Anne Richard

Introduction

God is calling the church to a deeper walk in the spirit and in the supernatural. The church is a miracle. You are a miracle and a sign and wonder. The church was born in the fires of revival and an outpouring of the spirit.

On the day of Pentecost 120 disciples obeying the command of Jesus to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father to be endued and clothed with power on high. With a sudden falling of the spirit they received the infilling of the Holy spirit accompanied by the Gift of speaking in unknown tongues. That is the first Baptism of the spirit.

There were subsequent Baptisms of the spirit after the first baptism. After the early church age went through dark ages and medieval ages when it loses the supernatural power of the Spirt to perform outstanding miracles, signs and wonders.

The Lord began to move once again to restore back to the revelation of the Word that was lost through the ages.

Revelation is progressive. In the beginning of the 20th century there was a worldwide hunger created by the Holy Spirit for the restoration of the power of God as experienced by the disciple on the day of Pentecost and thereafter.

Charles Parham and William J Seymour were used by the Lord to initiate the Pentecostal revival a movement that swept across every nation in the world first from Azuza Street Los Angeles to Europe, China, India, the Isle of the seas, Australia, New Zealand and across the USA etc.

One of the outstanding features of that outpouring was the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Gift of Tongues as the spirit gave utterance. This restored back tongues into the body of Christ and ironically the rest of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as the early church.

This is a clarion call of the spirit to bring back to its right place and practice of speaking and praying in tongues in the church of Jesus Christ.

The church began with the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues and I believe with all my heart that the church age will end with an outpouring of the spirit with tongues and restoration of all the 9 gifts of the spirit in full manifestation. God is indeed bringing the gift of the Holy Spriit to the higest maturity for the endtime church before His coming. h100 Years ago a great and mighty move of the Holy Spirit came suddenly and impacted the whole world from continent to continent

Another move of God is due in this time and season for the church. We play a major role in the great outpouring of revival fires that will bring a great harvest of souls. Tongues plays a vital role in this end time harvest and outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Every move of God is undergirded by the third person of the trinity and the release of the diversities of gifts, differenced of administration and the operation of God. The fundamentals of the Christian faith does not change.

Revelation is progressive . The Lord through the person of the Holy Spirit is restoring back what the enemy robbed through sensual men who infiltrate the church of Jesus Christ and robbed of its supernatural element. The Lord will restore it back to as the Holy spirit calls us back to PRAYER and the highest type of prayer :Praying in the Holy Spirit.

Let us take this journey through the word and the experiences of the church to get a clear and exact understanding of the VITAL ROLE TONGUES play in the economy of God in this time and season .

Joseph Thana

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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THE POWER OF EDIFICATION BY SPEAKING IN TONGUES

Working with the New Nature.

There are powerful benefits and implication of Praying in tongues for edification.

1 Corinthians 14:4; Jude 1:20. Speaking in tongues or praying in our heavenly language is a means and way the Lord has made provision for every believer to EDIFY or build themselves up . This is the gift of tongues that you receive when you are Baptised in the Holy Spirit.

In 1 Corinthians 14:2 Paul writes to the church and tells us that when a person speaks in an unknown tongue, he speaks to god and in the spirit he speaks mysteries. When you speak in tongues, it is your spirit that prays to God . Edification happens in the spirit of man where we have received the life and the nature of God. Man is primarily a spirit , he has a soul and lives in a body. The real man is the inward man. This is the man that is born again by the spirit of god and becomes a new creation in Christ. Accessing the new nature and releasing that nature into minds, bodies and circumstances will help us to take advantage of what Christ Jesus has done for us on the cross.

When you pray in the heavenly language of tongues you are buiding yourself up and edifying that part of your that has receive the Zoe-life of God that is your SPIRIT MAN. Praying in tongues edifies and builds you up to the place and position that God can begin to use you powerfully for His purposes.

Gods Power Plant

You have the Gods treasure house on the inside of you. You have the Power Plant of God inide that can generate tremendous Holy Spirit energy and miraculous power . Praying in tongues energizes in your spirit by edifying, build up and charge that power on the inside to be released when needed.

In the private worship and prayer life of the believer, tongues can be an tremendous avenue to build up your spiritual strength and life. By praying in tongues for prolong ed hours you are building an atmosphere for miracles and the manifestation of the holy Spirit. You can build an atmosphere of Miracles in every service by praying in tongues building yourself up and to build into the atmosphere of a meeting in the Holy Spirit.

Build a Superstructure in the Spriit

The word edify and build up in 1 Corintians 14:4 and Jude 1:20 is the English transliteration EPOIKODOMEO. The word is translated as to construct, build up , embolden and charge up like you charge up a battery. The Edify also comes from the English word EDIFICE or a architecture , a superstructure and a building.

You are build a superstructure or a mega bilding in the spirit a spiritual edice when you pray in unknow tongues in a consistent way. Developing a tenacity and praying long hours in tongues helps us build the anointing of God and contain it. When you pray in an unknow tongues hour after hour you are erecting and constructing a building and archetecture a divine operation to accommodate and jouse the power and the anointing of God on the inside of your inner man. This generation of power and the activation of your spiritual resources qualifies you for the call of God on your life.

Charge Your inward Man

The edify brings to the thought of charging a battery. When the power in a power wanes or becomes weak , we charge the battery to restore the power back so that it can perform the function it is made to perform. Our spiritual power and strength can become weak and wane away making us vulrebale to the circumstances of life. The eney can have an advantage over us. But when we pray in tongues or the prayer language we are charging ourselves up in the faith and in the spirit. Ongues edifies and build up or charge ourselves up with the power of the holy spirit. This is spiritual edification.

Delivered from the carnalilty

you God will not let you be be living in your carnal and fleshly state the rest of your life . He has provided the way of edification by praying in tongues to deleiver us from the power of the flesh and sin. Before the anointing of God flows in your life miracles and healing the sick you must go through edification process that will build you up in your spirit and causes the anointing and power of God to manifest.

It is not enough just pray for a few minutes in tongues. So often when prayng in tongues for 2 or 3 minutes it feels like you have been praying for an hour hour..

Praying in tongues hour after hour triggers off the edification processs that will sanctify your habits of your flesh, sanctification of the soul ad eventually the cleansing of your spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. I believe praying in tongues is a major key for the church to walking in the sanctifying power of God.

Key to Victory

Jude 1:20 encorages us to praying in the Holy Spirit building up your most holy faith. The word of god says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God . Faith is the key to receive from God in every area of our life. Faith is our victory. When we have receive the word as a seed in our hearts we have to find a way to release the faith that has been planted as a seed for us to have a harvest.

Praying in tongues causesour faith to build up in the most holy faith or the highest faith that we have developed at the point. The heart or the spirit man is te ground that produces a harvest of 30, 60 and hundred fold. When we begin to mix faith In our hearts by building our most holy faith y praying in the spriit we begin to come to the place of receiving the miracles that we believing God for.

By continually praying in an unkmown tongues you can keep yourself in the peak level of faith in the word. Yu will be built up and established in the highest level of faith the holy spririt has brought you and always be in a position of perating at the highest level of faith.

Gods Guarantee

We have Gods guarantee in the Word to edify and build us up when we pray in tongues as long and as much we want.

We build ourselves above the sickness and diease, the lack and need we have and the sense-dominated realm where we are no longer are moved by what we feel and see but by the word of God.

Tongues and Interpretation equals prophecy

1 Corintians 14:14 tells us that we are edified when we pray in tongues . This process edifies and builds you up.

The gift of prophecy which is one of the manifestation or the gift of the Holy Spriit is given to us for edification, comfort and exhortation. Prophecy edifies the church or the Body of Christ. Prophecy is the revelation of the Christ in you the hope of Glory. It is the release of the nysteries of Christ hidden in the word.

Tongues and interpretation o ftongues equals to prophecy. Tongues will edify you but tongues and interpretation which is prophecy edifies the church.

Praying in tingues will edifiy because you are praying the mysteries of God back to the throne room. The Father listens to the perfect prayer that you have prayer in the spirit and answers. The Holy Spirit listens to the answer and releases the mysteries of God into your spirit and you are edified and build up in your spiriit

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