WHY is she so relationship CRAZED?!

Wednesday October 30rd , 2013

At 14 I knew I had a desire to marry. 

I was a sophomore in High School at that time. Sadly my past of sexual perversion had already started at the age of 13, from the Public school system telling me Masturbation was ok(its NOT),

My mom, I remember vaguely  would tell me to dispel TV shows I watched, by saying dating wasn't ok, and that God had a special husband for me. She never really explained why though. She just SAID. 

But the shows and what I was seeing in school wasn't the case. Everyone had a boyfriend, everyone had a girlfriend. Well not everyone.. but a lot of people. So since my mom had said, there was a special husband for me, and in my Heart I so desired to be loved by a man, I determined no guy would date me unless they were to be my husband. And this is how I started dating.

 Still a virgin, I started dating. Thinking and making sure every man I called my "boyfriend" could be my husband. From boyfriend one, to two, to three my mom and dad would just run them off. Although I would always meet the man's family, my parents did not want that, and thinking back at it I thank God, because those men weren't it. However the appetite for marriage should have been embraced in my opinion, but that's another blog.

Due to this train of dating and being close to the opposite sex, clearly both our hormones flared up. We liked each other, so of course physical emotions would be breed from these feelings. Whether only the first base, or second base, or third base, it was physical intimacy that ONLY should have been kept till marriage. Yep yep, kissing counts and that should be kept for marriage. Why? Kissing is FORPLAY to sexual intercourse. PERIOD. Because I and so many other girls dabbled into this physical intimacy, it was a matter of time before we fall into full on fornication. I am no different and so it happened to me. If you dabble into physical intimacy and he is not your husband, the forskin God intended to be broken only by your husband will be broken prematurely and you will commit fornication.

Because I desired marriage, in these relationships I had, I made these men my husband in my heart. I heard of the actions of a Godly woman, and my mom was surely a godly woman so I followed suit. I would play wife to my boyfriends. This is also what culture teaches, that its ok to full on Test Drive an individual before committing to that person. (ITS NOT)

My desire for marriage was clearly marked out of my desire for love outside of my parents love. Love that ALL believers used temporary fillers to fill before they found Jesus. Although my worldly boyfriends and relationships weren't perfect, the type of love I "thought" I felt was something different from what I was used to, and because it was sin,once I started I get hooked. But this sin of wanting a perverted temporary filled love, lead to destruction in my moral character, academics, finances, relationships and more. Due to infatuation for these boyfriends, I was willing to break the law for them. Crazy right? Tell me about it..but the reality is this was the reality of most of the girls I hung out with and many many girls in this world today.

So when I attended a Single and Marriage seminar last year, after entering yet another relationship with a guy who wanted to marry me,and I felt was suitable to marry, after being months apart from church, I was able to reflect on my life. This void of Love I was trying to fill wasn't really being filled because I knew true love doesn't make you SIN and do CRAZY things. The teachers and Pastors of the seminar were explaining this divine love portrayed in the bible, from our maker God. I was thinking to myself, these ways I had been trying to fill this love, seemed really un-fulfilling; this way of life caused immediate sorrow in my heart, and became so repulsive. God started to convict me that day, he started to show me I was a sinner truly and that without him my life was headed for destruction! That was November 24, and I gave my life to Christ and broke up with my boyfriend November 25 2012.

The fact is now in faith I am so happy and content with the ULTIMATE LOVE Of all, MY husband JESUS Christ. But he made me and cultivated me with a purpose, and a big part is to Marry to be a help-meet to the husband he has formulated for me, replenish the earth, and be a keeper of the home. God placed this desire in my heart, and its very natural for woman after puberty to have this desire.But because I,we lack God's love in my heart the devil pushes us to perverse love. Now in faith, God has opened my blind eyes on how to go about entering into a relationship he has ordained  me for. He is showing me all the wrong I did in the world and giving me wisdom on how to make the wrong right.

Because I came from a place where relationships ran my life before Christ, God has placed it on my heart to help not only my self, but my blood sisters, church sisters, and sisters and brothers all around the world understand the biblical way of love when it comes to marriage, and Dispelling the world's view. The world's view is creating more single parent homes, broken families, and sexual perverted desires.

I know God is preparing me to start a movement and bring many people to the Lord and into sexual purity in my single life and when married.

Sisters rest: There is a season for everything. Ecclesiastics 3. God hasn't forgotten your season of love and wedding bliss. I am here to push you, to encourage you to have a heart after God so you are ready for God to bring his best for you. <3

(Picture from a Pinky Promise Northern NJ Event)

From your Sister in Christ with a Servants Heart,

Janet Adeola Songonuga

*Look out for my blogs coming out this week. The dangers of Porn" & "Unashamed  Virgin: 20 year olds and up

The CURSE of Sexual Immorality

Wednesday October 23rd , 2013

My heart completely and utterly breaks for my generation as it relates to Sexual Perversion. Yes in the bible it clearly shows people back in pre and post Jesus times, would have sex with multiple people outside of marriage(Galatians 5:19). Have sex with people of the same gender, female sleeping with female, male entering the back door and sleeping with other males(Romans 1:27), and have sex with even animals (Exodus 22:19)! And before my generation, my parents and their parent's were filled with pre-mature lust, and no regard to the dangers and curses being sexually impure brings to not only oneselfs physically and mentally, but to the marriage and generations to come!

What's different about my generation is the accesses to sex at a young age. As for me at 22, there was a computer in my house in my teenage years, And ads easily popped up with half naked men and women that when clicked would lead to porn infiltrated websites. (This clearly was back when ad control wasn't that great). Those in my age bracket then got cell phones, that were a lot smaller to fit into our pockets, hide under our pillow at night. Those cell phones would then be used to explore our bodies through conversations with our silly girlfriends or boyfriends, watch whatever we wanted to watch if we had the premium internet data plan at the time. THEN we have my sister's generation. My youngest sister is 15. She was able to go on laptops that my dad and I had when she was just 6 years old. Not exclusive to her but there are many females who are in her age bracket that had their inner sexual senses turned way up due to the exposing of the internet. 6,7,8,9 and 10 year old girls were now able to use webcams to be engulfed with sexual perversion with older perverted men on the internet because they LONG for the love only JESUS can fill. IT BREAKS MY HEART! If it doesn't break yours I pray after this post, your desire to lose the STRONGHOLD of the DEVIL in the area of SEXUAL IMPURITY will intensify!

I was there once, in a cycle of sexual perversion. I mean the world didn't see anything wrong with it because I was securely, cunningly hidden in a relationship with boys I clearly made an idol. To the world, in every relationship, we were marked to get married. At the age of 13, I was taught in public school masturbation was OK! Masturbation, going into a dark place where GOD is clearly watching, and fondling your private parts to give temporary pleasure, which starts a flame to drive and create an intensified fire, is OK!?? NO, its NOT. Then I was bombarded, with images and music from MTV, BET, HOT 97, 106&PARK, of females who had no shame in exposing their body parts, private parts, and rubbing all over men in front of millions of people daily. And that flame from masturbation, moved into that desire to want to be touched like those women that made it seem OK. But was it OK?! NO!

This is the story of so many of us, with our innocent minds, society comes to infiltrate and pollute us, to CURSE us, and stir us away from the love and advice our creator GOD created for us in the book of life the BIBLE. The very bible that is mocked by the rappers we idolized like, JCOLE, JAY-Z, and Kanye West among others. If only you, we, opened and mediated on the bible more, this curse this world wants to put on us would be rid away.

I no long am in that cycle! It was ONLY by the grace of God! Sometimes I look at myself and think, hum, my identity and desire is no longer found in humans and world, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." James 4:4 That , I truly am set free from the curse of sexual immorality, because via confessing of my sins the BLOOD of JESUS set me free!

But know this:

There is a CURSE that comes with sexual immorality. ON ALL LEVELS!

For the men: The female you take out,whether she pushes you to or not, whether she lures you in or not, is someone's daughter, maybe sister, friend, and most importantly a creation of GOD! You are disrespecting the head of that female, her heavenly father and earthly father. Defiling someone else's property, especially God's will brings a multitude of problems for you. Problems emotionally and physically, from sexually transmitted diseases and many more. 

For the woman: Don't you know that guy YOU feel entitled to because he is giving you attention, the one that is undressing you without committing to you, to crawl inside you and defile you  pre-marriage is someone else's brother, son, one day HUSBAND, and a CREATION of GOD!
Do you really desire marriage?! Because in letting other men enter into your body LITERALLY you are creating a barrier in your marriage. Your marriage bed is being polluted with other bits of soul ties you are creating by making covenants with these men who are LOST and lack real love, because they do NOT know the creator of LOVE..Jesus!        

"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral" Hebrews 13:4
Yes, I will be judged and if you have been sexually immoral you will be judged by God on judgment day.

For the men: Women bare life. Do you forget where YOU came from? A woman. And that same women you choose to please your selfish desire is to bare life to another one of God's creatures. You may ask then, Janet how do I please this desire of wanting to be sexually pleased, well here:
"But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband." 1 Corinthians 7:2 "It's better to marry than to burn with lust." 1 Corinthians 2:9 MARRY men. And listen you don't need to have your entire life together! Have a means to provide for yourself, give your life to Jesus, and pray for a woman to love on and in turn she will  love you!

For the woman: I would have never met the amazing brother, that now has the intention of entering courtship with me in the future if I had a boyfriend, or a random guy, or yes guys in those romance novels or fantasies from TV that became an idol! Ladies we need to stop dropping our standards. We drop them because we no longer communicate or consult the maker of the Love we so desire, GOD! Ladies you need to detach from these men that you are giving your body and wife lovin' to, because only the man that's CHOOSING to commit to you, deserves you! The pleasure of sex outside of marriage should not outweigh the pleasure of JESUS, the one man that truly died for you, and blur your vision of the continuous love you will gain from an earthly man God created for you as a promise for obeying HIM!

OH and the PRETEEN WOMAN  & MEN: With young folk, committing sex at 13,14,15. Don't you know to "flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart." Timothy 2:22 and "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body." 1 Corinthians 6:18  GOD is not saying these things to deprive you of the "fun" you may think the boys and girls doing whatever they want sexual, it's to build you up for the rest of life, and assure you fleeing from lusts of the eyes and the body, helps you get into a relationship here on earth that TRUELY resembles the love of Christ and the church!

HE has done it for me, and he can do it for you! God can set you free from the cycle of sexual perversion and immorality. You no longer have to feel shameful and disgusted at yourself. You no longer have to be subject to your body and flesh! You no longer have to feel discontent, but so content that God will bring you someone to meet all your earthly desires and needs in his timing AFTER you have been totally faithful to him.

1st Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

God is giving you a means to escape. And TODAY, if you can humble yourself, confess your sins, and ask Jesus to come in, he will forgive you, wash you clean and give you the strength and grace to remain pure for the rest of  your life or till he presents to you a beautiful man or woman of the opposite sex to bless you with selfless love here on earth, to enter into a life long beautiful convenient of marriage. YOU are worth better, YOU deserve the best, YOU are beautiful, and YOU are worth the wait!



-Just poured my heart out. Love you all!

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From your Sister in Christ with a Servants Heart,

Janet Adeola Songonuga



I got Baptized!!: The Truth about Water Baptism

Monday October 21st , 2013

I finally got baptized yall!!!!!!!! God be the glory! YES! YES! It was an amazing experience. You definitely do feel the new birth experience as in being totally dead to the world!!! If you've been following me, you know I received Jesus into my life last year on November 25th, 2012. I shared my testimony HERE. Since then I have grown tremendously in faith and continue to grow and act on seeing others free in Christ like I am! I went though a 10 week Discipleship class, learning 13 studies on major topics of the bible. It was amazing!



 (My VIDEO)

God commands after one becomes Born Again(John 3:3) to be baptized by water, ONE time, in the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 28:19

 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Matthew 3:13-17

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Jesus himself was baptized by John in a flowing body of water. A river. He was totally submerged in the water, as you see in scriptures he came straight out the water meaning his entire body was submerged in the water once. THERE WAS NO SPRINKLING OF WATER, that act does not count as baptism. This type of action is predominantly done in the Catholic faith.

Salvation is definitely great in God's eyes! But being baptized, is a commandment by God and brings obedience and a multitude of blessings!

Let's talk more about water baptism. Because many denominations have skewed the truth and actions of water baptism that's clearly NOT in the scripture. Let's look at it in three points:

I. Misconception on water baptism

II. Meaning of water baptism

III. Scriptural method of water baptism

I.  

• All churches partake in water baptism, but the methods vary from church to church. It is clear  that One must be baptized ONCE in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit (Matthew 28:19)

• Salvation does not come through water baptism! But only by the grace of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. One can't make this mistake and still have not confessed ones sins, and is not walking with Christ when they get baptized. Doing so is being done in vain! 

 II.

• Baptism is derived from the Greek word "baptiso=emerg. Once one is submerged you emerge by being dead of sin Romans 6:3 and with Christ. (Colossians 3:12)

 III.

• Matthew 28:19 & 3:16; Acts 2: 38-41; 8:35-41; 10: 47-48; 16:30-33. He that BELEIEVETH & is BAPTIZED is SAVED by JESUS CHRIST! 

My experience was wonderful. Again if you have confessed your sins, and now live a life for Christ, I implore you to get baptized. Make it known publicly that you are dead to the world and now live for JESUS CHRIST! If you have been falsely baptized as a baby or earlier in your life, whether  you got sprinkled with water, or was not converted or born again from this sinful world,  I encourage you to do it again the right way.

Any questions? Don't be afraid to ask!

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From your Sister in Christ with a Servants Heart,

Janet Adeola Songonuga

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M.O.C Youth Single & Married Conference

Sunday October 20th , 2013

So wow! Hi everyone. I haven't blogged in a while! Two week to be exact. But not to worry this is the start of at least three blogs coming out this week. Just end of last month, the 3rd week of September actually, I attended the Mount Olive Church of God Singles and Married Conference in Orange, New Jersey. I was so excited for it! Guest and featured speakers were Cornelius and Heather Lindsey!

Who is Heather and Cornelius Lindsey? For those that may not know they are the founding and current pastor's of The Gathering Oasis Church in Atlanta, Georgia. They seek to create disciples of Christ in every facet of one's lives, in particular relationships. Since giving their life to Christ they determined to live a life for him. These two waited till their marriage day to kiss for the first time, proving when you honor God, God will honor you.

I was able to attend three sessions. Two by Heather, with Cornelius joining for a Q&A, and one with Cornelius preaching a Sunday evening service.

Let's get into it. I pray this blesses you the reader reading it. 

Title: I AM DROWNDING: Woman's only session

Speaker: Heather Lindsey

John 7:4 NLT

 You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!”

Hebrews 12: 1-2 NLT

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.

• We need to get rid of the weights drowning us down, as women of God.


• Some of these weights include being envious and jealous of others. Like looking up an down a person's facebook page. Facbook is a highlighting Reel, that people only display what THEY want to show you. Heather talks more about it on her blog, she blogged about it after this conference HERE 


•  Identify the weight in your life and strip it off


•  We need to be careful who we marry because it creates generational curses: Leviticus 26


• Pass the tests God gives you in your life with a meek and quiet spirit.


• Ways of lessening weights in the workplace is creating a sense of peace in your office space.

Acts 3 1-7 NLT

(Talks about the poor man at the gate called beautiful)

 Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service.  As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money. Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, “Look at us!”  The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money.  But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!” Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. And as he did, the man’s feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened. He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk! Then, walking, leaping, and praising God, he went into the Temple with them.

After Heather read this passage, she challenges the ladies to not let the weights in our individual lives cloud our love and help we can give others. Next time we see someone on the street asking for money, why don't we offer to pray for them, because prayer alleviates stress and heals!

We then have a 10 minute prayer session where we are told to pray with the sisters around us. It was nice to meet the other woman who came and to get to know each other in prayer.

We then go into a Q & A session where Cornelius and the guys join us.

I asked two questions:

1. How do you feel about different physical convictions in the Body of Christ?

Cornelius answers and says there will be differences in the body of Christ and to stick with your convictions. God shows different people different things that is of help to someone.  

2. How do the Lindsey's study the bible? 

 Cornelius suggests you ask the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, Why, When) through out each passage you read. He also uses different translations and bible's with a great concordances. Heather studies on subjects that she may need answers to.

It was a great session, and I continually cast my cares unto God. No Weights allowed!



Title: Spiritual Adultery

Speaker: Heather Lindsey



• Adultery comes from the Greek word "Adulturiem", meaning toward and alter; together is means moving towards another to make our own personal arraignments.


• Spiritual Adultery is moving away from God.


• Whenever you feel a check in your heart, it is God telling you, you are moving away from him.


• Who are you committing spiritual adultery with? Who is your third party?

(Heather Lindsey & I)



FRIEND WITH THE WORLD

James 4:4 (NLT)

 You adulterers!^[ Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Ezekiel 16 (NLT)

(Entire chapter)

Ask yourself these:

1. You claim to love God but cultivate a relationship with someone else other than God.
2. You profess to be a Christian yet find real love the adversary offers.
3. What is capturing your attention?

Heather then talks about music and how spiritual adultery can come from Secular Music that doesn't glorify God. She clicks a light-bulb on, when she says Music was the devils ministry in Heaven. Now the devil has fallen and rules earth, so no wonder Music is being used to pull so many people away from Christ. Heather actually blogs about it HERE!

Heather mentioned a great website to answer any biblical questions in a practical sense. Gotquestions.org. I checked it out and it's great!



Title: When you've lost the fear of God

Speaker: Cornelius Lindsey

Judges 17:6 (AMP)

 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 14:12(AMP)

 There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.

These verses show when there is no authority; everyone has their own mindset and thinks they are right. Cornelius identifies he will be talking about exposing the wounds and then providing the solution with Christ.

Wounds:

• FALSE HOPE: Puts people in bondage. Grace does not permit one to continue to sin, but keep you from sin!
• SUGAR COATED SERMONS: Gives you a sweet tooth for sin.
• DON'T JUDGE ME: God is the ultimate judge and gives you the ultimate verdict. John 3:20

 

Proverbs 8:13 (AMP)

The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.

  

Proverbs 16:6 AMP

By mercy and love, truth and fidelity [to God and man—not by sacrificial offerings], iniquity is purged out of the heart, and by the reverent, worshipful fear of the Lord men depart from and avoid evil.

1 Peter 1:17,18,19,20 AMP

When one loses the fear of the Lord:

1. One-ceases from being at Peace
2. You become easily offended
3. You create lose boundaries and boarders around sin
4. One indulges perversion
5. One spends less & less time with God, praying & fasting
6. We side with disobedience of lawlessness. (The men don't need the woman's complaints but prayers for the brothers of our generation)
7. Begin to focus on situationnal circumstances
8. We no longer await Christ's return (Titus 2)
9. We ignore the great commission

Watch the Sermon HERE

What a convicting message. I thank God I have not lost the fear of the Lord. But there are many who have. If you are reading this blog right now. Do not feel condemned but feel happy that God has open arms waiting for you to bring you back into the fold. To claim you as a child again. All it takes is to repent and let go of your thought, wants, and actions and let God in, to perfect you.

The conference was really great. Meeting the Lindsey's was really great. And I thank God I was able to attend with some of my other Pinky Promise sisters.

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From your Sister in Christ with a Servants Heart,

Janet Adeola Songonuga

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The TRUTH about speaking in Tongues

Sunday October 6th , 2013

Man, this blog post is long since overdue. But this is a very important blogpost to dis-spell some of the myths, misunderstanding, and the TRUTH about speaking in Tongues and the power of the Holy Ghost that has been really distorted in Christendom.

This past summer I came across a scenario in the home of a Brother I know. The mom and I were discussing an activity her daughter was interested in doing. The activity was white water rafting. We were all talking about the thrills and scares of the activity. The daughter then discloses to her mom, she may be scared; her mom then says don't worry just speak in tongues.

Let's start our conversation from there. The bible does not encourage us to go straight to speaking in touches when in fear. But before I explain why, let's get an understanding on what speaking in tongues is, where it originates from, and how one gets it.

Mark 16:16-17

 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

Acts 2:1-4

When Pentecost, the fiftieth day after Passover, came, all the believers were together in one place. 2 Suddenly, a sound like a violently blowing wind came from the sky and filled the whole house where they were staying. 3 Tongues that looked like fire appeared to them. The tongues arranged themselves so that one came to rest on each believer.4 All the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

[What is the pentecost? Pentecost or Shavuot has many names in the Bible (the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Harvest, and the Latter Firstfruits). Celebrated on the fiftieth day afterPassover, Shavuot is traditionally a joyous time of giving thanks and presenting offerings for the new grain of the summer wheat harvest in Israel.]

1 Corinthians 14:1

 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

Acts 10:44-46

While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came to everyone who heard his message. 45 All the believers who were circumcised and who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured on people who were not Jewish.46 They heard these non-Jewish people speaking in other languages and praising God.

WHEW! A-lot of scriptures right?! I was trying to make sure you understand that the meaning of the Holy Spirit and tongues comes straight from the Bible, and not from my own understanding.

So, what is speaking in tongues?

It is the evidence of the gift of receiving the Holy Ghost(Spirit). If one receives the Holy Ghost how ever, it is true they may not receive the confirmation or manifestation of tongues. You can find this in 1 Corinthians 12:130. But what is the gift of the Holy Ghost (spirit)? It is God's third part of the trinity. A comforter to all believers, a gift from God who put's us in remembrance of all truths; the truth is the WORD OF GOD the BIBLE. The Holy Spirit gives believers the boldness to preach the gospel and minister about Jesus. The Holy Spirit allows signs and wonders to be done through miracles to show others the truth of the Bible, when one seeks for that gift of healing, which is a separate gift on its own. A CONFIRMATION of being baptized with the holy spirit is you speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is not to be done if you do not have the Holy Spirit or because your church emphasizes or someone tells you to. I will speak more into this.

How does on receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?

1. You must receive salvation and become Born Again.
2. You must be converted. Meaning recognizing you were a sinner(salvation), knowing with sin comes death, choosing to forsake, repent of your sins, receive Jesus, and finally be transformed through his words.
3. You  must be sanctified. Sanctification is being totally separated from your past life and the world. Your adamic (sinfull) nature dies (2 Thessalonians 2:13 ) You have received the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5: 22-21) There is a clear difference you are a changed person through the grace of Jesus Christ.
4. You must thirst, pray, and hunger for this gift. In saying that ,it is not given to you by a man, church, or whomever if you don't desire it. You cannot just catch it if you hadn't prayed or had a thirst for it.
5. After all these, God finally is able to entrust you with this gift. So God sees you will use it to advance his kingdom.

Those are steps  outlined in the bible on how to receive the Holy Spirit. A measure is given to one at salvation (when one confesses their sin and receives Jesus into their lives) as a comforter. But the increased power, listed above, is given after  two to five are adhered to.

Again, there is a lot of confusion in Christendom about number 4. Many ministries are in error.No one in the bible received an increase power of the Holy Ghost unless they truly were longing and sought after Jesus, physically and spiritually. Therefore people didn't just start speaking in tongues randomly because they were told to. Tongues comes when one manifests the gift of the Holy Spirit in it's entirety.

Lets go into speaking in tongues.

So we now know how speaking in tongues comes about. In the verses above it is clearly recognized speaking in tongues comes from the Holy Spirit. No one should be able to tell you to start speaking you get on cue. It is ushered in on it's own by God and should always come as a pleasant surprise to believers today as it did back then. Paul also tells us in 1st Corinthians it is not promoted to speak in it in public unless there is a translator. Why? Because it's an heavenly language only you and God can understand. So why does that profit another person? He said it showed a sign of unbelief if one spoke in tongues without a person whom had the gift of translation. The power of prayer is in the book of Life, meaning speaking the words of the bible.

What is more powerful than speaking in tongues though is speaking and praying the WORDS of the bible. Whether it be English, Hebrew, or Greek all which the bible have been written in, or any other language the bible has been translated in. The speaking of tongues comes again as a confirmation of the Holy Spirit. How did one even understand the Holy Spirit ? It was through reading the Bible. Let's take account of Jesus for example. Before he was taken up to heaven he had the Holy Spirit, he himself is the Holy Spirit. Not once was it recorded in the bible that he spoke in tongues to receive anything special. Praying with the bible and to God accomplished all he asked for. A prayer to God should always include the word of God, the bible, first and foremost. Jesus used the words in the same Bible (old testament, back then) many times in prayer and to fight away the adversary. To fight any case, brings comfort to your soul, and ministers to others the word of God has a solution to all.

To explain why the mother should NOT have encouraged her daughter to speak in tongues if she was scared has now been dispelled. If she is scared she should be reassured of the verses in the bible, that she one understands, God recognizes and hears, and one minsters to her soul. She should speak those verses out loud!
Some verses for example to declare in time of fear:

2 Timothy 1:7

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

1 John 4:18

 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Romans 8:15

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

I pray this finds believers in good spirits. If one lacks knowledge of the words in the bible but prays in tongues all the time and first, this is an INCORRECT. If others cannot see the fruits of the spirit in a person that speaks in tongues, but is unruly to others on the outside this is INCORRECT. A ministry emphasizing on the speaking of tongues above knowing the words in the bible, is INCORRECT!

This post DOES NOT seek to disprove the fact that the Holy Spirit ushers one to speak in tongues at any time of ones prayers; whether it is in the beginning, middle, or end; And in certain situations automatically. But again it is not forced and the word of God is sufficient enough! The word of God says:

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 (With World recognized Senator of Nigeria and Evangelist of the Gospel Dayo Israel)

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