Hello, we're pastors George
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in tongues and interpret in English what you pray? - What? - Yes. - We can? - We can. - Oh, dear sir. I must know more. - Stay tuned
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office for more information. Praise God, Terri. I'm excited about
this program today. We've been spending the last
two weeks talking about the benefits, the value of
speaking with other tongues. This reason here, believers
should pray in other tongues because we can interpret
what we pray in the Spirit. - Yeah, that's probably
mind-boggling to some people. In fact, just the fact that
there is purpose for tongues and that you can name what they
are, or at least some of them, who knows what they all are. The scope of praying in tongues
is as deep and high and wide and broad as God Himself. Hallelujah. - Yeah. - But it is really
an astounding thing because it's all by the Spirit
and it's by faith. - Right. The scripture that we use for
that is First Corinthians 14:13, "Wherefore let him that speaks
in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." - Yeah, I think that
means that not everything needs to be interpreted. - Right. - Not everything
needs to be, but you pray, and if this is something where
interpretation is needed, or to pray about
an interpretation, then He'll give it to you. - Yeah. - Would you say that
was right? - I would say that in the
interpretation of it, you think about people
that interpret in languages, for instance when we've
gone to different countries. I remember we went to
France together one time and we had people who would
interpret for us. We would speak out
something in English and they would interpret it so
the people could understand. Well, you pray out something
in the Spirit in tongues, and you're able to interpret
that to where you understand what is being said,
what the Lord is saying. - The best interpreters are
not ones who translate. Translating is a word-for-word
and that's not what happens with this. That's why interpretation
is, "What was He saying? What was the revelation
that was presented? What was touched on?" And so a great interpreter,
like when we're in France, they don't just hit
it, just the words, but the essence of
what's being said, the meaning that's behind it. And they say it in a way
that the people grasp it in their understanding and
not just get the words that then wouldn't
make sense to them. - Yeah. I remember an example
of that, Terri was... We been working here 45 years. Mama said there'd
be days like that. Mama said. But days where you feel
like you want to quit. You just want to leave and quit. I know many years ago, even
before pastoring the church, there were days that I'd
drive out the property here, there's a particular road that
goes from the property out to the street at the upper
part of the property, it'd be on a Friday,
and I'd say to myself, I'm leaving and I'm
never coming back. I'm not coming back. I'm done. I'm through. And that would give me some kind
of a little temporary relief for just a moment, to say
that I'm not coming back, but I would show
up back on Monday. But there was a time going
through some pretty rough stuff, and I can remember taking a
day when I just felt like I needed to quit. I really did. I thought I needed to quit. So I went out and I prayed in-- - Quit was on the inside of you. - Yeah, it was. - I remember that day. - It was right there and I
went out for a drive, and it took me
several hours on this drive. I had no destination in mind. I just drove until I drove
and I drove, and I drove, praying in tongues
all that time. And I can remember I was praying
in the Spirit and I'd actually turned around to come home. And right in the middle of that,
I got an interpretation of what I was praying
out in the Spirit. And the interpretation was:
"Don't quit." That's it. - But here's the really
wonderful thing about that. That clearly wasn't
a translation. You prayed for hour, hour
and a half, two hours, I don't know, that day. - Uh-uh. - Praying in tongues. So it clearly wasn't
a translation. You got two words: don't quit. However, over the course of the
next several weeks and months, and maybe even up to this
day, we're seeing how that "don't quit" word touched
so many things, so many people. You came home and
said that to me. And when you said it to me, the "don't quit" came
up inside of me. I hung on to your don't quit. And that word then began to... There was an empowerment in it. - Yeah. - So the interpretation was
not only in the words that you understood
and you knew, but the interpretation also
became the walking it out, the actions to take. If you're not going to
quit, then what do you do? If you're not going to
quit, what do you say? And the interpretation of that,
of course we didn't quit praying in tongues. We prayed in tongues,
prayed in tongues. - Oh, yeah. - Over quite a bit. And through all that, the
interpretation came as answers. They came as solutions. They came as scriptures
to go to, things to pray, things to confess,
corrections to make. In that sense, when
you look back on it, that was some time ago now,
but I think about that. Aren't you glad that you
aren't going to have to stand in front of Jesus and Him ask
you, "Why'd you quit?" - Why'd you quit, yeah. - Why'd you quit? - Yeah. - But you took the
time to pray in the Spirit and you didn't quit. And here you are. - I remember the time, we talked about that
this morning, I think. We talked about
the Dodge Caravan. First Dodge Caravan
that came out. - Very first one. - We had it, and our
kids were small. Jeremy and Aubrey were
small at the time. I remember we had that
car for quite some time and we were trying to sell it
and we couldn't sell it. - It wouldn't sell. - It would not sell. - There wasn't
anything wrong with it. - So we got the
kids together with us and we took some time to
pray over it and we
prayed in the Spirit. And we prayed in the
Spirit for a while. And then all of a sudden,
Jeremy who was at that time, probably how old? 12, 11? - Maybe a little
bit older, 13, maybe somewhere right in there. Aubrey, six or seven years
old, somewhere in there. - Yeah. So we're praying in the Spirit
and Jeremy opens his mouth and he said, "I believe we
need to sow this car into
the school." - Yeah, to the Christian
school they were attending. - To the Christian school
that they were attending. And Terri and I looked at
each other like, "Whoa, the voice of the Lord just came
out of this 13-year-old." - I know. Yeah. And Lake Country Christian
School was very glad to get-- - Yes, they were. - ... that van. - Yes, they were. - And they needed it. But the most important thing
was too, not only, okay, it was a great seed and we sowed
it and the Lord provided us another car and God's blessing. But in the presence of that,
our children were learning the flow of tongues and
interpretation. And it wasn't, a lot of times
people miss the supernatural looking for the spectacular,
and it wasn't spectacular. It had spectacular
results, but he just said, "I believe we're supposed
to give that van." But the force when he
said it was... - Yeah. - Amen, amen. - I remember,
Terri, during a convention, Oral Roberts spoke at one of
our Believers' conventions and the message that he was
preaching at the time was the interpretation
of tongues. - Yeah, and how to
interpret. - And how to do it. And he had us all stand one day
during this convention message, and he had us pray
in the Spirit. And then he said, "Now,
you need to write down what you just
interpreted from that." He was actually schooling
us in the Spirit. - In interpretation. - In the interpretation. - We have scripture, of course, for all of these things. First Corinthians was
14:15 we referred to, I believe yesterday. "I will pray with my Spirit,
by the Holy Spirit that is within me." So all of this is a
work of the Holy Spirit. And when we speak in
tongues, the Holy Spirit is lifting that to God, but also the Holy Spirit
then is answering from God back to us. And Jesus said
that in John 16:13, "He will reveal what He
hears from the Father." He's the revealer. The Holy Spirit is the revealer,
and you need to know that. Angels are not the revealers
unless on occasion God chooses to do that, but
that's not your choice, nor is that what you seek. The Holy Spirit is the revealer
to the church of God and His Word. And there's something else I
want to point out real quick. So tongues, interpretation
and prophecy all belong to the believer. It's all in First
Corinthians 14. Now, these Corinthians had
gotten it so out of hand, they were going wild and
crazy with it in ways that didn't even make sense. But then in First
Corinthians 12, it also talks about the gift
of tongues and in gift of interpretation, those
are ministry gifts. In other words, like there's
a lady in our church. We love Dolly Raleigh. Dolly, quite often
George, she has a word. - Yeah. - And she'll come
up and she'll raise her hand and we'll recognize her. And she'll give out
a word in tongues. Sometimes she has
an interpretation. Sometimes her husband does. Sometimes you call
someone else up to come. That is a ministry
gift in operation. - Right, right. - I've seen that
sometimes, it happens between you and I. I've seen it with
husbands and wives and other ministry partners. That's not what this is
referring to in First Corinthians 14. This is talking about
the personal operation, and Paul said, "I would
that you all prophesied, unless you have tongues and
interpretation." In other words, those are equal, but we can
expect all three of those to have a place in every
believer's life. - Right. - Every believer's life. The primary one is praying in
other tongues because it's so diverse in its purpose,
but the interpretation and the ability to receive
interpretation by faith is also a part of the receiver. - Right. - I mean, of the believers
receiving by faith. Oh see, don't want to
lose too much time here. This interpretation,
where does it come from? It comes from the
Spirit upwards. And you do this a lot. You pray in tongues and you
begin to recognize what's coming up and
out of your spirit and what's coming just a
product of your mind. What's coming out of
your spirit to your mind. What's speaking to
your mind answers, versus your mind
telling you an answer. There's a big difference. So this, of the Spirit, and it
shouldn't be so foreign to us because it's Him and He's
abiding there with us. And we've seen interpretation
come lots of different ways. - Yeah, there've been
times when, I'm thinking right now about a
particular group of people that I was addressing and we
were getting ready to have a major, major meeting. I got up before them and I said,
"I want us to pray in tongues for a little while here. And then this day, the
outcome of this day, will be the interpretation of
what we pray in the Spirit." - I remember that. That was very critical moment. - Yeah. - I think we could tell you
were chairman of the board at Oral Roberts
University. Some people don't
know you did that, but there was a critical moment,
there were some things in need and we had to have
some answers that day. - Yeah. - There was no
alternative. We had to have it. - Yeah. - Go ahead now. - Anyway, so we prayed
in the Spirit. And later on in that day, we
had not only answers that came to us, but we had major financial
donations that were given to the university that were
so needed that day. It was an interpretation
that took place, and it doesn't have
to be at the moment. You can pray in the Spirit and
the interpretation can come later. It can come as a spoken word
or an idea or a concept or an insight into something. There are different ways that
those interpretations can come, but they will come. - Let's say you had a
job interview. Okay? Whether you're interviewing
someone or you are the one being interviewed, to pray in other tongues
for the right words, you don't know what questions
you're going to be asked and you pray in tongues and you
sit across the desk from someone and they're asking you questions
and the answers come and you think, "Wow, wow. That came out a lot better
than I could've ever thought." Interpretation. - Right. - So interpretation has
many expressions, but the most,
I think there's one too, we talked yesterday
about giving thanks well, and that praising in
other tongues and letting interpretation
come and also, Lord. Lord? George! - Yes? (laughs) - Ephesians 5:18-19. "Don't be drunk with the
wine, that's debauchery, but ever be filled
with the Spirit, speaking to one
another in Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs and
making melody in your heart to the Lord." And think about
how ministering Psalms to the Lord and ministering
Psalms that you could hear. I love that when it
happens on the platform. And you know, it might not be
something you come back to, it might not make the song book
forever, but what if it did? And it's just coming
out of your heart. Can we do that for a
moment, just do that? - Uh-uh. - Lord, (speaking in tongues) Lord, across my spirit,
waves and sounds roll. I hear the rumble. Though hear the rumble from my
spirit down until it touches and reaches my soul. I hear the sound of Your
voice as it crashes over me, wave after wave, after
wave, of Your presence that brings Your glory. Oh, Master, oh, Savior. Oh, Ruler and King of my heart. How grateful I am. How thrilled I am to know that
in Your kingdom, I have a part. Wow! - Yeah. - To express something like
that, unthought, unplanned, but just practiced
by praying in the Spirit and letting interpretation. And you do it by yourself. And so what if it doesn't
come out quite right? It doesn't done rhyme. It's not about rhyming, but
it's about finding words, words that you couldn't find. And in finding words,
you find places in God. And in finding words, you sense
Him and you sense things about Him, and even sense
things about yourself that you didn't know were there. - By faith, I receive the
interpretation of what I've prayed in
the Spirit, Lord, for the things that are
needed in my household, the answers that I need and
the direction that I need. I take it by faith. I reach out in speaking in
tongues and then pull it. I pull it to me by
faith in Jesus' name. - Yeah, in praying that. And then you ask
for interpretation. Then sometimes you need to keep
praying in the Spirit until you... It's like, oh, adjusting your
tuner, radio or television, you're trying to
get it just right. And you keep praying in the
Spirit until that interpretation comes or you know that it will. - Yeah, so do you want to
cover these last two? We've got two more to go. - Yeah, okay. - Just a few more
minutes. - Right. - Got a long way to go and a
little time to get there. - Yeah. Reason number 10,
praying in tongues, is according to the perfect
will of God, Romans 8:27, it says that "praying
in the Spirit, according to the will of God." - So praying in the Holy
Ghost is praying the
perfect will of God. - Yeah. He's not going to lead you to
pray something that's off. - Yeah. - If you pray only in your
known language, you can ask for things,
and Bible says you ask
and receive not because you asked amiss:
wrong motive, wrong aspect, without faith. But praying in tongues, you're
touching on the things you need in the perfect will of God. - Praying out the
perfect will of God. - And not just for yourself,
but intercessory prayer. It's a major intercessory
tool, to be able to pray and intercede for people
things you don't know, but to pray out
the perfect will. Boy, if you're the mother
or a father of a teenager, you need to pray in tongues. Telling you right now, you've
got to pray in tongues. - And not machine-gun
tongues or fear tongues. - Yeah, don't pray in
tongues. - No crazy tongues but just
praying in the spirit by faith. - Yeah, over your
children. Praying in tongues
over your finances, praying in tongues over
all kinds of things. And then look for
that interpretation. That came to me one
day at an investment. Just driving along, praying
in tongues over money, and it just strongly came
to me in that prayer time, "Invest in such and
such." And I did. As it turns out, I
wished I'd invested more. It turned out okay. - Yeah. There was a man that Brother
Hagin talks about that whenever he had an
investment opportunity, he'd go into his prayer closet. He'd pray in the Spirit. He'd get the interpretation. And that particular
man didn't miss it. - No, he said he
never had missed it because he waited until he knew. - He waited. - He waited till
he knew and he was a very, very wealthy man. - So number 11. - Number 11. - The last one. - Yeah. Although there are so many other
reasons we could talk about, this one is wonderful and
that's praying in tongues because it magnifies God. - Yeah. - You can't make God
bigger than He is, but you can make God
bigger in your own eyes, make God bigger-- - On the inside. - ... and when He's
amplified in your life, He's bigger in the lives
of other people that are around you. And what a marvelous opportunity
to magnify God in our thinking, magnify God in our praying,
magnify Him where He's bigger and bigger, and
bigger, and to explore the height and the depth. - Well, Acts 10:46, "For they heard them speak with
tongues and magnify God." - Praise God. - To make Him
big on the inside of you. And the more you magnify Him... Magnify? What does magnify mean? It's like taking a magnifying
glass and looking down at something and it makes
it bigger in your eyes. So should we pray in tongues
with them for a little bit? - I think we should. I think if you have not yet,
after all these two weeks, or maybe this is
your first broadcast, you've not asked Jesus to be
the Lord of your life and to be filled with the
Holy Spirit, speaking
with other tongues, I'm asking you. I'm like the Apostle Paul. Man, I'm begging you, by
faith, don't let it go. Don't let it get away from you. It's the open door
to the supernatural, every moment of every day
that you will access it. Oh, in those wee
hours of the night, when you are in desperate
need of answers, praying in the Holy Spirit
that answers can come. So let's pray this
prayer together. Oh God in heaven. - Oh God in heaven. - I believe that Jesus is
the Son of God. - I believe that Jesus is
the Son of God. - And I receive
His sacrifice for me. - I receive
His sacrifice for me. - He died and you raised
Him from the dead. - He died and you raised
Him from the dead. - Jesus said that He would
send the Holy Spirit. - Jesus said that He would
send the Holy Spirit. - And baptize
me and the Holy Spirit. - And baptize
me in the Holy Spirit. - That I would be able to
speak with other tongues. - And I would be able to
speak with other tongues. - As the Holy Spirit
gives me the words. - As the Holy Spirit
gives me the word. - So I yield myself now. - So I yield myself now. - Fill me, Lord. - Fill me, Lord. - To overflowing. - To overflowing. - In Jesus' name. - In Jesus' name. - He's faithful. So you begin praying right now. (praying in tongues) Speaks in unknown
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get done everything that needs to get done here
and around the world. And I've got a scripture
for you and an assignment. - Yes. - Yep. It says in Second Corinthians
9:6, "This I say. He who sow sparingly
shall reap also sparingly. He which sows bountifully shall
reap also bountifully." Ooh, listen to this. "Every man, according as he
purposes in his heart." - That's just like the
scripture in Romans we've been talking all week, to purpose in our heart for
tongues to go in certain
directions. And then-- - The J.B. Phillips
translation says, "Let everyone give as his
heart tells him." - Hallelujah. - Not grudgingly or
of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. So tell them what
your assignment is. - So here's the assignment. You've been listening to these
messages, I hope, for two weeks. We want you to pray in tongues
and get the interpretation of what your offering is today. I can tell you many
times we've done this. He'll say, "What do you want
to give in this offering?" Well, I don't know. (speaking in tongues) And let the answer rise
up in our heart. And I love it when that
answer challenges my faith and challenges me to give
and to give more, because then I know God has got
a purpose and a blessing on the backhand of that,
the backside of that, that He wants to get to us. - That's right. - Praise the Lord. - And it's always interesting
when you say to me, "George, I have a figure
of how much we're to give, but you have to
guess what it is." - And I say, "You tell me," so we pray in tongues and we get
the witness together so that we're in
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