javajo
Well-Known Member
I love it... Benny Who?
I think what got me is the part in Acts where Peter preaches to the house of Cornelius and they all began speaking in tongues spontaneously which I've heard testimony to that affect from a few people saying it happened to them when the believed for the first time someones witness of Christ. What was the need of tongues at Cornelius house besides being a gift of the Holy Spirit by faith?
I think that for my part gifts of the Spirit have replaced the need to focus prophecy through one person in that Christ works in the body instead of picking out an Elijah or a Moses to lead. The body of Christ to me has become a greater focus showing Gods love by group actions and therefore reducing the need for focused leadership and exalted positions. As Moses told Joshua after Joshua complained that some elders were prophesying "I would that ye were all prophets!"
I thank God sometimes that I no longer want to rule the world or become the next great revivalist or to be that end times prophet. Those fantasies at one time had me tripping all over the place thinking that God was trying to force me into being a great leader by deep revelations.
Now I'm just a Civil Shephard... a forum name I picked so I'd remember to be civil and allow the Shepherd of my soul to keep me thus. Now I'm a poet not a prophet and even my tongues sound poetic and I when I do sing in a field to myself in tongues I get poetic interpretations that simmer me down or enlighten me as I commune with my God in the Spirit. It's been awhile since I've done that though... I'll be honest and say that I'm not 100% on the gift of tongues. So I don't preach it or advise it... I just share sometimes that it's what I do... sometimes.
Sort of like this forum... I do this sometimes to get my life back on track and jump to that next real life operation the Holy Spirit of I AM in my life. I don't know what that is yet... the babel in my life might need to be replaced by a better babble if you'll pardon the pun.
Cool enough. If it helps you out, then babble on, my brother, babble on. But may I recommend, keep reading. I feel personally that it is important to try not to disengage the mind in meditation, but to meditate with the mind on God's Word. Like Psalms 37, which has some wonderful promises of God, one could pick out some verse(s) or the whole chapter and meditate, think and pray over it--without the noise and effort and dare I say, distraction of practicing 'tongues'.