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PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT SERIES
PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT FOR
POWER AND REVELATION
Praying in the Spirit releases power
Acts 1:8 You shall receive power when
the Holy Spirit come upon you shall be witnesses to me in
Luke 24:49 Behold I send the promise of my Father
upon you. But tarry in the city of
It is very clear that our Lord Jesus Christ
says that we cannot go, unless the power of God is on our life. In fact He
forbade his disciples in Luke 24:49 from going anywhere from doing anything
until the Holy Spirit has clothed them with His power.
Let's look at it very carefully. Jesus did not say you would receive
tongues. But He did inform them in Mark 16:17 that in 'My name they shall
cast out devils, they shall speak in new tongues.' So He did prepare them
in some way for this new gift of tongues. And speaking in tongues are a
dispensation in the New Testament. In the Old Testament all the gifts of the
Holy Spirit are manifested except tongues and interpretation of tongues. This
is especially for our time. And if it is a gift especially for our time, it
must be something that makes us different from the Old Covenant people. Yet
many do not appreciate what God has placed in this New Covenant. Jesus did not
speak about tongues except for Mark 16:17. I believe He spoke some more. And
Acts 1:3-5 tells us He spoke about the
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 2 that
the
Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had
fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came
a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind. And it filled the whole house
where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of
fire. And one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
It did not say anything about power in Acts 2:1-4. It did mention about
the sound of a mighty wind that filled the whole place. It did mention about
tongues of fire that rested on them. It did mention about them speaking forth
in tongues but it never mentions power. But yet Jesus Christ told his disciples
in Acts 1:8 and Luke 24:49 that they shouldn't move anywhere until they are
endued, or are clothed with power. And He emphasised again in Acts 1 that you
shall receive power. He did not say you will receive tongues. You shall receive
power after the Holy Spirit has come on you. So the mark of the Spirit coming
upon us is based on Acts 1:8. Jesus said when the Spirit comes upon you, you
shall receive power. Then the sign of the Spirit upon is power. But yet in
Acts 2:1 we do not find the word power mentioned. In fact we found the
word tongues. There were a manifestation of wind, a
manifestation of fire and a manifestation of tongues. And as the disciples
started their ministry, we found that power was demonstrated in their lives
that caused them to be bold. That power caused them to proclaim Christ when
they were told not to proclaim Christ. That power propelled them to pray in the
midst of persecution. And here is the conclusion we draw. If Jesus mentioned in
Acts 1:8 that you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,
and in Acts 2:4 it is mentioned that they were filled with the Spirit and
began to speak with other tongues, then I put it before you that the power
of God and speaking in tongues are related. If Jesus says you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit comes. And when the Holy Spirit came and they spoke
in tongues. You just put the two together. You will have an understanding that
speaking in tongues is related to the power of God released in your life.
You ask why do you say it is tongues that are related to power? Why don't you say that it is the wind and the fire
that is related to power? Lets go to Acts 10. This was
in Cornelius' house. And Cornelius had received a commandment from an angel. He
was not born again, but he was a very devout man. Angels are not assigned
the task of proclaiming the Good News. The angels are only assigned the task of
preparing people for the Good News. So the angels work with us. They do not
work independently by themselves. They rely on our prayers and our faithfulness
to God to bring success to what God is doing on planet earth. So the angel gave
a word to Cornelius and his household and said send for Simon Peter in the
house of Simon the tanner. And he will tell you words that will bring you to
eternal life. So they have brought Peter here. And all the household of
Cornelius were waiting for him. And as Peter was speaking about the things of
God, the Holy Spirit fell on them.
Acts 10:44-46 While
Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who
heard the word. And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as
many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit have been poured
out on the gentiles also. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify
God. That is the outpouring. In verse 46 "for" the English
equivalent of the Greek word here could also be used "because". They
know there was an evidence of the Holy Spirit coming down.
When you get baptised in water, you come out wet. There are some evidences that
you have gone into the water. When you have been baptised in the Holy Spirit,
there are evidences of the Holy Spirit flowing forth in your life. And one of
those evidences, the most obvious one, is speaking forth in other tongues. That
is not the place to stop. That is only just the beginning. Sometimes Christians
have the impression that speaking in tongues is the end. If that is so the book
of Acts should have stopped at chapter two. The book of Acts began with
tongues. It didn't end with tongues. Your experience of tongues is the
beginning and not the ending. It is time to move into some realm that is
deeper.
Later when Peter went
back to
So here Peter comes back to
Peter is recounting the same incident as
happened in Acts 10:44-46. The same out pouring, the same manifestation of what
Jesus said: you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. But
note the words that Peter used in Acts 11:15 As I began to speak, the
Holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning.
I emphasise again, here it says in Acts
11:15 the Holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning. In other
words Peter was saying in Acts 11:15 that what happened in Cornelius' house in
Acts 10:44-46 was also the same as when they saw the Holy Spirit coming down
upon the people in Acts 2:4. Peter was saying when I saw that I remembered it
was the same thing we have here in Acts 2. He is saying here Acts 10:44-46 is
the same as Acts 2:1-4. He is saying it is on them as it is on us. He even
quoted the same scripture in Acts 11:16 that he remembered Jesus said John
baptised with water but you shall receive the Holy Spirit. He remembered that
it was the same incident that Jesus talked about in Acts 1:8. Everybody needs
Acts 1:8. You need the experience in your life.
Let's look at it again very closely. Is it really the same?
There are some differences. In Acts 2:1 the day of Pentecost came and then
verse two they heard the sound of the wind. And some of them saw fire coming
down. And they spoke forth in tongues, which was heard
by some. In Acts 10 there was no wind - they didn't hear any wind. So the wind
is not the sign of the power coming because Peter says it is the same. There
were some things, which happened differently. But he says it is the same.
Neither the wind nor the fire was there. I believe that in the spiritual
realm, the wind and fire were there. But they were not manifested. There
was no record of the fire coming down.
Sometimes when you read church history you can laugh. I have a
thick book on Pentecostal Revival all through the world covering from Asian
countries to Western countries. They recorded the revival and all those things
that happened. Some of these people just lived a few decades ago. They believe
that the manifestation of the Holy Spirit was in certain things. It reached a
point of being ridiculous. It recorded in history about how some Pentecostal
groups in
So I bring it before you that even though Acts chapter
two records all these signs that happened the main sign that comes forth was speaking in other tongues. And when other people spoke
in other tongues, like for example Acts 19:6 Paul says that's it. And so we
bring all these scriptures before you. And we put it here, if Jesus says in
Acts chapter one verse 8 that they shall receive power when the Holy Spirit come upon you. And here in Acts 2:1-4 they spoke in other
tongues. I bring it before you for your prayers, for your consideration, for
your growth, that power is related to tongues. Many Christians are missing it.
They don't realise that the power of God is related to the gift of tongues that
God has placed on their lives. So many times when they get baptised in the
Spirit they put it on the shelf.
Praying in the Spirit builds up your ministry
The power of God is promised to His people that when
they began to get into tongues and into the things of God, they will begin to
taste of the power of God in their lives. The first time I discovered praying
in tongues. I was excited. I did not come from a Pentecostal background. I come
from a normal denominational background. So when I discovered tongues I started
praying long hours. Many Christians received the baptism of the Spirit. Why
don't they demonstrate power? If Jesus say when the
Holy Spirit comes upon you, you shall receive power. Why aren't the two taking
place? Why is not one resulting in the other? The promise of God is true. It
never changes, from age to age, from generation to generation. The reason is, we have not understood the value of speaking in tongues
that God has given in the Pentecostal experience.
And there is another
man whose name is David Yonggi Cho, the pastor of the
largest church in the world - more than 850,000 members. In one of his books,
he says that seventy-five percent of his prayer life is in tongues. These are
small, small keys that are given to you that you can miss. So Christians go
away from church and go to his conferences on church growth and taught to
visualise this and that etc. They try all the keys but they forgot prayers. So
here they are. They pray in tongues about 15 minutes a year. They bring home
the same principles of church growth and apply them over and over again and yet
everything just collapses. They forgot that 90% of his prayer life was in
tongues. And I researched some of those men of God. And I found this. They
don't tell you clearly. And I wish they did. A great portion of their prayer
life was in tongues.
Lets look at the man who wrote one third of the New
Testament. We know that the power of God was on his life. We know that the
power of God comes forth mightily in his life. He established churches in many
places, which was a great difficulty. And he didn't have the mass media like we
have. And he didn't have the organisation that we have today. He was just
moving about led by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14 this is what the man Paul
says of his own life. 1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with
tongues more that you all.
He must have prayed in tongues for many
hours to say things like that. I don't believe he is lying. I believe he is
telling the truth. He says I thank my God, I pray in tongues more than all of
you. The Corinthians even abused tongues. In the services there was no order.
They really were using tongues all over the place and even misusing it without
proper control in the services to the extend that if any church prays in
tongues I would say the Corinthians church does. They really would have made
use of tongues. And Paul made this statement. He made it to the Corinthians
almost like a foot note so much so that we can miss that this was the making of
his life and ministry. He says I pray in tongues more than all of you put
together. And that church shook the whole city of
I asked God why do you choose such a method?
It is so foolish to the mind because when I pray in tongues my understanding
sometimes fight and argues. God said I did not ask your understanding to do the
exploits of power. I am bringing forth your spirit. And God said I am a spirit
being. And those who want to do My exploits, they must
do it from their spirit. And Paul explained to us in 1 Corinthians 14:14-19 If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my
understanding is unfruitful. He didn't stop there. He says, what is the
conclusion then? I will pray with my spirit and I will also pray with my
understanding. I will sing with my spirit and I will also sing with my
understanding. Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who
occupies a place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of
thanks, since he does not understand what you say? For you indeed give thanks
well, but the other is not edified. I thank my God that I speak with tongues
more than you all; yet in the church I will just speak a few words with my
understanding. See the background he has. He prayed in tongues for long
hours in his private life. And in the church all he has to say is hallelujah
and everyone go under the power. Wouldn't that be nice
praying long hours privately. Some Christians don't pray in tongues at home.
They pray in tongues only in the church. But yet Paul does the opposite.
He prayed a lot in tongues at home but when he comes to church he needs only to
speak a few words. You have to be prayed up at home.
Praying in the Spirit with perseverance brings forth miracles
And the miracles of God
and the power of God begin to operate in Paul's life when he exercised the gift
of tongues with all perseverance. 2 Corinthians 12:12 truly the signs of an
apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance. I want you to
note the words, with all perseverance. The power of God, the
demonstration of God's power doesn't come without work. It doesn't come without
perseverance. It comes with perseverance. If perseverance is required then he
must have persevered in something. What did he persevere in? He persevered in
prayer. Do you realise that prayer needs perseverance? James 5 tells you that
the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avail much. The problem is not
the lack of righteousness because 2 Corinthians 5:21 says Jesus has been
made sin that we may be made the righteousness of God. So we all are
righteous in Him. The problem is in the lack of effectual fervent, perseverance
prayer. And Paul said the power of God demonstrated through his life with
perseverance. When he ministered he persevered. And I believe he persevered in
prayer.
We can look into the account of this
bible that he is a man of prayer. He is not just an apostle. We all know him as
an apostle. Let me introduce you to Paul as a man of prayer. Not just Paul the
writer of the New Testament. Not just Paul the apostle but Paul the man of prayer.
Eph. 1:15-16 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus
l and your love for all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayer. Without a shadow of a doubt, he was a
man of prayer. He started praying for them. And if you put that together with 1
Corinthians 14 he would spend a lot of time praying in the spirit. In Eph. 3
after he wrote about the revelation of Jesus Christ coming forth strong, he
says in verse 14 for this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Phil.1: 9 and this I pray that your love may abound more
and more in knowledge and in all spiritual discernment. Turn to
Praying in the Spirit brings forth understanding of divine mysteries to
the mind
Paul tells us about tongues in 1 Corinthians 14:2 He who
speaks in tongue does not speak to man but to God. For no one understand him.
However in the spirit he speaks mysteries. The bible tells us about
edification here in verse 13 Let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may
interpret. Do you notice here Paul talks about praying in the spirit,
praying in the understanding? Singing in the spirit, singing with the
understanding? Do you know his priority? All these things are not recorded by
accident. You move into the spirit realm first and then your mind begins to
take over from the spirit realm. So Paul would pray in tongues first and then
he prays with the understanding. Tongues come first. It is related to the power
of God in his life. Verse 14 if I pray in tongues my understanding is
unfruitful. And I am going to relate it to another verse that looks similar
that you may never put together. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:14 but the
natural man does not receive the things of the spirit for they are foolishness
to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. Now
you compare that with verse 14 that says if I pray in a tongue my spirit
prays my understanding is unfruitful. Paul is pointing to the fact that the
things in the spirit moving in the spirit and the things of God take faith.
That sometimes with your natural mind is foolishness. Your mind doesn't
understand the things of the spirit. Your mind doesn't understand all the
things of God. Our minds are still learning. Our minds are still grasping for
the things of God to comprehend it fully. But if we wait until we comprehend
and understand, we will never move. That's why God tells us to pray forth in
tongues, obey his Holy Spirit and tune our spirit to the Spirit of God. And our
spirit will be able to flow into the things of God.
Do you
notice that Paul prayed some of the most beautiful prayers for our spiritual
growth? Would that we learn to pray from him. Look at
Eph. 1 when he prayed that their eyes of their understanding would be
enlightened, that they would know the hope of his calling. The riches of his
inheritance in the saints and the greatness of the power of God that raised
Jesus from the dead and set him high above every name, above every principality
power and every high things that exalt his name and he set everything under his
feet. And I came before God and said Father would you tell me how Paul got all
these prayers. He couldn't have found them from the Old Testament and in fact
he didn't even walk with Jesus during those 3 years. How did he get all these
revelations to pray for? Whereas most Christians will pray O God bless me,
bless my wife, bless my children, I learnt prayer from Paul. When I saw how he
prayed for the church, God bless them. God will say I got billion of blessings,
which one do you want? Then we learn to pray for our physical
needs. Notice that Paul prayed more for spiritual needs. He could discern
spiritual needs. Think about it. Who would pray for the eyes of understanding
to be enlightened? Who would have thought of praying for Jesus Christ to dwell
in His fullness in us so that we are rooted and established in Him? Who could
have thought to pray for our love to grow in discernment?
And the Holy
Spirit began to quicken 1 Corinthians 14 and say I will show you how he got it.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14:14-15 for if I pray in an unknown tongue my
spirit is praying forth but my understanding is unfruitful. My
understanding doesn't understand. So my understanding stays on free gear. It
doesn't go anywhere. It waits on the spirit to take off first. Our
understanding is a part of our soul. Our spirit comes first and then our soul.
Our spirit must move into the depths of God before our soul can engage in gear.
Some people have a saying: "Please engage my mind before you engage my
mouth." Man is a spirit. So God is saying engage your spirit in My realm first. Lay hold of the realm of My Spirit with your
spirit, and then engage your mind. Then your mind will be able to tap on the
beautiful things of God. The revelations will begin to flow. So God showed me
how he got all these beautiful prayers. Now we have not because we ask not. And
we do not receive because we ask wrongly for the wrong thing.
Let me remind you, a wrong prayer can paralyse your life. I recommend
to you a book "Why Tragedy Happen To
Christians." Some of those Christians come saying the wrong prayer.
Tragedy strike, Satan takes what they spoke and brought it onto them. And we
cannot receive from God unless we see it and ask. Up to the present moment you
received what you have asked, up to this moment you have seen something in the
spirit. You have asked for them. You received and you go deeper. Unless you see
some more and ask some more you would not grow. So it is vitally important that
we get our spirit engaged in the realm of God's spirit. And so the Holy Spirit
began to show me 1 Corinthians 14:14-16 Paul says if I pray my spirit prays in
the unknown tongue. He did not say I will pray with my understanding and I will
pray with my spirit. I will sing with my understanding and I will sing with my
spirit. But he put it the other way round to obtain reason and understanding. I
will pray with my spirit and then I will pray with my understanding. I will
sing with my spirit and I will sing with my understanding. And you take note of
1 Corinthians 14 the earlier verse that says if a man pray in an unknown
tongue, he speaks divine mysteries. So God's Spirit told me this is how he
received. He just went deep into the spirit realm. And he prayed and prayed.
And in the realm of the spirit when his spirit was engaged in the things of
God, he was caught in the glory above. Flowing in the Holy Spirit, his mind got
engaged. The Spirit began to show him things, and then he began to receive
those prayers in the understanding. He began to pray beautiful prayers in the
understanding. They are so powerful and effective. I have prayed Eph. Chapter
one for so many people and I found their life changed. Those prayers are
still powerful. I do not say it was a direct interpretation of the prayer in
tongues. But I am saying it moves into the realm of the spirit. All I can say
is that he has moved into the realm of the spirit and then his understanding
began to move in. He received beautiful prayers. And that is the way he is
teaching us here to pray. That every time you come before God, the first thing
you have to do is get your spirit engaged with God. You have to move into the
realm of the spirit. And some of the beautiful songs that we sing in churches
have been songs that some composers have received when they were in the realm
of the spirit. Notice what is born of the spirit has a spiritual force inside.
What is born of the intellect remains in the intellect realm. What is born of
the spirit is spirit. It has life. So when we move into the realm
of the Spirit, flowing on and on, our mind get engaged to draw
understanding from God.
Is there a promise in the Bible that says we can obtain
understanding from the spiritual realm? Yes. In 1 Cor
2:9-10 Paul said, eyes have not seen, nor ear heard nor have entered into
the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him. But
God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all
things, yes, the deep things of God. Verse 12 We have received not the spirit of the world but
the Spirit who is from God that we might know the things that have been freely
given to us from God. Revelation is promised. The quickening of our
understanding is promised. Paul says I pray with my spirit and then I pray with
my understanding. And my understanding receives the things of the Spirit. See
my mind, my understanding receive from my spirit which in turn receive from the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit receives from Jesus and the Father. You see the
line there. In all natural things there must be a known line of cause and
effect. You try to organise something where there is no line of flow is crazy.
Have you seen a factory where nobody knows who is the quality controller?
Nobody knows who is the supervisor. No body knows who is the one to take the raw material in. And everybody do
what he or she like. It is the most disorganised thing. All they will produce
is disorganisation. The only time that you can produce something properly is
that you organise it in a proper line. And every one knows where their line of
operation is. So in order to draw in the revelation from God we need to
understand the line of God's operation. Our mind does not receive directly from
God. Our mind receives from our spirit. Our spirit communicates in some way to
our mind. But our spirit draws from the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit draws
from Jesus and Jesus draws from the Father. See there is a line.
Even Jesus knows to operate that. When He was on earth He operated
according to the law of God. For 30 years He did no miracles. Why? Because He
knows that He must wait until the Holy Spirit comes forth. You say He is
sinless, yes. But He is obedient too. You say He is the Son of God, yes, but He
relied on the line of God's working. He knows the line of authority that flows.
And He had to come to John the Baptist and request for water baptism. God did
not put the Spirit on Him until He was baptised with water. For
what reason? Because He knows He has to flow through a certain line. And
so the Holy Spirit draws from Jesus and put it into our spirit. Our spirit
receives communication from the Holy Spirit in a spiritual language. And when
we pray forth in our spirit, we are praying forth in mysteries. 1
Corinthians 14 says if you pray in an unknown tongue, you speak mysteries unto
God. If a man prays onto God he speak not onto man but
onto God and he speaks mysteries. What kind of mysteries? These are mysteries
of God. When we talk about mysteries. It is not
talking about carnal mysteries. 1 Corinthians 14:2 He who speaks in a tongue
does not speak to man but to God. For no one understands him. However in the
spirit he speaks mysteries. What sort of mysteries is he talking
about? The mysteries of God. If you speak in
mysteries onto God and the things of God and your mystery gets revealed onto
you, what do you have? An understanding of God. What
is a revelation? A revelation is an unveiling of the mysteries of God. It was
there all the time. But nobody see it. So when the mysteries of God get
unveiled to our mind we receive what we call a revelation from God.
Many, many times our spirit man is not allowed to function because our soul clams it down. We rule our life
by our intellect. We have been trained to do that all of our life. The world is
an intellectual world we live in. Once upon a time the world was probably ruled
by brute force. But today it is an intellectual world. Scholars reign; those
who go to school dominate society. The higher the degree the
better. And it says they die for the degree. So today education is so
important. People pursue education for their children. So the mind rules today.
At one point the world was ruled by brute force. It is a different world.
But yet the church was not supposed to be in these two
realms. The church is supposed to specialise in the things of the spirit, to
train people in the ways and things of the spirit of God. And so if I pray in
an unknown tongue, my spirit is praying. Surely I want my spirit to be
active. I realise that my spirit is a receptacle for the Holy Spirit to
flow through because Paul says I serve God with my spirit. My spirit prays
forth onto God. Many times people's spirits are not in the realm of God.
What does Paul mean when he says in Eph. 2 we have been raised
together in Christ. We have been seated together in
Christ. We have been not we shall be. God says that is your spirit. Your spirit
can ascend to the depths of God's presence. So that while you are here yet your
spirit has a quality of being in the presence of God. And God says I delight to
have my people worship me in that realm of the Spirit. When the Spirit comes
you shall receive power. When the Spirit comes you shall receive tongues.
Tongues are related to power. Tongues are the key to power. The reason many
people do not release power in their lives is because they have not released
the tongues that flow forth in their lives. Jesus doesn't call it tongues.
Jesus says rivers of living water. What river? What manifestation? The bible
shows tongues flowing forth through your life.
When God began to teach me about this realm, I began
to do some spiritual experimentation. I prayed in tongues and the first time I
prayed in tongue my mind argued. My mind rebelled. That is just you making the
sound. Doesn't it make you funny? I first received the Baptism in the
Spirit in the seminary. For one year I did not learn to pray in tongues. For
one year I still went through depression. For one year I still went through the
struggle not knowing what I have. Not knowing the weapon that God has given
onto me. And when God first began to show me about tongues, I took the trouble
and started praying. And I discovered a few things that I want to share with
you. When I started praying in tongues again, my mind rebelled. I refuse to let
my mind rebel and I continue pressing on. I prayed on and on and on and my mind
would go all over the place. I just ignored that and continued praying. After
two hours I was very thirsty. So I took a drink. And after the drink I continued.
My mind says give up now. But I continue praying on in tongue. Another two
hours pass and I was very thirsty by now. I took a big glass of water and my
mind say you will never be able to pray again. And I continue praying for
exactly six hours. My mind waved the white flag. You know what it means,
surrendered. My mind suddenly became quiet.
And in that
quietness I felt God. I felt His holiness come in. I could hardly pray any
more. My mind must have been subjected to the things of the Spirit. And when
God's presence came in, I heard a whisper in my spirit that says I have desire
and long to be with all men. From the beginning I have longed to be present
with men. And I have given men now the key to my presence. And God said this is
possible all the time. And Jesus began to speak to me in my spirit. My name is
Emmanuel God with us. I have longed to be with you. I know that I have longed
to be with God. But I never realise He long to be with us. I never realised
that. That He loved us so much that He sent Jesus to die on the cross for us.
Not only that we could be with Him, but He could be with us. So when God says
it was possible all the time, I continue in that experience. And I found that
at first it took six hours, then it took four hours,
later two hours, and then finally one hour. Until you get acquainted with God's
presence.
See God is a person. He
is alive. You could move into His presence easier. And God said here is where
my power lies. The power of God cannot be separated from the person of God.
When Jesus said when the Spirit comes upon you, you shall receive power. It was
the person of the Holy Spirit coming down. And in Acts 2 when the Spirit came
down they spoke in tongues. Tongues were the key to God's presence and then to
God's power because God is a Spirit. You cannot know Him with your body. You
cannot know Him with your mind. You know Him with your spirit. And I began to
understand that tongues bring me into the presence of God. And that with the
presence of God comes the power of God.
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