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SID: I was just telling Richard during the break, I don’t, can you feel, can you feel, can you feel at home, there is a, it’s like a river of God’s Spirit.
RICHARD: There is.
SID: It’s so wonderful. The whole world has to experience this liver [meant to say “river”]? Liver? You know, he just did it to me. Someone’s liver has been healed right now. Someone’s liver is being healed right now.
RICHARD: Did you hear what you said? To feel this liver.
SID: Oh, I heard what I said.
RICHARD: That’s compassion.
SID: Yeah, but let me tell you something. That was not rehearsed.
RICHARD: No.
SID: That just came when I was talking about the river of God’s Spirit that it’s here right now. There is something, I remember reading years ago that your father wrote and you teach on it also, and it’s got to do with supernatural languages, tongues.
RICHARD: Yes.
SID: He said, the Bible says, “Pray in your understanding and pray in the Spirit.” And your father taught, get into a flow. You pray with your understanding then you pray in tongues in the Spirit then you pray with your, and he said, sooner or later when you pray with your understanding you’ll actually be interpreting your supernatural language. Tell me a bit about that.
RICHARD: Well that’s the Apostle Paul who taught that when you pray in tongues you don’t know what you’re saying. You’re praying the mysteries of God. Your spirit is edified. You feel better, but you don’t have understanding to go along with it. So Paul said, “What will I do? I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray with the understanding.” When a person gets saved the Holy Spirit comes in and bears witness with their spirit that they’re a child of God. So every Christian has the Holy Spirit. They may not pray in tongues, but they have the ability because the Holy Spirit is in them. All right. What does the Bible say the Holy Spirit is doing? He’s interceding. He’s praying, Romans tells us, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, in a straight line prayer to God. Paul taught that we have an opportunity and an ability to tap into the Holy Spirit’s kiosk, [speaking in tongues]. We can pray in tongues and tap into the Holy Spirit’s prayer any time we like. Now many people who pray in tongues only pray at a moment of great joy or in terrible sadness. But it’s something we can do every day. We can tap in, I’m not talking about the gift of tongues. That’s different. I’m talking about your own daily devotional prayer language. We can tap into that prayer, and then as you said, when we stop and pray in our own language, we get God’s response back to us because the Holy Spirit is taking what’s inside of us that we don’t have the ability to express in human terms. He takes what’s way down on the inside of us and takes it up to God. But the scripture says he knows our hurts, he knows our needs, he knows our afflictions, he knows what’s in us. He’s taking that to the father. And then when we pray in English we’re getting God’s response back to us, and many times it’s a direct interpretation or it’s a direction, or it’s a new way, a new idea, a new concept, a new way of doing something, a new innovation, something brand new on the scene. And that’s something that I do every day of my life, not because I’m better than anybody else, because I need help. I need to know what to do.
SID: So if someone has been praying in tongues but they don’t really understand, teach me. Teach me. That’s me. I’m talking about me right now.
RICHARD: I’m talking about people, and what you’re talking about, I believe, is people who just pray in tongues, but they don’t complete the prayer.
SID: Yes.
RICHARD: They’re doing just a half a prayer.
SID: Yes. Tell me how you do it.
RICHARD: When you pray in tongues, stop and begin to pray in your own language the very first thing that God brings to your mind, the very first thing. Say it out loud and as you practice it, as you do it over and over again, you’ll get into the flow that you were talking about a little earlier. And as you pray in tongues and then stop and pray in your own language, you’ll find that you’ll begin to say what you’ve been wanting to say to God and you’ve not known how or you get his interpretation of what he wants you to have or to do. When I don’t know what to do, I pray in tongues and then I stop and I pray in my own language.
SID: And I’m not saying throw your mind out, but if you could make your decisions from God, do you realize how much better it would be? Do you realize how you’d never make mistakes? We need God more than ever.
We’ll be right back to It’s Supernatural.
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SID: Next week on It’s Supernatural. My guest was a career criminal. His extended family consisted of drug dealers, drug addicts, pimps, prostitutes. He had 34 members of his family in prison as of now for murder. I mean, this pervaded the whole family. He had an encounter with the Messiah. He learned about bloodline curses, began to break them on himself, on his family, his extended family and he has a passion to help you break. Now by the way, these curses can be things like sickness, like poverty and their bloodlines. And you can stop it, and his passion is to help you. Are you ready?
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