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Originally Posted by Arphaxad
When I was baptized I was told to praise the Lord and if I started saying things that I didn't know what I was saying that it was tongues and I was being filled with the Holy Ghost. So after I came out of the water I got like 3 "praise the Lord's" out and started saying things that I didn't know what I was saying and felt like I was going to burst into flames all soaking wet. I didn't know anything about HG or tongues before that, it was my first night in apostolic/pentecostal church. So I never asked to be filled, and still don't, I just do the same thing-start praising and worshipping wherever I am and can feel God all around me and in me. ( though I don't feel like I'm going to "flame on" all the time!) Isn't it neat how God works?
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OK, that sounds good to me. Perhaps we would have more people receiving the HGB sooner if they were instructed that way. I think we make it harder for people to just accept and begin speaking with tongues. We give people the idea that the Holy Ghost is gonna just take over and force out some unknown language or words. Actually, in
Acts 2:4 it says "and they (the 120 or so) were all filled with the Holy Ghost and (they) began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." Notice who spoke. They (the 120) did the speaking but the Spirit gave the utterance. Also notice that they spoke in tongues
because they were filled or as a result of their filling, not in order to receive the filling. They were filled first and because they were filled, they then (subsequently) began to speak with tongues.
Speaking with tongues may not be immediate upon being baptized in the Holy Ghost. Wow, we better be careful where we go with that!! I've heard of people (actually just heard one preacher say it this past Wednesday at a prayer meeting) that when she was baptized in the Spirit she did not speak with tongues for a couple of days.
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