Week 4 - Overcoming Strongholds

Week 4 - Overcoming Strongholds

This is the last week of a four week course designed to teach you how praying in tongues will change your life.

Last nights bible study was aimed toward showing you how praying in tongues will help you overcome all strongholds in your life, and continue growing to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;(Ephesians 4:13)

The three main beliefs/outcomes were:

• There are no strongholds in my spirit – I am free from all sin 
• While I am alive – I will suffer temptation – but satan cannot force me to sin  
• My emotions are stronger than my will-power, and mind-power BUT NOT my born-again spirit

A stronghold is a system of thought (or way of thinking) opposite to God's truth, which is empowered by emotions. A stronghold will hide behind your emotions so you don't recognize it. From there it will control the way you act with it's faulty reasoning which is against God's word.

But thank God - you don't have to keep strongholds. Learn the steps of freedom and how you can walk out of a stronghold into real freedom!

 Here are the notes and the outline from this study.
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Here is the MP3 recording of the night.
Total length = 1:12

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God bless!

Week 3 - Receiving Revelation From God's Word

Receiving Revelation From God's Word

Last nights bible study was aimed toward showing you how praying in tongues will help you receive revelation from God's word so you can know Him.
To Know God is to Know His Word.
The Bible is a written revelation of who God is in a tangible form which can be held and read. And it allows us to fellowship with God and to know Him. The very purpose of our life is to know Him.

I present a simple 5-step plan to understanding God's Word.

1. Born again - receive a new nature capable of understanding God
2. Baptised with the Holy Spirit - Invite the Holy Spirit inside you to begin to teach you
3. Praying in Tongues - pray in tongues and download the "mysteries" of God's wisdom
4. Receiving Revelation - when your spirit understands the mystery and begins explaining it to your mind
5. Share with Others (Prophesy) - Begin to share the how God has changed your life through the revelation of His word

But remember - don't rush off with a half-baked revelation that you haven't fully understood.
Don’t run around like a headless chook. Wait until you properly understand the revelation!

 Here are the notes and the outline from this study.
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Here is the MP3 recording of the night.
Total length = 1:15
(Teaching for first 55 minutes; then some practical discussion)

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God bless!

Week 2 - Pray in Tongues to discover Gods will for your life

Pray in Tongues to discover Gods will for your life

Last nights bible study was aimed toward showing you how praying in tongues will help you discover God's will for your life. Some of you may already know, some of you may not.

God's will isn't just for the spiritual in your life. God wants to coach you on how to be His child in every area of your life - how to be a godly wife/husband, father/mother, employee/boss, student/teacher. And He also wants you to discover the particular role and function you have in the body of Christ.

Praying in tongues is the act of presenting your body as a living sacrifice, and as you do this then you won't be conformed to this world  but you will be transformed by the renewing of your mind --- and then ---- you'll discover the good, acceptable and perfect will of God for your life.

The secret is to begin praying in tongues.

Here are the notes and the outline from this study.
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Week2 - Outline View  Download

Here is the MP3 recording of the night.
Total length = 1:14
(Teaching for first 51 minutes; practical examples till 1:04; then questions and discussion till the end)

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God bless!

Foundational Gift of Tongues - Video

Since I've finally rediscovered my blog (after nearly 5 year gap), here's a youtube link to myself preaching at our local church, Ranui Baptist, on 27 July 2014 last year. (It was the second service)

Watch on Youtube
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Why should you watch it?
If you pray in tongues it will change your life. Praying in tongues activates the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit in your life. When you pray you are literally inviting him into your born-again spirit to mentor, coach and train you. Every minute you spend praying in tongues is a minute you've given to the Holy Spirit to allow Him to transform you more and more into the image of Jesus Christ.

Just do it. Begin to pray in tongues. Make that a constant in your life, and you'll never regret it. You'll be able to look back on your life within 6-12 months and recognize the change that the Holy Spirit has made.

I cannot recommend it highly enough (praying in tongues), and this video is simply my attempt to share some of my testimony and encourage you to begin your own journey going deeper into God.

God bless!
Alan

PS Here's the teaching notes that I used.View Download
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Pray in Tongues to change your life - Week 1

Gods Will is for me to pray in tongues

After preaching last year on the Foundational Gift of Tongues, I was approached by a number of people wanting more information, especially:

• How do I start?
• How do I know if I've received the gift of tongues?
• Can everyone pray in tongues?
• Why should I do something I don't understand with my mind?

I approached Pastor Russell with my ideas, and offered to do a 4-week course with practical training on how and why you should pray in tongues. And then two people asked me if it was going to be recorded at all. And so I've reactivated my blog to give a place to listen to and read the material.

The first week is called - Why God wants every Christian, especially me, to pray in tongues

Here are the notes and the outline from Week 1 of "Praying in Tongues to change your life".
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Week1 - Outline View Download

There are two MP3 recordings of the night.

A full session with all questions and discussion (1:44 length)
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And an edited session, with most of the discussion removed (1:10 length)
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Enjoy!