andyc
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I do not believe it belongs to you.
Why do you?
I don't know. My spirit causes me to pray in a language that supersedes English.
What a terrible idea.
I do not believe it belongs to you.
Why do you?
I would agree with that, because the gift is mostly of personal benefit, it is the least impressive from an external perspective.
However, from a personal perspective, the gift is extremely powerful.
What do you think would happen if someone went into hospital ward saying that God wanted them to be healed of whatever they were suffering with, and asked them if it was ok to pray for them?
Jesus was proving who He was by presenting these miraculous healings and other abilities.
I am not a cessationist. Private tongues was never a concept until the early 1900s AD when Pentecostal missionaries went abroad preaching in their so called tongues expecting people to understand them. When that failed and they returned home with egg on their faces, they persuaded others that they were praying in tongues that could only be understood by God. It was a success! The teaching took off like wildfire and hundreds of thousands were making noises thinking they were praying to God :banana: and the beauty of the teaching is that you don't have to prove a thing, because it's God praying through you and no one is supposed to understand or give interp. wooooo hoooo! Taking verse 2 and reworking it to support the doctrine was a piece of cake. Cessassionism has nothing to do with this. It's just a plain old doctrine of men .... it has worked quite superbly - look at all the people who think they are praying to God while making noises - repetitive noises, just like Jesus said not to do. In fact, He told us how to pray. He never suggested praying was anything more than verbalizing your thoughts in prayer to the Lord and even gave us an example of how to pray. What a concept :idea:
So do you believe that Peter understood the language that the gentiles spoke in?
I don't know. My spirit causes me to pray in a language that supersedes English.
What a terrible idea.
That's kind of an oxymoron, a great healer with a hospital!
Kinda like Creflo Dollar wearing his reading glasses.
Yes, but that does not mean that He ceased healing in these modern times, IMO.
No it's not. It's an illusion put in your mind by people who convinced you that is how to "get with God".
If it were me, I would tell you to leave and try to be polite about it :CRASH:
Yes, the text says so..
If prayers are sent out and it's His will.
It is not your spirit. It is either the Spirit of God
or another spirit imitating the Spirit of God that
is speaking through you.
It is not your spirit. It is either the Spirit of God
or another spirit imitating the Spirit of God that
is speaking through you.
We MUST pray according to His will.
We MUST pray according to His will.
And you know that.....how?
Which is the only way He will listen, if we pray according to His will.