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The reason why most believers are
powerless against sin and against the devil, they don't have victory,
is because they don't have the Holy Spirit. They have never
received the Holy Spirit, they don't have the POWER to stand against
the devil. They are not connected to God. They don't have the Spirit
of God living in them.
Jesus commanded His disciples to go to
Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit that was promised . We read in
Acts 1:8 “but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you; and you shall be My witnesses.” And that is why people do
not witness for Jesus, they don't have the Spirit of God in them. You
cannot talk about Jesus if you do not know Jesus. If Jesus is not in
you and the power of God is not in you, you have got nothing to talk
about, you have no testimony.
The promise of the Spirit is for
everybody who believed, who REPENTED, OBEYED Jesus and was BAPTIZED
IN WATER. As Peter also told them on the day of Pentecost, I read
from Acts 2:38 “And Peter said to them, “REPENT, AND LET EACH OF
YOU BE BAPTIZED in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39“
For THE PROMISE IS FOR YOU and your children, and for all who are far
off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself.” The
promise is for all, not just for some, for everybody. Why? Because
everybody needs the power of the Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul writes
in Romans 8:9, “if you do not have the Spirit of Christ you do not
belong to Him.“ We need the Spirit of Christ in us so that we can
have the POWER of GOD in us. Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us, the
SPIRIT OF GOD LIVING IN US every moment, teaching us, guiding us and
sending us, using us for His kingdom. We are the body of Christ and
if the Spirit of Christ does not live in us then we are DEAD.
The Holy Spirit was promised to
EVERYONE who believed. Many people don't receive the baptism in the
Holy Spirit because they don't want it, some don't know about it,
other resist it but we MUST EARNESTLY DESIRE and SEEK and the Lord
will baptise us in the Holy Spirit and you WILL SPEAK IN TONGUES like
those did on Pentecost. I was earnestly seeking for the baptism in
the Holy Spirit and the Lord baptized me in the Holy Spirit 40 years
ago and I have been speaking in tongues ever since. I pray in tongues
at any time. It is the gift that God gave me and He will never take
it away. He gives us the gift to build us up to be effective
witnesses for Him as Paul also wrote in 1 Corinthians 14 “ 2For one
who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one
understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.” and in verse 4
“One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself;” When you pray in
tongues you edify yourself and you need to be charging up all day.
Wherever you go you have got to be praying. When you pray in tongues
you are speaking to God with that tongue that He has given you. Your
spirit is connected to God and the Spirit of God in you prays
according to the will of God. So you have got to excercize it and I
pray in tongues all the time. It doesn't matter whether you are
driving your motor car, whether you are doing any other work, your
mind is unfruitful, your mind is not thinking but God gives you the
tongue, He gives you utterance and you speak those words, you pray in
tongues all the time, as you please, with your eyes closed, with your
eyes open, it doesn't matter, you pray in tongues because the Spirit
of God dwells in you and the Spirit of God prays through
you...[Speaking in tongues...]
I can pray any time and all the time,
and all day and all night in my mind and out loud. I can pray ALL THE
TIME, and thus you can pray continuously. When you go into earnest
prayer then you hear that it is another tongue that God gives you and
the tongue changes. He gives you another utterance and you go into
intercession, and God puts another tongue in you, because you don't
know properly what the Spirit of God wants you to pray, but you are
praying mysteries to God! The Spirit of God is praying through you.
You need the Spirit of God in you or
else you don't have the power of God in you. You cannot do without
Him and you need to EXCERCISE that Spirit of God in you, YOU HAVE GOT
TO PRAY IN TONGUES. He is not going to force you. YOU HAVE GOT TO
PRAY IN TONGUES but the Spirit helps you to pray because the Spirit
of God lives in you and as He puts the tongue in your mouth He also
puts His Words in your mind and you can speak the Words of God and
that is where prophecy comes from; when He puts His words in
understandable language, in your own language, when He puts that on
your tongue, THEN YOU PROPHECY. It is not when you go and study and
you tell people stories. That is not prophecy. It is when you speak
under unction of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of God puts those
words in you and by faith you speak them. That is prophecy.
YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT. You cannot
prophecy if you have not received the baptizm in the Holy Spirit. It
all starts with the baptizm in the Holy Spirit, AND YOU WILL SPEAK IN
TONGUES, because the promise is for YOU and for your children and
for everybody, all those whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.
Seek it and you will receive it! Many
people are not receiving it because they have not repented. They have
never met with Jesus, they don't know Jesus. Many want the gift to
show that they have the Spirit of God in them but they don't want
God! You must desire Jesus earnestly with all your heart, lay aside
your sin and follow Him with all your heart and He will baptize you
in the Holy Spirit. You must OBEY Him, be baptized in water and seek
Him with all your heart and He will FILL you with the Holy Spirit
that you can have the POWER to go and testify in His name.
May Jesus bless you.
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