I have never been more excited or encouraged about a
online study like the one you and I are about to embark on. The work of the Holy Spirit
cannot be covered in just nine lessons! We have not scratched the surface. This
study is focused mainly on the baptism in the Holy Ghost with the evidence of
speaking with other tongues. This is the first of a full-length ongoing study of the
Holy Spirit and His work in our lives as Believers coming to Spirit Journals.
This study is probably however the most controversial because of the division
between many in the Body of Christ over this subject. Entire denominations
oppose the teaching of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, yet millions have been
gloriously filled with God's Spirit in a second work of grace AFTER they have
been born again. Neighbor, let me state this up front - YOU NEED THE BAPTISM IN
THE HOLY GHOST WITH THE EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES! I have dear friends who
don't agree with that. We don't stop being friends over it - but I hold my
ground with this. The baptism in the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift to the
believer, just as salvation is the greatest gift to the sinner.
Lesson One - Have
You Received the Holy Spirit Since You Believed?
Lesson Two:
Receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Lesson Three-
Receiving the Spirit Part 2
Lesson Four:
Hindrances To Receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Lesson Five: The
Initial Physical Evidence of the Baptism in the Holy
Ghost
Lesson Six:
Evidences After the Initial of the Spirit Filled Life of
a Believer
Lesson Seven: The
Spirit Gives the Utterance
Lesson Eight: He
That Speaks In Tongues
Lesson Nine: A
Second Work of Grace After Conversion
Lesson Ten: The
Baptizer in the Holy Ghost
Lesson Eleven: The
Purpose of the Baptism in the Holy Ghost
Lesson Twelve: 1
Corinthians 14: The New Testament Discourse on
Stammering Lips and Unknown Tongues
Lessons Thirteen:
Lessons, Questions and Objections on Speaking in Tongues
Lesson Fourteen:
The Promise of the Father
Lesson Fifteen:
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit to the Believer
Lesson Sixteen:
The Perfect Spirit, The Perfect Prayer, The Perfect
Power
Lesson Seventeen:
The Holy Spirit and the Gentiles
Lesson Eighteen:
The Holy Spirit And The Power Within the Believer
Lesson Nineteen:
Be Filled With The Spirit
Lesson Twenty:
Scriptural References
What we do hope and pray for you as you embark on the above mentioned study
lessons with us that you will develop a thirst and hunger for God
unlike anything you have ever had before in your life. We pray that those of you
who have not received the glorious “baptism” in the Holy Spirit with the
evidence of speaking with other tongues will believe the Lord for this
life-changing experience.
We want to make it clear that we do NOT believe one
has to speak in tongues to be saved. We also do NOT believe that if a person speaks
in an unknown tongue that automatically means they are going to be a better
Christian. There are NO EXPERIENCES out there that can zap us into Christian
perfection. If there were, there are not any of us who would not be lined
up for that by the MILLIONS to receive it, believe me! No, receiving the baptism in the Holy
Spirit will not relinquish you of your responsibility in a daily intimate walk with the
Lord. What it WILL do, is open the door for a great number of operations and
abilities the Holy Spirit wants to put inside of you. That doesn’t mean He
cannot do these same things if you are just saved and not filled with the Holy
Spirit. God is God and God can do whatever He wants to. But it’s been my
experience that people who are used in the gifts and ministries of the Holy
Spirit through the years have been people who have been gloriously baptized in
the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other tongues. ALL OF THIS WAS
MADE POSSIBLE BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST. Whatever the Holy Spirit does, the CROSS
is the central reason why. His work is the make what Jesus did REAL to us so we
can be conformed into His image.
Romans 8:26-29 - Likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. [27] And he that searches the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of
God. [28] And we know that all things work together for good to them that love
God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. [29] For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Tongues seem to be one of the most controversial subjects in the Body of Christ
today. They shouldn’t be! God did not send back the Holy Ghost to divide
us as a body. Somehow though man has gotten this sick thought in his head that
HE can do the work of the ministry on his own ability and understanding and not
have to lean on and depend on the HOLY GHOST. THAT IS A LIE! We need the Holy
Spirit as believers. When we pray in the Spirit, or pray in tongues if you will,
we are connecting to heaven in such a way, that not even Satan can interfere with
this communication! Why would
ANYONE not want that? You need the baptism in the Holy Ghost. Paul said tongues
are a "SIGN" to those who do not believe. In other words, when one speaks in
tongues, it's a warning to a sinful fallen race that the Lord is coming soon.
Joel said in the LAST DAYS God would "pour out HIS Spirit" upon ALL FLESH,
including our sons and daughters. The rains of the Spirit are falling neighbor
as a warning to us all to get ready for the rapture. Jesus is coming.
Tribulation is ahead of Planet Earth and judgment is not far behind. Every
single move of the Holy Ghost in scripture was followed by great judgment upon
Jerusalem or the Earth. This last move of God will be no different.
Isaiah
28:11-12
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. [12]
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and
this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Isaiah 28:13-14 But the
word of the Lord was unto them precept upon
precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
[14] Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people
which is in Jerusalem.
Joel 2:28-29
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all
flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions: [29] And also upon the servants and
upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Acts 2:17-21
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my
Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: [18] And on my
servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and
they shall prophesy: [19] And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in
the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: [20] The sun shall be
turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day
of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
On another level of
this discussion. If someone cannot believe in ALL what the Spirit of
God does in one's life then that individual will more than likely be
more persuaded to not believe other things concerning the faith as
well. With the things of God we cannot pick and choose what we wish
to embrace and the things we don't. We may have areas of little
understanding and light but if we will ask the Lord, He will give us
light on any subject we lack wisdom in! Most of the arguments
against tongues are not innocent ignorance but willful unbelief!
Get your seat belt
on and let’s take a journey. I hope you read something that makes you either mad
or glad. If you get mad then that means you may have hunger and not understanding.
If you get glad it means you have both. Either way, we’re glad you have come to
this part of the website. We love you and our goal here is not to offend or draw swords but
to encourage, edify and exhort you as a believer (and ourselves as well – we’re
in this journey together) to get so full of God in these last days that NOTHING
will come between Him and an unbridled passion burning in our hearts for His
Son, Jesus Christ. If we love the Son, then we LOVE the Father. The only way to
love the Son like we should is through the POWER of the HOLY GHOST birthing the
LOVE OF GOD in our hearts. (Romans 5:5-8) People today are so busying trying to
‘DO’ when the Lord is only saying ‘ABIDE’ and ‘LOVE.’
Romans
5:5-9 -
And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. [6] For when we were yet
without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. [7] For scarcely for
a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even
dare to die. [8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. [9] Much more then, being now justified by his
blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Love is the key ingredient the Holy Spirit puts in our hearts. Everything we
receive from the Lord comes from His LOVE to us and a command for us to operate
in whatever gift we receive from Him in it. People who don’t function in agape
or Godly love are not Spirit-filled people. They may have an experience, but
they don’t have GOD!
God bless you and we pray you will receive food for your journey in these pages
that follow. Shalom and love and be FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST TODAY!
Heavenly Father, in Yeshua’s name, we ask You to fill every hungry heart that is
embarking on this spiritual journey with us. Thank You for sending the HOLY
GHOST to Earth to reveal Yeshuah, your Son, to us in a more deeper, intimate and
fuller way. We need MORE of YOU oh Lord. Even if we have already been baptized
in the Holy Spirit, we need MORE OF YOU. Even if we think we’ve went to
‘another’ level of ministry – WE NEED MORE OF YOU. Even if we think we’ve
reached the top ‘rung’ of the ladder with You Lord –WE NEED MORE OF YOU! FILL
OUR HEARTS today with overflowing of power, grace, anointing and LOVE for
Yeshuah so we may love a lost and dying world as You do. Birth compassion in our
hearts for the coming harvest and send us Oh, Lord into the fields that are
white and ready. In Yeshua’s name we ask. Amen.
Joel 2:28-29 -
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all
flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions: [29] And also upon the servants and
upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
