allieisme said:
Fear and pride.. I know, that is exactly why, I'm not doing it.. I know I might feel and look stupid, but why should I care, everyone else is in their own place worshipping the Lord..I shouldnt care, what I need to do is ask God to take that fear away..and thats what I'm going to do..
WARNING:
Grin, you WILL "look stupid" when you approach the Holy Spirit via TOUNGES. That is a given.
But the Lord wants a "BROKEN PERSON" one completely uncaring of how others think of him, one who seeks without care, the power and glory of the creator.
Look, just about everything we do, makes one look and feel "stupid."
Kneeling in prayer is "stupid" isn't it? Why does God like that, you COULD pray while driving, many if not most of us do that, but why KNEEL? It is a sign of submission to God, humbling oneself.
Others are WATER BAPTISM. Talk about "dumb"...getting DUNKED as a sign of submission?! Goofy. Right? But we do that, we are INSTRUCTED to do it, so we do.
Others are RAISING HANDS while praising. I came from a denomination, that if one raised hands, or clapped in service, they would all turn and stare intently at you for being "disrespectful" and some might ask for that demonstrative behavior to not be repeated. But most Pentacostals KNOW that the Lord LOVES hands being raised to the Lord, and exhuberant and lively clapping, and Amen'ing are good for the soul, it engages you with the Lord.
Tounges is ODD, NOT NATURAL, COUNTERINTUITIVE, it IS a test, a REAL test of your willingness to follow the ENTIRE RULEBOOK, as set forth by the Apostle Paul. He gave EXPLICIT instructions on the use, and misuse of "The Indwelling" and the "Followup Use OF" tounges.
If you have courage, are completely submissive to the full desire to invite IN and have the USE OF, the Holy Spirit, you DO. Just DO. Do it without reservations.
Get down on your knees, pray verbally, suck in your gut, and make those silly sounds that the Holy Spirit will put into your mouth.
And be prepared. Honestly. You will shudder, your body will tremble, if you keep this up long enough. SOMETHING happens, you WILL feel this. It is palpable, it is real.
But, unless you are willing, brave, unworried about the foolishness of this, you will never, ever experience the full INDWELLING of the HS, and your prayer life will be constrained.
Do you have the COURAGE to be a careless fool? Do you TRUST God enough in the PRIVACY of your HOME to guide you?
Prove the Bible wrong, give this a real try, come back, give us your experience.
I know personally, this took me five months to get the courage to be a fool for the Holy Spirit. I am a "head guy" and if you can't PROVE it to me intellecutally, NO WAY am I gonna do the nonsense the more spirit filled folks do ... like falling down, and such. But this one, it was, over and over, THERE, right THERE in the Epistles and Acts versions of my Bible. I couild NOT ignore the reality, that the early Christians ALL felt that this was almost a REQUIREMENT of faith, widely, and universally practiced.
I had to pay attention, it was too clear, that this was something that we were TOLD was a universal practice, so my denomination, being Pentacostal thought so too. As a new Pentacostal, I had to do a LOT of goofy things. Resisted the raised hands for a few months, then I HAD to, it was another thing that was THERE, black and white, in scripture, so I RELUCTANTLY, did it. Now I love raising the hands to God, feels natural.
Tounges is natural too now, but you have to give it an honest try. Do it alone, without witnesses, after you FEEL what happens, you might dare it around others, but that will come, or not, with time.
Are you a BRAVE broken Christian or not?
