Speaking/praying in Tongues is unspeakably amazing!!! . God’s pure Thoughts come rushing in – unhampered by the human brain! . God’s Thoughts ARE perfection, and don’t need to be qualified, or set to words. They just move on in – and stay there!!! . I often give it a rhythm, usually borrowed from a hymn I’ve just sung, like “He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort fraught! . Whate’er I do, where’er I be, still ’tis His hand that leadeth me.” I’ll even accompany myself, doing guitar runs (KeyEmaj). . Among the gifts God gave me while doing this today, I was reminded that, while God’s perfect communications rush in, a lot of junk is flushed OUT !! . No struggling to use my human willpower to activate this, just a sangin’ an’ a twangin’!!! . So I didn’t even need to blame myself when I got distracted as those thoughts went OUT !!!
HOW TO DISAGREE IN THE KINGDOM
WE HAVE GOT TO LEARN HOW TO PRESENT ANOTHER PERSON’S OPINION (WITH WHOM WE DISAGREE) ACCURATELY AND WITH DIGNITY. People rarely do this – so invested are they in showing the other person to be mistaken.
Leave it to Jonathan Welton to write in his usual scholarly expertise exactly what I’ve been wanting to say.
Here’s an excerpt from Jonathan’s newest blog post:
Part of what it means to disagree respectfully is to quote those you disagree with in a way that accurately presents what they said in context. Academics are very careful to do this, but unfortunately, many leaders in popular Christianity misrepresent those they disagree with. They take their words out of context and make assumptions about what others mean by what they have said. This sort of misrepresenting, misunderstanding, and attacking of others has been happening for a long time, but it is not honoring or helpful to approach disagreement this way. Instead, we need to learn how to disagree without disrespecting and without exaggerating. Our goal should be to understand the beliefs of others clearly and fairly so we can draw our own conclusions.
Tongues stirs up the love He has already given us.
Praying in tongues builds us up on our most holy faith. How many times have you needed your most holy faith to take you through a certain trial, and yet you haven’t used this gift of the Holy Spirit? Verse 21 also says we keep ourselves in the love of God when we speak in tongues. Have you ever asked the Lord to pour out His love on you? I imagine you have, but this doesn’t say to pray that way; it says we are to keep ourselves in the love of God. We do that by speaking in tongues. We don’t ask God for that which He’s already given, we simply stir up the love that has already been commended toward us, by speaking in tongues. This is a powerful gift. Isaiah 28:11-12 says,
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. [12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
James Carter
Baptism at Pentecost
Most people think that the apostles immediately became the temple of the Holy Spirit after the cross. They didn’t. They became baptised with the Spirit at Pentecost.
They are also many think the apostles knew the Law was obsolete from Acts 1. No they only got that idea in Acts 15. 10 years after resurrection.
Hence I can’t understand why believers can’t accept the fact that not all believers were made the new temple of God until 40 years after the cross.
The bible speaks about the gathering of the 144,000 and the multitudes. It speaks about the destruction of the 1st temple before the coming of the new one.
Hebrews 9:8
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing.
The new spiritual Israel was being formed. It took them 40 years for an old generation to phase out and a new one to come in.
Simon Yap
Is suffering necessary?
I’M HAVING A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING WHY PEOPLE ARGUE SO VEHEMENTLY IN FAVOR OF SUFFERING. THEY CITE THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURE:
1 Peter 4:1 KJV
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
WHEN PUSHED TO THE LIMIT TO ACCEPT A FRIEND’S THEOLOGY RE. SUFFERING, I GOT TO DOING SOME DEEP SOUL-SEARCHING IN ORDER TO RE-EVALUATE THE TOPIC IN MY OWN LIFE. HERE’S WHAT I FOUND:
Okay, whenever I learned anything new about God that usurped my former understanding, I suffered. I suffered by reading copious volumes on the subject. I suffered when I felt overwhelmingly compelled to give up some of my long-standing notions. There was intense mental suffering because I was absolutely committed to getting it right before I try to tell anyone else what I had encountered. Yes, I suffered. If that’s what you mean by suffering then yes I suffered. But when I got ahold of the undeniable fact that Jesus didn’t take off before his mission was entirely finished – every fathomable aspect of it – forever finished, then that was the end of my agony and suffering. I can’t imagine doing anything … anything at all … that would grieve my Papa. He is everything to me – my very life! I know I don’t need to suffer anymore for Him or myself because it wasn’t the suffering that brought me to Him: that was my own obstinacy. But now I know how to listen to Him, and you know what? He’s always ready to talk to me anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Sin and suffering have become a distant memory to me and resting in his finished work is my constant companion.
Do you believe it?
Remembering Andrew Wommack’s account of being at one with God (as if in heaven) for 3 solid months, I asked God again if I could ….
He told me (again) “not 3 months only, but forever . . . ”
He told me to go into the Spirit (the kingdom) and stay there.
He said there was no reason this spiritual living and blessedness EVER had to end.
Do you believe it?
Notes to stir you
A . W . A . R . E . N . E . S . S
WHEN YOU’RE IN CHRIST,
-E -V -E -R -Y -T -H -I -N -G-
BECOMES BRAND NEW !!!
( 2 Corinthians 5:16 . KJV )
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE ?
(Hint: use your God-given imagination)
Revelation 1:14-15 KJV
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; [15] And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
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THE TRUE JESUS
THE SAME ‘JOHN’ WHO LEANED ON JESUS’ CHEST AT DINNER WAS SHOCKED BEYOND BELIEF AT THE SPECTRE OF JESUS IN THE SPIRIT !!
AT ONE TIME THE DISCIPLES ONLY KNEW JESUS AS A HUMAN BEING.
THANK GOD HE DIDN’T STAY THAT WAY !!
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NOT EVEN THAT !!
WE DON’T EVEN NEED TO KNOW OURSELVES AFTER THE FLESH !!
WEEELLLLL???
WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE IN THE SPIRIT REALM ? (THE SPIRIT PART OF YOU IS, IN FACT, THE REAL YOU !!)
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YOU DO !!
DO YOU HAVE THE POWER OF GOD LIVING ON THE INSIDE OF YOU? IT’S NOT “OUT THERE” SOMEWHERE !!
WE’RE ALL IN CHRIST
ALL THAT JUNK IS O-V-E-R !! Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
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A L L . G L O R I O U S !!
WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS
About me
I received a Master’s Degree in linguistics in 1973 from New York University and set up my private school “The English School,” hired a number of teachers and assistants. Then I was awarded a Ph.D. also in linguistics in 1988 at New York University. Taught English and trained teachers at New York University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College and The City University of New York.
Do not expect a future reward.
Dear Robin,
You have been telling Me
For a very long time now
That you want to serve only Me.
You say it fervently
In all honesty
And I know you truly mean it.
But you must remember
I never said it would be easy.
People will misconstrue
But only for a time.
They will misrepresent
Especially in their silence.
No matter.
There is SOMETHING URGENT
That I need you to understand
At this juncture
DO NOT EXPECT A REWARD !!
Sounds cruel?
You misunderstand.
Your reward is right here
Right now
With Me.
What’s all this ‘Jesus’ stuff?
ARE YOU IN TROUBLE ? . IS THERE SOMETHING YOU NEED ? . ARE YOU – NOT – OKAY ?
BUT YOU DON’T WANT ANY OF THIS JESUS STUFF, RIGHT ? . WELL, NOBODY’S GONNA KNOW NOTHIN’ IF YOU DO A LITTLE EXPERIMENT, OKAY ? . . JUST TAKE YOUR NEED TO HIM IN A HUMBLE, HEARTFELT PRAYER AND LEAVE IT THERE. . THEN – ASK – IF HE REALLY IS ALIVE AND AWARE AND INTERESTED . . FORGET ABOUT THE NEED AND FOCUS ON THE POSSIBILITIES . . THEY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY !!