When individual spirit-filled members of the Bride come together, they become one with the very body of Christ.  Like those on Pentecost, they have all drank of the same Spirit as He was poured upon them.  Just as the natural body is fit together with different members and functions - eyes, ears, hands, etc., so is the body of this Bridal company a body of particular members (1 Cor. 12-14).  In contrast to the body of flesh, "God hath tempered" this body together according to spiritual gifts and ministries.
 
    The corporate Bride can only function as God wills when each member is Spirit-filled and invested with different spiritual gifts and administrations.  The Holy Spirit divides "to every man severally as He will" (1 Cor. 12:11).  For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge...to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues" (1 Cor. 12:18-10). "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues"(1 Cor. 12:28).
 
    Filled with the Holy Spirit, the Chosen Bride sparkles with supernatural gifts.  She lives in Jesus, the Word, and "in Him moves and has her being" (Acts 17:28). With Jesus' compassion she lays hands on the sick and they recover, because it is the Bride's commission to take the Gospel forward "not in word only but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost" (1 Thess. 1:5).
 
    Look for the chosen Bride in fellowships where the Word of God is being confirmed by signs, wonders and miracles.  You will not find her with those "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof" (2 Tim 3:5).
 
In Christ,
 
Susie and David Parker