Hamon - Seventy Reasons for Speaking in Tongues: Your Own Built in Spiritual Dynamo

CONTENTS

DESTINY IMAGE BOOKS BY BILL HAMON

Prophets and Personal Prophecy

Prophetic Scriptures Yet to Be Fulfilled

The Day of the Saints

The Eternal Church

Who Am I and Why Am I Here

Prophets and the Prophetic Movement II

Prophets, Pitfalls and Principles III

Apostle Prophets and the Coming Moves of God

Copyright 2012Dr. Bill Hamon

All rights reserved. This book is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. This book may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit. The use of short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request. Unless otherwise identified, Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked PNT are taken from The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips, trans., Copyright New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked AMP are taken from the Amplified Bible, Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible; Tyndale House, 1997, 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. All emphasis within Scripture quotations is the authors own.

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DEDICATION

This book is written for the benefit of the 600 million Christians who have received the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirits gift is the divine ability given to a Christian to pray in other tongues with a gifted spirit language. It is estimated that 90 percent of those who have received the gift of the Holy Spirit are familiar with less than 10 percent of the reasons for praying in tongues with their spirit languages.

This book is also dedicated to my wife and our three children who are major leaders in Christian International and to CIs great leaders around the world who kept the ministry functioning while I took the time to write this book. And finally, it is dedicated to my grandchildren and their generation, which has had little teaching on the value and purpose of speaking in ones spirit language.

More than 600 million Christians have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet most do not utilize this precious gift to its full potential. And many who do speak in tongues on a regular basis do not fully understand all the benefits this gift brings. This book is being written primarily for these believers, but hopefully many who have not received the gift that the Holy Spirit has for them will also be enlightened enough to believe and receive the gift.

I am also concerned about the new generationthat of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Many books were written about speaking in tongues during the Charismatic Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. However, most of those books are no longer in print. The majority of Pentecostal and Charismatic ministers currently do very little teaching and preaching on the gift of the Holy Spirit with speaking in other tongues. They rarely preach on all the benefits and purposes for praying in tongues. Seeing the current lack of teaching and books on Gods purpose in giving Christians a spirit language was my main motivation for writing this book at this time.

In the 1950s and 1960s, I preached much on the Holy Spirit and prayed for thousands who received the gift of the Holy Spirit. Since that time, I must admit that I havent preached on the value and benefits of praying with ones spirit language as often, though I have made comments about this subject in my other messages. Most of my preaching over the course of my ministry has focused on the restoration of the Church and the present moves of God. The baptism of the Holy Spirit was the main truth that was taught in the Pentecostal Movement in the first decade of the 1900s and the Charismatic Movement in the 1960s. I have focused more on pioneering and preaching the Prophetic-Apostolic Movement, which began in the 1980s; the Saints Movement, which is now underway; and the Third and Final Church Reformation.

Now it has become apparent that revelation about the gift of the believers spirit language needs to again become a priority in the Body of Christ. Recently I have taught most of what I have written in this book to the students at Christian Internationals Ministry Training College. I believe there is definitely a need to put the various teaching and preaching on this subject together into one volume to reveal all Gods purposes for baptizing His believers with the Holy Spirit.

The purpose of this book is to enlighten Christians to the many and varied ways God intends for believers to use their spirit languages. I will cover the scriptural reasons given for praying in our spirit language. I will pull from my years of being a Spirit-baptized believer who has had many experiences in praying and ministering in my spirit language and from fifty-eight years of praying for thousands of Christians who received the Holy Spirits gift of their own spirit languages.

WHAT IS BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT OR THE GIFT OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT?

A Christian is baptized with the Holy Spirit and receives the gift of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit gifts his or her redeemed spirit with the ability to pray in a spirit language. The spirit language originates from and is directed by the persons baptized spirit, which means his or her spirit has been immersed in the Holy Spirit. The spirit language is given by the Holy Spirit and directed by the Holy Spirit.

Paul, the apostle, explained that praying in the spirit language is a function of the mind of the spirit and not the natural mind. When we pray in tongues our praying originates and flows from our inner spirit and not from our natural mind. It is not a learned language, but a gift from the Holy Spirit. The natural mind does not understand it. For if I pray in tongues, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful (1 Cor. 14:14).

Approximately 90 percent of all that the Bible says about speaking in tongues comes from the writings of Apostle Paul. He spoke in tongues more than anyone else he knew: I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all (1 Cor. 14:18). That is the reason Paul wrote more about speaking in tongues and the proper use of this gift than all the rest of the biblical authors. Paul is the greatest authority on the value and purpose of our spirit language.

DIFFERENT TERMS AND PHRASES BUT
THE SAME GIFT

The Bible writers used different phrases to refer to the same experience and operation. The King James Version of the Bible calls it speaking in other tongues and unknown tongues. Apostle Paul also called it praying in the spirit or praying with the spirit. Other terms Jesus, Peter, and Paul used to refer to this experience include: