The reason why most believers are powerless against sin and against the devil, they don't
have victory, is because they don't hav ethe Holy Spirit.
They gave 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.