I am posting this in praise reports section and not general discussion because I am not posting this for debate. I wanted to say that upfront so that we maintain a good conversation and not get into any heated arguments. I have been here for a while and some of you might already know the position I take w.r.t speaking in tongues and Baptism of Holy Spirit. My position has been that speaking of tongues is for today. A person could be filled with Holy Spirit and yet don't speak in tongues.
We recently moved to a new house and had a Pastor visit us during this weekend to pray for the house. He is a great man of God. I have never seen anyone with so much spiritual wisdom and yet so humble. He leads a pretty small Indian Church nearby. He is pretty close to us. He always speaks to me and my wife about baptism of Holy Spirit. Apparently Lord put it in his heart that he should pray with us for receiving Holy Spirit and focus on that rather than just blessing the house! We started praying. We just prayed for Holy Spirit to fill us for almost 45 minutes. I was just praising Lord and asking for Holy Spirit. Not necessarily speaking in tongues. My wife first started speaking in tongues. That's when I started asking Lord more seriously
And then the pastor laid his hands on our heads. Immediately I felt like something gushing out of the core of my body. Like flowing out. With so much intensity. I felt like a dam that is just breaking and water flowing out with such tremendous force. And I was just saying hallelujah. And something else came out of my mouth. Words that I did not understand. Yet my tongues went on with it. I sounded quite different. And I was crying so much. I felt peace and felt like being washed. This went on for a while. Then eventually I had to stop. I could have just kept on going for hours! This was my first experience of speaking in tongues. It was amazing that both myself and my wife had the experience together and same time (technically minutes apart!)
Now I am not even sure what position I will hold on to It is sweet that Lord would humble me and say I know "nothing" yet. I have only scratched the surface. And He would choose me to give this experience and the gift of speaking in tongues. Now I pray that He would use me for His glory. Praise the Lord!!
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We recently moved to a new house and had a Pastor visit us during this weekend to pray for the house. He is a great man of God. I have never seen anyone with so much spiritual wisdom and yet so humble. He leads a pretty small Indian Church nearby. He is pretty close to us. He always speaks to me and my wife about baptism of Holy Spirit. Apparently Lord put it in his heart that he should pray with us for receiving Holy Spirit and focus on that rather than just blessing the house! We started praying. We just prayed for Holy Spirit to fill us for almost 45 minutes. I was just praising Lord and asking for Holy Spirit. Not necessarily speaking in tongues. My wife first started speaking in tongues. That's when I started asking Lord more seriously
And then the pastor laid his hands on our heads. Immediately I felt like something gushing out of the core of my body. Like flowing out. With so much intensity. I felt like a dam that is just breaking and water flowing out with such tremendous force. And I was just saying hallelujah. And something else came out of my mouth. Words that I did not understand. Yet my tongues went on with it. I sounded quite different. And I was crying so much. I felt peace and felt like being washed. This went on for a while. Then eventually I had to stop. I could have just kept on going for hours! This was my first experience of speaking in tongues. It was amazing that both myself and my wife had the experience together and same time (technically minutes apart!)Now I am not even sure what position I will hold on to
It is sweet that Lord would humble me and say I know "nothing" yet. I have only scratched the surface. And He would choose me to give this experience and the gift of speaking in tongues. Now I pray that He would use me for His glory. Praise the Lord!![Staff Note - Modified topic title due to the topic being on the 'banned topics' list]
