School of the Spirit by Roberts Liardon

School of the Spirit by Roberts Liardon

Author:Roberts Liardon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Miracles, Christian Life, Spirituality, Pneumatology, Signs & Wonders, General, Religion, Spiritual Life, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780884193609
Publisher: Creation House
Published: 1994-10-31T22:00:00+00:00


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Why Tongues?

We have examined the importance of faith in the life of a believer. But faith does you no good unless it is used. An arrow will never find its target without the propulsion of the bow wielded in the hand of the archer.

Faith is like an arrow: It must be fired off through the "bow" of prayer to be effective in your life. Prayer takes your faith and aims it toward heaven, fully expecting God's answer.

In this chapter I want to focus your attention on a specialized type of prayer that is one of the mainstays of life in the Spirit: praying in tongues.

Why do we need to pray in tongues or pray in the Spirit? Aren't prayers that are uttered in a natural language good enough? God hears and answers your natural-language prayers, but He also has provided a supernatural form of prayer that transcends natural-language prayer.

Praying in the Spirit is not just something we do to set us apart as charismatics and Pentecostals. It is a scriptural way of praying with its own unique set of benefits for the believer.

With Signs Following

After Jesus issued the Great Commission to His disciples (see Mark 16:15), He told them what signs, or supernatural activities, would follow those who believed on Him. This is actually the second part of the Great Commission.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues (Mark 16:16-17).

Let's go to Acts 2 and take a refresher course on the purposes of praying in tongues.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4).

The Bible says, "They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and...” The word and is a conjunction; it means that whatever follows goes with whatever preceded it. "And they began to speak with other tongues."

I believe that some people who are filled with the Holy Spirit have not released the speaking in tongues part. This may be because of an absence of knowledge. But I believe that the full baptism of the Holy Spirit is always evidenced by speaking in tongues.

You'll see as we examine different portions of Scripture that this is true. But notice here that it says, "As the Spirit gave them utterance."

What does that mean? It means that where He lives in the innermost part of your being—in your spirit—from there rivers of living water will flow. Out of your spirit you'll begin to hear the voice of the Spirit giving you utterances.



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