I
know that you would like to receive
into manifestation the power of the
fullness of the Holy Spirit. I know
that you would like to speak the
wonderful works of God and magnify
God. To do this there is one thing you
must do and that is to believe God's
Word. Surely you do believe God's Word
for what He has promised He is not
only willing to perform, but He is able
to perform. I can assure you upon the
integrity of God's Word that when you
speak in tongues you will be speaking
the wonderful works of God and
magnifying God.
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them
speak in our tongues the wonderful
works of God. -- Acts 2: 11
For they heard them speak with
tongues, and magnify God. -- Acts 10:
46a
Before you can tap into any of God's
resources you must know, first of all,
what is available. You know speaking
in tongues is available because the
Word of God says all born-again
believers have the holy spirit within
them, which is the ability to speak in
tongues. Next you must know how to
receive it, which is set forth in the
following paragraphs.
Let me unfold the keys to you and
shortly you too will be speaking the
wonderful works of God. Acts 2: 4
says, "And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost." They were all filled,
nobody was missed. Nobody ever gets
missed if he has heard The Word and if
he believes it and then acts upon it.
God is always faithful and nobody then
can be passed over. Do exactly what I
tell you to do down to the most minute
detail.
Paul in I Thessalonians 2: 13, thanked
God that "when ye received the word
of God which ye heard of us, ye
received it not as the word of men,
but as it is in truth, the word of God."
You too must follow God's truth as
told in the Word of God. But if you
think this is just myself, writing or
speaking to you, you will never
receive. If you know that what I am
saying to you are words which the Holy
Ghost has spoken and is speaking to
you by me, then you too will manifest
the greatness of the power of God. If
you will literally do what I ask you,
then you can manifest the fullness of
the abundance of God, the wonderful
power of God.
And they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and [they] began to speak ....
-- Acts 2: 4a
They, the people, did the speaking.
Have you ever thought through the
mechanics of speech? You with your
own vocal chords have to do the
speaking. The same mechanics that
are involved in speaking English or any
other known language are involved in
speaking in tongues. For instance, if
I say, "I love the Lord Jesus Christ,"
what did I mechanically do? I moved
my lips, I moved my tongue, I moved
my throat, I made the sound and I had
to think. All this is involved in the
mechanics of speech.
You say audibly, "I love the Lord Jesus
Christ." What did you do? You moved
your lips, your throat and your
tongue to speak. You formulated the
words; you pushed them out.
The only difference between speaking
in tongues and speaking in English is
that when I say, "I love the Lord
Jesus Christ," I have to think. When I
speak in tongues I do not think the
words I speak. God gives the words to
my spirit, and I formulate them on my
lips. I do not think the words, but they
are there when I move my lips, my
throat, my tongue.
Believe to be very natural and at
ease. You have to move your lips, your
throat, your tongue; you push the air
through your voice box to make the
sounds. You have to formulate the
words, but the words you speak, as in
Acts 2: 4, are as the Spirit gives you
utterance. What you speak is God's
business, but that you speak is your
business. I make the sounds, but the
words that I speak are given to my
spirit. God gives the utterance, and
they are words that magnify His
name; they are speaking the
wonderful works of God. This is the
greatness of the manifestation of
speaking in tongues.
If you understand the mechanics of
speaking in English or in any other
language that you know, then you
understand the mechanics of
speaking in tongues. If you are born
again of God's Spirit, the power is in
you, but you have to do the speaking -
not God - you do it. You will have no
difficulty with God; the only difficulty
you will have is in your own mind and
your understanding of what you have
to do. You, not the Spirit, move your
lips; you move your tongue; you move
your throat; you give the words sound
by the power of God that is in you.
Thus you are speaking forth the
wonderful, wonderful works of God.
How simple and beautiful it really is.
Acts 2 is the order of action for the
Church.
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
[lambano, * ye shall manifest] the
gift of the Holy Ghost [pneuma
hagion]. – Acts 2: 38
This is for the Church Age in which you
and I live. When you confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus and believe that
God raised Him from the dead, you
have ‘remission of sins’.
The Word says, "ye shall receive." You
are to manifest in the senses world
the proof that you have received
spiritually. As you manifest, you
speak the wonderful works of God; you
magnify God.
John 7 tells us a great truth that you
and I need to understand when we
manifest forth the power of the Holy
Spirit.
... Jesus stood and cried, saying, If
any man thirst, let him come unto me,
and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water. --
John 7: 37b, 38
There are two Greek words for
"receive" used in relation to receiving
the holy spirit. Dechomai means "to
receive the inherent power and
ability." Lambano means "to receive to
the extent of outwardly
manifesting."
That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. -- Romans 10: 9
The word "belly" stands for the depth
of the soul of a man. "Out of the
innermost being of that man shall
flow rivers [not little streams] of
living water." When you receive into
manifestation the power from the
Holy Spirit, you do not receive more
spiritual substance; you just receive
into evidence, into manifestation in
the senses world, what you already
spiritually have within. Manifesting
the holy spirit does not mean you have
been given something new; you are
simply manifesting to your senses
what you have within. The gift is
already in you. God gave you the
ability to speak in tongues when you
were born again. The act of speaking
in tongues is your responsibility; you
already have the potential. If you
don't speak in tongues, it isn't
because God hasn't given you the
ability. God through His Son promised,
"out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water."
This is what Jesus Christ spoke and
what He told the apostles before He
ascended. Out of their belly, out of
their innermost being, would flow
rivers of living water. So when you
begin to speak in tongues, you
formulate the words, you speak forth
the words and let them bubble, let
them flow freely, not trickle. When
you start speaking in tongues, let it
flow with one sound right after the
other. That is what The Word says and
that is what it means.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you
that is a father, will he give him a
stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a
fish give him a serpent? -- Luke 11: 11
Suppose you had a son who was hungry
and you had bread in your house, if he
asked for it, would you give him a
stone? I am sure you would not.
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer
him a scorpion? – Luke 11: 12
If ye then [as fathers], being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your
children: how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask him? -- Luke 11: 13
The word "ask" is the same word as
"demand." Do you know why you can
demand payment on a check? Because
the money behind it is already in the
bank. All you have to do is walk up to
the cashier's window and ask for the
money for that check. "How much
more shall your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to them that ask
[demand it of] him?" Why can we
demand the holy spirit? Because it
already has been given to us.
I want to call one more thing to your
attention. The fullest cargoes of life
come in over quiet seas. When the
oceans are rough, the ships lay out in
the deep; but when the oceans quiet
down, the great cargo ships come into
the harbor. The greatest cargoes of
our spiritual life come in over our
quiet inner seas. One of the things
that the Word of God has done to me is
to give peace to me on the inside so
that I can receive the abundance of
the power of the fullness of God.
He therefore that [who] ministereth
to you the Spirit, and worketh
miracles among you, doeth he it by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? -- Galatians 3: 5
How do I minister the holy spirit to
people? Do I do this by the hearing of
faith? Yes! I do not do this by the
works of the law.
I am ministering the holy spirit to
you, teaching you exactly what to do.
After you have read my instructions,
I want you to close your eyes and sit
quietly. Remember that when I have
ministered the holy spirit to you, I
want you to move your lips, your
throat, your tongue. You make the
sounds.
Sit quietly and do exactly as I
instruct. Remember the Word of God
says in Job 29: 23, "And they opened
their mouth wide as for the latter
rain." To drink you have to open your
mouth. In John 20: 22 Jesus
instructed the apostles before the
ascension to breathe in. He opened his
mouth wide and he breathed in. In a
moment I want you to open your
mouth wide and breathe in.
While you are sitting, follow this
instruction. Open your mouth wide
and breathe in. You are not going to
receive anything more spiritually; you
are now going to manifest the spirit's
presence. Just breathe in. Open your
mouth wide. While you are breathing
in, thank God for having filled you with
the fullness of the power of His holy
spirit. Don't beg Him; thank Him for it.
When you begin to speak in tongues,
move your lips, your throat, your
tongue. Speak forth. When you have
finished one sound, speak another. Do
not pay any attention to what you
are thinking. You formulate the
words; you move your lips, your
throat, your tongue; you say it. You
are magnifying God no matter what
the words sound like to your ears. It
is your part to speak in tongues; it is
God's part to give the utterance.
Keep moving your lips, your throat
and tongue. Formulate another
sound. You have to formulate the
sounds differently on your lips. God
has given them to your spirit. They
are in your spirit coming on your
tongue; you have to speak them out.
You are speaking the wonderful works
of God; you are magnifying God; you
are speaking in tongues. The external
manifestation is your proof in the
senses-world that you have Christ
within. Get bold in it; let it flow out;
let it effervesce. "Out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water." Keep
on speaking. God is giving the words to
your spirit; your spirit is bringing
them up to your throat, and you are
bringing them out.
"Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ
and by the power of God that is within
me, I now minister the fullness of
your holy spirit into manifestation in
this believer's life." Breathe in deeply
and now begin to speak in tongues as
I have just instructed you.
Isn’t God wonderful?
If you can speak one word, you can
speak ten thousand words; because if
you can speak one word, you have the
power, the God-given ability, to speak
more. Every time you speak remember
that you are edifying yourself
spiritually, building yourself up. You
are speaking the wonderful works of
God; you are magnifying God. You have
the proof now in the senses world that
you have Christ within, that you are a
joint-heir with Christ.
In a moment I want you to speak
again; to speak once more so that you
become fluent and confident from
experience. To learn another
language by using your mind would
take months; but to speak in
different tongue happens instantly.
God knows the tongue, so He gives it
to your spirit and you speak it forth.
Anybody who knows even the slightest
bit about languages knows that
"beep, beep, beep, boop, boop, boop"
would not be speaking in tongues.
Speaking in tongues is speaking a
developed language. Now once more I
want you to speak in tongues. Just
get quiet. Move your lips, throat, and
tongue, and start speaking again.
Keep on speaking. You are speaking
the wonderful works of God,
magnifying God. You now have proved
to your senses that Christ is in you
and that you have the power of the
Holy Spirit. This is the greatness of
God's wonderful power to you as a
believer.