ABCs OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES

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Jan 17, 2018
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ABCs of SPEAKING IN TONGUES

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A lot of people are confused about speaking in tongues, here are some ABCs on the subject.

Neither speaking in tongues nor the Baptism of the Holy Ghost even water baptism is a criteria for making heaven.
You must first be born again to be eligible. (Confession & Belief in Jesus Christ)
You must first be filled with the Holy Spirit (Holy Spirit/Ghost Baptism)
Baptism of the Holy Spirit is by faith as salvation is.
Speaking in tongues comes after receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit by faith.
Your speaking in tongues might coincide (simultaneously) with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit or it might come later. (MAJOR POINT)
Don’t wait for God to move your lips to speak in tongues, neither should you outsource speaking in tongues to Him or the Holy Ghost for you. You must do the speaking.
Utterance comes from the Holy Spirit. Speaking comes from you.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit & speaking in tongues can be received by laying on of hands and without laying on of hands.
You don’t need to tarry for the Holy Ghost Baptism, it has already been given (Gift). No price is required for a gift. All you require is: knowledge, desire, ask & receive with faith.
Once baptised, you can’t lose it. The gifts & callings of God are without repentance.
You only lose it when you reject the Holy Spirit.
But if you don’t speak in tongues for a very, very long time, you MIGHT stutter in tongues when you try, especially if you stopped as soon as you received the baptism. A child that stopped speaking a language at a young age will struggle with it as an adult. But if you are proficient in the language already but stopped for a long time, the struggle is less or NON EXISTENT.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not a New Testament concept. Priests, Prophets, Kings & some people used by God were baptised with the Holy Spirit fully or occasional in the Old Testament. (This might come as a surprise to many)
But speaking in tongues is a New Testament experience.
Speaking in tongues is different from the gift of speaking another tongues.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit is for empowerment to spread the Gospel.
Speaking in tongues RE-ENERGISES the power. It’s like charging you battery.
Speaking in tongues publicly in a church service must be done in an orderly fashion with interpretation. Except in a corporate praying in tongues session.
You can be baptised in Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues; but you cannot speak in tongues without the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. (CONTROVERSIAL but true). I BELIEVE STRONGLY that you might be baptised in the Holy Spirit (remember it is by faith) without speaking in tongues. The aim of the Holy Ghost Baptism is empowerment to spread the gospel not empowerment to speak in tongues. (1 Corinthians 12:20; 14:5, 39-40)

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

John 7:38-39 (NKJV)

He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Mark 16:17(NKJV)

And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

Acts 2:4 (NKJV)

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 1:8 (NKJV)

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:4-5 (NKJV)

The Holy Spirit Promised

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 2:38 (NKJV)

Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 10:45 (NKJV)

And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

Micah 3:8 (NKJV)

But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,

And of justice and might,

To declare to Jacob his transgression

And to Israel his sin.

1 Samuel 10:10 (NKJV)

When they came there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him; then the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.

1 Corinthians 12:30 (NLT)

Not all have the gift of healing, do they? Not all speak in other languages, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

Acts 10:47 (NKJV)

“Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Acts 11:15 (NKJV)