are there to glorify God and build up the body of believers.
Think about it.