RHEMA 12/07/07  A BALANCE OF ADMONITION AND AFFIRMATION

EXPERIENCE: Today I was reading an article by someone and felt it needed more of a balance between correction and encouragement.

ANOINTED HANDS: I opened to this scripture:

1 Cor 16:13-14 NLT
Be on guard. Stand true to what you believe. Be courageous. Be strong. And everything you do must be done with love.

CONFIRMATION INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES: Pastor prayed in tongues over me tonight. I received two sentences of interpretation. One sentence was, “No, no, no, you should not do that!” And a while later the other sentence I picked up was, “A double portion.” The intercessor next to me picked up something about His strength covered my weakness.

Last night before going to bed, I heard a conversation where someone asked an angel, “Have you told her yet?”  I then heard that he had been sent to tell me.  Then I was visited by an angel after going to sleep and I knew exactly who he was, I had seen him before, why he had come and that I had better repent really fast.  The message was very patient, loving, but quite firm.  So tonight when I heard pastor’s tongue, he told me that he had never spoken in that language before.  Well since I heard the rebuke in the interpretation, I felt strongly that pastor was speaking in the tongue of that angel and I heard the message loud and clear. 

When placing the 3 sentences in context, I felt that the Lord was lovingly, but firmly saying that if I wanted the double portion then I needed to change and He understood I could not do it in my weakness, so He would give me His strength to change.

NOTE:  People have asked me how I “receive” an interpretation of tongues.  I actually hear with my literal ears the voice of the person speaking in English.  And at the same time I hear the Lord’s inner voice superimposed over the same sentence at once. 

I can almost always tell it is a interpretation because what I hear from His voice starts and stops at the same synch and timing as the sentence I am hearing the person speak in another language.  Often even the syllables match in synch and that is amazing. 

But what is most profound about this gift is that the Lord’s voice is so strongly superimposed over the person’s literal voice, that I actually hear more of His voice than I do the tongues.  It is like His voice is louder, even though it is actually heard in my inner ear and spirit.   So I am hearing English but the person is speaking something else. 

Some of the tongues that men speak are men's languages and some are the languages of angels.  I have had a few visions where I have seen and heard angels speak in their tongue and I am hearing them through the gift of Interpreting of Tongues, through the Lord's still small voice.  Those visions helped me understand that the sentences I receive of interpretation when in the prayer room are really this gift in operation, for it is the exact same way. 

I have recently been receiving some occasional phrases of interpretations of my own tongues and they are very, very clear to me.  Those times have been a true comfort and joy to hear what both my spirit and the Holy Spirit are speaking into my life.

Acts 2:4 NKJV

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

1 Cor 12:7-11 NKJV

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:  8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues , to another the interpretation of tongues . 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

1 Cor 13:1 NKJV

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

1 Cor 14:13-15 NKJV

Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays , but my understanding is unfruitful. What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit , and I will also pray with the understanding...

WORD TO PONDER: RAISE YOUR CHILDREN WITH A BALANCE OF ADMONITION AND AFFIRMATION 12/08/07

Wisdom is justified by her children. Dear ones, the good and bad seeds that you plant in others become your children. They are your fruit. Take heed to plant good seeds so that you reap a good harvest.

It is wise to plant seeds with a balance of affirmation and admonition. A child raised with too much correction will become a harvest of condemnation, shame and self rejection. A child raised in only affirmation and praise will become proud and independent. Choose to balance correction with encouragement so that the seeds you plant in your children will produce a good crop. In all things, always plant with love.

2 Cor 9:6-11 NKJV
But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever." Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.