Holy Spirit Week

this week’s speaker topic is the Holy Spirit.

yesterday we spent most of class time learning about speaking in tongues.  then he had anyone who wanted to learn how to speak in tongues come to the front of the class and he prayed for them and then they all practiced.

I learned there’s a difference between the gift of tongues and speaking in tongues.  the gift is to be used to edify others and must be interpreted.  speaking in tongues is your prayer language and is between you and God.

he taught that to speak in tongues, you must ignore the analytical part of your mind because your analytical mind will try to stop it from happening.  the analytical mind processes what you’re thinking/saying.  so apparently, to speak in tongues, you must ignore a part of your mind.

I’m not really sure why God would create us with such awesome, complex brains/minds/inner workings only to require us to disregard them in order to have a deeper fellowship with Him.  I must just be too analytical I guess.  rather unfortunate.

God cannot be put in a box.

on thursday the dude’s having his prophecy team from his church come and prophesize (spelling??) over each of us.