The first time I spoke in tongues
When I received the gift of tongues in 2006, no one led me through it. I had learned about it, but had been stubborn in my critical analytical mindset. One night I was visiting a church service that was free enough to let me seek God freely myself.
I was just worshiping with my whole heart telling him how great he is and how thankful I was for his love. Just childlike faith and surrender, freely and inhibited. No one laod hands on me or approached me. There wasnt even an altar call for it. I was in the back and the lights were low, no one was looking at me because they were all worshiping as deeply.
Then I felt like what could be called a bubbling or a welling up from my core, my inner spirit man. Then I thought this must be what I've heard of (or I just knew it by faith), and decided to let that out. The Spirit had given the utterance but it was my turn to do the speaking. So I opened the tap of my mouth and let the River run. Living waters of a language I had never learned sprang forth from my lips, and I did not stop it. I "knew" that I could, but I didn't want to. This was the fulness of life. The same presence that overwhelmed me the night I was saved, but now what I can only best describe as infinitely more overwhelming.
As I partnered with the Spirit for him to pray through me those mysteries, my body was filled with the divine liquid electricity (some have said, 'holy fiery light') and I shook, trembled, laughed, cried, seemingly simultaneously and each overlapping each other. The fullness of life at once as much as I could physically experience. And then I heard the word of the Lord, the same voice I heard the night I was saved a year before that assured me "all of heaven rejoices when one sinner repents".
The Voice this time (perhaps this was the interpretation of the tongues, or perhaps the budding first fruits of the gift of active prophecy in my life) gave words that were not only for me to hear, but for me to release into the earth. The words of edification were:
"MY children, my children! Why have you forsaken me and gone after the things of the world: the sex, the drugs, the alcohol - when you could have ME; the Fountain of Living Waters!"
I later realized this experience is known as the Baptism of (or sometimes 'with') the Holy Spirit.
Today, I want you to know that if you have suffered drought and famine in your spirit because of a dry dead religion, but you still hunger for God, your Heavenly Father has promised this gift to you and your children and to as many as are afar off. This is for you today if God has called you to be his child.
If you would repent, place your faith in the resurrected Jesus, and seek to be baptized, you will receive it. But some will never enter in because of their unbelief. Beware of the devil's ministers who appear to bring the light, but are secret agents carrying the erronous doctrine of men.
The Word of this season is now, "LIFE! LIFE! Eternal Life! Can you hear the call of the Spirit of the Lord!?"
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