Paper Pentecostals

Were you led to an artificial Pentecost?

There is something special about authentically speaking in tongues by the power of the Holy Ghost. When you are baptized in the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues, He is doing it, not you. The human person speaking in tongues contributes nothing--he or she exercises no control or direction or power over what is said. The supplicant's mouth, lips, tongue, etc., are moved by an invisible agent. Yes, you probably get there through an emotional ecstasy, but in that ecstasy there is a divorce between your control over your voice mechanism, which is relinquished, and the Spirit's use, which is picked up. The Pentecostal speaks, but is not the one speaking. He or she observes as a witness to the manifestation, to the union, not as the performer.

A tongue speaker who self-manufactures his or her own babbling is, well, not much more than a wannabe. How can God speak with your mouth if YOU are doing it? The human mudman has to find the contrition, the humility, the horror of his or her rebellion and usurpation of God's lordship over their lives; i.e., their using His life that is animating them without giving Him the respect, thanks, and honor that is due. When they find actual surrender and submit to His lordship and are accepted by Him, euphoria will ensue. Then the appropriate gift will come.