THEY ALL SPOKE WITH OTHER TONGUES
Acts 2:3-4 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
One of the first times I remember feeling the strong, and to me, strange presence of The Lord was at a pick-up baseball game. It was just a couple days after I arrived at the Bible School campus in Kerman, California and our fall semester classes had not yet started. On that first, lazy Saturday afternoon, some of the students and teachers were playing baseball. As normal, boys will be boys, and somebody got hurt. We all gathered around the wounded warrior and everyone (except for me) began to pray in other tongues. I had not received my heavenly language yet so I prayed silently and listened to the beautiful heavenly sound. Before I knew it, I was transported to that heavenly dimension; everything, the sounds and the appearance of everything was altered. I was becoming aware of the kingdom of God that is among us. The Fire Bible shares some insight to this heavenly language.
“Speaking in tongues is a supernatural expression of God’s Spirit. It is a Holy Spirit-inspired way of speaking, praying or praising God by which a Christian speaks in a language (Gk glossa) they have never learned (Ac 2:4; 1Co 14:14–15). When a person speaks in tongues, it may be an existing spoken human language (see Ac 2:6, where the people who heard the 120 speak in tongues recognized the languages). Or it may be a language unknown on earth (cf. 1Co 13:1, where Paul mentions speaking in “tongues of angels”). Whether the language is understandable to the hearers or like no other language on earth, it is a means of communicating with and expressing praise to God. Speaking in tongues is the outward sign, or physical evidence, of the baptism in the Holy Spirit when the experience first comes. When a Christian speaks in tongues through the inspiration of the Spirit, that individual’s spirit and the Holy Spirit join together in verbal prayer, praise and/or prophecy (i.e., messages that honor God by foretelling, warning, challenging, encouraging or inspiring believers).”
It was just a few days after that experience on the baseball field that I received my heavenly prayer language. This gift has been an incredible blessing to me over the years. One of the greatest benefits of praying often in the heavenly language is that it brings us into a new awareness of God and His supernatural realm. Most of us seem to look only to human ways, human talent and abilities, to solve the daily problems we face in life. Praying in the Spirit brings us to a spiritual place where we begin to look for and expect the the hand of God to move upon us and through us. To say it simply, we actually begin to expect and experience His miracle power.
4 thoughts on “THEY ALL SPOKE IN OTHER TONGUES”
Amen!! Love communicating and expressing praise to god! And the joining together in verbal prayer,praise and or prophesy that honor god!! Amen!!
Whew, Hallelujah times times…Praise His Holy Name, I’m gonna PRAY. I call myself Kevinhemiah=NEHEMIAH=KNEE-HIGH-MIAH,
nothing like getting on your knees and praying and acknowledging Jesus and praying to Him in Spirit in times of blockages or Just because. Ha,
Glory to God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, when we are in time of need put it all in His hands look up and say its all yours, I had a bill that was due , my phone bill,
We were suppose to go pay it MONDAY but got our checks late. Well my wife and I said to me, what are we going to do, I said the Lord knows I use my phone for His work and I said I am going to pray about it and followed through. 99 percent of the time if you don’t pay your bill they cut them off to make that extra reconnection fee. Well I heard Lord say call them (t-mobile) and explained our circumstances, the next thing you know she pulls up my account and gave me an extension till today which is Friday, Glory to God, He can move stuff in computers to make a way for you, He can change anyone’s heart . This is not first time, it happens all the time when I have a problem and get down on my knees and speak in His wonderfully Spirit filled Language. Sometimes we cant help what happens in this world, But look up to the ONE who OWNS EVERYTHING.
O how He loves us. He makes ways. What a MIRACLE POWER HE IS..:)
Great blog, full of tongue information, ha, love it. Have an awesome day in OUR LORD. With love…
GLORY, HONOR AND PRAISE TO THE KING OF KINGS!!!!!
Yes. When I start off it takes a while for things in my mind to shut down. Upon shutting down I sense a shift In the atmosphere with all of the concerns I had before I started praying.