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Originally Posted by Jacob's Ladder
A poster named Praxeas created a tongue and interpretation thread a few days ago. Within that thread I mentioned of having a confirmation in my spirit when a genuine T&I message of God proceeded.
In the last tongue & interpretation (T&I) I questioned if the wording was from God. Two reasons:
1) I didn't feel the confirmation in my spirit
2) God would not tell the church to prepare their harvest. The harvest belongs to God (Matt 9:38). The harvest isn't ours personally as the interpretor inferred.
From my experience, there's usually a "hush" and then there's a single person who begins to speak in tongues. I've also encountered where congregants are speaking in tongues, and then there's a person whom dominates all tongues as he/she begins to speak in a loud authoritative tongue and everyone becomes quiet.
Well yesterday everyone was speaking in tongues during worship. The music stopped and all were still speaking in tongues. There was no "hush", just people praying in the spirit. The person at the pulpit said God wants to speak, but people were just praying.
I then told God, if this isn't a genuine message from you, keep the person's mouth at the pulpit shut.
So the person at the pulpit said, let God use you, let God use you. So we all kept praying and calling on God. There was no "hush" nor a dominate tongue speaker, we were all just worshiping God.
I then felt to walk out of the sanctuary and began praying as I began walking down the hallway.
Right as I walked out of the sanctuary, the person at the pulpit began delivering a tongues & interpretation message. Where was the "tongue" message to interpret? There was none.
Then a thought came to my mind as I was walking the hallway praying, that this person's mind was made up that God was going to speak.
God answered my petition while I remained in the sanctuary, and he had to remove me from the sanctuary because this person's mind was made up that God was going to speak-
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Bro,
I have had so many thoughts when I read your posts on this subject.
There was the thought that, "Well, if he is the type of person that believes that God is going to allow another soul to go to hell only because he wasn't baptized the way he was, then I can see where his hang up on the "exactitudes" would come in.
Then I thought, well God is a God of "exactitudes" in some ways-- Noah's Ark, the Temple,-- though these are Old Testament examples and I do see the New Testament shifting the focus away from external exactitudes so that publicans like me can be made righteous in our hearts, not by doing every little thing exactly right, saying everything exactly right, 100% of the time.
Then there was the thought, "If this (the first T&I) was from God, why did He speak through someone He knew would mess up His Message? Are we supposed to just look past it? What was God really trying to say?"
One more thought-- if God in fact did confirm to you that something is amiss with both T&I incidents in your church, what are you going to do about it? I'm not sure what I would do. Do you think that God has a purpose in pointing this out to you? Do you think that you may be developing a critical spirit-- tainting everything you see and experience?
There's just so much going in your two scenarios you have posted about.
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