The Tarry Meeting
 

Anyone here ever been to an old fashioned tarry meeting?

I know the old saw about how we don't have to 'tarry' since the disciples tarried for a certain Day to arrive but after that the Spirit is available to everyone now by faith, no tarrying needed.

BUT, I can't help but wonder... is a genuine tarry meeting just sitting around waiting for God to do his thing? Or is it not more of a meeting where people pray, seeking God, allowing God to work in them to get them to a place of faith where they can genuinely believe and receive from God?

Not so much us waiting on God, but more a matter of God waiting on us to get to a place where he can work with us through our faith?

Many people hear about the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and come forward, but may be lacking in faith. Perhaps there are things they need to 'work through' before their hearts are prepared enough to receive God in all His fullness...

The idea expressed in the song 'I would not be denied' comes to mind... do we not sometimes have to persist in prayer and faith until the answer comes?

Would an old fashioned tarry meeting help to cut down on people being lured into confessing they 'got it' when in their heart they know they really didn't?

What ever happened to waiting on God? Not waiting 'for' God, but waiting ON God, in prayer?

How often have you prayed for something or someone, and finished confessing that God heard your prayers, yet inside you know you really didn't pray, you just went through the motions? Have you never went back, and got SERIOUS with God?

"Tarrying' in that sense might only take a few seconds... or it might take all night...

I am speaking of getting down to business with God and not 'letting go' until an Answer is received by faith, with the witness of the Spirit in our own...

Thoughts?

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Well on the Day of Pentecost when there were tarrying in the upperroom,Jesus already told them to go and wait,so they knew something was going to happen all they were doing was waiting on it. They went to Tarry (wait),but they knew Jesus was going to do something already. Thats my 2cents

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By nature, we don't like to invest our time in prayer. I believe God is calling us back to long hours of intercession and travail. Like you said...it's more about getting ourselves out of the way. And truth is, the church in general is so consumed with self that its going to take some time to get to a place of receiving.

I know that you are mainly directing at seekrs for the HG...but its good for the church too!

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Well, not just seekers for the Holy Ghost, but anything that requires prayer or hearing from God.

Do you believe God is moving more people to a desire for this?

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Yes. I have felt the call to deeper longer prayer in my own spirit. Also have seen it in my church and some of my close friends.

We have an evangelist at our church and he was telling me about some of the Independent Apostolic Churches he has preached in and how the Spirit is lifting up a standard of prayer. The North Little Rock church is a prime example.

God is calling us higher.

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I've both felt this personally and heard from friends, family and others I know that have felt the same way.

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Yes, a few dozen times, in the late 70s, P.A.W. church--wanting to be a good saint, an' hep the lost!


But whatever works, "works," considering the importance of eternal salvation.

Yes, the idea was to achieve a level of intense, focused prayer. This normally resulted in many saliva tusks, as well as heavily laden mucus rags by the end of session.

Yep, an apt phrase-- it was about "working through", otherwise they woulda had it already!

Just as we supposed and believed.

In theory, yes, but can also be merely trading one inauthentic response for another. Today I believe a "tarrier" can submit to being worn down far enough, and with enough crying, kneeling, and foaming, almost anyone can eventually speak in a gibberish language. Some tongues sounded more "convincing" than others, but who were we to judge? If they claimed "I got it," we all accepted that as miraculous fact.


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Come on now..Everyone knows Tongues cannot be gibberish thats the "Estatic" Utterences you hear thats not any place found in the bible........:ursofunny:ursofunny:ursofunny:ursofu nny