TONGUES IN THE BELIEVER'S PRAYER LIFE !

TONGUES IN THE BELIEVER'S PRAYER LIFE: The Spirit baptized believer does not have stopped speaking in times after his or her initial experience. Here she can continue to used homes in their private prayer and worship to God even though he or she may not be used to minister in tongues in public. The late Herbert Carter, who founded the oldest Pentecostal Bible school in the world in England, said, "we must not forget that the speaking with other tongues is not only an initial evidence or sign of the Holy Spirit's indwelling, but it is a continual experience for the rest of one's life in the earth to assist in the worship of God. Speaking with tongues is a flowing stream that should never die out, but will enrich the life spiritually." Sometimes we become satisfied and we feel we have "arrived" spiritually, so to speak, because we have been baptized in the Holy Spirit and have spoken in tongues for a while. A pastor once told me about a young man in his ministry who had been seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He attended the services with our service every night, and finally one night he received. After that he stopped attending the services. When the pastor asked him about it, he said, "Why, I finally got through !" But we don't ever get through as long as we are still in this world. That experience is just the beginning. (Ephesians 5:18-19). "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." The apostle Paul wrote these verses to the born again, Spirit-filled believers in the Body at Ephesians. He told them to "be filled with the Spirit." He told them to be drunk on the Spirit, not on wine. The Greek says, "be being filled"; in other words, maintain a constant experience. Keep drinking of the Spirit, not wine or strong drinks. Then the apostle Paul gave the Ephesians the characteristics of the Spirit-filled life: "speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." A Psalm is a spiritual poem or an ode. It may or may not rhyme, but that is an element of poetry about it. It is given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on the spur of the moment. It can come by tongues and interpretation or by prophecy. (John 7: 37-39). "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was now yet glorified." Notice, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on him, as the Scripture has said," I think a lot of people miss it right here ! They are thinking that he means to believe on the name, No, He is saying believe on Him as the Scripture hath said ! Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Water is a type of the Holy Spirit. Jesus stood at the last day of the feast and told the people to drink of the Spirit. He was encouraging us to stay filled with the Spirit. By doing so, we can overcome the devil, and the world, as well as the flesh and the sins of this world. And we can live a life that is pleasing to Christ and unto God. ". . . Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Galatians 5:16). Walking in the spirit is walking in the Word or acting upon the Word of God !