When you expected dreams, visions and prophecy … It’s Pentecost Sunday this week! Pentecost didn’t begin in Acts 2. It wasn’t a sudden gust of divine spontaneity, as if God woke up one morning and thought, “Now seems like a good time to pour out My Spirit.” No, Pentecost was etched into the divine script from the beginning.… Read More »
I know no-one asked my opinion but.. There’s a kind of slow, almost unperceivable drift that happens in the Church, not with flags waving or heresy shouted from the pulpit, but with a quiet settling of the soul. It’s similar to the subtle way that icons or colours are changed incrementally and imperceptibly on our digital devices. We… Read More »
What are you saying? Becoming a Christian in 1979, in an evangelistic fervour where signs and wonders, healings and miracles were prevalent, accompanied frequently by tongues, either in prayer or in public settings with interpretation, as I did, meant that you inherited a high value of the things of the Spirit. I think we are missing something, especially… Read More »
Informing you above and beyond “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.” — 1 Corinthians 12:1 Paul kicks us off here in a brilliant way, politely telling the Corinthians that he doesn’t want them uninformed! Do you consider yourself well informed or uninformed when it comes to the gifts of the Spirit?… Read More »
It’s amazing how quickly we move on from things—even as charismatics! Once upon a time, a Sunday morning would hold the unmistakable sound of two or three messages in tongues spoken in our midst, followed by the interpretation—piercing, lifting, encouraging. Sometimes, there were even two interpretations for the same tongue (which I always found a bit confusing). Now,… Read More »
Did you encounter God the last time you went to church? If there is one place where we should expect to sense, know, or feel God, it’s in church! Let’s See the Gifts in Action! Church isn’t meant to be a dusty, drab, polite nod to God but a powerful place of encounter with His very presence, open… Read More »
The gift of tongues was never meant to be a source of controversy. Along with the other gifts of the Spirit, it has sadly become just that: controversial. At the heart of this frustration lie two camps: the cessationists – convinced that miraculous gifts like tongues were exclusive to the apostolic era and only necessary until the Bible’s… Read More »
I’m not sure that we have fully understood the immense value of the God-given ability to speak in other tongues that has been bestowed graciously on the Spirit-filled believer in these days. In fact, I don’t believe that we have ever as the Church, fully grasped the overwhelming benefit and purpose of God-given ability to speak in tongues.… Read More »
I found it interesting that when I looked up the subject of interpretation of tongues on the internet, that most of the explanations come bouncing off of the screen with a fair degree of legalism. It has to be said that rules and regulations grip the heart of many, even those who are moving in the gifts of… Read More »
How do prophetic people receive from God? How do they cope with silence? We have all encountered a time of decision or uncertainty and sought God. Sometimes those moments are saturated with the overwhelming sound of silence. Does the silence mean, ‘yes’, ‘No’, ‘Maybe’ or try again later?! I’m being flippant but you know the feeling. There is… Read More »