Praying in Tongues — Jim Cymbala

I want to just read a few verses to you and do unusual on Tuesday. Just a little teaching here on this subject and Clear up some questions that people might have in their minds. People that are new to the Lord people that have come from different backgrounds of churches.

Pentecost and the Birth of the Church

And we drop all of that. We drop every bit of background and we just go to the Word of God and we see what the Word of God has to say. Now We know that when the day of Pentecost came in Acts 2 and the church was born.

It says that these believers who were obviously followers of Jesus Peter James John so on. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They all. When the Spirit came upon them at the beginning of a second chapter of Acts sound of a mighty rushing wind from heaven place was shaken where they were and they were all filled with the Spirit and They all began to speak in tongues in languages that they didn't know in syllables that they had no understanding of and the Greek Wording there is that they were bless you that they were giving an ecstatic utterance.

They were in an ecstasy and that's why when the people gathered together and heard them and saw their Their ecstasy the fact that they were lifted out of themselves in some wonderful way. They said these men are drunk.

They were acting a little drunk. They look drunk. Peter said these men are not drunk as you suppose, but this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel and The only reason that the languages they spoke were understood is because of the Feast of Pentecost people from all over that part of the world had come many many different languages represented and they heard Galileans fishermen tax collectors.

Speaking in languages that they knew they couldn't know and praising God in their home language. So it would be like if somebody came here from Greece or somebody came here from Nigeria and one of the tongues of Nigeria was spoken by myself or Karen in an ecstasy and I was praising God in the Nigerian tongue.

That person would say what in the world? He's no Nigerian. That boy is Polish. He doesn't know he doesn't know anything about Nigeria so that's what happened then now in the 10th chapter of the book of Acts when Peter went to Cornelius's house to bring the gospel for the first time to the Gentiles.

While Peter was preaching a message in Cornelius's house and Cornelius's relatives and and and servants were all there. The Holy Spirit fell on everyone who was listening to the word just like I'm talking now the Holy Spirit just came with nobody orchestrating anything and They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and how did Peter know that and the men that were with them because they too began to Speak in these languages that they didn't know in this ecstasy in these tongues.

In the 19th chapter of the book of Acts Paul goes into Ephesus. And he meets some believers and he says have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed and they had been instructed. It seems like and led to the Lord by Apollos.

But they didn't know any of the baptism except John's baptism and Paul said John's baptism John the Baptist that's a baptism of repentance of turning from sin and turning to God which is what repentance means two turnings turning from sin turning to God.

But Jesus talked about a baptism of the Holy Spirit. So he baptized them because they were Christians. He baptized them properly in the name of the Lord and when they came out of the water He laid hands on them and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and again They began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them this strange ecstatic ability.

Speaking in Tongues in the New Testament

Now in the early church, there's no question that Speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Holy Spirit were present and the Subject is speaking in tongues. Which I want to just address tonight and keep it in its proper perspective because it's my conviction that in some churches too much is made of speaking in tongues and in other circles speaking of tongues is not only diminished and Negated but it's denied.

Which is a very dangerous thing because there's no scripture verse in the Bible that clearly says Take out by the way, hold paragraphs and chapters of the Bible and they're not meant for you when you read it 2 ,000 years later.

There's no verse to do no verse in the Bible that says part of the New Testament will be taken away. Now part of the Old Testament We know is done away with. Like the food prohibitions of eating pork and certain shellfish and other things and wearing garments of mixed fabrics and A lot of things like that.

They're done away with and Jesus proclaimed them all Clean that those foods in the New Covenant. But there's no part of the New Testament where there's a verse in the New Testament that says oh by the way What I'm writing to you now is only good for about a hundred or two hundred years.

No one in the world would there's no verse that clearly says that and we have to be careful. Not only did not add to scriptures, but what's the other warning not to take away because there's a curse curse.

It is anyone who takes away or adds that's one of the last thoughts in the book of Revelation, right? Curse it is anyone who takes away or adds so. That the subject of speaking in tongues, which we'll see what it is is in some places becomes everything.

Which it's not everything in the New Testament. It has a certain place in the New Testament, but in some churches which accent Pentecostal distinct distinctives as they call them they have made it everything and It's just a byword and it's it's it's it's abused.

In other places and even though it's in the Bible you can abuse things in the Bible. On the other side there are people who say that is not for today. That cannot happen. In fact, some well-known Bible teachers on the radio say that anyone who speaks in tongues is really demon-possessed.

Which is rather dangerous talk I would say especially when you don't know what you're talking about so. So let's just let's just read a couple verses and define what we're talking about. I gave you a little brief background, but this is unusual for Tuesday, but let's see where the Lord will take us with this follow the way of love and Eagerly desire spiritual gifts.

Especially the gift of prophecy. For anyone who speaks in a tongue Does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him. He utters mysteries with his spirit or possibly by the Spirit capital s.

It's hard to know from the Greek if it's he utters mysteries with his own human spirit or by the Spirit. So the Amplified Bible has something like this. He utters mysteries by his spirit motivated and activated by the Holy Spirit.

But Everyone who prophesies speaks in the language of the people but under inspiration. Speaks to men and women for their strengthening their encouragement and their comfort. For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God.

Indeed no one understands him he utters mysteries with his spirit. You know it's a wonder anybody believes in speaking in tongues the real genuine article. I I saw a video I think that spoke staff and some of the other pastors thought of some charismatic teachers well-known charismatic teachers who on television whatnot.

Around the country and we saw a video of two of them In front of about a couple thousand people who were laughing hilariously and they pretend they pretended I'll say that with no fear of being judged.

They pretended to be speaking in tongues to each other and They told jokes to one another in tongues on the video that I saw Pastor Hammond, did you see that video your bear witness festival except you saw that am I exaggerating no?

They told jokes and then the other one would laugh and speak back in tongues. Well. Not only is that stupid. Not only is that blasphemous it violates Scripture. The person who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to another person.

They speak to God. Okay. So the first thing we learn here is Paul is talking. I don't want you to be ignorant about Spiritual gifts. I want you to eagerly desire and the word gift is not in the Greek.

There's just one word which we could translate spiritual. The translators the King James and others have put the word in gift. I Don't want you to be ignorant about these things that the Holy Spirit can put in a person's life.

Life which helps them in their walk with God and helps them to be a blessing and helps them in their own. Building up themselves in the faith. I don't want you to be ignorant about them in fact I want you to eagerly desire Spiritual gifts pursue love that's the most important thing because without love you can have all the gifts and you're nothing you're just a zero.

But I want you to eagerly desire these spirituals and he contrasts two of them. And he says that one is for self-edification Basically and the other one is for building up the church. What's building up the church.

Well Prophecies speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit through words of encouragement instruction teaching that builds up the church. And he said as good as speaking in tongues is I want you more.

To pray that God will give you the ability to speak in English in our case. So that you can build up people in their walk with God because if you speak in tongues to them They won't understand one thing.

Because you're speaking to God. You're speaking a mystery, and you're speaking with your spirit to God so his contrast here is that the person who prophesies is superior and Is greater than the person who merely speaks in tongues.

Why? Because while tongues is valid and builds you up it doesn't bless other people and God is so interested in building about the people that he says yes speak in tongues. But pray that you could say something in English in fact Paul says later.

I would rather say five words in the language of the people. I would rather speak Five intelligible words to instruct others than 10 ,000 words in the tongue. So to have a lot of tongues speaking in a meeting does not make it a spiritual meeting.

Because nobody understands what's going on. In fact Paul says in another place if everybody speaks in tongues and the stranger comes in what will they say? Loco. Loco you know what loco means. Will they not say listen.

So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues and some who don't understand or some? Unbelievers come in will they not say that you're out of your mind so. The first thing we learn here is that speaking in tongues is not as important as prophesying.

Why. Because when you prophesy you speak to other people's blessing and God wants to make us a blessing? So then what part does speaking in tongues have. Why was that you almost in every case? It's it's it's either implied or it's obvious in the New Testament where people were filled with the Holy Spirit in a New Testament way.

They spoke in tongues. They went into this ecstasy which by the way isn't that kind of humiliating. Isn't that one of the reasons? Because we're so proud and uptight. We don't want to let go and who would want anybody to come in and say those people are drunk.

We would today say now that can't be of God they thought we were drunk. Well it happened and God did it. They thought they were drunk. So We learn that communion with God is what speaking in tongues is about.

It's about uttering mysteries with your spirit. But it takes the gifting of the Holy Spirit to be able to do that. Karen cannot do that unless God the Holy Spirit Helps her to be able to pray that way and commune that way just like God the Holy Spirit can help somebody to prophesy and That means much more than just standing and sharing what's on your heart.

That's not prophecy. Now we learn next listen he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself or herself. You know in the New Testament when it uses the male pronoun we could Apply the female too because he's writing to the church he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.

But he who prophesies edifies the church. So now we learn another thing. I Would like every one of you to speak in tongues. Tongues must be speaking in tongues must be a pretty good blessing. If Paul would say I want every one of you to speak in tongues.

Why. Because he who speaks in a tongue and learns to pray by the help of the Holy Spirit it by in the spirit. Edifies themselves builds them that word means build themselves up makes themselves stronger in God.

So he says I want every one of you to speak and be able to pray and build yourself up in tongues. But I would rather have you prophesy he who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues. Unless he interprets so that the church may be edified.

Tongues, Interpretation, and Edification

So now we learn something else about tongue. Sometimes a message in tongues interrupts the meeting and it's proper because someone has the interpretation of that tongue in the language of the people and now the church will be blessed.

And the rule if you hold this microphone and you're called to be a leader like pastor Torres and the rest of us are the rule is. Any manifestation anybody carrying on in any way that draws attention to them.

I have to try to make the judgment. Is this blessing the church? Not is it blessing them? If you want to just bless yourself go home and get blessed. But in a public meeting. Anything that's going to stop the meeting and draw attention has to bless everyone.

How many followers say amen? So people carrying on and saying well our sister got a blessing the Holy Ghost is on her. If it doesn't bless the church is out of order because everything must be done to edification.

So when I was growing up think of the things the terrible things I saw done in the name of the Holy Spirit. That did not bless anyone that confused people. Five sinners didn't get baptized and saved in a whole year.

Why. Because if they walked in the church. They thought everybody was crazy, but the church defended that and said well both of this those old sinners, but praise God. We're having church. Well if the Holy Spirit is really moving.

You just don't have church sinners get saved come on. How many say amen sinners get saved in other words? There's a difference between Pentecostal culture and Pentecostal power. White Pentecostal church culture black Pentecostal church West Indian Church the Pentecostal culture is is is as old as 40 50 60 70 years.

But Jesus said you'll know a tree by its fruit. So no matter what the manifestation or noise level is if people don't get saved and the people don't get built up. It's not the Holy Spirit working the way.

God wants it to work because Paul says let everything be done to edification. So now we learn that the person who does pray in the spirit. Who goes into this ecstasy and prays with his spirit? Motivated and Activated and aroused by the Holy Spirit.

That person even though their mind does not understand what's happening. They are being built up and getting stronger in God even as they're praying and worshiping in the spirit in tongues. You say well brother.

I don't believe that I grew up well again. How you grew up how I grew up. You might have seen errors on one side. I saw errors on another side, but listen to what the Word of God says. For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue in a meeting should pray that he may interpret what he says.

For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that even interpret what he says in other words if you're going to draw Attention to yourself by speaking in another language you better pray that you interpret what you said otherwise.

How will the church be blessed? How will anybody be built up how will anybody know what's happening? You'll say all the Holy Ghost will show them. No that's not found in the Bible has to be interpreted.

A Personal Experience of Tongues and Interpretation

That's the first way that God ever used me in the gift of the Holy Spirit. I was in college and I started to seek after God and I started to have these ambivalent feelings about my whole What I was doing and what I thought my life was about which was playing basketball and captaining a basketball team.

And it began to seem so stupid and shallow to me at times. And I would be in a church right here in Brooklyn when I was home for the weekend I was sitting in services and then suddenly for I think a whole summer like the entire June July August.

Very regularly I would be sitting in the third or fourth row of the service and the Holy Spirit would begin to arouse my spirit. Till I thought that my My heart would beat out of my chest and at a certain pause I Would speak in an unknown tongue and someone else in the auditorium would have the translation Interpretation of what I said, I remember the first time it happened to me.

I thought I would die. My heart was pounding my hands were sweating because I knew this was God. I could never work myself up into such a thing and why would I want to and then to interrupt a speaker?

Who I respected at the impossible to do. I would never do that and someone would interpret the the content of what I was saying and That is according to the scripture one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.

The another gift is the interpretation of the tongues and why is the interpretation important. Because otherwise the church won't be blessed. God wants you to come here and not see nonsense going on. God wants you to come here and be built up and edified and blessed.

How many say amen. Let's put our hands together and thank God for his concern for us so so no matter what you've seen or heard or what mother Williams did in the church where you were growing up or Mother whoever and I had mother Brown in the church.

I grew up in and whatever. Whatever you saw you don't go by what you saw you go by the Bible because one of the saddest things is there are many churches that speak the most in tongues and believe in this and believe that God can Heal and they don't affect their community to sense.

But they cover it up by saying well those dead old sinners, but we're having church. We're on fire for God. I Was in I've been in services where they would have Jericho marches at the end of the service anyone ever been in a Jericho March.

Oh, yeah, we all join hands together pastor. We're you ever in a Jericho March Helen. We ever in Jericho March. Pastor Johnson. Yeah, I knew you've been in Jericho March and we would march around the church and I was young and that would embarrass me.

What was I marching for everyone you were in Jericho March this and Some people then in certain churches would be twitching and jerking and shaking. Supposedly on the Holy Spirit. Distracting everything doing things you would never dream of Jesus doing or Paul doing never would say in the Bible.

Some people would just be flipping and flopping back and forth. Sometimes people would get carried away and run. I've been in services right past the victor right where where women would actually be Doing inappropriate things with their body and and their clothes becoming disheveled it was it was a shame and Throw themselves in such a way on the floor that women would come with the coats real quick and then and and the Blankets, did you have blankets in your church?

Oh, we had a lot of blankets in one of the churches I grew up and there was a sister Kelly who supposedly under the Spirit would give massages to people at the altar. That's the truth as God is my witness.

I Never liked her to even get near me all kinds of things under the Spirit. But now listen now listen, let's let's hear it from the Word of God. Listen. For if I pray in a tongue my spirit prays. But my mind is unfruitful.

Praying in the Spirit and Singing in the Spirit

Brothers if you'd play let it breathe on me, but if I pray. If I pray in a tongue my spirit prays. But my mind is unfruitful. What does that tell us? That there's more to Jim Simba than just his mind and his understanding right now.

I am talking. I am totally in control of what I'm saying. And I understand what I'm saying, and I hope you understand what I'm saying. But when you pray in a tongue in the Holy Ghost aroused by the Holy Spirit God bypasses your mind.

So for people who worship their intellect and never want to be out of quote Control in that sense. This is a real stumbling block. But this is what the Bible says the man or woman who prays with the tongue prays with their spirit.

But their mind is unfruitful. Does not know what they're praying. But they're praying aroused and led by the Holy Spirit and it's going to build them up for he who prays in an unknown tongue builds themselves up and Unless the Holy Spirit would give you an interpretation you would not even know.

You would not even know what you were praying. Paul says because this is mostly for a home although in a prayer meeting it would be proper at certain times. Paul says I Speak in tongues more than all of you and the construction of the Greek is I speak in tongues men more than all of you.

Put together nothing more than any one of you if you added up all that you speak in tongues. I speak in tongues more than all of you put together, but in a meeting I'd rather speak five words. Than 10 ,000 words just jabbering when nobody knows what you're saying.

So do you see how this subject of tongues has been abused on both sides? Some people make it everything and it isn't everything but it is very precious. Some people have made it nothing. And have even denied that that part of the scripture applies today or that God can heal.

But how many know Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever he's never changed so that means Paul goes on to say this so what will I do he says at times? I will pray with my spirit aroused by the Holy Ghost even though my mind doesn't know how I'm praying.

Other times I will pray with my understanding. I will pray this way father. We love you, and we praise you and father. We want more of you in our lives, and we want you to bless the Brooklyn tabernacle.

We want you to make our lives more fruitful. See I understand everything I'm saying. Paul says I will pray that way sometimes. But I will also pray sometimes by my spirit. Remember what Jesus said the father seeks those who will worship him.

See God is a spirit so the deepest communication you can have with God is not your mouth or your mind. Your spirit. Paul goes on to say and I will sing with the understanding. I will I will sing like Karen.

I will sing. I won't sing as good as her. But I will sing with my understanding. I will know the words and I will say he's worthy. God's worthy. But Paul says I will also sing in the spirit. What does that mean.

I will let God the Holy Spirit give me words and melodies that I will sing praises to him. And you might say what are you singing? I don't know, but it's good because the Holy Spirit is giving me the song.

I'm not getting any amens here. What am I doing here tonight? Are you sleeping or what? Am I preaching the Word of God or what this is the Word of God. So that means there's a yielding to this is the yielding to this.

If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit and controlled by the Holy Spirit if you want to pray. How would you like to pray and in five minutes be building yourself up even though you don't even know what you're saying.

But you know, it's aroused by the Holy Spirit and then when you're praying. You will. You will be able to pray. In such a way that you will feel your faith growing because you know. The Holy Spirit is always leading you in the will of God when the Holy Spirit causes you to pray even though you're understanding.

Well, what's good? Is it if my understanding listen God understands? It's not whether you understand is whether God understands it. Oh. Well, listen you say pastor symbol, are you sure this is real. You sure this is real.

I have the same doubts you did. I grew up with more because I saw sister Kelly massaging people and all these things going on. So I had a lot of walls up because I'm I'm I'm kind of guy. I'm from Missouri.

You got to show me, you know, I saw so much of that. I said God. I have a fear of God since I was little. I'm not gonna do anything unless it's God. I'd rather die than fake one thing. My mother has that beautiful quality in her.

My mother would never fake anything. In fact, there was a woman pushing people over in the church when I was growing up and I think I've told you that and she would push people over. They would act like they got a shot.

But I knew she was pushing because she would put her foot behind their legs and she would push them like that. And I was watching this. I was about 13 or 14. And I said to my friend, this is the truth.

I said, you know what? She's got a little buzzer. You notice. She always says has a handkerchief in her hand. I think there's a wire connected the way I thought. She's running a game on us. She's got a little buzzer.

So when she hits you you feel is like that. Well, I saw my mother go up and you know, some people are easily auto suggestions. So they kind of go over, you know. But I go to those churches and I never make sense of that.

They have to have someone catch you. Why because if the person falls they say we have to have catchers. Catch it. Did you know there's a ministry in certain churches men do nothing but catch people who fall.

You don't find that much in the New Testament, but God can knock people down. He knocked me down one time. Knocked me down and out for a number of minutes, but anyway, this lady was praying for people and my mother got on the line that night and I saw her push my mother and my mother's my mother is the sweetest lady in the whole world.

And my mother would never fake anything so my mother just stood there. And the lady pressed more and then I saw her push my mother to my mother's back couldn't take it and she pushed my mother down. By the way, you don't need catches if God knocks you down.

Because God would never knock you down where you have to get eight stitches in your head. How many know God doesn't do that? Come on, let's put our hands together. Amen, amen. But that becomes a form like Catholics light candles we push people there in certain places.

They push people over or blow them over and they fall and they make like that's a big thing. But like a preacher once said it doesn't matter how you fall. It's how straight you walk when you get up. That's the sign of the Holy Spirit.

Yielding to the Holy Spirit Without Disorder

So I went to be prayed for I Got on the line when I saw what she did to my mother. I got so mad. And I was I was very mean. I was very. I was not a nice young man. My mother will tell you that she had gray hair by the time she was 35 because of me and I got on the line and I got to the front and she was all in this spooky kind of thing and I'm looking for the buzzer, but I didn't see it.

So She laid hands on me and I dug my feet in the carpet, you know. Come on, let's get this thing on right now. Come on. And I was braced and she Pushed once and then she said, oh, oh and She pushed again.

And then she started past the bird. I mean really depressed me back. And my back braced and it was me against her and I was in shape. I was playing ball. She couldn't get me over so she stepped back she said I discern an evil spirit of stubbornness in this boy.

Evil spirit my foot, you know what? It wasn't a year later. Then in a prayer meeting a man of God prayed for me. And the truth is I saw my mother get prayed for that night. And my mother went down like a ton of bricks and he just hardly even prayed for it was the strangest meeting it looked like it looked like someone had come in with a Shotgun or a machine gun and just level people there were people laying all over the place.

And my heart started to beat because I thought if my mother went down that's got to be God. Because my mother's not going to fake anything. I hate faking. You know, what happens if you fake anything you're insulting the Holy Spirit.

He doesn't need our help. He doesn't need anybody to yell in someone's ear what to say or anything like that. I Got on that line and that guy just looked at me and he put his hand toward me and all the next thing I know was 15 minutes later.

I was on my back with my voice my hands up praising God. So God can do that. God can do anything. Well, we don't want to do is make a form of it. But the thing that is Repetitious in the New Testament is speaking in tongues praying in the Holy Spirit worshiping in the spirit.

Worshiping by your spirit and not just your understanding and God says I want you desire earnestly These things that the Holy Spirit can help you do. There's an anointing that comes from the Holy Spirit that will help you to pray and you know what we know not how we ought To pray but the Holy Spirit helps us with groans too deep to be uttered.

Am I right pastor Victor? Sometimes the Holy Spirit will just give you a deep groan and in that deep groan You are saying more than if you talked with your mouth for five minutes. Because when the Holy Spirit moves you He's producing faith he's leading you into the will of God you don't have to worry how you're praying.

Personal Encouragement to Pray in the Spirit

How many times in my life Have I been discouraged and all alone in my house or driving in a car? Feeling overwhelmed, especially when I was new in the ministry and God taught me the value of praying in the Holy Spirit.

I have to say for some years. I didn't take advantage of that. But I want to be able to say to all of you I speak in tongues more than all of you put together. I I don't think I do because a lot of you are really out there in in God, but But I want to be able to pray in the Holy Ghost.

I want to be how many want to learn how to pray and by God's grace Come on, wave your hand at me. Wave your hand at me and witness to God. I want to pray in the Holy Spirit. You know, that was the time At an altar service that I saw God's hand on Pastor Johnston a lot of years ago when he just I think he when I Just first met him.

We were worshiping and waiting on God and I heard someone singing and Worshiping God in an unknown tongue. It was the most beautiful thing I ever heard and I looked and here was this handsome strong brother Worshiping God.

The Gift of Interpretation and a Call to Seek Spiritual Gifts

Well, listen, I close with this you say pastor symbol I don't know I don't know whether to believe you or what because I I'm not used to that and that you know. That scares me or I don't get it. Listen, it's not about you getting it.

It's about this God say it. Amen. Well, listen about two weeks into this summer that I've God began to deal with me about these things. I was sitting as the Lord is my holy witness. May he may judge me and strike me if I'm exaggerating this I was sitting in an aisle in a pew I'm sorry, you're blocked over here by the pulpit, but I want to sit down and reenact it and I was sitting here.

And as the meeting was going on, I just was worshiping God and suddenly the Holy Spirit came upon me. Started to arouse my spirit. But I had that feeling that this is for something for the congregation.

Someone has the interpretation at first I could never interpret all I could do like a child was at times give a message in tongues. So I'm battling with it and saying Oh God, is this you is this you. No one.

I never moved I never got agitated I never cried I never made a sound it was all inside of me. Okay, and I said God, I'm not sure if this is you God. I will God is this is and by the way before I just finished the story I want you to know that when you're when the Holy Spirit is on you you you have total control.

You can quench it. You can stop it. Anyone says I'm out of control. Don't stop me. You see someone get out of control there like this and you say hold this steady sister. I can't it's the Holy Spirit.

I can't know that's not that's not that's not God. Listen, listen. Listen, if anyone speaks in a tongue two or at the most three should speak one at a time and someone must interpret. If there is no interpreter in the church with that gift.

The speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God. God is not the author of confusion. You can't have messages in the language. Nobody knows and then no one's edified and then you have another message and no one knows what that means.

That's that might be what you saw or I saw growing up, but it's not against it's against the Bible. So here I'm sitting and saying God if this is you help me show me God. I don't want him. I don't want him.

I don't want to make a mistake. I don't want to do anything. That's not real. It's just just emotion. No, no, this can't be just the most it's not emotion. These are nothing to be emotional about. Oh.

But God, I don't want to make a mistake. Please give me a sign if this is you because this is all so new to me God. I don't want to fail God. That's the truth. That's that way I pray. The man was sitting Right over here Ministers preaching.

Man got up and went three seats over. Give that utterance in tongues right now. God wants you to give it right now and sat back down. How do you think I felt God saw the struggle of a young man. Saw my sincerity so how weak I was.

And send somebody from three seats away to say something that would be totally impossible to know nobody could know it. But God knows all things. Isn't he wonderful? Let's put our hands up in the air.