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 !!!

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

MORE ON PRAYING IN TONGUES:
Although it’s not something you learn, like riding a bicycle, THERE IS A GREAT DEAL YOU CAN DO TO MAKE YOURSELF RECEPTIVE TO THIS PRECIOUS GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. SEE WHAT PEOPLE DO WHEN THEY SPEAK IN TONGUES. IMITATE IT FOR THE PURPOSE OF JUMPSTARTING THE PROCESS IN YOURSELF. UNDERSTAND THAT YOU’RE GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL ASPECT SO THAT YOU’LL BE FREE TO RECEIVE GOD’S PART – THE IMPARTATION OF HIS SPIRIT INTO YOUR OPEN MIND, SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY.

CAN TONGUES BE LEARNED ?

The short answer is “NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT !! . Not from a human being, that is. Praying / Speaking in tongues is a GIFT FROM GOD – a supernatural gift at that!

HOWEVER, there is something very useful that you can do to put your mind and heart in line with receiving this priceless gift. Knowing, by seeing and hearing, what tongues is MECHANICALLY SPEAKING will NOT … I repeat … NOT give you tongues!! But it could help a lot just to see and hear what it is like, as a kind of PREPARATION.

Tongue-speakers are very reluctant to demonstrate it – AND RIGHTFULLY SO – for fear that you will emulate them and (a) nothing happens or, WORSE YET, (b) You learn some mere mechanical contrivance and think you have tongues when you don’t!

Praying in tongues is a GIFT FROM GOD. PERIOD. God never said you couldn’t observe it to know what it looks like. Another Period.

It seems to me that many people make way too much of tongues – like there is something spooky … or, complicated … or, esoteric … or very difficult about praying in tongues. Or, they make way too little of tongues, dismissing it as trivial, crazy gibberish.

Some people would have you believe that it is so ‘out there’ and other-worldly that we’d be best served by leaving it alone. They assign to it fabricated rules and regulations, claiming that our poor Paul didn’t say we could do thus and so. Well, he didn’t say we could use electric toothbrushes either!

Puh-leeeeze, let’s give Paul a break. Why in the world would anyone think that he should have left us 2000 years later, an instruction manual on how to and how not to speak in tongues? There were probably as many variations of tongues on the Day of Pentecost as there were people applying them!

NOW, PLEASE, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: Speaking/Praying in tongues is a supernatural gift from God. Something totally amazing will take over in your mind and body when you really have “GOT IT” !!

Fallen brothers

Temptation thine

Faith unto patience,

Perfection springs

Solomon’s gift,

Beseech the Lord

And waver not

in convoluted

instability.

(R.Starbuck)

SPEAKING IN TONGUES
Is speaking the wisdom of God
In a mystery.
It reaches down into that born again part of you
Your spirit
And pulls up the infinitude of wisdom
That’s already there!

ANDREW WOMMACK on KATHRYN KUHLMAN
(by Robin Starbuck)

I learned of Kathryn Kuhlman many years ago, but only felt “led” recently to study her out. I had been quite impressed with the multitudes of healings that she had effected, but I do remember reasoning within myself that if a mere 10% of the healings were completely verifiable, 10% of three million total healings equals three hundred thousand! So, needless to say, I remained impressed.

Yesterday, however Andrew Wommack mentioned another initially troublesome statistic, namely that

90% of the healings ultimately were reversed. So my lightening-fast mind concluded that (a) 30,000 healings withstood the test of time and (b) I was still impressed.

But my real purpose in writing this essay is to refocus: Andrew Wommack with his Charis Bible College is all about discipleship, i.e., teaching people to access and depend on a personal relationship with God in which they can heal themselves and others. That’s where my interests lie as well.

My hope here is to urge not only a renewed appreciation for all the interest in healing as well as the successes that did occur with Kathryn Kuhlman but also to take the entire situation to the next level: WHY WASN’T IT PATENTLY OBVIOUS THEN AND NOW THAT PEOPLE WHO HAD JUST COME OUT OF 30+ YEARS OF SERVITUDE TO WHEELCHAIRS AND MULTIFARIOUS OTHER LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS ABSOLUTELY MUST TOTALLY IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN THE VERY WORD OF GOD WHICH FREED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE ?

Merely going back to the selfsame mindset that kept them in bondage for so many years was – and is – a recipe for DISASTER! These just-healed thousands of people should have not walked, but RUN to Charis Bible College to learn how to MAINTAIN their newly acquired healings. rjs

COME ON DOWN FROM THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION.
COME ON DOWN TO THE VALLEY BELOW WHERE PEOPLE NEED YOU!

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour . [2] And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; [3] Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. [4] And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. [5] And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. [6] Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. [7] And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. [8] And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. [9] And all the people saw him walking and praising God: [10] And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. [11] And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. [12] And when Peter saw it , he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Acts 3:1-12 KJV

COME DOWN, COME DOWN FROM YOUR UPPER ROOM !!
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. [14] These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. [15] And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Acts 1:13-15 KJV

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. [2] And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. [3] And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. [4] And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. [5] And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. [6] Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. [7] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? [12] And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? [13] Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. [14] But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: [15] For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. [16] But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; [17] And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: [18] And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: [22] Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: [23] Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: [24] Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. [25] For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: [26] Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: [27] Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. [28] Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. [38] Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. [39] For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. [40] And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. [41] Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. [42] And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. [43] And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. [44] And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
Acts 2:1-7, 12-18, 22-28, 38-44 KJV

I reiterate: I QUIT !! . I’M DONE !! . THAT’S IT !! . LET ME NEVER LOOK BACK !! . I ONLY WANT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF JESUS, AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE !! rjs

I believe in the Holy Spirit with every atom of my being. KK

Jesus Christ is absolute perfection. KK

A reporter once asked me “What do you do to prepare for a service like this?”
“Sir, I stay prepared.” KK

Everybody these days wants something for nothing. Young people, you don’t get something for nothing. KK