Subject: Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? |
Bible Note: "Satan does not get interfere with my prayer, for I am focused on my God. If you pray in a tongue, your mind is unfruitful ... so how do you know (using your mind) if Satan is intruting?" You mean to the best of your ability, correct. You being 'totally focused' is untrue. You aren't capable in your humanity to do that. Too much interferes with what we'd like to do, i.e., cares of life and pressures.. Re-read Roms 7 and 8 again, for the first time. ---------------------------- At Pentecost, Peter spoke only to the Jews ... therefore, it applies to them. Their children are Jews, too. Gentile belivers are not children of Jewish belivers ... they are children of God. And who are the children of God but the promised seed of Abraham. i.e., all those in Christ? Are you not a child of God? Is that what you are saying? ----------------------------- "The "language" spoken in some churches was not copied by Satan ... but, the church copied it. I have posted this several times." ---Really? I should like to have been around when you posted it serveral times. Tell me what I missed that is, no doubt, very wrong. ------------------------------------ "Moreover, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to do a linguistic study on the "language" ... if not, is it just babbling?" Wrong again! That "babbling" you speak of has been understood by the specific hearer to whom the word OF GOD was spoken. I personally know of too many instances where this is true. Even to my myself has the word of God come that I completely understood though the speaker of that word had no understanding at all....sometimes even to whom it was meant for. So you see the one who speaks is the yielded one in obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading and prompting. It's not the speakers business to know what the word is or to whom it is meant for except as the Holy Spirit permits. So I would be REAL CAREFUL as to what I attribute to Satan. I have had my mail read to me many times. I also know from a brother who couldn't write his own name 'intellectually', who gave a prophetic utterance in an unknown tongue in a congregation of 5-600 that was received by the hearer clear across the room it was meant for as something spoken to him in German. He understood it, yet could not speak German himself. ......Unknown tongues to both. So the one who prays in the Spirit doesn't need to know what the Spirit is saying and the hearer, well he just has to "hear". Excerising yourself in the Spirit of God should take place after you have thanked Him for the priviledge, made your petitions, and then begin to worship Him in adoration/praise and thanksgiving with the mind and with tongues, 'praying in or 'with' the Spirit'. Remember your needs are already known to Him. |