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Gloria Copeland — Be Filled With the Spirit Part 3Posted on April 7th, 2010
I am so grateful to be able to pray in
the spirit by the Holy Spirit. As we saw in
the Scriptures, when believers received the
Baptism in the Holy Spirit, they spoke with
other tongues. This will be a great blessing to
you. After you receive your prayer language,
pray in the spirit every day. This helps your
spirit to be strong and keep rule over your life.
First Corinthians 14:14 says, “For if I pray
in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but
my understanding is unfruitful.” The Amplified
Bible says, “…my spirit [by the Holy Spirit
within me] prays….” The Holy Spirit is giving
your spirit the prayer or praise. Your voice is
giving sound to this spiritual language.
The Amplified Bible also says that Cornelius
and his household spoke in unknown languages
and extolled and magnified God. The definition
of extol is “to praise enthusiastically.”
When you receive the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit, your spirit will immediately have
a desire to express itself in praise to God.
How could you help but pour forth praise
after having the Holy Spirit, who proceeds
directly from the Father God, come upon you
in power? Your well begins to overflow and
rivers are the result (John 4:14, 7:37-39)!
There may be no unusual feeling physically.
Spiritual blessings are received by faith—not
by sight or by feeling. Your lips may flutter
and your tongue feel thick, or you may hear
the supernatural words forming down inside
your being. Or none of the above may be evident.
The lips and tongue are the organs we
use to form words. Your physical instruments
of speech—lips, tongue, vocal cords—must
cooperate with your spirit in order to give
sound to prayer or praise that the Holy Spirit
has given. Immediately upon receiving, spiritual
language is ready for you to speak.
Remember, you have nothing to fear.
God has already said that you would receive
the real thing. Isaiah 57:19 tells us that
God created the fruit of the lips. Do not
be concerned with what it sounds like to
you. God will perfect your praise. “Out of
the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast
perfected praise” (Matthew 21:16).
“And these signs shall follow them that
believe…they shall speak with new tongues”
(Mark 16:17). Jesus said that the believer would
speak with new tongues. You are a believer.
When you pray in tongues, you are
praying in the spirit. Just as your native
language, such as English, is the voice of your
mind, praying in tongues is the voice of your
spirit. Therefore, after you ask, speak no more
of your native language. You cannot speak
two languages at once.
Expect the Holy Spirit to come upon you
just as He came upon the believers on the
Day of Pentecost, at Samaria, at Cornelius’
home and at Ephesus, and you will begin to
speak in other tongues as the Spirit gives you
the words.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — The Spirit UponPosted on February 17th, 2010
From that moment they were changed.
They were no longer troubled, afraid or sad.
Luke’s account lets us know of the change:
“And it came to pass, while he blessed them,
he was parted from them, and carried up
into heaven. And they worshipped him, and
returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and
were continually in the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen.” (Luke 24:51-53).
Where there had been sadness, now there
was great joy—a fruit of the spirit. Where
there had been fear and confusion, now there
was continual praise and blessing of God. And
they were obedient. They went to Jerusalem
and waited for the enduement of power from
on high, expecting to receive the promise of
the Father which Jesus spoke of just before
he blessed the disciples and was carried into
heaven: “And, behold, I send the promise of
my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city
of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power
from on high” (Luke 24:49).
The account of this in Acts 1 says:
And, being assembled together with
them, [He] commanded them that
they should not depart from Jerusalem,
but wait for the promise of the Father,
which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
For John truly baptized with water;
but ye shall be baptized with the
Holy Ghost not many days hence….
Ye shall receive power, after that the
Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both
in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part
of the earth (verses 4-5, 8).
He said they were to be baptized with
the Holy Ghost and receive power! They
had already received the Holy Spirit within.
Now Jesus was instructing them what to
do to receive the power of God upon them.
Acts 10:38 says Jesus was anointed with the
Holy Ghost and power. The disciples were to
receive that same power!
He said in our everyday talk, “Don’t leave
town without it!” This enduement of power
was necessary for them to be able to carry out
the work Jesus set before them. (See Mark
16:15-20; Matthew 28:18-20.) Nothing has
changed. The Body of Christ today is still
under the same mandate.