What is the gift of miracles referred to in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter twelve and verse ten?


This gift of the Holy Spirit is a supernatural impartation by the Holy Spirit which enables a person to perform a miracle. A miracle is anything that defies the laws of nature. Notice this Biblical example:

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, "Alas, master! for it was borrowed." And the man of God said, "Where fell it?" And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
(2 Kings 6:4-6 NKJ)

An iron ax head floating to the top of the water is a miracle. It defies the laws of nature.

Jesus performed a miracle when He fed five thousand men, not counting the women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish.

And they say unto him, "We have here but five loaves, and two fishes." He said, "Bring them hither to me." And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children."
(Matt. 14:17-21 KJV)

There is no natural explanation for what took place. God worked a miracle through Jesus. This gift was also used in the early church and caused people to believe the Gospel message (Heb. 2:4).

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