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If people are faking tongues then that is a form of lying. The people faking it would know that they are faking it and they would never become fluent.
What actually happens when the "pump is primed" is that when they step out in faith there is a flow from their innermost being and the tongues flow out of them. They know that they are no longer "making it up".
Smith Wiggleworth, the great Pentecostal pioneer of the early 20th Century said that when he spoke in tongues he "started in the flesh" and then the Holy Spirit took over. This has been the experience of all the people who have received the gift of tongues as the result of my ministry.
So, I am no longer going to try and convince those who think that tongues in this manner are being "faked". You can believe what you like. If you are depending on some sort of ecstacy or other sensory experience before you believe you are speaking in tongues, then that is not faith, therefore the tongues under those circumstances cannot be of the Holy Spirit because without faith it is impossible to please God.
Tongues that come through an ecstatic experience comes from the flesh and not the Spirit. This is because the person trying to speak in tongues is depending on their emotions and senses and not the Word of God. They have been deceived into thinking their faith is in God's Word when all the time their faith is in their senses. This is why many cannot speak in tongues until they are hyped up in some emotionally charged meeting.
But a person who has faith in God's Word and believes that he/she speaks in tongues because they have gone through a series of Scriptural steps to receive it, are much more likely to have the genuine thing. They can speak in tongues anywhere, and they don't have to be hyped up in a meeting.
So if those who started speaking in tongues because some type of "force" or "electricity" came upon them and took over their speech faculties are more likely to have received a counterfeit than the real thing. These people need to recognise that they have a counterfeit, repent of their unbelief (replacing God's Word with a sensory experience), confess their sin to God, resist the devil, and renounce the counterfeit tongues, and then go through the proper Scriptural steps (asking, accepting, believing), and then use their faith to receive the genuine article.
Some may see what I am saying as heresy, but I stand on what I believe, that genuine tongues is based on faith, which is a cold blooded belief in God's Word, activated by speaking on the basis of faith and not on the basis of emotion or sensory experiences. This means that genuine tongues is deliberately spoken without any emotional feeling or sensory experience at all, and the language is directed to God in the belief that God understands the language spoken.
I have to be fair in saying that there are many who are sovereignly baptised in the Holy Spirit and spontaneously speak in tongues without any human ministry at all. The Holy Spirit has the freedom to minister to people in any way He pleases.
There are also situations where good ministers lay hands on a person and they are immediately baptised in the Spirit and speak in tongues without any effort at all.
But what I believe is not of the Holy Spirit is where a group of people get around some hapless person and lay hands on them and try to force the Holy Spirit into him/her as if they were trying to baptise the person in the Spirit themselves. These are the ones who have that erroneous belief that they can transfer some sort of "force" or "electricity" from their hands into the person. I have seen that happen, and after a while those people give up and say that the subject lacks faith and so they walk away. I have gone to such "chronics", sat them down. taken them through the steps of faith, and they have come through to the baptism and the gift of tongues effortlessly. And this is after a highly charged session lasting 20 minutes of a group of people trying to force the gift on him/her!
I hope you don't go derailing the faith of those who have received the gift of tongues through activating their faith in the absence of any sensory emotions or experiences, because you will find that the Holy Spirit will be grieved and will oppose you, and you will suffer the consequences.
What actually happens when the "pump is primed" is that when they step out in faith there is a flow from their innermost being and the tongues flow out of them. They know that they are no longer "making it up".
Smith Wiggleworth, the great Pentecostal pioneer of the early 20th Century said that when he spoke in tongues he "started in the flesh" and then the Holy Spirit took over. This has been the experience of all the people who have received the gift of tongues as the result of my ministry.
So, I am no longer going to try and convince those who think that tongues in this manner are being "faked". You can believe what you like. If you are depending on some sort of ecstacy or other sensory experience before you believe you are speaking in tongues, then that is not faith, therefore the tongues under those circumstances cannot be of the Holy Spirit because without faith it is impossible to please God.
Tongues that come through an ecstatic experience comes from the flesh and not the Spirit. This is because the person trying to speak in tongues is depending on their emotions and senses and not the Word of God. They have been deceived into thinking their faith is in God's Word when all the time their faith is in their senses. This is why many cannot speak in tongues until they are hyped up in some emotionally charged meeting.
But a person who has faith in God's Word and believes that he/she speaks in tongues because they have gone through a series of Scriptural steps to receive it, are much more likely to have the genuine thing. They can speak in tongues anywhere, and they don't have to be hyped up in a meeting.
So if those who started speaking in tongues because some type of "force" or "electricity" came upon them and took over their speech faculties are more likely to have received a counterfeit than the real thing. These people need to recognise that they have a counterfeit, repent of their unbelief (replacing God's Word with a sensory experience), confess their sin to God, resist the devil, and renounce the counterfeit tongues, and then go through the proper Scriptural steps (asking, accepting, believing), and then use their faith to receive the genuine article.
Some may see what I am saying as heresy, but I stand on what I believe, that genuine tongues is based on faith, which is a cold blooded belief in God's Word, activated by speaking on the basis of faith and not on the basis of emotion or sensory experiences. This means that genuine tongues is deliberately spoken without any emotional feeling or sensory experience at all, and the language is directed to God in the belief that God understands the language spoken.
I have to be fair in saying that there are many who are sovereignly baptised in the Holy Spirit and spontaneously speak in tongues without any human ministry at all. The Holy Spirit has the freedom to minister to people in any way He pleases.
There are also situations where good ministers lay hands on a person and they are immediately baptised in the Spirit and speak in tongues without any effort at all.
But what I believe is not of the Holy Spirit is where a group of people get around some hapless person and lay hands on them and try to force the Holy Spirit into him/her as if they were trying to baptise the person in the Spirit themselves. These are the ones who have that erroneous belief that they can transfer some sort of "force" or "electricity" from their hands into the person. I have seen that happen, and after a while those people give up and say that the subject lacks faith and so they walk away. I have gone to such "chronics", sat them down. taken them through the steps of faith, and they have come through to the baptism and the gift of tongues effortlessly. And this is after a highly charged session lasting 20 minutes of a group of people trying to force the gift on him/her!
I hope you don't go derailing the faith of those who have received the gift of tongues through activating their faith in the absence of any sensory emotions or experiences, because you will find that the Holy Spirit will be grieved and will oppose you, and you will suffer the consequences.
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