What we sing on the “spur of the moment” by the Spirit of God is fresh because it is what the Spirit is prompting us to declare at that instant.  In the first part of Ephesians 5:19, you are speaking to yourself.  Then you begin to speak to God.  There are songs written not to… Read More »

If you don’t encourage yourself, too many times you may find that there is no one else around to do it.  Speak to yourself in other tongues and that will give you the capacity to sing a new song–the NEXT step.  God is the author of the new song.  As a testimony in the mouths… Read More »

The early church kept being filled with the Spirit as we read how they did it in Ephesians 5:19-21, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.  Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord… Read More »

Getting the Holy Spirit is not like a smallpox shot.  IF you don’t use your prayer language, you lose the awareness of the Holy Spirit; you lose the consciousness of Him, and you lose the power that comes with operating in the Spirit.   All through the Book of Acts, it mentions the apostles being “filled… Read More »

I have read by those who are Greek scholars, that the tense of the verb “be filled” with the Spirit, would better be translated by the phrase, “be constantly in the process of being filled,” or “be being filled.”  The first evidence of being filled with the Spirit is your faith, and the first outward… Read More »

A drunkard will give you everything he has with total optimism that he can get more money or whatever he’s giving without any trouble at all.  The person “drunk” in the Spirit is free to give whatever the Lord tells him to, not out of a false optimism, but in faith, knowing that God is… Read More »

What the Lord says in the third instruction is not to be drunk with the natural juice but to be so filled with the Holy Spirit that some of the characteristics of a drunkard show up in us.  These things that are desirable when operating in the Spirit are perverted by satan in an alcoholic.… Read More »

Ephesians 5:15-21 instructions: 1. Redeem the time.  2. Understand the will of the Lord.  3. Be filled with the Spirit, not drunk with wine. 4. Speak to yourself in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. 5. Make melody in your heart to the Lord.   6.Give thanks to God always for all things in the name of… Read More »

I believe that all Spirit-filled Christians want to walk in the wisdom of God.  We all want to redeem time because of evil days, time that the enemy has stolen from us in one way or another.  And we all want to understand the will of God for us.  But few seem to know how… Read More »

Ephesians 5:15-21 (KJV) 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the… Read More »