Our Answer to The Call

by Olga Hermans

 

There are things in times past that are not that satisfying to us any more. God is giving people a deeper hunger for a greater relationship with Him. He is igniting in us a fire to seek Him and to be intimate with Him and to really know Him more and more.

The end is coming soon and there is much work to be done, we need to choose to come closer to God which means to a higher place in God. Everybody has a calling to fulfill in this earth. There is a spiritual supply on the inside of us that the Body Christ needs. There are prayers to pray and places to fill.

Some of us made the choice to draw back from the call of God on our lives. Last Sunday our pastor preached on the wells in our lives that have dried up and we need to dig them up again and let the living water flow out of them again. Some of those wells are waiting for us to be digged up again. Let’s make a quality choice right now to dig up those wells again on the inside of us that we need to give to the Body of Christ.

Some believers chose to draw back because at some time in their life, they responded to it and things didn’t work out as they hoped. They jumped out to do what they thought the Lord was drawing them to do and they ran straight into a wall.

Let me tell you this; don’t worry about it. Let’s look at the life Moses; we all know that he was called as a prophet and as a deliverer for Israel. He sensed that that call within his heart. But, what did he do? He murdered an Egyptian and though that was the way to do it. But that was not what God had in mind, was it? So, Moses went to the backside of the desert to get things straightened out. God helped him though and in the end , Moses fulfilled his role in the plan of God.

Then there is Samuel; he had trouble at first understanding how to respond to the voice of God. The first times he heard the Lord speak, Samuel thought he heard the voice of somebody that he trusted, Eli. So, instead of responding to God, he went to Eli.

But God didn’t give up on him. He just kept calling until Samuel got it right. That is very encouraging isn’t it? It is wonderful that how many mistakes we make, if we keep responding to God’s call the best we know how, He’ll keep working with us.

Just like He did with Moses and Samuel, He will stick with us until we get it right. We can learn something very important from men like Moses and Samuel abut responding to the call of the Lord:

When you sense the Spirit’s call, go to God first and find out exactly what He wants you to do and find out exactly what he wants you to do.
1. Don’t just jump out and come up with something on your own (like Moses did).
2. Don’t just go talk to a friend about it (like Samuel did.

Or listen to another message or read another book on the subject. Draw near to God. get His wisdom by fellowshipping with Him. That’s what God does. When He is ready to promote us to walk in higher places of power and authority, the first thing He does is call us to Himself.

The following excerpt is written by Sidlow Baxter:

The Kind Of Praying That Sets The Wheels Of Revival In Motion

We need a revival of intercessory prayer among God’s own people. We do not pray enough. Besides intensifying their private prayer life, Christians should band themselves together to lay hold upon God for revival in our own land and in every land.

Our most pressing need at this moment is to ask God to give more mighty prayer to all who can have at heart the speedy evangelization of every unreached soul – prayer that is strong, prevailing, believing, God-moving, devil-routing, sinner-saving, believer-sanctifying, Christ-exalting, worker-producing and money -finding!

We need prayer that takes all we are and have, to offer it to God, as it took all that Jesus had, on Calvary, to give us the right to pray!

But where in all the world are we going to get prayer that will do that? – the kind that Daniel offered, which shook the Babylonian Empire from end to end, bringing Almighty God into His rightful pre-eminence!

Where are we to get the kind of prayer that Nehemiah offered, which set rulers running after him with men, money, and materials, to help rebuild the walls of ruined Jerusalem?

It was God Himself Who inspired the prayer of Nehemiah, the prayer that made Jerusalem a new city. He drove His servant to his knees by the burden of a great concern for ruined Jerusalem. This seems to be the way God works.

And will God give this kind of prayer today? Yes, through the Holy Spirit, God can give us the hurricane kind of prayers that make things move – when nothing else can make them move!

He only begins to feel alarm when a soul begins to offer before God the prayer that is Spirit-inspired, and which was born in the very heart of God Himself.

It is prayer shot through with the very blood and passion of the Son of God, filled with the power and persistence of the Holy Ghost, loaded with a burdening sense of the church’s plight, and the world’s appalling need – that sets the wheels of revival in motion!

God save us from trying to turn these wheels by our own efforts! It cannot be done. Let us beg God now for this kind of praying – prayer straight from God, to straighten out every tangle and to meet every need!

When we offer HIS prayer, as put into our spirits by the Holy Spirit, there will be no such thing as unanswered prayer. Every prayer will be as almighty as God, because His nature will be in them.

The difficulties we face at the present time will vanish, and we shall not speak as if God were bankrupt!

God will then be seen in our lives. His power will flow through us in flood tides of blessings to others. Miracles will happen in every sphere that we touch. Every need will be met; and the devil will be defeated.

May this heaven-born flame be lighted afresh in the hearts of the regenerated throughout the world.

Amen!

How am I preparing the way of the Lord? This is a viable question that each of us need to ask ourselves. As members of the church, am I doing what I was called to do? Am I prepared for His return?

Some Christians believe that revival is something the Lord does as a little “pick me up” for the church. To get them out of the “valley” so to speak and up unto the mountain top. But one cannot live on a mountain top.

God’s will has always been to reveal Himself to His people. To let them live in the revelation of His love and then take them higher and into new depths of revelation.

Revivals stop because of the wills and attitudes of people. We are not saying this to condemn, but so that we can become wise and pray out the way. We do not want to make the same mistakes made in previous revivals.

When the presence of the Holy Spirit invades, nothing remains the same. Nothing. But there is a cost to be paid to have revival because it involves laying our “self” down. Even this takes help because SELF will not kill its self. Only the Lord can help us get up on the altar and then stay there for Him to work in us and through us.

It is good to have memories of what God has done in previous times but if you live in that memory, then there is nothing new taking place. We want our testimony to be one of moving with God–every day, every step. Always advancing and increasing in Him.

When we are not, it is because the intimacy which brought us to our first love has waned. It gets replaced with doctrine and the works of man. Our talk becomes talk of what the Lord did in days past.

Is the Lord the lover of your soul today? Our relationship with Him is not about works. It is about love. It is about loving Him each day and allowing Him to love us. This is how intimacy stays fresh and alive. And if you love Him, you will do His commandments. His love will cause you to want to prepare the way for His return.

Remember, He did not leave us alone but gave us His Word and His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit inspires prayers in us to be prayed that bring about change. That change prepares the way for His return. Will you be ready?

For this reason [seeing the greatness of this plan by which you are built together in Christ], I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name]. (16) May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. (17) May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, (18) That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; (19) [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! (20) Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]– (21) To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it).
(Eph. 3:14-21 AMP)

Prayer for Israel During Their Time of Distress; Lynne Hammond

Father God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we call upon You to intervene on behalf of Your people, Israel. We humbly ask that You comfort those that mourn for their precious loved ones who are injured or have lost their lives in the midst of the raging fires.

It is You Lord God who sends help to those in distress; deliver Your Chosen from the path of the consuming blaze and lead them to complete safety. We ask that You place Your supernatural protection over those who have put their lives in danger to bring this raging fire that has come against Israel to an end.

Lord God of Israel we call upon You to protect Your land which You have given to Your people as their inheritance. It is You who controls the sun and the stars, the wind and the rain; we call upon You to bring the wind to a standstill so that this intense fire will not increase and ask You to quench its flames with Your miraculous rain just as You did for Elijah.

May the enemies of Israel be kept powerless by Your mighty hand while she is in a time of trouble for You are her Rock and her Fortress and You dwell in her palaces; Your presence surrounds Israel like a shield.

We give You thanks with grateful hearts for the miracles that You will perform on behalf of the Jewish people and the land of Israel for You are her refuge and her strength and a very present help in trouble. Amen

Lynne Hammond

“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.” (1 Timothy 2:1-2 KJV)

Click here to read about the fire in the article from the Jerusalem Post.

News reports from Israel can be found on: www.debkafile.net

One of the most important aspects of our Christian walk is being able to distinguish God’s voice from the voice of our own thoughts and emotions, the voice of friends and family, and especially the voice of tormenting or familiar spirits.
According to Jesus, we have been given the ability to distinguish His voice from every other voice that is not His:
And when he [the Good Shepherd] putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
John 10:4,5

Since we know that God talks to us, let’s talk about how He communicates with us and what we can do to isolate that part of us that hears from Him.
In my personal walk with the Lord, I have found that the Holy Spirit communicates with our spirits in four different ways.  The foremost way is through the “inner witness.”  Romans 8:15,16 talks about this method of divine communication:
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Now, verse 15 is not saying that we walk around with our spirits literally crying, “Abba, Father,” but that the Holy Spirit communicates with us by continually bearing witness on the inside that we are the children of God, as Paul explains in the 16th verse.

This particular method of communication is a continual process.  You see, there isn’t a waking moment that the Holy Spirit doesn’t bear witness inside of me that I am His child.  In fact, I can’t remember the last time I was without that inner witness.

If the Holy Spirit can communicate and bear witness with our spirits that we are His children, then He can certainly bear witness with our spirits that we are heading in a right direction or check us when we are heading in a wrong direction.  And if there is ever a time that the Holy Spirit is unable to do that, it isn’t His fault.  We just haven’t learned how to listen to the inner witness yet.  And it can be especially difficult to differentiate between the operation of our spirits and the emotional realm of the soul when there is turmoil in our lives.

The second way God communicates is by revelation. This is when the Holy Spirit releases knowledge into your spirit in a millisecond.  One moment you don’t understand anything about healing, prosperity, or some other biblical doctrine.  Then, suddenly, the Holy Spirit encapsulates an entire revelation, passes it over to your spirit, and releases it all at once.  Suddenly you seem to understand everything about that subject!  You wonder, Wow!  How do I know this?  I’ll tell you how:  God has communicated to you by revelation.

The third way God communicates with us is by speaking inside our spirits in such a way that we can hear Him.  If we know it is the Holy Spirit speaking to us, we can listen to Him and be instructed.  However, too many of us can’t differentiate between God’s voice and our own carnal thoughts.

A lot of people can’t tell the difference between their own imagination and the various ways God communicates with them, whether it is through the inner witness, through revelation, through the Holy Spirit speaking to their spirits, or through a vision–which is the fourth way God communicates.  These people often bring reproach on the Gospel because they are always telling someone “God spoke to me,” when He DIDN’T speak to them, and they go on to create a big mess.

Now, that doesn’t preclude the fact that God does speak to us.  Our challenge is to learn how to listen and to distinguish His voice from our own thoughts and the other voices that vie for our attention in this world.
That is why I urge you to do all you can to understand this subject of distinguishing the voice of God and the various ways He communicates with you.  Too many Christians who have the Holy Spirit cannot distinguish His voice.
Actually, this ought to tell us something about the leadership of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus said that the Holy Spirit has come for one purpose–to GUIDE us into all truth.  He doesn’t PUSH us into all truth–He LEADS.  He doesn’t force us into anything we don’t want–He GUIDES.

Thank God, there is a way that He is able to get involved with my spirit and guide me in the affairs of life.  The Holy Spirit can take the counsel that comes from the heart of God in the form of His Word and reconstruct it in my heart in such a way that it becomes my counsel.  He can literally interpret the Word that I hear and then counsel me with what He has just taught me to understand.  In this way, the Holy Spirit can give me the counsel I so desperately need, and I can avoid taking my counsel from the world.

So how do you prepare and edify your spirit in such a way that it becomes a haven for the Holy Spirit to operate in?  There is a way you can do that, but it is certainly not by embracing a “social gospel.”  It takes you giving your life to Him.

Let’s take this a step further.  The baptism of the Holy Spirit takes place in your human spirit because it is in your spirit, or your new nature, where all permanent change takes place.  The inner man is also where the Holy Spirit communicates with you because of your born-again spirit’s tremendous ability to receive.  God can encapsulate a revelation and explode it in your spirit.  You can then understand this revelation in a split second, whereas it would take God a month to get that same truth over to your mind.

Now, you might want Jesus to walk in the room and talk to you in person.  But that isn’t the way He normally communicates with people.  The Holy Spirit has received this particular ministry of communicating with you, and He is the only One who can equip you for what God has called you to do in life.  Therefore, He ministers to you continually on the inside of your spirit.  All you have to do is familiarize yourself with His ministry and learn how to listen to Him.
How do you do that?  Well, the best way I know is to pray much in other tongues.  There are times when I put my Bible down, kick back, and pray for a couple of hours in the Holy Spirit.  During that time of prayer, I do nothing but adjust my mind to listen to that place in me where He communicates, just in case He wants to get something over to me.
In order for me to do that, I have to take the time to shut my mind down.  At times I literally have to tell my mind to shut up so it can learn how to become a listener and a servant to my spirit.  Now, my mind might argue with me and say, “I don’t want to shut down.”  But I just tell it, “For the next hour, you are just going to sit there, be quiet, and listen to the spirit–the part of me that God is communicating with.”

I have found it is usually in those quiet times of praying in the Holy Spirit that revelations explode and God begins to communicate with me.  Why is that?  Because the primary way God communicates is not with my brain but with my spirit.  That’s why I make sure there are times when I pray in tongues and do nothing with my mind on purpose.
Now, I also pray in tongues while I drive my car or go about my daily business.  During those times, the attention of my brain is demanded for the task at hand; yet, at the same time, I know that I am praying mysteries up before God and that my spirit is being edified.

But when I set myself apart to pray in the Holy Spirit and my body is not assigned to do anything else, these are the times my mind learns a new form of discipline and when God is better able to communicate with me.  I just shut down my mind for a couple of precious hours and close my eyes to block out any distractions–anything that would take away from my ability to listen to the part of me with which He communicates.

You see, your mind is like gravity.  Once you get it rolling, it does not want to stop.  It wants to think about everything under the sun.  Your spirit might be praying in tongues, but your brain is wondering how to fix this problem or what to cook for the dinner meal.  And if you’re a professional worrier, you’ll find that even though your spirit is being edified, your mind is performing its chosen profession of worrying up a storm!

This was quite a problem for me when I was first learning to pray.  I would lock myself up in my prayer closet for extended hours to pray in the Holy Spirit, but my mind would go wild with boredom.  One day I ended up walking down a riverbed, kicking every green rock.  Not just any rock would do; I had to look for GREEN rocks.  My mind was so bored that it just had to do something!

Before I started praying in the Holy Spirit for long periods of time, my mind was used to having its way all the time.  It would run every minute any way it wanted to!  At first, I tried to control my mind while I prayed in tongues.  It would start down some distracting train of thought, and I’d say, “No, you don’t!  Come back here!”  But after I’d bring my mind back, it would just start thinking about something else.  Finally, I just gave up and let my mind go exploring while I just kept praying in tongues.

But after a while, my mind began to stop resisting and started allowing itself to become a receptor.  Soon I got to the place where I could lie still and pray in tongues for up to six hours.  The only part of my body that moved during that time was my eyes when they blinked.  No longer did my mind dictate to my body that it needed to get up and wander around.  After my mind quieted down, I discovered that it was becoming receptive to more and more edification and revelation knowledge.  More and more peace came.  And when peace came, rest came.

It is wonderful when peace begins to dominate your mind.  When your mind is full of care and worry and torment, oppression can set in, robbing your mind of its ability to think clearly.  But a mind that is full of rest and peace over a long period of time will begin to restore itself to wholeness.  I’m telling you, if I were you, I would learn how to pray much in the Holy Spirit!

Another thing I so appreciate about the Holy Spirit is how He warns me when danger lies ahead in my life, and He will do the same for you.
For instance, the Holy Spirit might have warned us in the past about a person we were associating with.  This person might have been very charismatic, even overpowering in his or her deceptive personality.  We sensed a quick little check in our spirits, nudging us to back off before we entered into a full-blown relationship.  But we overrode that check and forged ahead anyway–and before it was over, that person made us wish we were never born!

When something like that happens, we remember back and think, I did have a check on the inside about that person.  I don’t know why I didn’t listen to it.  I’ll tell you why we didn’t listen–because we weren’t sure that we were hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit.

That kind of situation might seem all too familiar to you.  You might say, “Brother Dave, you say that you shut your mind down so you can listen to that part of your spirit where you hear God.  Would you help me isolate the ear of my spirit?  Can you teach me how I can close my eyes, shut down my mind, and listen to my spirit in case the Holy Spirit is wanting to say something to me?”

Yes, I can.  You see, we will never be sure of what to do when we sense the warning or the guidance of the Holy Spirit until we first develop in our ability to distinguish His voice from all the other voices in the world.  So let’s go on and try to understand how to shut down our minds and learn to listen to the operation of the Holy Spirit.

First Corinthians 14:14 is an important scripture for this discussion.  It says, For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
The part of your understanding that Paul is talking about is the ability of your physical brain to analyze languages.  When you pray in tongues, your understanding is unable to understand the language that is coming out of your spirit.
Now, you might eventually understand the mysteries you have prayed in tongues before the Father, but with your mind, you will not understand one syllable that comes out of your spirit because it is a language you are unfamiliar with.  In other words, you will not have the translation of what you are praying unless God gives you the interpretation.

The way God usually gives me the interpretation when I am praying privately in tongues is by exploding the mysteries and revelations on the inside of my spirit.  At that point, it isn’t necessary for my mind to understand every syllable or word that He passes through my spirit.

You might ask, “But isn’t the Holy Spirit the One who originates the language of tongues?  Then what is Paul talking about when he says ‘My spirit prayeth’?  Is it the Holy Spirit–who lives in my spirit–or is it my born-again, new-creation, human spirit that is actually doing the praying?”

The Holy Spirit is supplying the language, all right, but it is your human spirit that is doing the praying.
You see, we are a part of the Body of Christ, and Jesus is the Head.  Wherever His Body is present in this earth, the Head has authority.  When the Holy Spirit transfers that supernatural language to your human spirit, He also transfers the authority.  Now you as a member of the Body of Christ are praying a prayer that the Holy Spirit gave you with the authority to change things on this earth.

The Holy Spirit says to you, “I need to teach you.  I am searching your heart.  I know the plan of God, and I am making intercession for you according to His will.  There are many things I need to pray through you for your personal life and ministry, so I am supplying the prayer and the prayer language.  You supply your spirit, and I will pass the prayer through it.”
You know, it ought to be hard to fail when you have a Prayer Partner like the Holy Spirit!  He is praying the perfect prayer through your spirit and will continue to do so as long as you will stay in there and keep praying in tongues!
Since it is your human spirit doing the praying, that means a transfer of power has to first take place from the Holy Spirit to your spirit.  Somewhere within your human spirit, the Holy Spirit literally brings those tongues into existence, creating each syllable and each word of that supernatural language.  If you find out where that process takes place, you will then know which part of your inner man to monitor when you want to know if God has anything to say to you.
Years ago something interesting took place in my life to help me find that part of my human spirit where God communicates with me.  I had been in the ministry a couple of years by then and had spent much time locking myself in a closet and praying for hours in tongues.  Over that period of time, I had learned how to shut down my senses long enough to learn how to listen to the Holy Spirit.

That morning I was in my prayer closet edifying myself in tongues. Suddenly it seemed like some kind of invisible dome settled over me–as if I was in the Holy of Holies.  Everything got very quiet as I slid over into the realm of the Spirit.  God was about to teach me some profound truths about distinguishing His voice.
In the Spirit I saw the physical anatomy of a man.  Then I saw what appeared to be a “glow” on the inside of the man’s body.  I understood the glow to be the outline of the inner spirit man, which was encased by the outer man–wall to wall, hands to hands, eyes to eyes.

In that moment of revelation, I learned something I hadn’t understood before about the spirit man.  If I had the ability to have my spirit man step out and stand next to my physical man, you would see that my inner man has hands, eyes, a nose, ears, and hair.  He also has a brain that fits inside my natural brain.  In fact, my spirit man looks exactly like my physical man, minus age and defects.

But I had more to learn.  In this vision I saw the spirit man’s mind.  Then I saw the Holy Spirit literally creating tongues within the spiritual mind, which was bathed in that heavenly glow.  The moment the Holy Spirit created the tongues, they came outward to the outer man’s mind and then out of his mouth.  I realized I was seeing the part of the spirit from which the Holy Spirit speaks.

This greatly interested me, for I had always been fascinated with the voice of God.  I used to endlessly pester any preacher who told me he had heard God’s voice.  I wanted to understand where he heard it.
One preacher would say, “Well, God spoke to my spirit.”

I’d ask, “Would you please identify the approximate region that God spoke from?”
“Well, the Bible says, ‘Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water’ [John 7:38].  So God spoke to me way down, deep on the inside of me in my inner man.”  Then the person would pat his belly.
The truth of the matter is, the voice of the Holy Spirit does come from deep somewhere–so deep, in fact, that it seems logical to say, “Well, it came from way down here in my spirit.”  It might appear to come from “way down there,” but God actually communicates with the mind of your spirit.

That’s what I came to understand through this vision.  The hidden man of the heart–the spirit man–has a brain just like your physical body does, and that spiritual brain fits in your natural brain.  God does not move out of your spirit man’s brain and go down to the belly button region to talk to you.  He communicates with your spiritual mind, and that spiritual mind is in your head.

The spiritual mind, of course, lies beneath the natural mind.  This explains why it appears that the voice of the Holy Spirit is coming from “way down somewhere” when it is actually coming from the deep recesses of your spiritual mind.
My outer man gives my spirit man the authority to operate in a natural world.  Because I am “wearing” my physical body, I can contact physical things.  In the same way, my physical brain allows my spiritual brain to operate in a natural world and translate what I am receiving in the spirit into a natural operation, such as languages.

So your spiritual brain is the part of you with which the Holy Spirit communicates.  The more you pray in tongues, the more you are going to familiarize yourself with the part of you where He actually creates that supernatural language.  It is the same part of you where you will hear the inner witness or hear Him in your native language in such a way that you can hear God’s voice.

Now, let me help you isolate this part of your spirit.  I suggest that you do what God instructed me to do on that particular day.  He had me pray out loud for a while in the Holy Spirit; then He impressed me to stop.  I stopped praying out loud, but the tongues did not stop because the Holy Spirit was continuing to create the words on the inside of my spiritual mind.  When I didn’t let the words come out of my mouth, they just floated up to my natural mind and I could hear them.  For a while, the Holy Spirit kept creating the words, and I kept on hearing them.
If you respond to the Holy Spirit and say, “I want to pray in tongues,” immediately He will supply the language.  If you don’t open your mouth, you will notice that you can hear those tongues being created somewhere on the inside of you.  You are hearing God’s voice with the ear of your spirit.  What is God saying?  Tongues.  Where is He saying it?  In your spirit.

So let me suggest that you forcefully pray in tongues for a few minutes; then stop abruptly.  In doing this, you will create a river that will continue to flow up to your natural mind even after you stop speaking.  Listen to where this language is created in your spirit for a moment.  Familiarize yourself with it, for that is the exact same part of you that you will need to monitor in order to distinguish the voice of the Holy Spirit.

The more you pray in tongues, the more familiar you will become with the source of the Holy Spirit’s language and how He talks to you.  So start learning to listen.  Make it your highest priority to learn how to hear the voice of God.  There is no better way to prepare yourself for the times to come.  Whatever the future might hold for the world, YOUR future will be bright as you grow in close fellowship with Him!

Dave Roberson

Speaking with tongues is a means of spiritual edification. And if you want to be able to edify others, you’re going to have to be edified yourself!

I believe this is the reason that many people are not the blessing to others that they could be – they don’t edify themselves. They don’t take times to build themselves up spiritually by speaking in tongues. But when believers get themselves built up, they can then help and bless others.

When we pray and speak with other tongues, it helps us to be conscious of God’s divine, supernatural presence in our lives through the Person of the Holy Spirit.

Howard Carter was one of the pioneers of the Pentecostal Movement and the founder of one of the oldest Pentecostal Bible schools in the world. He once said: “We must not forget that the speaking with other tongues is not only an initial evidence of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling, it is a continual experience for the rest of his (the believer’s) life to assist in the worship of God. It is a flowing stream that should never dry up, and that will enrich the life spiritually.” [Read more…]