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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Episode 3 [Part 1] :: Question 5 on Being Filled with the Spirit
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| Pastor Chris Oyakhilome |
Question 5 - Rachael (Cameroon): When you feel reluctant to pray does it mean you are spiritually weak? What are the practical steps one should take to always have the move of the Spirit in his life?
Answer 5: Well, very simple. When you feel reluctant to pray, it doesn’t necessarily mean you are weak but it does signify a problem because you shouldn’t feel reluctant to pray; you should want to pray. And what you do is, learn to stir up your spirit. The bible says, “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself” [1 Corinthians 14:4], that means you’re building your spirit like a battery, you’re charging yourself or re-charging your spirit. That’s what you do – you come alive. So, the practical step that one should take to always have the move of the Spirit is what the bible says, to be filled with the Spirit.
The Greek rendering of that scripture in Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 18, “And be not drunk with win wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit” – the Greek rendering - actually is “be being filled with the Spirit”, meaning “continually filled with the Spirit.” The practical steps given to us are the following, verse 19: “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” 'Speaking to yourselves' means ‘you talking to you'. You’re talking to you, the other guy is talking to himself, and she’s talking to herself. It doesn’t mean I’m talking to you and you’re talking to me. I’m talking to me and you’re talking to you. So, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [verse 20] Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; [verse 21] Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. [Ephesians 5:18-21]” So that’s what you do to be ‘being-filled’ continually with the Spirit and remember, I said also, speaking in tongues, because in 1 Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 2: “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,” verse 4: “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.”
These are significant thoughts given to us from the scriptures to help us understand God’s ways of doing things. Now, we’ll just take a break.
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