The Basics of Speaking in Tongues

Wansvic when you were baptized in water did you get up and immediately start speaking in tongues?

The idea that we must first be so focused or what some call focus on your kata that we are no longer aware of our surroundings I believe opens up the air way for the father of lies to bring in his signs as lying wonders gospel .What we do focus or meditate on is the word of God . It is alive and able to judge the intents of our hearts and not return void but work in us with us to give us the desires of our new hearts as a living hope that will not disappoint us.

We are informed that not only does the Spirit that lives in us and would never forsake us teach us continually as we pray without ceasing in this situation or that and do not harden our hearts. That he also brings to mind whatsoever he has taught us .

I idea of putting oneself into some sort of trance or ecstasy as a wonderment, I would suggest is not a part of the gospel. It would seem to be more of a eastern tradition of men that some have incorporated as a oral tradition into Christianity.

Believing prophecy, the gift of God demonstrated when two or thee gather together with the treasure of his authority that we have in theses bodies of death is having the mind of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

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When you are alone and in prayer, do you know why your mind wanders on other things, or why things happen when they should not?

The adversary is trying to distract you from actually being able to connect to God on a level where he cannot interfere. Knowing this much should be a valuable lesson to any believer. It's like being in a church service and it's nice, quiet, calm all throughout the service. But the moment when the pastor is trying to encourage anyone who needs salvation to come to the altar and things suddenly get more intense within our spirits, a couple of babies begin balling or someone for no reason has a coughing episode, or a child who sat patiently throughout the sermon now has to use the bathroom, just silly things seem to happen for no reason that cause a little distraction. I have heard preachers say, please take your child to another part of the facility because this is serious here. The pastor/preachers understand what is happening and they are trying to remove the distractions so we can be focused upon the meat of the situation at hand, someones possible salvation!!

My prayer is doing the same thing. I know who I am praying to. No matter how much I push in my spirit to get closer to God is not going to open the door to anything but who I am focused on. Just like praying at home. When it's been quiet all day, no one has tried to make contact with you, no one has tried to text you or visit you, no one has done anything that you should be thoughtful of. But the moment you set yourself to pray and worship, the phone rings, someone knocks at the door, someone decides this is the moment to rev their motor and lay down possy tracks in the street, or an out of normal noise is made from nowhere. It's these distractions that keep most believers from ever reaching higher and closer to God because they cannot stop thinking about them. It's like you go all day long and never think about the football game, but the moment you try to pray, the football game suddenly pops into your mind. There is no reason that football game ever should have popped into your mind at the time you decided to pray, when you have not thought about it all day. But Satan will do whatever he can to distract you. And if you let that distraction interfere, you might miss out on a blessing God wanted to give to you. But people let that distraction deter them all of the time. this is why it's important to pray as I have suggested!!

t's a powerful reality to understand God's power and our strength are no match at all.

Is the prayer below highlighted in blue as that important to pray?



You say its a powerful reality to understand some unseen power? But How would you know for certainty unless you heard the voice of Christ as in all things written in the law and the prophets?

If this powerful reality is to understand the god of this world Satan's power through a sign and lying wonders then what?

When Jesus as the Son of man was faced with that decision in Mathew 4 , three times he said again and again as it is written and that angel described in Colossians 2:18 disappeared. There the Son of man weak in the flesh having no strength being strengthened by the father revealed to us not to let any man deceive us in that way. We are not to go above that which is written as if the sky was the limit as in just believe something

Experience is not the validator of unseen spiritual truths of God.

it would seem to be the new gospel of signs and lying wonders. needed to cause ecstasy as a wonderment.

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,Colossians 2:18

First of all, the one certain gift of the Holy Spirit I have been blessed with is the gift of Discernment. So I would not be upfront praying, knowing that the possibility of a false preacher possessed by the enemy could be the one touching me. If I would be upfront, it would be to rebuke them.

And secondly, there would be a spiritual conflict I would notice immediately in my spirit, if a possessed false preacher stood before the sacred Pulpit and began to speak. I would begin Binding that person in the Name of Yeshua, while listening to see if scripture is being twisted and misinterpreted. And the moment I heard such, I would walk out and shake the dust off of my feet.

Not sure, but I believe the word, bind , is used today in place of the word, rebuke.

No matter, with faith of a mustard seed one is graced with many works from God.

It is a matter of unbelief of the Word to simply say another is not being true to the Word.

We are to believe all things when it comes to the glorifying of our Maker.

It could be used that way as a rebuke . But those who seek after outward signs as gifts associate binding as they do with slaying in the spirit. Human hands are needed for the show and tell performance.

It has been my personal experience in the ewalk given me that when it came time for my bing used for a miracle it was just that.

I was avilable, God took over and I simply did what came by the Spirit for me to be used for. The gift of knowledge at a time or two, the gift of healing also..........andmore.

When anyone confides in me something the Lord has done through them, I tend to believe until something tells me not to. So fat that has not happened.

It's sad that so many do not understand what you are expressing here. Many seem to think that they are seeing a contrived performance. When in fact, willing Christian vessels are spontaneously filled with an appropriate Spiritual gift by God to meet a specific need.

Where did you get the idea you can bind people in the name of Jesus? Is this another sign gift like touching people ? What do you bind them with? Will they be found lying on the ground overwhelmed by your power?

I used to wonder why me, who am I to be used for these work? Then it came to me in the Word, God uses that which is not to bring down tht which is, and the humble to bring down the proud…...and more. I knew I was NOT and boy did I feel humble.

People must understand God is not dead nor is His power no longer with men. Anyione who makes himself or herself available to the Father and in a serving situatio usually, will be used for things others call miracles. When I have been used, they seemed quite naturaql..

Matthew 18:
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Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

This is from the mouth of Yeshua!!

We put in the name of Yeshua because He gave us this ability, so it is under His authority we are able to do as such!!

Only Pentecostals and Charismatics hold to that doctrine. The genuine spiritual gift of tongues was evident during the Apostolic Age. God enabled men to SUPERNATURALLY speak foreign languages which they had never learned or heard. This was primarily to convince unbelieving Jews that the power behind the Gospel was that of God, and this was a sign gift, a miracle.

And as Paul made it crystal clear in 1 Corinthians (1) not all would have the spiritual gift of tongues, (2) those who spoke would need an interpreter within the assembly, (3) Paul would rather have spoken 5 words of prophecy than 10,000 words in tongues, and (4) women were to keep silence in the churches.

When you are alone and in prayer, do you know why your mind wanders on other things, or why things happen when they should not?

The adversary is trying to distract you from actually being able to connect to God on a level where he cannot interfere. Knowing this much should be a valuable lesson to any believer. It's like being in a church service and it's nice, quiet, calm all throughout the service. But the moment when the pastor is trying to encourage anyone who needs salvation to come to the altar and things suddenly get more intense within our spirits, a couple of babies begin balling or someone for no reason has a coughing episode, or a child who sat patiently throughout the sermon now has to use the bathroom, just silly things seem to happen for no reason that cause a little distraction. I have heard preachers say, please take your child to another part of the facility because this is serious here. The pastor/preachers understand what is happening and they are trying to remove the distractions so we can be focused upon the meat of the situation at hand, someones possible salvation!!

My prayer is doing the same thing. I know who I am praying to. No matter how much I push in my spirit to get closer to God is not going to open the door to anything but who I am focused on. Just like praying at home. When it's been quiet all day, no one has tried to make contact with you, no one has tried to text you or visit you, no one has done anything that you should be thoughtful of. But the moment you set yourself to pray and worship, the phone rings, someone knocks at the door, someone decides this is the moment to rev their motor and lay down possy tracks in the street, or an out of normal noise is made from nowhere. It's these distractions that keep most believers from ever reaching higher and closer to God because they cannot stop thinking about them. It's like you go all day long and never think about the football game, but the moment you try to pray, the football game suddenly pops into your mind. There is no reason that football game ever should have popped into your mind at the time you decided to pray, when you have not thought about it all day. But Satan will do whatever he can to distract you. And if you let that distraction interfere, you might miss out on a blessing God wanted to give to you. But people let that distraction deter them all of the time. this is why it's important to pray as I have suggested!!

2. The cloven (split or divided in two) tongue appears to represent that there are two types of tongues: One as the initial evidence of the infilling of the Holy Spirit, and two; the Spiritual gift of tongues.

On the Day of Pentecost a flame resembling a cloven (split) tongue appeared above each person when the Spirit entered their body. This record in Acts points to a couple things considering each believer is to be God's dwelling place upon rebirth:

1. The Israelites knew when God was present in the darkness of night by the pillar of flame that appeared above the Old Testament tabernacle. (Exodus 25:8, 22, 29:43,40:34-38)

2. The cloven (split or divided in two) tongue appears to represent that there are two types of tongues: One as the initial evidence of the infilling of the Holy Spirit, and two; the Spiritual gift of tongues.

I find it fascinating that God takes control of the one thing man cannot control as evidence of His abiding presence; the tongue.
"For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame;" (James 3:7-8) However, with God all things are possible. (Matt 19:26)

As far as women keeping silent see Galatians 3:27-28. Jesus even appeared first to a woman and she carried the message of His resurrection to the men.

Concepts in God's Word are no laughing matter. Each and everyone of us will be judged by those words.
"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48

"But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 BUT YE BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." Jude 17-25

Where did you get the idea you can bind people in the name of Jesus? Is this another sign gift like touching people ? What do you bind them with? Will they be found lying on the ground overwhelmed by your power?

Matthew 18:
18
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

This is from the mouth of Yeshua!!

We put in the name of Yeshua because He gave us this ability, so it is under His authority we are able to do as such!!

What you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven(paraphrase)this seems to be another example of pride wanting special powers from God that 'ordinary' believers don't have. No more scriptural than 'pleading the blood of Jesus' over someone or something,