Seven Vital Steps to Receiving the Holy Spirit by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: miracles, tongues, Bible, Christ, Seven Vital Steps to Receiving the Holy Spirit, Jesus, Holy Spirit, signs, Baptism, wonders
Published: 2011-09-30T10:52:24+00:00

He took me by the arm and led me into my brother's room.

He walked over to the bed and jerked the sheet back. When he did, my brother's eyes opened, and the doctor saw that he was breathing. The doctor began to stutter, "Why, you know something I did not know." He was astonished, and he kept saying over and over, "He is alive, isn't he?"

In my dream, I saw my brother rise from the bed, and he was well. That, you see, was what I had been praying about.

In August, we returned to Texas. Just as I finished parking the trailer, my brother came up to me. He said, "I almost died while you were gone."

I answered, "Yes, I know."

He asked if Mother had told me. I told him I had not talked to anyone—I had just come in—and no one had written me anything.

Then he asked, "How did you know I nearly died?" I told him how he had taken sick in the night and all about it. He assured me it had happened just as I said. He said he had been unconscious for about 40 minutes, and the doctors thought he was dead. In fact, they had pronounced him dead.

Friends, I had no means of communication in my trailer—not even a telephone. But, praise God, this is God's original communications system! Yes, it is scriptural, and it is biblical.

All of us should pray in tongues, because then we can pray for things we know nothing about.

Reason 8—Praying in tongues gives spiritual refreshing.

Isaiah 28:11,12 says, "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 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."

What is the rest? What is the refreshing? Speaking with 20

Seven Vital Steps to Receiving the Holy Spirit other tongues, God's Word says. "This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. ..."

Sometimes the doctor says you need a rest cure. Well, I'll tell you the best one in the world: praying in other tongues. You can take this rest cure every day, praise God! In these days of turmoil, insecurity, and perplexity, we need this rest and refreshing—and it comes by speaking with other tongues.

Reason 9—By praying in tongues, you give thanks perfectly.

1 CORINTHIANS 14:15-17

15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

Suppose you invite me to eat with you, and you say, "Brother Hagin, please give thanks." Paul said that people unlearned in spiritual matters would not be edified if I prayed in tongues, because they would not understand me.

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