Welcome to month 6 and week 2 where I share my experiences particularly with speaking in tongues
I want to welcome you back to month 6 and the gifts of the spirit week 2 and here are my comments on the Holy Spirit.
Manifestations of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Paul talks about concerning spiritual gifts and that gift is in italics because it’s not really a gift but a manifestation.
And concerning spiritual manifestations brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant, and then he states the obvious and says, “if you have the Holy Spirit, you will not say Jesus is cursed and if you have the Holy Spirit, it enables you to say Jesus is Lord.”
But it also goes on to say there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit. Therefore I believe the Holy Spirit is the true gift and the manifestations are broken down into three groups. The first three groups are the audible groups, the vocal groups, and these are the ones that in my opinion we initiate, we control.
We control whether we speak in tongues or not because in the book of Acts it says, “they began to speak as the Holy Spirit gave the utterance.” The Holy Spirit gives the unction to do it, but they did the beginning to speak. They had to put a sound in their voice box otherwise no sound would have come out.
You can’t speak words unless you put the sound in your voice box first and speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues and prophecy are the three vocal groups. I’m going to be dealing with prophecy in a separate video which will follow this one. So this particular time I want to concentrate in speaking in tongues and interpretation of those tongues.
Most people as I travel all over the world in bible schools, in colleges, in churches, most people who are being baptized in the spirit for any length of time probably, well over 60-70 % always start with the letter S or the letter K. I joked about it that they either start with something that sounds like Susuki or if they don’t do that then it’s Kamasaki.
I don’t know why this phenomenon takes place but I do know that after you always speak in tongues starting with the same letter you get familiar with it and then it no longer flows in your spirit but it comes from your mind, from your understanding, from your memory.
Therefore you do not get the blessing of speaking in tongues.
One exercise that I have found is that if I find that I start with letter s, I would deliberately start with a letter t, and then you have a different sound that has to come out.
In the whole thing of speaking in tongues there are diverse kinds of tongues, if you always start with the same letter, you get the same word, you get the same pattern, you get the same sounding, you get the same type of language always coming. And once it stopped flowing from your depths of your spirit it’s not really edifying you, it’s an exercise. And that might explain why most people charismatic or Pentecostal churches today there’s very little times that you hear a message in tongues, followed by the interpretation.
And that is true almost globally as I travel throughout the world. If you start with a different letter, you had a chance of a totally different language coming out. But you also, once you learned that you control it, you can form your mouth into different formations so that you don’t think like all the sentences are the same, but you open your mouth wide and you feel like I am speaking words that are meaningful and it just becomes a totally different experience.
When I’m speaking in tongues sometimes it is just praise and adoration to God. On other occasions, it’s intercession, I feel the burden inside and I pray in tongues because I do not know the proper way to pray in English that is my normal language. Sometimes I pray in tongues and I find myself getting really angry or violent and if I’m going to war, I am doing spiritual warfare with my tongues so that you got various kinds of tongues, you have worship tongues, you have praise tongues, you have intercessory tongues, you have warfare tongues.
This is a very powerful weapon when you get into a situation and you do not know how to pray, pray in the spirit and with your understanding. If you don’t understand then pray in the spirit but don’t just keep the letters or the letter k experiment with it. When there is nobody around you just start to put different sounds in it. If you’re driving in the car somewhere use the time to speak in tongues because as the Bible says if you speak in tongues, you build up your spirit, if you build up your spirit you become a stronger believer.
Rosemary wrote a message a long time ago and she uses this very often, you’ve got a fanatic that lives in the attic or in your head and you have a” feller ” that lives in the cellar or in your spirit. When you speak in tongues the word comes from your spirit and it comes up into your voice box out of your mouth without going to the fanatic in the attic.
This enables you to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Once you are renewed in the spirit of your mind then you will discover that you hear God’s voice and there will not be a problem to hear. God can communicate to you because it bypasses the logical fanatic in the attic that is in your head, that is constantly asking you, “is this reasonable, is this right?” That is all I want to say about the gifts of tongues at the moment.
Let us now flow on into interpretation of those tongues. I want you to notice it doesn’t say a translation of those tongues. It is an interpretation of those tongues. I was once teaching in a Bible school in Sweden and I was encouraging people to give a message , so that after I speak in tongues, and then I would pick on somebody else and say, “Would you give me an interpretation?” I can do this because the bible says if anyone speaks in an unknown tongue pray that you may interpret.
Now if it was God’s sovereign’s choice who interpreted He would not say that you may interpret. And so rather than Christians praying that they do not want to interpret because they do not want to be put in the spot, or want to be tested, We have the choice of praying that we may interpret and when we do this, it is really exciting because those patterns come into your mind, rather than hearing God’s voice and you suddenly have a few thoughts that enter into your mind or your understanding and you don’t know where those thoughts came from..
So, I was in Sweden a long time ago now, but I was speaking in a Bible school, a charismatic bible school, and I was trying to encourage them and teach them how to live in the Holy Spirit, so I picked on a student and I said, “Are you baptized in the spirit? Do you have the ability to speak in tongues?” He said, “Yes I do.” So I said alright I want you to give a message in tongues but I want you to start with the letter L, He said, I’ve never done this before.. So I said well do it now and so he started with a letter L and he was so shocked because it was like he was speaking a different language, the intonations were different, the words were different than he ever had spoken before.
Then I picked on another bible school student and told them that you can do this! Give me an interpretation When you’re the bible school professor for the actual day or hour you are in charge. I said, “Now you give the interpretation ” and the man said I think I have something. So I said alright share it and let’s see. And he said “As the Lord surrounds Jerusalem I will put a fire around my people and protect them in every situation,” says the Lord.
Well there was a lady in the course and she said well I don’t understand she said, I prayed for the interpretation and I have a different interpretation. So I said alright what did you receive t then?
She continued “Even as a mother hen gathers her chicks and they are safe under her wings , the Lord will keep her safe.” And I said well what is the difference? God spoke through a man in a manly way, God speaks through a female in a female type language but it means the same.
It is not a translation of those tongues it can be but that is very, very rare. It is normally an interpretation of those tongues.
Helping you to come in to the experience and fulfill your destiny.
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