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I want to share with you
something about praying in
tongues today that’s going
to help you so much in the
area of stress, anxieties,
worries, and panic attacks.
You can be free from
addictions and you can even
be free from physical
infirmities! You know, God
is offering you R&R— God’s
rest and refreshing. In the
midst of a world full of
stress, worries, anxieties,
with bad news almost every
day, we are to be aware but
make sure there’s strength
on the inside so that you
don’t get depressed from the
outside. When we pray in the
Spirit, we are praying
beyond the boundaries and
limitations of our
knowledge. You have a
hotline to God Himself!
Hallelujah!
Now I want to share with you
something about praying in
tongues today that’s going
to help you so much amen, in
the area of stress,
anxieties, worries, panic
attacks, as well as physical
troubles, in terms of
infirmities, chronic
illness, or even disease. So
tongues is a gift from God,
and here and there you will
hear me say, weapon from
God, or a device, instrument
from heaven, made in heaven,
amen. When God gives
something like oxygen, it’s
amazing. When God gives
something, you know, it has
so many, so many, it has
myriads of uses. Like oxygen
can be used of course to
live, for you to breathe
into your lungs amen. It can
propel machines and
vehicles, pneumatic drills
for example, pneuma. The
word pneuma is air, wind,
and wind can propel ships
and boats, and, it can do a
lot, myriads of things, just
from one creation of God.
Air. Right? When man
creates, man create one
thing, and then he had to
create a few things to
maintain the one thing that
he created. Like your smart
phone. When you bring your
smart phone you travel
wherever you go, you gotta
bring along your charger.
Right? You bring along your,
man creates computers, they
got to bring everything else
that comes with the
computer. That’s why my, my
in my travels, my hotel room
look like a small hospital.
With all kinds of tubes
coming out here and there,
plus there’s a special
light, the lightings in
hotel rooms are terrible. I
think they meant for hotel
rooms to be romantic.
Alright? And me having
Pastor Daniel, Pastor
Lawrence, and sometimes,
Pastor Mark down there
definitely it’s not romantic
ok? But they know that it’s
hard for me to prepare my
messages and all that that
I’m speaking at the
conference, in that kind of
lighting. So they always
bring for me a lamp, like a
lamp stand, or something
like that, that will help
brighten up you know, my
reading and all that. Then
they have like, a lot of
kinda like sockets and all
that, all the wires all over
the place and there are so
many things to maintain.
Amen. That’s man’s creation.
Man creates something,
there’s a lot of things to
maintain it. God creates one
thing, has many uses. God is
a giver amen. So God give
you the gift of tongues.
Today I’m gonna focus on one
benefit that I think that
many of us have been robbed
off. You may have that word
in you last time but has the
devil robbed you of that
word? The first thing the
devil comes is to rob you of
that word. And that’s the
area of benefit. There are
many benefits to praying in
tongues. For example, and I
may touch on this in the
weeks to come, but let’s say
you’re praying for your
child. Your child has gone,
the school has re-opened
right? This week. Amen. Some
parents say Hallelujah. So
the thing is that your child
is going to school, but
supposing you’re praying and
all of a sudden your prayer
changes and you’re praying
in English alright? You’re
praying in English, you
understand what you’re
saying, and then the Holy
Spirit is inspiring you,
giving you a vision about an
impending accident that may
happen to your child. What
do you do? Straightaway you
start praying for your
child’s protection right?
But not only that, knowing
the propensity of human
nature, you’ll want not only
pray for your child, you’ll
say, “This week you’re not
going to school.” Amen.
Because why? You are afraid,
because of what you know
now. Sometimes what you know
can cause you to be afraid.
But supposing you have a
language, that you don’t
even know you’re praying
this, that the devil has
planned in such a way
alright, to harm your child,
and he’s prepared this
drunken, drunk driving and
all that, the devil has
prepared him on the same
day, at the same time your
child is coming out, so he’s
prepared the whole thing and
all that, and you’re praying
this, and you’re singing (Ps
Prince sings in tongues),
I’m praying for my child
Lord. I pray that the
drunken driver will not be
there at the right place at
the right time for my child.
Father in Jesus’ name, and
you’re singing, you’re
happy, you’re cooking amen?
You’re changing diapers, or
you’re working and you’re
walking along, and you’re
carrying your file and
you’re praying for your
child who is in danger this
coming week and you don’t
even know it. Now which is
more stressful? The first
prayer in English or the
prayer in the spirit? Of
course the one in English
right? Cause you’re praying
for your future yet do not
know what’s happening amen.
I can’t begin to tell you
how God gave birth to this
message of grace of this
rediscovery of the gospel of
grace during a season of me
praying in tongues. Amen. If
God had told me much earlier
in my secondary school that
I’ll be addressing literally
millions of people all over
the world via television and
through other means and all
that, I would definitely
give it up. I would not
have, want to be, in the
ministry at all ok? Because
I’m so afraid of crowds
amen, but I learn to pray in
tongues amen. And I was
praying for my future. And
one day as I stood before
thousands of people, God
says, “This is what you
prayed for 10 years ago, 20
years ago.” Amen. So when we
pray in the spirit, we are
praying beyond the
boundaries and the
limitations of our
knowledge. Amen. You are
praying for the future. You
can pray for the future. You
can even pray for the past,
when that fear came in and
all that. You do not know
why you’re experiencing
today, you can’t fight, you
can’t ward off, you can’t
shake off that fear of
timidity. And God the Holy
Spirit is helping you reach
out and healing that part of
you, and God is able to
reach into the future and
touch that, because God is
timeless. Or exactly He’s
outside time because He
created time. That’s why the
cross as far as God is
concerned, happened only
yesterday. The freshness
must be there when you take
the Communion. It’s not like
something 2,000 years ago.
That’s a language, and a
comprehension of man’s idea
of time. God lives outside
time. So friends listen.
When you pray in tongues,
today I focus on one
benefit, not about
intercession. The benefit is
how it builds up your body.
And keep you alright, in a
place where you’re built up
so that stress, worry, fear,
anxiety, panic attacks will
not have anymore leeway, or
anymore, victory over your
life. You can be free from
addictions, and you can even
be free from physical
infirmities. Are you ready?
So can we just focus on this
one area first amen? And in
the days to come if the
Spirit of God sees fit to
focus on this, we’ll focus
on other benefits. There are
myriads of benefits like I
said. One gift, amazing
benefits. First, I just want
to say real quick, that
there are certain
denominations that say,
“Well, don’t pray in
tongues, it’s of the devil,
and when you pray in
tongues, you are praying to
the devil.” All you got to
do is read 1st Corinthians
14, verse 2 and 3 it says
very clearly, “He who prays
in an unknown tongue speaks
not unto man, but unto God.”
Not unto the devil!. Unto to
God! And this same people
will say, “We must go by the
Word of God. We must go by
the Bible.” The Bible says,
“He that speaks in an
unknown tongue, speaks not
unto man, but unto God.” You
have a hot line to God
Himself. Hallelujah! So, put
aside man’s opinions, put
aside all the denominational
prejudices, and focus on the
Word of God. Amen. Rest.
Jesus Himself says, “These
signs will follow them that
believe. In My name, they
will speak with new tongues.
They shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall
recover.” Those same people
that don’t believe in
praying in tongues,
invariably always it’s
connected. If they don’t
believe in praying in
tongues, they don’t see the
gifts of healing operate.
They don’t see the sick
healed under their ministry.
So they must come up with
excuses for that. Amen? But
it’s always together. Those
who believe in praying in
tongues see a lot of
healings happen in their
ministry. Amen? “Well it
doesn’t matter to me Pastor
Prince.” It matters when
your child is sick one day
and medical science has no
cure. You come and tell me
then it doesn’t matter. So
put aside all these
denominational prejudices
and go with the Word of God.
Can I have a good amen
people? 1st Corinthians 14
verse 4, “He who speaks in a
tongue edifies himself.”
Say. “Edifies.” The word
‘edifies’ is made of, the
etymology of this word comes
from two Latin words
alright? Aedi fi. Aedes is
actually a house, or a
building. Like edify can be
an edifice, a tall building,
a large building. So the
word ‘edify’ the etymology
is from the Latin aedes
which is house or building.
Ficare, fi, fis, alright for
the word ‘built, construct.’
Put them together it is the
word ‘to construct or to
repair, to build a house.’
Today we say edify in terms
of, “Well Pastor Prince,
your message today was
edifying.” In other words,
morally comforting, morally
inspiring or whatever, or we
think in terms, we don’t
think in terms of physical
ok? But the root word
actually is ‘physical.’ It’s
referring to a building. In
fact in the Greek, this word
here, in the Greek ‘edifies’
is the word ‘oikodomeo.’
‘Oikos’ is a house, a
building. ‘Domeo’ is to
build the building. Amen?
‘Domeo’. In Italy you see a
lot of domeo. Alright?
Building. Dome, domeo.
Oikosdomeo, to build a
house. Oikos, a house. “Oh
well Pastor Prince, we are
not houses.” Heh heh.
Alright we are. We are
temples. You know which part
of you is a temple, oh my
spirit, that’s what we’ve
been told. Your spirit is
not a temple, your body is a
temple. Look at 1st
Corinthians 6, “Or do you
not know that your body is
the temple,” your what?
“Your body. Your body is the
temple. Now I know the Holy
Spirit dwells in our spirit
but doesn’t say your spirit
is the temple. You cannot
find in the Bible it says,
your spirit is the temple.
It says your body is the
temple. Your soma in the
Greek, your body, not your
psyche, alright, not your
pneuma. Your soma,
psychosomatic conditions you
know, from your mind. But
soma is body for Greek. So
it says, “Do you not know
that your soma, your body is
the temple. And the word
‘temple’ here is not the
outward precincts of the
temple. The word ‘temple’
here is the Holy of Holies,
and the holy place. This is
literally the sanctuary.
Your body is the Holy of
Holies. Your body is the
holy place of God. Your body
is the temple of God. And
God wants His temple
beautiful. God wants His
temple clean. God wants His
temple holy. God wants, the
word ‘whole,’ ‘healthy’,
‘healthy’ comes from that
old word that says ‘hale’
which is the word ‘whole,
complete, healthy.’ Amen.
Healed, complete,
completeness. God wants your
body complete. Amen. So back
then God will say, “Your
body is today the temple of
the Holy Spirit.” Are you
listening? So go back to 1st
Corinthians 14 verse 4, “He
who speaks in a tongue
oikodomeo’ builds himself.”
Another thing is that the
mistake we make and I grew
up amongst some great
teachers who taught on
praying in tongues, but I
think where the emphasis was
wrong was this. They say
that, “When you pray in
tongues, you charge your
spirit.” Now thank God your
spirit is charged. But not
just your spirit, doesn’t
say he will build, he speaks
in a tongue, builds up his
spirit, but himself.
‘Himself’ means what? All of
you. Now which part of you
is the temple? Your body.
Especially your body. Why is
this teaching important?
Because had we preached like
this, people will know every
time they pray in tongues,
and the devil says, “You are
just making it up. Stop it.”
And they get discouraged
they stop it, they don’t
realise that they’re
stopping their health.
They’re stopping their
wholeness. They’re stopping
their health from springing
forth speedily. Are you
listening people? Amen? So
it’s important we hear the
Word. Somehow people have
this idea that when you pray
in tongues only your spirit
is being charged. And I
think they got this idea
from 1st, same chapter but
later on verse 14 says, “If
I pray in an unknown tongue,
my spirit prays.” Which part
of you pray? My spirit
prays—so they—they think
that, “Oh, that is the part
that got charged.” No, it is
just telling you which part
of you is praying when you
pray in tongues. When you
pray in English, your
mind—you must know the
words, right? Your mind is
praying. But when you pray
in tongues, which part of
you is praying? Your spirit
is praying. Are you
listening? Your spirit is
praying. Doesn’t say your
spirit is the one that gets
edified, but your spirit is
praying. But which part of
you gets edified? Back to
verse 4. “Edifies himself.”
And because the word
“edified”, “oikodomeo” means
“building, constructing or
repairing a house or
building” – which part of
your—your person is the
temple? Your body. That
means when you pray in
tongues, you are preparing
your building. You are
constructing, you are
repairing your body. Ladies,
why do you put on make-up?
Ok, make-up. Why do you put
on moisturiser and things
like that? Repair man.
Repair. It is all about
repair, right? A moisturiser
is to moisturise, but I
guess when you have
something else that can
repair, it is even better,
right? Right? Father,
forgive all these liars here
in this house here today, in
Jesus’ name. Alright, one
more time. Alright, we apply
stuff to repair, right? Now,
we believe that if we imbibe
a pill, or a capsule for
beauty, it is better that
beauty comes from within,
right? God has a better way.
What if I tell you, your
body, your face is also the
temple of God? Huh? And the
Bible says you can repair
your body by praying in
tongues. Are you listening?
Alright. Let’s drop down.
Same chapter, but let’s drop
down to verse 21. Then the
apostle Paul quotes from the
Old Testament, from the
prophet Isaiah specifically,
“In the law it is written,
“With men of other tongues
and other lips, I will speak
to these people,” and yet
for all that, they will not
hear Me, says the Lord.”
Unfortunately, a segment of
God’s people, even, will not
hear Him when it comes to
praying in tongues. And the
context here is tongues
because the next verse says
“..Therefore tongues are for
a sign.” So it is very clear
it is talking about praying
in tongues, ok? He is
quoting the Old Testament.
Whenever the Holy Spirit
quotes the Old Testament, it
will do us—it will pay us
good. It will benefit us for
us to look at the quotation.
So let’s go to that
quotation in the Old
Testament. It is from Isaiah
28. “For with stammering
lips and another tongue,
will I—” will God speak to
these people. Ever felt like
your tongue, sometimes, it
is like stammering lips?
Dededededeshabadededede….
You say, “Pastor, my tongues
is not like Pastor
Lawrence’s tongues, so
smooth, so fluent.” Hey,
yours get first priority –
stammering lips, alright?
Pastor Lawrence and Pastor
Mark’s one is another
tongue, amen? And is—who is
speaking? God is speaking.
God will speak to these
people. To whom God said,
now watch this. Now, there
is an additional benefit.
That’s why you—it always
pays you well to look up the
reference. And the context
here says, God is saying,
“This is the rest,” definite
article – ha menuchah –
definite article. “This is
the rest which you may cause
the weary to rest. And this
is the—” margeah, “the
refreshing, yet they would
not hear.” You know, God is
offering you R&R – rest and
refreshing. Guys, you all
know right, after
your—your—your term and
exercise in the field and
all that, overseas, you have
an R&R days, right? Rest and
refreshing. Literally, rest
and recreation. This is
God’s rest and refreshing.
God is saying, “This is the
rest,” ‘the’ is the definite
article. And the word ‘rest’
here is actually the word
menuchah. It helps you to
remember the menuchah honey?
Alright, same pronunciation.
Menuchah, alright, menuchah.
This is the menuchah. In
other words, there is a
place of rest. In the midst
of a world full of stress,
worries, anxieties with bad
news almost every day, amen?
Some bad news, some fake
news and all kinds of news,
you know? Put in a mix and
the threat of war, rumours
of wars and all kinds of
terror, you know, attacks
and things like that. It is
very easy for our hearts to
be fearful but God says
there is a place called
menuchah. This is the rest
and the whole context there
is referring to stammering
lips and another tongue.
When you pray in tongues,
you literally tranquilise
yourself. You bring yourself
to a resting place. And this
word ‘resting place’, God
says, this is the place you
may cause the weary to rest.
A lot of people are weary.
They are tired. They are
ti—they are just tired. If
you read Daniel, it says
that the spirit of the
anti-Christ, in the last
days, will weary the saints
of the Most High. Weary the
saints. They will wear out
the saints of the Most High.
The devil, one of the things
the devil does is that he
just wears you out. He wears
you out. You read things in
social media, it wears you
out. You hear bad news, it
wears you out. Amen? Just
wears you out. When they
call evil, good and good,
evil. It wears you out. So
the saints of the end times
will be worn out. But the
Bible says this is the rest
with which you may cause the
weary to rest. To rest here
is nuach. Menuchah is a
noun, nuach is a verb. Nuach
is the name Noah. And when
grace was first mentioned,
it says “Noah found grace”.
In other words, rest finds
grace in the eyes of the
Lord. God loves it when you
rest. When you rest, you are
saying, “God, I am trusting
You. God I am not working
but you are working. Lord, I
am not doing but you are
doing.” God loves it. That
is why rest finds grace in
the eyes of the Lord. Rest,
Menuchah is also the place
of the Promise Land for the
believer today. The Old
Testament, the Promise Land
is the land where they will
enter the land and drink
from wells they did not dig,
eat from vineyards they did
not plant. Live in houses
they did not build. In other
words, the promise land is a
literal land of which they
did not do the work. That is
why
today? Our rest today, in
Hebrews, is actually the
rest of God. Watch this.
This same word, Menuchah, in
Psalms, it says, “God swore
in My wrath,” about the
children of Israel that
refused to believe Him,
alright, God says, “Enter
the land,” what I have just
told you just now, “I have
given you a land flowing,”
not just filled, but
flowing. Idea of
over—superfluence,
abundance, superfluous, it
is exceeding and flowing
with milk and honey. And yet
they say, “No, I—I—you know,
God hates us, that is why
God brought us to this
land.” And it broke God’s
heart. And God says, “I
swore in My wrath, they will
not enter my rest.” Hebrew –
menuchah. And the
interesting thing is that
Hebrews 4 talks about this
same passage and says, “Let
us labour therefore to enter
the rest.” I wonder if the
labour is praying in tongues
because praying in tongues
sometimes it is like a
labour. When you pray, pray,
pray, pray, after one day
people ask you, “Any
change?” “Yes. Dry mouth.
Tired tongue.” Then you
pray, pray, pray, another
two more days. “Is there any
change in your body?” Yes.
“What is it?” Blur. Tired.
Amen? And spiritually,
alright, it seems like
nothing is happening and
there is a spiritual attack
on you. The devil is saying,
“Give up. Give up! You are
just making it up. Stop it!
Stop it!” And you are still
praying in tongues, and all
of a sudden you realise
something is happening but
deep down inside first.
Because long before God
removes your disease, long
before God removes your
depression, long before God
destroys that addiction in
your life, alright, by you
praying in tongues—first of
all, the first few days I
believe, He is dealing with
your fears, your panic
attacks, your anxieties,
your depression, your
stress. And that is why,
after you pray in tongues
for the first day, you don’t
say, “Well, the pain is
still there. The condition
is still there.” No, God is
dealing from the inside out.
I will show you more of
this. And I am telling you,
people, listen carefully.
Stress is becoming a real
problem especially in these
last days. Jesus says,
“Men’s hearts,” and I
believe He was referring to
the literal heart. It is
hard to find whether the
Bible is referring to a
literal heart or a spiritual
heart because both use the
word ‘cardia’ in the Greek.
So Jesus says, “Men’s cardia
will fail because of the
fear of looking at what is
coming up upon the earth.”
So be careful when you look
at the news and things like
that, alright, we are not
saying put our heads in the
sand like a, like an ostrich
and all that, pretend things
don’t exist. No, we are to
be aware but make sure that
there is a strength on the
inside that you don’t get
depressed on the outside.
Now imma read to you…
I like to read the
latest. Now, this is the
seventh edition of this
periodical that was
released, alright, called
Brain Facts. It is released
by the Society for
Neuroscience, alright? A
study of the brain and the
nervous system. So this is
the seventh edition because
they have new discoveries.
Do you know that scientists
are still studying the
brain. You know that? What
they should do is study
Pastor Mark’s brain. That
would be really exciting. He
is in China now, preaching.
Alright, from Brain Facts.
This is what they said: What
do standing frustrated in a
supermarket check-out—in a
supermarket check-out line,
or sitting in a traffic jam
have in common with fleeing
predators, as was done in
the early days of human
beings? So we all understand
right? I mean queuing up for
coming to church or queuing
at the supermarket and all
that? What has this got to
do with fight or flight
response, right? Clearly,
these activities are very
different yet they provoke
the same responses in the
body. The release of
hormones, and these hormones
are glucocorticoids and
epinephrine – two chemical
secretions, alright, two
hormones released by your
adrenal – to improve memory,
boost immune function,
enhance muscular activity
and restore physiological
balance. Now, over long
periods of time, for a
while, it’s ok. You know, if
you see a snake right, and
the snake has reared its
ugly head at you. You don’t
say, “Hi, how are you? I
didn’t mean to bump your
way.” Alright, you run,
amen? The adrenal glands
release your—your corticoids
and all that, and your
epinephrine, to make you
run, amen? Amen? So
your—your—your blood
pressure rises, your heart
rate increases, and you run.
It is either fight or
flight. But it is talking
about over long periods of
time. If everything in life,
even driving down the road
here in Singapore. If
driving down the road in
Dallas or anywhere you are
at. If everything frustrates
you, if everything makes you
anxious—my wife just
reminded me the other day—if
everything, especially on
the road, if everything you
are frustrated by, you are
hostile about, then listen.
Over long periods of time,
as these hormones continue
to be released, the
consequences can be
negative. Memory is
impaired. Immune function is
suppressed and energy is
stored as fat. Overexposure
to glucocorticoids leads to
weakened muscles. Elevated
glucocorticoids and
epinephrine contribute to
hypertension – high blood
pressure, arteriosclerosis –
hardening of the arteries.
Doing my best here. And
abdominal obesity, don’t
look down. Epinephrine also
increases the release and
activity of body chemicals
that cause inflammation,
adding to the body’s chronic
stress burden. This
continual chemical activity
can lead to arthritis and
accelerated aging of the
brain. These findings have
been verified in animal
experiments. Aging rats
showed impaired neuron
function in the hippocampus,
an area of the brain
important for learning,
memory and emotion. As a
result of an increase
glucocorticoids secretion
throughout their lives.
Overexposure to
glucocorticoids also
increases the number of
neurons damaged by stroke.
Moreover, prolonged
glucocorticoids exposure
before or immediately after
birth causes a decrease in
the normal number of brain
neurons and smaller brain
size. If you are pregnant,
if you are about to give
birth, don’t be stressed.
What do you do? Ok, what
more, scientists have
identified a variety of
stress related disorders
including high blood
pressure, clogged arteries,
impotency and loss of sex
drive in males, irregular
menstrual cycles in female,
colitis, and adult onset
diabetes. Familiar, these
few days? Stress also can
contribute to sleep loss
when people get caught in a
vicious cycle, elevated
glucocorticoids, delaying
the onset of sleep. And
sleep deprivation, raising
glucocorticoid levels. So
this is from Brain Facts by
the Society of Neuroscience.
Now, many of it, of course,
they will not deal with
supernatural, they cannot. I
am telling you, the devil’s
means is always to stress
you out. The devil is trying
to wear you out, it is
trying—you cannot fight
against supernatural forces
with natural means. You
can—you can—you can offset
or put down for a while the
outward symptoms of stress.
You can take medicine, there
are also anxiety related
pills and medicine. There
are sleeping tablets and all
that, but these—and I thank
God for doctors and all
those people who take time
to relieve the sufferings of
humanity, I thank God for
that. But one thing, if you
are dealing with the devil,
and he is supernatural, you
have got to have
supernatural means. From
heaven comes this weapon. Do
you think for one moment,
God who designed us, and God
put liver there for a
reason. God put kidneys
there for a reason. There
are people who take away—who
have no problem with their
appendix, they take out
their appendix. I think
there is a reason why God
put appendix there. Try not
to take it out. Don’t try to
take out too many things.
Pastor Mark tried a part of
his brain last time, and I
told him until now, he said,
“Huh?” Anyway—nah, I am just
teasing, ok? You know, he
loves it when I tease him.
Pastor Mark. He loves it. He
says, “Pastor, you make me
famous.” He said. That is
why, I told you, that is a
case in point right now, he
believes he is being famous
when he is being made fun
of. Ok, anyway, God says
this is the rest and the
refreshing. When you pray in
tongues, there is a rest,
there is a release. There is
an untying of the knots on
the inside when you go,
(Pastor prays in tongues).
You need supernatural means.
Now, if the means to combat
stress and panic attacks and
depression and anxiety must
depend on you being on one
location where there—there
is running river, and there
is greeneries, and there is
a mountain and all that,
then you know what? What is
going to happen when you
come back
luxury, they have the money
to be able to spend time, to
take time to go somewhere
abroad and—and relax, even
then for a while. Because
wherever you go, there you
are. You know, you can be in
a beautiful setting and yet
you are worried inside. So
you cannot depend on that.
It must be something more
portable, that you can bring
this weapon, you can bring
this—this gift wherever you
go. And you can operate with
loud sounds, blaring horns,
children crying out for your
attention. In the midst of
all the hustle and bustle,
alright, the frantic pace,
you can still pray in
tongues and experience the
Menuchah. The rest. The word
“you may cause the weary the
rest”, I said just now,
“rest”, same word as nuach,
Noah—and the first mention
is nuach, the noun is Noah,
alright, nuach was first
mentioned when the ark
rested on Mount Ararat. And
the date is given. It is
exactly the date Jesus rose
from the dead. In other
words, rest is not possible
until Jesus rose from the
dead. Have you noticed that
in the Old Testament, David
never prayed in tongues.
Elijah never spoke in
tongues. Hezekiah never
spoke in tongues. None of
the prophets, not even
Daniel spoke in tongues.
Only after Jesus rose from
the dead, for the first
time, the gift of tongues
was given. Could it be,
could it be, people,
alright, it is something
very unique, because it is
tied up with grace. It is a
gift of grace. It is a grace
gift that will help you in
all your—the affairs of
life. Can I have a good
amen? Uh, not long ago,
there was a—in fact quite
long ago because this was
2006. I always think
same study they did. But
YouTube will give you the
summarised version. It’s
done by ABC. By the way they
did this study of the people
who are speaking in tongues.
And the university of
Pennsylvania, a doctor
there, by all my studies on
him, he doesn’t seem to be a
Christian. He’s not a
Christian. And he is Dr
Andrew Newberg. Alright. Now
Dr Andrew is also the
adjunct professor there,
alright, nuclear, nuclear
medicine. He special- He is
the professor there in
University of Pennsylvania
and he decide to make this
study of people who have
this activity he called
praying in tongues. So he
had five subjects to put all
the electrodes on to study
the blood flow of the brain.
Ok. I don’t want to tell you
the title of the YouTube in
case you want to look at it.
Because I know you all. You
are looking at it now.
You’ll start looking up now.
So maybe later on. So
anyway, let me tell you what
they discovered. They chose
five subjects to pray in
tongues. Ok. One, you can
say, well, maybe er, you
know, it was a fake thing
after all. The guy is just
faking it. But five, not
knowing each other, they all
prayed in tongues. So he
made a study to study the
blood flow. Now Dr Andrew
Newberg said to the people
of ABC. Actually the study
showed this. Now when you
pray, when you speak, your
speech centre is in the
frontal lobe, the frontal
lobe of your head. Ok? So
when you are talking,
actually, when you are
thinking about words to sing
and all that, your frontal
lobe lights or the blood
flow there. You can see the
blood flow. They can have
this imaging on screen. They
can see the blood flow. Ok.
But they say this. Every
other religious practice,
whether its meditation or
singing hymns, you can see
the blood flow there in the
front. Let me use his own
words, ok, I don’t want to
put words in his mouth. So
I’m going to read his quote.
“Our brain imaging research
shows us,” these are his own
words. This doctor, who is
not a believer. He says,
“Our brain imaging research
shows us that these subjects
are not in control of the
usual language centres
during this activity of
praying in tongues.” Do you
hear that? The Bible says,
“When I pray in an unknown
tongue (who prays?), my
spirit by the Holy Spirit,
prays.” So he says, “Their
frontal lobe is not light
up.” In other words, they
are not controlling and yet
there is a self-awareness.
Which means they are not,
they haven’t lost, they
didn’t lose control of their
body. Then he says this,
these are his words. “These
findings could be
interpreted as the subject’s
sense of self being taken
over by something else.” If
he is a Christian, he will
say someone else. Can you
see that? “We,
scientifically assumed its
being taken over by another
part of the brain but we
couldn’t see where this took
place. The fact that this
occurred in all five
candidates is very
significant.” So this is
very interesting. “We,
scientifically assumed its
being taken over by another
part of the brain but we
couldn’t see where this took
place.” So who do you think
is the one giving the words?
The Holy Spirit. And they
can’t find any part of the
brain that is producing it.
Isn’t this interesting? “And
all five showed the same
result.” Mmm. Isn’t this
great? Isn’t this amazing?
Many years ago, I was
preaching on praying in
tongues in our church. In
fact it was during that
season that God gave me the
gospel of grace in a
powerful way and I did a
first series on wisdom in
the 90s. And then after
that, in the early 2003, I
began to pray in tongues and
teach that to our church. In
fact we had months of a
series on praying in
tongues, or teaching on
praying in tongues.
Somewhere during that time,
I met this brother, who is
now a leader in my church, a
leader of good standing. At
that time, he shared this
testimony. I was well aware
of his circumstances and all
that. And he shared about
how, for a number of years,
he was not able to sleep
properly. So much that he
only can sleep only one, or
at the most, two hours at
night. So the doctors gave
him sleeping tablets. It
came to a place where he
took three sleeping tablets
and still slept one to two
hours. Then he increased it
to six sleeping tablets. And
again only slept at the
most, two hours. Then he
said after some time, he
developed sinusitis. The
right side of his, the, the,
his facial cavity, cheekbone
cavity had a lot of mucus.
And he had to go… In fact he
had two operations over that
condition. And he had to go
to the hospital to have it
drained. All this while, his
job was being affected. His
money was also being
drained. Amen. And then the
doctors gave him something,
some antibiotics, and some
painkillers and all that to
combat sinusitis. And he
took those stuff. And then
those stuff caused him
of a sudden, he felt he was
besieged by panic attacks.
So much so that he cannot go
to work. He cannot even step
out of the house, he told
me. He cannot even take a
bus. He started worrying and
started… er, er, er. The
amazing thing is that his
appetite fell but he put on
ten kgs. Almost after days,
he put on ten kgs. He didn’t
understand. He was not
eating well, and you know,
it’s like panic attack,
gastritis, sinusitis. Can’t
sleep at night. And the
panic attacks. And it got
worse and worse, the panic
attacks. So much so the wife
has to stay home and with
the kids here and there,
helping him to cope with the
problem. And then he came to
a place when he was going to
the doctor again. And the
doctor gave him some tablets
for anti-anxiety. He says
all in all, he took about 30
medicine in one day. You can
verify with him. I will tell
you his name in a while’s
time. And he said that it
was terrible. And one day as
he was showering, he told
me, he heard God speaking to
him. And God said to him,
“Son, pray in tongues. Pray
in tongues.” And he said I
only managed to get a few
syllables out in tongues.
And the few syllables
brought rest immediately.
Just a few syllables.
Shoknfaldafddaml…. It
brought rest immediately.
Then I loved it. I began to
pray more. And as I prayed
more, I found that one by
one, all my symptoms start
to dissipate. Not
immediately but slowly. Then
I found that gastritis was
gone. After for a while, the
sinus problem was taken care
of. And all of a sudden, he
find, he found himself free
from depression, anxiety and
from the panic attacks. And
he told me, “Pastor Prince,
every day I did two things
only. Pray in tongues and
listen to your message. Pray
in tongues. Listen to your
message. Pray in tongues.
Listen to your message. And
every one of those problems
are no more. Today I sleep
peacefully.” He got a good
job. In fact the Lord told
him, “What, what do you like
to do?” “I would like to
repair computers,” he says.
Then God says, “Do a job
repairing computers.” And he
did that. The last I know is
that he is doing well. I do
not know if he is in
different sector now. But he
is today a brother of good
standing, a leader, a care
group leader in our church.
And blessing many people and
ministering to people with
addictions. Amen. And it all
started with a little
trickle of water, rivers of
living water. A few
syllables. They became a
rivulet, they became a
river, and a torrential
river, waterfall right into
the ocean. Praise God. Start
praying in the Spirit. I
believe, I believe, the
first few days when you pray
in the Spirit, the Spirit is
not battling the problem you
have, not the panic attack,
not the depression, not the
addiction, not your physical
disease. I believe that it’s
battling your fears. It is
clearing out your stress,
worries, anxieties. I
believe God wants to do
something inside before He
touches your body. Are you
listening? And for that I’m
going to show you a, a
template and then we are
going to close. Are you all
blessed so far? Do you feel
like going
shfalheohganladka… If you
don’t pray in the Spirit,
you don’t pray in tongues,
don’t worry, at the end to
the service, you will. It’s
a gift, it’s a grace gift.
Kanfafjldaheohabfad. Ladies,
every time you put that
expensive cosmetic, go
ahead, put it on, put it on,
you know. Even an old house,
you put the painting also
looks good. Alright. Put it
on. Alright. But how about
God’s way. Praying in the
Spirit. Repair. Repair your
temple. Your temple. Amen.
The temple of God. Glorify
God in your body. Praise
God. Now why is it that God
filled the Old Testament
with so many stories of the
temple? Is it that God wants
us to build a temple? Is it
a physical building? We know
the church is a collection
of God’s people. This is the
greatest organisation in the
whole universe. And it’s
eternal. Will be forever.
Will be forever, I said. XYZ
company, if there is one, I
just happen to illustrate.
So XYZ company will not last
forever. But the church will
be forever. That’s in the
Bible. Amen. Everything that
was prophesied about the
Judah. Born in Bethlehem
Ephrata. There were two
Bethlehems in Israel. One
Bethlehem in Galilee, one
Bethlehem Ephrata. It’s
definitely mentioned Ephrata
Bethlehem. He will born,
alright, from the lineage of
David. Mary came from the
line of David. Joseph came
from the line of David. So
the lineage of David. Very
specifically, it mentions
that. There will be a star
coming out. Balaam
prophesied that long before
Jesus came. A star is there.
When Jesus was crucified, it
says, “They pierced My hands
and feet.” When? David said
those words, the Psalmist
David said those words “They
pierced My hands and feet”
in Psalms 22. Crucifixion
was not even an idea. The
Romans haven’t invented it.
Actually the Romans didn’t
invent it. It came from the
Phoenicians, who invented it
later. But at the time of
David, 3,000 years ago, it
wasn’t even a device. “They
pierced My hands and feet.”
And it opens up with, “My
God, my God, why have You
forsaken Me?” The cry of
Jesus at the cross. So every
prophecy of the first coming
has come to past. Why is it…
I’ll close with this. Why is
it that the Bible has so
many stories about the
temple? Why? Because it’s
telling you, not just a
temple, physical. Back then,
it’s a real temple of
Solomon. But it’s telling
you about your body, right?
So can we learn something
from here? Yes, there is a
story there in the book of
Chronicles, second
Chronicles, where it talks
about King Ahaz. King Ahaz
was a wicked king of Judah.
He didn’t walk in the ways
of his father David. What he
did was he worshipped idols
and he worshipped all kinds
of er, er, er deities,
except for the true God. And
God came against this man
and the first thing he did
against God, the first thing
King Ahaz did, he shut the
doors of the temple.
Alright. You will find that
in second Chronicles 28. Now
we look at second Chronicles
29. As a result, Israel went
into, was plunged into
darkness. The women and the
children had all kinds of
bondage coming on them. Bad
things happen. But Ahaz
died. Sometimes it’s the
mercy of God when someone
just pcheup. Ahaz died. And
he has a son called
Hezekiah, which became the,
one of the godliest kings of
Judah. Amen. He brought
revival to Israel. And when
he was, when he ascended the
throne, he was only 25 years
old. Young people, listen.
Look up here. You can be
young and be used of God. He
was only 25 years old. And
the first year of his reign,
in the very first month of
his reign, this is what he
did. “In the first year of
his reign, in the first
month, he opened the doors
of the house of the Lord and
repaired them.” The very
first thing he did, he
opened the door that his
father shut. You know why
his father shut the doors?
Because they were doing all
kinds of abominable things
in the holy of holies, in
the holy place. They brought
all kinds of defilements,
all kinds of filth, all
kinds of uncleanness into
the temple. Amen. And the
filth is still there. And he
shut the door with all the
filth inside. Here is a
picture of you and I. We got
so much baggage on the
inside, emotional baggage.
Stress, worry, fear,
anxiety. These are all
uncleanness. As well as
disease, sickness. You know
in the Old Testament, they
don’t really say… They do
here and there, they used
the word disease and
sickness. They do. But most
of the time, ceremoniously
in the temple and all that
or in the precincts of
Jerusalem, they use the
word… When somebody has
leprosy, they don’t say
‘disease’, they say
‘uncleanness’. And that’s
why Jesus touch the leper,
He didn’t say, “Be healed.”
Jesus says, “Be clean.” But
the man was healed of
leprosy. And the way they
cleanse was water. Jesus
says when the Holy Spirit
comes, He’s like the rivers
of living water. Living
because wherever He touches,
there will be life. Mmm? And
that’s what happened on the
Day of Pentecost. Now watch
this. The very first thing
evil King Ahaz did was shut
the doors. The very first
thing his son, Hezekiah did
was to open the doors. When
you open the door, then you
can bring out all the filth.
Right? Question. If the
temple back then, a literal
temple, is a picture of…
What is a temple today? Our,
our bodies. Our bodies are
the temple of God, right?
What is the door? What is
the open door? What is
shutting the door and what
is opening the door? Which
part, if our body is the
temple, which part is the
door? No, your hair is not
the door. If your hair is
the door, some of us have
got no more doors left. Try
again. Mouth. Mouth. Very
good. When you are talking
to Pastor Prince, and Pastor
Prince always ask for Bible.
Do you have a Bible verse
for that? That the door is
the mouth, and the mouth is
the door? Yes, let me save
you the time. Psalms 141.
David says that of God. “Oh
Lord, over my mouth, keep
watch over the door of my
lips. Keep watch over the
door of my lips.” When King
Ahaz shut the door, he kept
all the disease, all the
uncleanness inside, alright.
Back then, it was literal
uncleanness. But today,
alright, when, when Hezekiah
open the door. So your
first, first step of your,
your, your, your addictions
and out of your panic
attacks, and your depression
and your anxieties and your
worries and cares, open the
door. Hey, I am not
referring some of you, what
you are doing when I am
preaching, ok. Opening the
door. That’s not opening the
door. I know, I know, I see
your grand canyon. I’m not
referring to that. I am
referring to speaking. Amen.
First… By the way. The
following chapter is the
revival after revival after
revival. Revivals like not,
since the days of the early
years, it says, Hezekiah
brought revival. All began
with opening the door. Do
you see that? Amen. So the
door of my lips. Ok. Watch
what he did. Go back to the
story again. “He brought in
the priests and the Levites
and gathered them into the
square on the east.” And
this is what he told them.
“Then he said to them,
‘Listen to me, O, Levites.
(25 years old) Consecrate
yourselves now and
consecrate the house of the
Lord, the God of your
fathers, and carry the
uncleanness out from the
holy place. For our fathers
have been unfaithful and
have done evil in the sight
of the Lord, and have
forsaken Him and turned
their faces away from the
dwelling place of the Lord
and have turned their backs.
They have also shut the
doors of the porch.’” He
mentioned that specifically.
“Shut the doors of the
porch.” Keep the porch in
mind. I am coming back to
the porch, ok. Just keep
them in mind somewhere. Tuck
it somewhere. Ok. “They have
shut the doors of the porch
and put out the lamps.” The
moment you shut the door,
you stop praying in the
Spirit, amen, your lamp goes
out. There is no more
revelation. I don’t know…
You know, when I pray in the
Spirit a lot during that
time I was telling you in
the 90s and all that, it
gave birth to the gospel of
grace revelation. It’s not a
new revelation. It is like
the light shine on an old
gospel that Paul preach.
Likewise, even for your own
daily needs, you need light,
you need wisdom. I am just
saying, focus right now on
the fact that when the door
is shut, the lamp is put
out. And not only that,
there is no more praise and
worship. There is no more
worship to God. No burned
incense or offered burned
offerings. “Therefore the
wrath of the Lord was
against Judah; and
Jerusalem, He made them an
object of terror, or horror
and hissing as you see with
your own eyes.” I want to
tell you that, that today
God is not angry with His
people. And He will never be
angry with His people. Look
at me. Never. We are not
under law. We are under
grace. We are not in our
flesh. We are in Christ. For
God to be angry with us,
it’s to be angry with
Christ. The seven years of
tribulation is the days of
God’s wrath. We are not
appointed to wrath. We are
appointed to obtain
salvation through our Lord
through Jesus Christ. God
has sworn He will never be
wrath with us. Isaiah 54,
that comes after Isaiah 53,
the work of Jesus. So when
you read all these, keep
things in context. I am
talking about the
uncleanness of our bodies,
we call that disease,
sickness and all that, ok
how to remove it? I want you
to see the pattern. Ok verse
9, “For behold, our fathers
have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our
daughters and our wives are
in captivity because of
this.” So if you find that,
you know, you can be one of
the wealthiest guys in the
nation and all that, but
your son is addicted to
drugs, that is not wealthy,
that is not really being
rich isn’t it? Your son is
in captivity. The son of
your loins, the son of your
love. I don’t call that
prosperity, but why is it
that our, our families
suffer, our loved one
suffers, not because God is
angry with us today, but
because we have shut the
door of our lips, there is
no intercession for them.
You know you cannot watch
over your children 24/7? I
repeat, you cannot watch
over your children all the
time, but the Lord can. Do
you know that you are trying
to get them to do something
outwardly that they are not
inclined to inwardly, and
even when they obey you
outwardly it is not real
because it is not inwardly,
but when you pray, God can
create a revelation on the
inside amen? You can pray
and light will come on them,
the menorah, the lamp will
be turned on and they will
see. Can I have a good amen?
So let’s follow the story,
we will close with this,
coming to this now. Are you
all being helped? That’s why
in Jude says, “Building up”,
I love the word up. Have you
ever notice that when you
pray in tongues you are
building yourself up, for
“Building yourselves up …
praying in the Holy Spirit.”
Building yourself, didn’t
say build your neuma, your
spirit, but build yourself,
your entire self, up,
praying in the Holy Spirit.
You can build yourself up
above stress, above worry,
above anxiety, pray in the
Spirit. “But Pastor Prince I
tried before leh?” Oh yeah?
“Ya! I tried the whole
afternoon praying in
tongues” Wah you persevered
ah. The door open for a
while, you go inside, look
here, look here, nothing
happening, you go outside,
you close the door again.
Let’s see how many days it
took for them to clean up
the uncleanness ok? I’m not
saying that the exact days,
I’m not saying you must do
the exact days, although I
did try it when I first,
when God first gave me this
revelation, I tried exactly
the same days ok, but that’s
me. Ok look at this, so what
happened is that the priest
went in, based on the
instruction of the King,
Hezekiah, “The priests went
into the inner part of the
house of the Lord,” the Holy
of Holies, “To cleanse it,
and every unclean thing
which they found in the
temple of the Lord they
brought out to the courtyard
of the Lord’s house. Then
the Levites received it to
take out to the Kidron
Valley.” So they took it,
they went in all the Holy of
Holies, took all the filth
out, amen, for us we have a
lot of prejudices,
bitterness, wrong believing,
and not only that, panic
attacks and fears and
worries and evil
imaginations. Evil
imaginations is so real for
people with depression, all
they can see in their future
is like you know, a bad
prognosis, you won’t live to
see your future, they might
even see their own funeral,
they might see their husband
marrying another woman, they
might see their wife
marrying another man, they
might see their… You know a
lot of… A person who is
depressed see all kinds of
wrong, you know, wrong
channel. It’s real. Never
make fun or take light
someone who tells you, take
lightly, someone who tells
you they are suffering from
depression. Point them to
God’s heavenly weapon. Hmmm?
They brought it out, all the
filth, all the panic
attacks, for us is all these
things ok? Plus the cause of
the disease, all the things
that the brain facts you
know, talk about just now,
all those things being
brought out, then they reach
the holy place. Took some, a
few days isn’t it? How many
days it took? Ok verse 17
“Now they began the
consecration on the first
day of the first month, and
on the”, what day? “Eighth
day of the month they came”,
or they entered, “The
porch”, again the porch, put
that somewhere, “The porch
of the Lord. Then they
consecrated the house of the
Lord in eight days, and
finished on the sixteenth
day of the first month.”
After they clean out all the
debris and the uncleanness,
in eight days they came back
to the door, the porch,
right? And then they
consecrate another eight
days, the entire temple, 16
days altogether. So when God
showed me this, when He
first showed me this many
years ago in the early 2000,
I actually prayed for eight
days, and then on the eight
day I asked myself, any
changes? Nothing. Dry mouth,
heavy tongue, but something
happened. That was the year
that we faced SARS and we
went through it in our
church by the grace of God,
because one of the things
that people don’t want to do
is to congregate where there
are a lot of people in an
air-con closed environment,
remember that? After that,
next thing I know, next few
years, bang, the ministry
opened, bang, the doors open
to international ministry,
bang, I was doing books,
bang, you know I was on
television. Like I said
before, you can be on
television doesn’t mean that
it will take, only God. But
I was praying for the future
without even knowing it, and
I was preparing myself; I
was being built up from a
person who is nervous about
standing in front of my
class to someone who could,
who could, God could use.
Thank you for that one amen
ah, I appreciate, it came
somewhere there, ok praise
the Lord, Lord bless this
sister Lord, thank You Lord,
at least somebody loves me,
amen? I was almost tempted
to be depressed. Panic
attack was running around
down there somewhere
already, but because of you
sister, thank you, thank you
for opening the door of your
lips. Have you noticed that
the door of the temple,
alright, today have
different colours? Many of
them are red, some are even
orange, some are purple.
“What is he talking about
Pastor Prince?” It’s ok
Pastor Mark, you will get
it, alright. So in eight
days something happened. So
it is not the feeling, it’s
not the feeling ok people?
But all of a sudden you
feel, that the first thing
God deals with is your
stress, worry, fear and
anxiety, long before he
deals with your condition.
All I can say is that, when
I look back, my goodness, I
couldn’t have gone through
all that and did all that
without it stressing me out.
But today, thank God,
literally I don’t feel the
weight and the burden and
the responsibility of
raising money for this
building and other things
because I have learned to
pray in the Spirit and let
go. Alright, I am not
perfect, you can ask my
wife, amen, but I need to be
reminded as much as you that
this is a weapon from God.
Can I have a good amen? Ok?
Let me help you again, one
more time, ok, perhaps God
is using my words to bless
many, ok, one amen down
there, somewhere, ok praise
God, I give it a third time,
third time, alright, third
time ok? Do you love me
Peter? Ok never mind,
alright, so 16 days, so
please don’t get hung up
with eight days ok? Eight is
the number of new beginning,
in other words they started
with the door, they came,
they went in, it takes time
to clear out the debris,
first day, second day, third
day, if they check their
bodies, it is still the
same. If they check their
circumstance, it is still
the same. Alright, it takes
a few days. Now, we all want
instant thing, many of us
say speak to the mountain
with the God kind of faith
and don’t doubt and it will
happen. Yes, but there are
people who find it, it is
hard for them to speak to
the mountain, God is so
loving that God actually
gave us another way to
attack the mountain. Would
you like to know how? Would
you like to know? Cut down
the mountain bit by bit.
Serious! And it is a new
weapon. What do you think it
is? Isaiah 41, “Behold,” God
says, “I will make you into
a new threshing sledge with
sharp teeth.” Now sledge in
those days in Israel is like
your snow sledge, literally,
it is flat, but underneath
right, they put stones, ok,
like four planks and
underneath they embed the
stones, and what they do is
that, during the harvest
time, they will put the
stalks of grain on the
ground and they will draw,
make the cow draw the sledge
over the grains and the
grains will separate; the
husk, the chaff, and the
kernel, separate the grain,
the wheat right, from the
chaff. You understand?
That’s how they do it. So
God says I’m going to make
you a new, say ‘new’, sharp
threshing sledge with sharp
teeth. Now the word teeth
here is very interesting, it
is the word piyphiyah,
piyphiyah, piyphiyah is
literally in the Hebrew you
can check it out, is
literally two edged mouth.
Two mouth literally. It is
used only one other time in
Psalms where it says, let
the high praises of God be
in their mouth and a two
edged, piyphiyah, two edged
sword in their hand. So when
you pray in tongues,
alright, it is literally a
double edged sword, and God
says it is a new instrument
that came on the day of
Pentecost right? Right?
Watch this, back to Isaiah
41, now, you will thresh the
mountains, that’s your
disease, your debt; mountain
of debt, hopefully it is not
your mother-in-law, but you
know, challenges in
relationships, whatever,
“You shall thresh the
mountains and beat them
small, and make the hills
like chaff. You shall winnow
them,” you know winnow? In
those days they go up to a
higher elevation or mountain
or whatever, and they have
this winnowing fork, what
they do is that they take
the stalks of grain and they
throw it in the air, and the
strong wind will separate
again, the chaff from the
wheat because the chaff is
very light, the wheat will
fall, amen? And it will fall
down and the chaff will be
blown away. So God says, at
the end, you are praying in
tongues, your problem is
still there the first day,
second day, few weeks even,
it is still there. But you
are cutting it down. Then
one day you look at day and
you (Pastor coughs to
demonsrate) and it’s gone.
One look at it, phoo, it’s
gone. That’s what it says,
“You shall winnow them, the
wind shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind shall
scatter them; you shall
rejoice in the Lord, and
glory in the Holy One of
Israel.” Amazing? I’ve never
heard anyone preach this as
praying in tongues, this
came to me many years ago,
and the Lord says to me it
is praying in tongues. I
never really pay attention,
but one day when I studied
that in the Hebrew, the word
teeth is actually double
mouth, then I saw it. There
is another way to attack the
mountain, pray in the Spirit
every day. Amen? Ok, go back
to Hezekiah, we are going to
close. Hezekiah’s story,
they enter the porch of the
Lord, they finished it on
the 16th day of first month.
Remember I told you to focus
on the porch, now see the
porch. The porch, the
Solomon’s temple, show them
a picture of Solomon’s
temple, ok this is a model
in the Holy Land model, it
is a small model, you can
still see it in Israel
today, at the time of Jesus,
now where is Solomon’s
Porch? There it is. First of
all Eastern Gate, can you
see the Eastern Gate, that
is the Eastern Gate.
Solomon’s Porch is all
around, ok, Solomon’s Porch
all around, can you see
that? It is a colonnade, can
you see the pillars? That’s
where the Rabbi’s will
teach, that is where Jesus
will teach and all that. Ok.
So it is all around. But
watch this, listen
carefully, when the
Babylonians came in later
and they destroyed the
temple, they burn down, they
razed the temple down, ok,
what happened was that the
only part of the temple that
was left is the front part,
Solomon’s Porch. That’s the
only part that is left,
Eastern Gate. And during the
time of Jesus, which is
after the Babylonians, Jesus
came, Jesus walked on this
porch, in John 10, “Now it
was the Feast of Hanukah,
Dedication in Jerusalem, and
it was winter. And Jesus
walked in the temple” where?
In Solomon’s Porch, the only
place that is standing. Why
Solomon’s Porch? All
miracles happen in Solomon’s
Porch. I wish I can share
more on this, but because of
time, I want to let you go,
I won’t be expounding on
John 10. John 10 is where
you will find the thief
comes not, but to steal,
kill and destroy. By the
way, listen, Jesus cursed
the fig tree remember? Then
He taught on the God kind of
faith, speaking to the
mountain to be removed?
Remember that? What did
Jesus do after that? Right
after He cursed the fig
tree? He went into
Jerusalem. What did He do
there? He cleansed the
temple. Remember the thieves
and the robbers? He called
them thieves? He drove them
out of the precinct of the
temple and He says that my
house is a house of prayer.
And then, don’t forget He
cursed the fig tree, after
he cleansed the temple He
came out, and guess what
happened? Peter called Him
to remembrance, “Look at the
fig tree, it is dried up!”
then Jesus taught them about
the God kind of faith. I
submit to you, when you
speak to your disease, when
you speak to your condition,
alright, you might not see
immediate results, keep on
praying in the Spirit, amen,
and then you come back to
this again, you find, we
don’t know how long, it is
up to God, but the
manifestation will be there.
Amen. “You have made My
house a den of thieves, My
house is a house of prayer.”
Are you with me so far? Once
you clean everything and you
pray in the Spirit, and all
of a sudden you come and
affect your mental realm,
your soulish realm, your
emotional realm, your body
will be the last part to be
touched right, am I right?
And yet the body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit
right? Are you listening?
You look for your disease,
your mountain, and all of a
sudden, the symptom might be
smaller already, it gets
lesser, then one day you
look for it, it is gone, you
(Pastor coughs to
demonstrate), you didn’t
realise it was so light,
gone! Last two verses we
will close. Solomon’s Porch.
Go to Acts, remember the guy
who was lame at the gate
Beautiful? There are
scholars who believe that
the gate Beautiful is the
Eastern Gate, the one that
is sealed. Ok look at this,
“Now as the lame man who was
healed held on to Peter and
John, all the people ran
together to them in the
porch which is called
Solomon’s, greatly amazed.”
So I submit to you, that the
Eastern Gate, show them the
Eastern Gate again, the
it is sealed, can you see
that? Just now? The Eastern
Eastern Gate, no show them
the picture just now, today
Gate is sealed and that’s
Solomon’s Porch. So I submit
to you that the gate
Beautiful some scholars
believe is the Eastern Gate.
That’s where the lame man
was, and it stands to reason
that the only part that is
standing is this part here.
And last verse, Acts 5, the
place of miracles. “And
through the hands of the
apostles many signs and
wonders were done among the
people. And they were all
with one accord” where? “In
Solomon’s Porch.” It seems
like God is saying right,
when you pray in the Spirit
and you come back out, you
will come to the porch, and
that is where miracles
happen. The door is open,
the porch, remember the
doors of the porch were the
first open? Right? By King
Hezekiah, “Yet none of the
rest dared join them, but
the people esteemed them
highly. And believers were
increasingly added to the
Lord, multitudes of both men
and women, so that they
brought the sick out into
the streets and laid them on
beds and couches, that at
least the shadow of Peter
passing by might fall on
some of them. Also a
multitude gathered from the
surrounding cities to
Jerusalem, bringing sick
people and those who were
tormented by unclean
spirits, and they were all…”
Let’s all say together, “And
they were all healed.” How
many? “And they were all
healed.” I believe that as
we pray in the Spirit, we
will come to the place where
all will be healed, not only
that, signs and wonders will
happen at Solomon’s Porch,
not only that, amen, respect
will come back to the
ministry, and multitudes of
souls will be saved. I close
with this little story, true
story, alright, I mentioned
to you just now about the
experiment, I will close
with this experiment,
another experiment, this was
done in ORU, Oral Roberts
University in Tulsa,
Oklahoma many years ago,
Doctor Carl Peterson. By the
way the earlier study if you
are looking it up later on,
just put ‘speaking in
tongues medical study’ ok?
You will see 3.5 million
hits on that story. You see
the pictures of the doctor
and all that, and some of
the experience they use. But
this one is another
experiment and I will close
with this. Doctor Carl
Peterson of ORU is a brain
specialist in Oral Roberts
University and he studied
people with a… Who are
praying in tongues, but this
time is not the blood flow,
he studied the effects or
what is released in the
brain; in other words the
chemical secretions, like
epinephrine and all that,
right, but you know what he
found? When people are
praying in tongues? Doctor
Carl Peterson found that two
chemical secretions were
released in the brain, and
these two chemical
secretions listen, comes
from a part of the brain
that has no other apparent
use. I told you people are
still discovering about the
brain? Right? Guess what,
these two chemical
secretions give the immune
system a boost, and I
memorised this statistic
because for years I
memorised it, 35 to 40
percent. A boost for your
immune system of 35 to 40
percent, all your food and
all your vitamins and all
that, you know, they are
wonderful, they help
whatever to a certain
extent, but who can give you
a boost for your immune
system of 35 to 40 percent,
they say that even if you
have tumour in your body, or
cancer or whatever, someone
who have the same disease as
you, and they are alive
today after 20 years after
10 years and all that, why?
Immune system. Stronger,
right? Other people had
SARS, they didn’t die,
immune system, amen. I
believe that God didn’t give
you a gift that is useless,
like some of these
denominational preachers
would say. God didn’t give
you a gift; that is that you
can have it, you don’t have
to have it. If it came on
the day of Pentecost, and it
is a gift that proclaims the
wonderful works of God,
trust me, you will see the
wonderful works of God. Give
Him praise, hallelujah,
thank You Jesus. Now stand
to your feet. I am about to
dismiss you but before I do
so I want to make sure that
all of you get in the flow
of praying in the Spirit,
won’t take long, ok, number
1, make sure you are saved,
those of you who are here,
you have never received
Jesus as your Saviour and
Lord, I want to pray for you
right now, and then I am
going to release you into
this heavenly language ok?
So, put your trust in Jesus,
Christ bore our sins and
believe on Him and you shall
be saved and your house. Say
this after me, if that is
you, say, “Heavenly Father,
I thank You for the gift of
Your Son who was crucified
for my sins, who was raised
from the dead for my
justification. Jesus Christ
is my Lord and Saviour.
Christ came to save sinners,
I am a sinner, and today I
am saved. Jesus Christ is my
Lord and Saviour! Thank You
Father! I am no longer a
sinner, I am a new creation,
I am a child of God, greatly
blessed, deeply loved, in
Jesus name.” Now listen, I
am going to pray for you and
Jesus said this, if you ask,
a child ask the father for
bread will he give him a
stone? He ask for a fish,
will the father give him a
snake? How much more your
Father in heaven will give
the Holy Spirit to those who
ask Him? Are you ready?
Alright we are all going to
ask Him ok? Even those who
prayed before, you are going
to pray in a fresher and a
more released way than ever
before amen? It is about
time to get the debris out,
amen in Jesus name, time to
open the doors y’all, time
to get to Solomon’s Porch,
come on, come on, are you
ready? Alright lift your
hands all across this place,
those of you in the third
service, fourth service,
everyone that is watching
this, this is timeless ok,
like God’s anointing on
everything, it is timeless.
Wherever you are watching
this right now, do the same
in Jesus name, amen. Say,
“Heavenly Father, I am
confident that you will give
me right now the baptism of
the Holy Spirit. Inundate
me, fill me, baptise me,
with the Holy Spirit, Jesus
has been glorified,
therefore the Holy Spirit
has been given, and I
receive right now Your Holy
Spirit to overflowing in
Jesus name, amen.” I count
to three right now and then
release yourself in the
heavenly language, one, two,
three. Go ahead! (Speaking
in tongues) That’s right, go
ahead! Now increase your
volume, (speaking in
tongues) now speak
undertones, (speaking in
tongues) you can do this at
work, you can do this at
home, when people are around
(speaking in tongues). The
Bible says speak to himself
and to God (speaking in
tongues) quietly, amen?
(speaking in tongues) You
are in control. Listen, you
are in control. The spirit
of the prophets are subject
to the prophets, when an
evil spirit takes over, you
have no choice, he makes you
shout, he makes you scream,
alright, and then the Holy
Spirit stops when you stop,
amen, in other words, He
will not force you, He is a
gentleman. You cannot wait
for the Holy Spirit to open
your mouth, He will not do
that, you must open; you
speak, He gives you the
language. That’s how God
works. Evil spirits will
force you and won’t let you
stop, that’s not God’s way.
That’s why this is the gift
of the Holy Spirit. Now we
are going to sing in
tongues, no music for a
while please, we are going
to sing in tongues, now this
is wonderful, especially
when you are stress, learn
to sing in tongues, alright,
maybe you might start
singing in the toilet first,
but whatever it is, in the
bathroom or whatever, start
singing in the Spirit, amen,
something like this (singing
in tongues), ok you can
stop, you see you can stop
right? You can start, you
can stop anytime you want
to, it is yours, it is
yours. It must be a river
that never stops, ok?
Doesn’t matter if you are
stammering for a while, keep
on stammering, as you are
faithful with one, two
syllables, God gives you
more, amen? God gives you
more and more. Amen? You see
you can sing without the
music, because when Monday
comes, it won’t be there.
Ok? It will be you, you can
sing in the Spirit, you can
sing (singing in tongues),
amen? Your wife scolds you
(singing in tongues), your
wife tells you your
mother-in-law is coming
(singing in tongues). God
bless you, lift your hands
all across this place. The
Lord bless you and the Lord
keep you this coming week;
you and your love ones, the
Lord makes His face shine on
you and be gracious to you,
the Lord lifts up His
countenance on you, and
grant to you and yours His
wonderful shalom wholeness
and peace, in Jesus name,
amen. Don’t ever let it
stop, don’t ever let it
stop, amen, God bless you.
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