God Is Speaking, Are You Listening!

luciamuresan (67)in #life • 7 years ago

This is a problem for many who can not decide who is leading their lives. Seeing a Pentecostal service in which the pastor called the people up front to receive the Spirit, he had to constantly reinforce the message. While they were drawn by faith to the notion that they could receive the Spirit and through him to hear God speak their doubts against the idea were also evident.

Looking at the crowd descending on that platform, it occurred to me that how would they know when God is speaking to them? These people have never had the experience of tongues, the language of the Spirit. They have never heard the messages that follow and the vision that the connection brings them.

In many ways it's like a learning curve. First, one experiences the filling of the Spirit and that comes with great power and not, as this pastor suggested, speaking only in tongues. It is called the 'Pentecostal Experience' because of the reference to it in the New Testament when the tongues of fire were experienced and all spoke in tongues.

This is somewhat disconcerting, since the content of that part of the Bible was compiled by Jerome, the physician of the Catholic Church, after it was established by Constantine. It was written about 300 years after the event called and there would have been no record of survival of any such nature as Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus in 70 AD.

It is also in contradiction to reincarnation and the fact that everyone is back that has lived before (Jog 5: 19-21). However, it is in perfect harmony with the promise of the Old Testament.
"For with stammering lips and another tongue will God speak to this people" Isaiah 28:11

There is no denying that God speaks to us and is through tongues and interpretation, and that is the part that remains of the New Testament prophecy. Because languages are not made by us, it is an uncontrollable flow of words in a foreign language, which we can not decipher, there must be an interpreter.

In my experience this works well when two people who are full of power pray together. The power to build and one speaks in tongues and the other receives the interpretation.

The message is always right and never frivolous. This means that it has an important function and direction for those present. It also means that a single person rarely receives both languages as a message, so that the only one by itself can be dubious.

It is sad, therefore, that people can be filled with the Spirit presenting and then speaking in tongues, but to hear God one has to have an interpretation. This is how we know God has spoken. Along with the message comes a great feeling of power inside and it can be strong enough for a miracle to take place. Only those who are filled with the Spirit are used in this way and can deliver it.