Whole doctrines have been wrongly built around tongues being the only evidence that you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

Most Pentecostals will tell you that speaking in tongues is the only evidence that you have received the Holy Spirit. Without speaking in tongues there is no evidence that you are filled with the Holy Spirit. This is not entirely true because you can and many have received the Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues.

The larger and more relevant issue is the tangible evidence of the power of the Holy Spirit manifesting in your living.

There is a considerable amount of confusion and outright madness on the subject of tongues. If you follow the Bible, as we all should, the confusion clears up on the subject of tongues. When the Bible talks about receiving the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, the event will be accompanied by prophecy and interpretation. Otherwise without the prophecy and interpretation they should be no public speaking in tongues.

Acts 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues andprophesying.

Therein lies the confusion, I have been in many Charismatic and Pentecostal churches where many are just babbling in tongues randomly, without anyone giving prophecy. These kind of display oftongues are out of order.
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Here is a scripture that supports my claim that all who have the Holy Spirit do NOT speak in tongues;

1 Cor 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?
 There is the verse directly from the Bible. Whole doctrines have been wrongly built around tongues being the only evidence that you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

 The Holy Spirit brings tremendous advantages. Here is additional evidence that you have been filled with the Holy Spirit.


Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

 Easy for me to see the more desirable evidence of the Holy Spirit is producing its fruit..

Talking to a Church Mother - I said to her, something sounds upside down

I had a conversation with one of the Mothers of the Church, she attends a large Baptist chuech in Cleveland, my home town. This dear saint has been faitful with tithes and offering for over 40 years.
And, one of her greatest fears is missing a tithe payment. The lady is retired and living on a fixed income and barely making ends meet. I said to her, something sounds upside down. At this point in your life the church should excuse you from tithing and provide you with supplemental income. But the church would not intiate such mercy, because they have no concept of what GOD means when He says I will have mercy and not sacrifice.

Anyone who is not ready and eager to despense mercy where needed does not know GOD. You have not the love of God in your heart, you are not saved.

Matt 12:7And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless


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I have a huge problem with hermeneutics . It leaves out the Holy Spirit. which translates - I want nothing to do with it.

I had an interesting encounter with some so called learned individuals. It was explained to me that interpretation of the Bible is done most effectively through the use of hermeneutics. I am familiar with the technique but I have a huge problem with its application. It leaves out the Holy Spirit.

 It is the Holy Spirit that distributes revelation knowledge and understanding of the Bible not some man contrived method. These people reject the leading of the Spirit in order to adhere to their deeply eroneous intellecturalism. I would take one single revelation from GOD Himself ratthan all the book knowledge in the world.

 At that time Jesus began to say, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [and I acknowledge openly and joyfully to Your honor], that You have hidden these things from the wise and clever and learned, and revealed them to babies [to the childish, untaught, and unskilled].
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 We can not talk about the Bible, GOD the Father and Christ Jesus  and then leave our the person of the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit the church does not exist.  It is not the anointing that makes things happen in the earth for GOD it is solely the work of His Precious Holy Spirit.  When you hear people say the Lord is giving you a greater anointing they are WRONG!!! God has said no such thing because God does not talk like that. Instead God may say I am giving you a greater portion of His Spirit and that Spirit is the person of the Holy Spirit.

2 Kin 2:9
 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you." And Elisha said, "Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me."

Since the Holy Spirit is GOD, then calling the work of GOD being from another source, is then taking credit away from GOD Himself.

Diminishing the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church for man made processes is also sinful, it is the practice of idolatry. It is the Holy Spirit that defines how the church is governed.
For example;

1 Cor 12:28
So God has appointed some in the church [for His own use]: first apostles (special messengers); second prophets (inspired preachers and expounders); third teachers; then wonder-workers; then those with ability to heal the sick; helpers; administrators; [speakers in] different (unknown) tongues.

Now who are you to change GOD's appointments.

Finally please realize it is the Hply Spirit that represents GOD in the earth and we are admonished , we are compelled to follow His lead.  

1 Cor 2:10 Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny].

I just realized that I have a huge problem with anyone at all that leaves out the GOD's Holy Spirit.  I want nothing to do with thise people.

Your shut off valve to salvation

To deny the work of the Holy Spirit among men is your shut off valve to salvation. Without the work of the Holy Spirit there is no salvation period. Your denial of the presence and operation of GOD in the earth is recognized in Heaven as the unforgivable or eternal sin.

Mark 3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--

The Bible warns us against people who have a form of Godliness but at the same time deny His power. We are warned to say away from such people. If the presence and work of the Holy Spirit is denied you have denied GOD Himself. 

Being Born Again is the work of the Holy Spirit.  Unless you are Born Again you are not saved. Therefore if you deny the operation of the Holy Spirit you can never be saved because you have just dismissed the only means we have for entrance into Heaven. This is why GOD calls blaspheme of the Holy Spirit an eternal sin.

Titus 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit

The woman was made for man and not the man for the woman so how can your views be as weighty as your husbands?

The word 'submissive' is very much a bad word in the minds of women who declare themselves strong personalities " I am a strong black woman". What this statement really means is that I will not submit to a man's authority in the home. Thoughts are, my views are as equally important as my husbands and should be respected. Trouble is this position is in conflict with the Bible. The woman was made for man and not the man for the woman, so how can your views be as weighty as your husbands?


 ‎1 Cor 11:3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Matriarchal leadership in the home is even more proof the Apostasy is with us . Because it is the exact opposite of what GOD determines to represent His authority in the home. Authority is not based on stature, intelligence, a strong personality or otherwise, or even wealth. Leadership GOD's way is based on appointment.

Cracks in our earthenware, the flesh is just a jar of clay, get over it.

Most of us from a human perspective and not from a spiritual perspective, hate for our vulnerable side to be exposed because we may be liable to harm. God exposes our vulnerable side on purpose for the express goal of making us invulnerable in HIM. Those things we deem makes us weak is really the source, the portal of GOD's power

You've been set up to receive a blessing because in our weaknesses His strength is perfected..

This phenomena causing and revealing our defects should not at all be surprising since the weaknesses are simply cracks in our earthenware, the flesh is just a jar of clay. No matter how much we dress up our earthen dwelling it still fails under pressure.

Oh the wisdom of GOD is unfathomable, His ways His purposes are beyond tracing out.

Just like God to put His Spirit is in a container not able to support it's contents and therefore the weakness of the container is exposed and the contents therefore revealed!! Emphasis is then on the CONTENTS and not on the vessel.


2 Cor 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;


Yes one day our earthenware will be dismissed for a heavenly container, one suited to hold the contents for eternity!!!!  Aren't you glad about that!!!

 Oh  We Give YOU Praise Jesus!!!


2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Cor 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,

"He makes my feet like hinds' feet", - because of Jesus we always land on our feet.

‎2 Sam 22:34 "He makes my feet like hinds' feet, 
And sets me on my high places. hallelujah !!! 

It is so wonderful to have feet like the hind. No matter what mountains we face in life we remain sure footed .

There is no fear in the hind as he leaps across the difficult terrain. And like the hind, in the midst of all these things we are more than conquerors over the mountains in our lives. .
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Hab 3:19 The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds' feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!

Yes and Amen!!! These abilities are ours through the sacrfice  of our Lord Jesus on the cross and delivered to us through the precious Holy Spirit. No matter what the world throws at you, YOU WIN.


John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]


That's right my brothers and sisters because of Jesus we always land on our feet.

I realized that you can not obtain eternal life without going through the birth canal.

Perhaps my stand for Jesus is because I fear GOD so very much. Once I was complaining to the Lord about why I was in such a time of extreme pressure. In my way of thinking I could be doing so much better if the Lord would remove all this pressure from my life, I would be fine. In an instant of time, in a vision, GOD showed me what would happen if the pressure was removed. I then repented, I had no further complaint  I realized that you can not obtain eternal life without going through the birth canal.

Matt 7:14 But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it

With the Holy Spirit you eat the Bible up like candy.

One of the benefits of being filled with the Holy Spirit is that you are then enabled tp appreciate spiritual things. Without the Holy Spirit, spiritual things seem to be mere nonsense to you.

 1 Cor 2:14 But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.

When you are not spirit filled reading the Bible is a very laborous task and very difficult to understand but with the Holy Spirit you eat the Bible up like candy.

1 Cor 2:15 But the spiritual man tries all things,he examines, investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all things..........

If you have trouble undersanding the Bible and or if  you have little desire to even read the Bible then chances are high that you are not spirit filled.

They call GOD the creator because they know not GOD and they think that description covers it all

Who is Jesus?


Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

When unsaved people talk about GOD that call Him the creator. They call GOD the creator because they know not GOD and they think that description covers it all. If they knew GOD then they would call the creator by His name. Jesus is the name of the creator, there is no one else. Yes the same Jesus who left heaven and came to earth to die on the cross for me and you.


Phil 2:6 Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained,


Phil 2:7 But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being.


Phil 2:8 And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!


Since we know Jesus we have the privilege of letting everyone else know as well.