THE SUM TOTAL OF ADVICE FOR ALL MEN - GET THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND LEARN TO WALK AND TALK WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S WHERE SAFETY, AND ULTIMATELY - ETERNAL LIFE - IS.
THE SUM TOTAL OF ADVICE FOR ALL OF US:
Get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit - and learn to walk and talk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
The world - in these last of the last days - is become a minefield of satanic assaults. You NEED to 'walk by the spirit' to live the reality of Luke 10:19 which says:
'Behold, I give unto you POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy: and NOTHING shall by any means hurt you.'
TO WHOM is that written?
Make certain that you understand that Jesus Christ was speaking to his DISCIPLES - NOT TO THE MASSES that crowd the churches on Sundays -but do NOT seek for the 2nd witness that Moses and Paul admonished - and do not ask at his mouth.
(Jesus waits till they leave, which they always do - with their eyes still held closed, before revealing his secrets to those who ask - VIZ: Matthew 13:11 and Mathew 13:36 etc. And we know he NEVER changes).
Jesus Christ also said to his disciples in Matthew 13:11, speaking of the masses -
"TO THEM IT IS NOT GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD..." Matthew 13:11
"BUT to YOU it is given.."
To WHO?
To the DISCIPLES.
WHO ARE DISCIPLES?
According to Matthew 5:1 and Matthew 13:36.. and Isaiah 30:1,2 disciples of Jesus Christ are those who do 2 things:
GO TO HIM AT ALL TIMES (even when it's not convenient - they CLIMB the MOUNTAINS to get to the truth. (Matthew 5:1)
ASK AT HIS MOUTH (Matthew 13:36 and Isaiah 30: 1,2)
If you are looking for PROPHETS to tell you what you need to know, instead of to the Lord - you are vulnerable to deception. I have seen (or read) the following people LIE and say 'thus saith the Lord'.. Kent Christmas, Dutch Sheetz, Hank Kunneman, Lana Vawser, Kim Clement, Billy Burke, and others.
There is no time to be deceived any more. This is the end of the 11th hour.
You need to know HOW to use the spirit within, to walk and TALK with the Lord. To do so, we all need to build ourselves up spiritually. There are only TWO WAYS to build yourself up spiritually →after you are born again -
VERILY VERILY I SAY TO THEE, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN (JOHN 3:3)
→ FIRST OF ALL - Get born again - Romans 10:9&10 give the instructions - that is: CONFESS with your mouth ‘JESUS IS LORD’ - Call him LORD!
→ BELIEVE in your heart - GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD - (not Jesus raised himself, because if he did - he wasn’t dead. GOD RAISED HIM! and we are AMBASSADORS for Him now. NOW NOW NOW!
After the new birth, you NEED the Baptism in the holy spirit (NOT WATER baptism friend - FIRE BAPTISM!) The new birth does not automatically activate the Fire Baptism. If it does not, you may receive it through prayer or the laying on of hands of a spirit filled minister of God. (Acts 19:3,4)
The 2 ways to build yourself up - according to the Scriptures - are:
HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. This means, that if you don't hear someone else speak it,.. to build yourself up spiritually -YOU SAY IT OUT LOUD. THIS MAY BE IN PRAYERS, PRAISE, OR JUST CONFESSION - FOR EXAMPLE READ THE WARFARE PSALM (18) OUT LOUD. I DO THAT EVERY DAY.
You see friend, the SWORD of the spirit is the SPOKEN Word of God - the RHEMA. It is where the POWER is. So speak it. Or hear someone SPEAK it, and power is at work and seeking out evil like a heat seeking missile - to destroy it.
SPEAK IN TONGUES!
SPEAKING IN TONGUES is the KEY of the 9 manifestations of the holy spirit given to EACH man to profit with - that opens the door to the other NINE - which includes the revelation manifestations.. Revelation is INFORMATION straight from the Lord to YOU, which cannot be known any other way. And can be LIFESAVING. I could tell you amazing stories from my own family, where the Lord SAVED the life of my son THREE TIMES - where not a hair of his head was singed, in 3 different life threatening scenarios. (He’s just 24.. I cannot COUNT the number of times the Lord has protected me - but I speak in tongues ALL THE TIME.)1
PLUS - You want to MEDITATE on the Scriptures as well. Not meditate on GOD, as I saw one minister suggest. The Bible does not say to 'meditate on God'.. That is new age meditation, emptying yourself - which is an open door to demons. WE MEDITATE ON THE WORD OF GOD - A CONCRETE THING.! VIZ: Joshua1:7 &I 8
7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have GOOD SUCCESS'. !!
Which means, ditch the TV and use the time to read the Book, with the guidance of the holy spirit.
YOU CANNOT FAIL, NOR FALL, if you will do these things.
God bless you marvelously in manifestation, in the name of our soon returning King Jesus Christ,
Victoria
Do not be deceived by doctrines that call Tongues a ‘gift’. It is not called a gift in the Bible. It is called a ‘manifestation of the power and presence of the holy spirit’ given to ALL who believe. You CAN speak in tongues. EVERYONE I have ever led to Jesus spoke in tongues. Including Chris Constantoupoulous who owned the Taxi I drove in the 1980’s who was a Jehovah’s Witness - which faith does not believe in Speaking in Tongues. I taught Chris rightly and he spoke in tongues.
To use the gift of tongues as a "private prayer language" would be to destroy its chief purpose, which is AS A SIGN TO UNBELIEVING ISRAEL. Former Pentecostal Fernando Legrand wisely observes, "By using this sign in private, some think they can profit from ONE of its aspects, while ignoring the others, but you cannot dismantled a gift and retain only one of its components. A car is a complex mechanical object that is driven as an entity or is not driven at all. You cannot take the wheels for a run and leave the body and the engine in the garage. When a car is running it is the whole car that moves. In the same way, TONGUES WERE NOT TO BE SLICED UP LIKE A SAUSAGE. They were to edify the speaker AND the others AND be a sign for the Jewish unbelievers AND be under- standable or be so rendered by interpretation. They had to be all that at the same time. The gift was inseparable from its one and only unchanging purpose: to be a sign for non believing Jews of the universal offer of salvation (Acts 2:17, I Corinthians 14:20-22)."
The fact is that biblical tongues were REAL, EARTHLY languages and this is a foundational truth. Any doctrine of tongues that reduces this practice to mere gibberish of any sort that is not a real language is UNSCRIPTURAL.
From Pentecostal-Charismatic Tongues vs. The Bible by David Cloud