But This Spake He Of The Spirit.

[Amanah]

I think I'm glad that I had the experience of receiving the HG and speaking with tongues as an eleven year old child.

I received it at the altar of a AoG church that I and my Catholic mother were visiting at the invitation of a friend. I was raised Catholic, not pentecostal.

I didn't have to analyze it or debate it or agonize over it, I just yielded and received it just as I yielded to God in church on Sunday, and on the way to work this morning, listening to a song "tell me once again who I am to you, I belong to you," while driving down the road, tears running down my face and talking in tonques.

Guess I'm being anti-intellectual this morning. But with a Liberal Art BA, and having studied World Religions, and having read the Buddhist, Hindu, and many other sacred writings, I thank God that I still have the ability to be anti-intellectual and just yield to God.

I'm also a firm believer in reading and studying the Bible, don't get me wrong. But in my heart I know that when I received the HG I spoke with tongues, just like the Bible said.