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VIVIDLY remember the first time I heard someone speaking in tongues - although it was over 30 years ago I can tell you exactly where I was and exactly the look I got from my Aunt as I started laughing and making fun of the "crazy old woman" that was shouting some gibberish and dancing around like a bee went up her dress!
I was told throughout my childhood of questioning and yes laughing at those who spoke in tongues, not to "blaspheme the Holy Spirit" or I would be damned to hell forever with no chance of escape. Wow. God must take that tongue talking stuff pretty serious, yes?
Yes.
Although a child laughing or being curious is not going to open the gates of hell for all of eternity, the Lord does take the "gibberish" very serious - thus, so do I.
This article is not going to explain all the intricate details of tongues, but instead I simply desire to share with you how I received the gift of tongues, and a later article will go deeper.
Receiving the gift.
The night I received the gift of tongues and was baptized by the spirit of God was truly supernatural. I experienced the awesome power of God, and his power was evident through the
speaking in tongues. I had prayed and asked for the gift of tongues, not because it was cool or anything of the such, but because I knew it was a key to power and it was the promise that Jesus told the disciples to tarry for... I wanted what they had if Jesus had promised this gift!
I read a great small booklet by Kenneth Hagin called Tongues and from that short teaching I recognized that I had been asking for years, yet had not taken the time to simply receive! That evening we were in a small Pentecostal church in Smithfield, NC and they were having a healing service. I walked into the healing line, not sick in body, yet ready to receive all that God had for me that evening!
I began to simply cry out "Thank You Lord!" over and over and over.... I had asked long enough, I was ready to receive. The 3 or 4 ministers were just about to lay hands on me when... Continue Here
