[Sam]

I made this a separate post because the other one was getting long.

Two incidents:
Several years ago there was a message in tongues at a UPC where I was a member. A woman, who was not very intelligent, gave the interpretation. She actually used words that you would not expect to hear from her and alluded to some things that were going on that she would not have ordinarily known about. The pastor confirmed what she said and that this was from God because she spoke of things that were beyond her knowledge. Well, after that, if there was a message, even if she was back in the nursery, she would run out to give an interpretation and it just wasn't the same as that one time. She became repetitious and fell into the rut of saying the regular old stuff that we hear over and over. Were these genuine gifts? I would say yes. She knew that she had been used by God and she was saying what was on her heart to build up, stir up, and cheer up or lift up the saints.

Another story I heard when I was a teenager in a UPC in Wisconsin. Sis. Geneva Bailey was a missionary in Africa associated with Sis. Gruse. That was before the airplane was available and she had to walk quite a distance even fording some rivers. She had rubbed a blister on her foot, it had broken, and she had blood poisoning. She felt like she could go no farther. She sat down and asked God to place her on some body's heart to pray for her because she just couldn't pray for herself any more. At that same time (this was confirmed later by checking dates and taking into account the time difference) there was a message in tongues and interpretation in Texas that Sis. Bailey was dying from poisoning. The folks in Texas interceded until they felt like God had heard and answered. They had heard of the poisoning but they didn't realize it was blood poison. They thought someone had poisoned her. It's been many years since I heard Sis. Bailey tell this story and I may not have it 100 percent accurate.