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ASK God to teach you and show you while you earnestly seek to be clean before Him, and He will guide you. CLING to the Word and His commentary of meaning directly to your spirit. SEEK earnestly the greatest gifts.... because by His Spirit Alone shall you know where HE is and what He is doing.
Receiving and flowing in the Gift of Tongues is all about taking thoughts captive, worshipping God, and Faith in the truth of the Word of God. If you've been struggling to manifest this gifting, the following testimony may give you a boost to keep going.
It's a beautiful thing to mentor… and after E.J. got his breakthrough in confidently flowing in the gift of tongues, I asked him if he'd testify about it to bless others that are desiring the promise as well. He welcomed the chance… BE BLESSED!
Well it all started like this. Actually I've been praying about it for three years to be exact because now its 2015. In all this time I hadn't received it (gift of tongues). So I stopped praying about it. Until this past October/November I just got interested again. I prayed and prayed but I didn't receive it.
In December I got really desperate, and so hungry about it, so I did a lot of research about how to get it/what to do in order to get it, etc. I watched a lot of videos on YouTube about speaking in tongues. I discovered that we should move our mouth when we ask for it. Honestly, I prayed to receive it for almost a week, and then out of nowhere, I just wanted to try it. ---And it happened! BUT, the enemy came and told me it was fake, and also tried to make me think it was counterfeit tongues. Then I saw your video, and messaged you about this struggle, and knew to not give up; building my faith.
On January 2, in the afternoon… I was watching more videos and wanted to try it again because I got really tired of the enemy telling me its not real. So I went to my room. I sat there and just praised God and worshiped Him and really concentrated on HIM. I just kept saying Hallelujah over and over again until my tongue started to get kind of tied-up-feeling, and the Holy Spirit told me to, "Loosen up. Let it flow".
Then I just started speaking-- with the enemy continuing to attack, but I didn't listen to him. I just continued speaking and just let go and let it flow until I began to feel the warmth of the Holy Spirit. I began worshiping Him even more and got on my knees and with my hands up, praised Him and just prayed and prayed. I Spoke and spoke until I got so comfortable and felt so free, then I paused for a while. There was this feeling inside of me to speak more. So just couldn't control myself and prayed in tongues again. I came to a place where I felt so loved and peaceful and ended up crying, all the while still speaking in tongues.
I actually prayed in tongues for about 5 hours with small breaks, because I just couldn't help myself, I just let it flow even more. I felt sohappy.
The feeling at first, when I was new with it, was very strange. There was the enemy who just kept telling me that it is fake and I was making it up; trying to make me think it was counterfeit tongues. So I felt very frustrated and doubtful and I couldn't sleep for days. I had to know more and more on how to truly receive it.
I didn't give up. I just kept praying, until I 'got it'. I just let it flow and I fought the feeling of doubt and just went with the flow. And there it was, I had the breakthrough. FAITH is how I got the gift. Its because of Faith. :)))
"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world -our faith."
Q: "Jesus Died For All Are Sins, Right? Well what is this (referencing a video recording of a deliverance session in an institutional church), an official church healing a person that is possessed by a demon??? I thought Jesus Christ saved us, or is it some sort of money scam?"
A: Deliverance is a real ministry of Jesus that He taught us to do, just like healing....these that He performed within the 'church' of believers (first the body of Christ...but then to whomever also came to him) & this ministry hasn't passed away. In my Spiritual Housecleaning Series playlist, I give people understanding about it... and show how the enemy can gain access into our lives and then teach how we can be delivered from any access the enemy has. The original greek doesn't imply 'total possession' (as the KJV and many modern bibles seem to imply) when speaking about deliverance, but points to areas of access within our personality. And you can see this.... an angry man that continually belittles his wife all week long but professing Jesus and despite often repenting...the cycle continues..... why? He needs delivered. The same with people that exaggerate or tell lies.... ones that can't kick an addiction and so on.
In the video you showed me, they tied the person down as if they were strapped into an electric chair... and I don't agree with that (reminds me of the 7 sons of Sceva, LOL); for if we have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit(an event separate from water baptism & also separate from initial 'salvation in Jesus' experience), thus having the infilling of the Holy Spirit... then we don't need to strap people down etc. Although this stuff does work...because the name of Jesus is powerful, and binding and loosing are the 'how to do it' (remember the Word doesn't return void but the real key is do we have HIS authority?)..... if we surrender and allow the Holy Spirit to lead the deliverance.... they- (the accessing spirits), bow because of the authority we speak on Jesus' behalf.
It's sad because this was a HUGE ministry of Jesus that the 'church' at large has swept under the rug, and yet HE taught us what to do & never told us to stop...no, He said we'd do 'greater works than these'.
I share my personal deliverance experiences throughout the series. It's 12 vids... a lot to ask in watching them all, but if it bears in your spirit...do give them a try:
I really admire when people search and ask questions... because most only believe what they are church-fed. I encourage everyone to dig in to the Word FIRST (making Jesus as King--not a church institution) and then ask Jesus to guide to the answers. Even if you don't believe what I have to share, I am content in that testifying is enough because He does the rest. : )
“I beseech you, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (1 Cor. 1:10)
“..when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” (1 Samuel 18:1)
What is
Spiritual Warfare, why do we need it? Why would Jesus tell us to bind
and loose if He took care of it all at the cross? I'll be sharing the
importance of the application... the appropriation for what Jesus did
here on this episode of hearingGod.
Spiritual warfare is the
next step for a spirit-filled, born again overcomer. It is one thing to
believe the promises of God, but an overcomer steps into the ministry
of Jesus... doing what He did, and even 'greater works than these'.
Spiritual warfare is simply
the implementation or the applying of the blood of Jesus, and the
application, with authority, regarding of the word of God. It is you
saying 'I only do what I see the Father doing'. It is NOT in running
around picking fights with the devil... which is a dangerous contrivance
of the flesh. If God doesn't lead, you will not succeed!
A spiritual warrior
realizes what this statement means: "Forgive them Father, for they know
not what they do". That we war not against flesh and blood, but
powers and principalities... that evil spirits influence people, cities
and nations... and that we, in the power of His blood, have His
authority to bind the demonic from operating, and loose the things that
align with the Spirit of God here on earth.
When a person can
understand that humans are influenced by spirits, fear can be overcome.
"What can man do to me?" (Psa 56:11, Psa 118:6) This of course does
not make us 'above the law' of common sense... If we stray away from
seeking His will and in doing only what we see the Father doing... we
will reap the consequences of presumption.
I have an experience to share...
I don't have the luxury of
getting out much, so when a co-worker of my husband offered to babysit
and paid for our dinner, we were elated. We went out & had a
blast. The next day my younger son was telling me how the co-worker
kept badgering my older son about getting a girlfriend.
Whoops! Maybe we were a
little too excited to get out of the house in that we forgot to do some
spiritual house-cleaning before we left the kids with this co-worker.
And this is part of spiritual warfare... realizing that we cannot allow
presumption to reign over our actions. True, the person isn't like a
child molester or anything... but all people are eligible to be
influenced by spirits. Presumption was to let this guy watch our kids
and trust that everything would just turn out fine, but as a spiritual
warrior we must 'know better'-- we have to first seek God's plan... not
our selfish desire to get out of the house and have a nice dinner.
So in seeking God about it,
I was led into a teaching moment with our children. I was able to
instruct them about what the bible says, and then set that next to the
visible behavior of the co-worker, the inordinate fascination with women
or a spirit of 'lust', so they could see that it was a spiritual
issue. I was able to explain the difference between being able to cast a
spirit out vs. binding the spirit, because if a spirit is welcome...
it's their choice.... we cannot make it for them. BUT, we do have
authority to bind and loose! So I was able to equip my kids that if in a
situation where they recognize a spirit beginning to manifest... how
they can deal with it, by binding it from operation.
Think of the foreign
countries that hand the kids a rifle and put them on the line... on the
same token, don't you dismiss the power of a praying child for one
moment... you need to teach them how to overcome-- how to be that arrow
in your quiver. This is important... Mom & Dad aren't always going
to catch everything.
So can you see the
spiritual warfare in all of this? We can't bury our heads in the sand
and go into fear living in the world... we have to believe that we are
above only and never beneath. (Deu 28:13)
What about things bigger
than spiritual influences on people? Do you cry out over the
abominations in the land? (Eze 9:4 ) Do you know you can make a
difference?
Deu 11:24 "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours..."
When you see areas of depravity in your city or neighborhood, it is the physical sign of a spiritual problem.
And, I want to give some
credence to the term "territorial spirits"....Even in the Word we see
clearly that the demonic can set in some tent pegs in a locale and reek
all sorts of havoc. In Daniel 10:13 we see that principalities rule
territorially, because of the tell-tale kingship title: "But the prince
of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one
of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with
the king of Persia."
What gives that prince and
power of the air more authority to hold the people in bondage even
more?....What people welcome, is welcomed...if they dive into sin, and
lose their conscience and openly embrace evil... evil is what will
reign. But God raises a standard. (“When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise a standard against him”
Isaiah 59:19.)
Again, if you are sighing
& crying... it's perhaps because God is raising you up. So let's
talk strategy. Prayer walking, or prayer driving is a way to bring in
the Spirit of God to (Psa 110:1)"...make thine enemies thy footstool."
Again, this is taking the Word of God to heart... believing it and
implementing it. Does this mean to abandon all common sense and go
walking in the darkest part of town? No, again... if you ask, Yeshua
you'll find out what to do.
My husband and I have
amazing testimony of psychic shops and hidden prostitution rings
shutting down because of the burden we had in our locale. We've
prayer-walked New Age fairs and witchcraft purveyors finding their hocus
pocus to naught for the day, including tibetan 'art' ceremonies that
openly boast that they invoke a deity or deities----hmmm, a 'gate of
hell', perhaps?
Even my young son can
praise Jesus because one day he and Dad were led to prayer walk a
different area (at my son's leading) and they found out the next day,
that in that area they walked, a child on a bike was hit with a car, but
no bad came of it. My son marveled... in that the enemy desired to
shed innocent blood, but by the simple prayer of this little one HE
heard and dispatched His angels!
Binding and loosing... you
betcha.... you are the living ark of the covenant, the Holy fire-bottle
of the presence of God. You are all about what the 'gap' needs to be
filled with to bridge the Spirit of God across. (Eze 22:30 And I sought
for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the
gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found
none.)
What about things even
bigger than what I'd call 'territorial deliverance'? What about 'the
nation' or nations, or people groups that need to be free? If the Lord
puts a burden on your heart... go to your prayer closet and pray and ask
God. I believe there are a great many of intercessors and prophets out
there that aren't blossoming their gift because they are waiting on
their church or prayer circle of friends to feel that burden or because
of that burden are ignored or chastised. I tell you to go to that place
in secret and pray, and be obedient. Do as the Father leads because
those around you may never 'get it'.
We are not in happy
club-mode people... to serve Him is not the popular thing because man
likes to get the credit. God is looking for warriors with hearts
completely sold out to Him... ones that sigh and cry, ones that care for
all mankind... not just the ones that we like. We need to be in
get-as-close-to-Elohim-as-possible, mode!
