Frank Lee
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You said:" Isaiah 32:4 KJVS
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
stammerers refers to those that pray in the spirit - in tongues."
How do you come to interpret 'stammerers' to mean speaking in tongues?
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" How do you come to interpret 'stammerers' to mean speaking in tongues?"
By the experience of speaking in tongues for the past forty years. Many languages, and I don't propose that I know which language I'm speaking, have expressions that sound repetitive, as if stammering.
Isaiah 28:11-12 KJVS
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
The above scriptures speak again to the stammering vs 11, and to the building up, the rest in vs 12 which is a reference to the NT scripture 1 Corinthians 14:4
1 Corinthians 14:4 NASB
One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
The Word here EDIFIES in the strong's concordance is number G3618
"to build a house, erect a building
to build (up from the foundation)
to restore by building, to rebuild, repair"
Prayer in the spirit, praying in tongues is as the charging of the battery. Refer to Jude, vs 20;
Jude 1:20 KJVS
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
In the new testament letters
1. Praying in the spirit, praying in the Holy Ghost, praying or speaking in tongues is used interchangeably.
In Ephesians prayer in the spirit is part of our spiritual weaponry.
Ephesians 6:18 KJVS
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Many times the adversary tries to prevent or to stumble you from prayer in the spirit - tongues. He will flood you with all kinds of thoughts to divert you from praying in the spirit. I've fought thus many times, starting prayer in tongues to find that I stopped to consider some thought - some firey dart shot at me. This is a common ploy against believers. He wants to stop all prayer especially prayer in the Holy Spirit. God "spiritually encrypts" the prayers in the spirit so that satan cannot interpret them.
This is verified by brother Paul's words;
1 Corinthians 14:2 KJVS
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
As to the value of edifying, building up...
1 Corinthians 14:18 KJVS
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
Yes I speak with tongues every day. Yes it's a gift of God through the Holy Spirit, yes I've stood in church services and prophesied.
Would to God I could share the wonderful things, the part I've been taught, regarding gifts of the spirit.
It's only because I was never taught against God's gifts that I've been able to receive them.
Matthew 10:7-8 KJVS
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. [8] Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
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