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How to Speak in Tongues

How to Speak in Tongues

Now that you know why one speaks in tongues and
when one speaks in tongues, I know that you would like
to receive into manifestation the power of the fullness
of the Holy Spirit. I know that you would like to speak
the wonderful works of God and magnify God. To do
this there is one thing you must do and that is to believe
God’s Word. Surely you do believe God’s Word for what
He has promised He is not only willing to perform, but
He is able to perform. I can assure you upon the integrity
of God’s Word that when you speak in tongues
you will be speaking the wonderful works of God and
magnifying God.*

Before you can tap any of God’s resources you must
know, first of all, what is available. You know speaking
in tongues is available because the Word of God says
all born-again believers have the holy spirit within them,
which is the ability to speak in tongues. Next you must
know how to receive it, which is set forth in the following
paragraphs.

Let me unfold the keys to you and shortly you too will
be speaking the wonderful works of God. Acts 2:4 says,
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” They
were all filled, nobody was missed. Nobody ever gets
missed if he has heard The Word and if he believes it
and then acts upon it. God is always faithful and nobody
then can be passed over. Do exactly what I tell you to
do down to the most minute detail.

Paul in I Thessalonians 2:13, thanked God that “when
ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,
the word of God.” You too must follow God’s truth as
told in the Word of God. But if you think this is just
Victor Paul Wierwille writing or speaking to you, you
will never receive. If you know that what I am saying to
you are words which the Holy Ghost has spoken and is
speaking to you by me, then you too will manifest the
greatness of the power of God. If you will literally do
what I ask you, then you can manifest the fullness of
the abundance of God, the wonderful power of God.

Remember Acts 2:4 says, “And they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost, and [they] began to speak. . .” They,
the people, did the speaking.

Have you ever thought through the mechanics of
speech? You with your own vocal organs have to do the
speaking. The same mechanics that are involved in speaking
English or any other known language are involved
in speaking in tongues. For instance, if I say, “I love the
Lord Jesus Christ,” what did I mechanically do? I moved
my lips, I moved my tongue, I moved my throat, I made
the sound and I had to think. All this is involved in the
mechanics of speech.

You say audibly, “I love the Lord Jesus Christ.” What
did you do? You moved your lips, your throat and your
tongue to speak. You formulated the words; you pushed
them out.

The only difference between speaking in tongues and
speaking in English is that when I say, “I love the Lord
Jesus Christ,” I have to think. When I speak in tongues
I do not think the words I speak. God gives the words
to my spirit, and I formulate them on my lips. I do not
think the words, but they are there when I move my lips,
my throat, my tongue.

Believe to be very natural and at ease. You have to
move your lips, your throat, your tongue; you push the
air through your voice box to make the sounds. You have
to formulate the words, but the words you speak, as in
Acts 2:4, are as the Spirit gives you utterance. What you
speak is God’s business, but that you speak is your business.
I make the sounds, but the words that I speak are
given to my spirit. God gives the utterance, and they are
words that magnify His Name; they are speaking the
wonderful works of God. This is the greatness of the
manifestation of speaking in tongues.

If you understand the mechanics of speaking in English
or in any other language that you know, then you understand
the mechanics of speaking in tongues. If you
are born again of God’s Spirit, the power is in you, but
you have to do the speaking—not God—you do it. You
will have no difficulty with God; the only difficulty you
will have is in your own mind and your understanding
of what you have to do. You, not the Spirit, move your
lips; you move your tongue; you move your throat; you
give the words sound by the power of God that is in
you. Thus you are speaking forth the wonderful, wonderful
works of God. How simple and beautiful it really is.

Acts 2 is the order of action for the Church.

Acts 2:38:
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins, and ye shall receive [lambanō,**
ye shall manifest] the gift of the Holy Ghost [pneuma
hagion].

This is for the Church Age in which you and I live.
When you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe that God raised Him from the dead, you have the
remission of sins.***

The Word says, “ye shall receive.” You are to manifest
in the senses-world the proof that you have received
spiritually. As you manifest, you speak the wonderful
works of God; you magnify God.

John 7 tells us a great truth that you and I need to understand
when we manifest forth the power of the Holy
Spirit.

John 7:37, 38:
. . .Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

The word “belly” stands for the depth of the soul of a
man. “Out of the innermost being of that man shall flow
rivers [not little streams] of living water.” When you
receive into manifestation the power from the Holy Spirit,
you do not receive more spiritual substance; you just
receive into evidence, into manifestation in the senses
world, what you already spiritually have within. Manifesting
the holy spirit does not mean you have been given
something new; you are simply manifesting to your senses
what you have within. The gift is already in you. God
gave you the ability to speak in tongues when you were
born again. The act of speaking in tongues is your responsibility;
you already have the potential. If you don’t
speak in tongues, it isn’t because God hasn’t given you
the ability. God through His Son promised, “out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.”

This is what Jesus Christ spoke and what He told the
apostles before He ascended. Out of their belly, out of
their innermost being, would flow rivers of living water.
So when you begin to speak in tongues, you formulate
the words, you speak forth the words and let them
bubble, let them flow freely, not trickle. When you start
speaking in tongues, let it flow with one sound right
after the other. That is what The Word says and that is
what it means.

Luke 11:11:
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father,
will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he
for a fish give him a serpent?

Suppose you had a son who was hungry and you had
bread in your house, if he asked for it, would you give
him a stone? I am sure you would not.

Luke 11:12, 13:
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
If ye then [as fathers], being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children: how much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them
that ask him?

The word “ask” is the same word as “demand.” Do
you know why you can demand payment on a check?
Because the money behind it is already in the bank. All
you have to do is walk up to the cashier’s window and
ask for the money for that check. “How much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask [demand it of] him?” Why can we demand the holy
spirit? Because it already has been given to us.

I want to call one more thing to your attention. The
fullest cargoes of life come in on quiet seas. When the
oceans are rough, the ships lay out in the deep; but when
the oceans quiet down, the great cargo ships come into
the harbor. The greatest cargoes of our spiritual life come
in over our quiet inner seas. One of the things that the
Word of God has done to me is to give peace to me on
the inside so that I can receive the abundance of the power
of the fullness of God.

Galatians 3:5:
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and
worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

How do I minister the holy spirit to people? Do I do
this by the hearing of faith? Yes! I do not do this by the
works of the law.

I am ministering the holy spirit to you, teaching you
exactly what to do. After you have read my instructions,
I want you to close your eyes and sit quietly. Remember
that when I have ministered the holy spirit to you, I
want you to move your lips, your throat, your tongue.
You make the sounds.

Sit quietly and do exactly as I instruct. Remember the
Word of God says in Job 29:23, “And they opened their
mouth wide as for the latter rain.” To drink you have to
open your mouth. In John 20:22 Jesus instructed the
apostles before the ascension to breathe in. He opened
His mouth wide and He breathed in.**** In a moment I want
you to open your mouth wide and breathe in.

While you are sitting, follow this instruction. Open
your mouth wide and breathe in. You are not going to
receive anything more spiritually; you are now going to
manifest the spirit’s presence. Just breathe in. Open your
mouth wide. While you are breathing in, thank God for
having filled you with the fullness of the power of His
holy spirit. Don’t beg Him; thank Him for it.

When you begin to speak in tongues, move your lips,
your throat, your tongue. Speak forth. When you have
finished one sound, speak another. Do not pay any attention
to what you are thinking. You formulate the words;
you move your lips, your throat, your tongue; you say
it. You are magnifying God no matter what the words
sound like to your ears. It is your part to speak in tongues;
it is God’s part to give the utterance.

Keep moving your lips, your throat and tongue. Formulate
another sound. You have to formulate the sounds
differently on your lips. God has given them to your spirit.
They are in your spirit coming on your tongue; you have
to speak them out. You are speaking the wonderful works
of God; you are magnifying God; you are speaking in
tongues. The external manifestation is your proof in the
senses–world that you have Christ within. Get bold in
it; let it flow out; let it effervesce. “Out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.” Keep on speaking. God is
giving the words to your spirit; your spirit is bringing
them up to your throat, and you are bringing them out.

“Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ and by the power
of God that is within me, I now minister the fullness of
your holy spirit into manifestation in this believer’s life.”
Breathe in deeply and now begin to speak in tongues as
I have just instructed you.

 

 

Isn’t God wonderful!
If you can speak one word, you can speak ten thousand
words; because if you can speak one word, you
have the power, the God-given ability, to speak more.
Every time you speak remember that you are edifying
yourself spiritually, building yourself up. You are speaking
the wonderful works of God; you are magnifying
God. You have the proof now in the senses-world that
you have Christ within, that you are a joint-heir with Him.

In a moment I want you to speak again; to speak once
more so that you become fluent and confident from experience.
To learn another language by using your mind
would take months; but to speak in unknown tongues
happens instantly. God knows the tongues, so He gives
them to your spirit and you speak them forth.

Anybody who knows even the slightest bit about languages
knows that “beep, beep, beep, boop, boop, boop”
would not be speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues
is speaking a developed language. Now once more I want
you to speak in tongues. Just get quiet. Move your lips,
throat, and tongue, and start speaking again. Keep on
speaking. You are speaking the wonderful works of God,
magnifying God. You now have proved to your senses
that Christ is in you and that you have the power of
the holy spirit. This is the greatness of God’s wonderful
power to you as a believer.

* Acts 2:11: “Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderful works of God”
Acts 10:46: “For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify
God. . . .”
** There are two Greek words for “receive” used in relation to receiving
the holy spirit. Dechomai means “to receive the inherent
power and ability.” Lambanō means “to receive to the extent of
outwardly manifesting.”
***Romans 10:9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised
him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
****See page 97 explanation of John 20:22.