 So in the conclusion I want to give you just four practical steps on how to receive the gift of speaking in tongues as we are praying for this Every service and we are encouraging each one of you to encourage you to ask God for more if you come here You've gotten saved I want to let you know that there is a relationship with Holy Spirit God wants you to have Jesus and Heavenly Father are sitting in the throne the Holy Spirit is on this earth and he wants to have a Relationship with you, and he wants to not only fill you with with himself that you speak another language But he also wants to fill you with himself that you have in power to live a Christian life and spread the message of Jesus Christ Somebody say amen the first thing is that Is you have to relax The Bible says when the Holy Spirit came upon disciples in book of Acts chapter 2 verse 4 Verse 2 we see one thing is actually I didn't see that before They were seated Disciples were not praying Disciples were not even underneath Disciples were seated and as they were sitting the Bible says the Holy Spirit came and they started to speak in other tongues One of the biggest hindrances to receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit is being panic stressed out or anxious Sometimes I go to camps and they asked me to pray for people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit And you see this man and women coming to the front as though they're pregnant about to deliver something And they feel like if I miss this I'm gonna go straight to hell There's this tension. There's this panic Until you relax Even today when we're going to pray if the Lord gives us opportunity if we're going to pray one thing you have to understand The Holy Spirit will baptize you but you got to chill Just like that The baptism of the Holy Spirit doesn't make you more righteous The love of God the grace of Jesus that's already our foundation and to receive that you just have to relax Even last Wednesday when people who received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they testified one thing They said until I actually relaxed and they said listen, there's no pressure. I just focus on Jesus I glorify Jesus the Holy Spirit lives inside of me and as he fills me and they just yield their tongue to him Next thing that happens They started to speak with the heavenly language and God began to fill him with the presence of the Holy Spirit You have to relax The Holy Spirit wants you to when you get relaxed Don't be stressed. Don't live in panic. Don't be like, oh my goodness, but I'm a home group leader You know, I really have to get it. Why why so that you can put it like a badge in front of your home group You just have to relax And that's when God will baptize you with the Holy Spirit number two Tongues are not just for praying The bible says that they spoke with other tongues The bible doesn't say they prayed in other tongues Did you know that when the first Gentile received the baptism of the Holy Spirit Peter was preaching and as Peter is preaching preaching about Jesus crucifixion how Jesus is the Son of God The bible says the Holy Spirit comes upon the first This guy was a roman emperor a roman soldier. He wasn't like a christian He was not even a jewish and right away as they were hearing the message They were not even praying the Holy Spirit came and they started speaking in tongues Apostle Paul says that he likes to sing in tongues And sometimes you hear during worship when our worship team, you know It takes that moment when the music is playing and we all sing and we sing to the Lord And then we sing in the language unknown and you may be saying wow, they're singing in russian. It's so beautiful It actually not russian And all of us russians were like well spinners singing spanish man spanish so beautiful But it's not spanish And so I believe as we come as you come more to church you will begin to hear more and more When we worship God not only with our mind, but we worship God also with our spirit So tongues is not only for prayer. You can speak even when you don't pray You can worship with tongues even when you don't pray Can somebody say amen number three The Holy Spirit gives utterance, but we speak in tongues The bible says they were filled and begun to speak Means the Holy Spirit doesn't take control of your mouth. Otherwise it will be witchcraft The Holy Spirit doesn't control us. He leads us He fills us the Holy Spirit is not like the devil That takes hold of you and makes him to do what he wants The Holy Spirit gives you utterance means he fills you on inside You yield your tongue to him and he takes over and he speaks as he wishes Now I understand you may say why tongues? You have to understand one thing is that your mind is very limited You know of the problems that you know of right now in your life The Holy Spirit knows of the problem you don't the Holy Spirit knows of the problems of other people's lives And many times what he will do is when you will begin to pray He will begin to use your language to pray for the situations you right now don't even have an idea about And he will begin to use that sometimes, you know, he bypasses our limitation of our mind To pray the way he wants it to be pray and that's why prayer in the Holy Spirit becomes a prayer that's pleasing to the Lord Same thing when it comes to worship, we are so limited in an English vocabulary But the Holy Spirit is able to pray how it is pleasing to the Lord And that's why I really want to encourage every single one of you that when you speak in tongues Sometimes those tongues are actually angelic languages The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 1 is that if I speak with tongues of man and tongues of angels Apostle Paul says that means when you speak in tongues not always but sometimes it's the language angels speak Angels don't speak English When God allows them they can speak English to you, but their language is different Their language their language is not Russian their language is not Spanish They have a completely different language and when we go to heaven you're gonna speak their language Even those of you who maybe think that they're speaking in tongues is a charismatic idea Wait till you get to heaven Angels have a different language So when you speak in tongues sometimes you actually are speaking in the language of angels Where you are speaking in a language that heaven speaks And God right away, the Holy Spirit tells angels what to do through speaking in tongues Sometimes you speak in the language that actually people speak on the earth A Holy Spirit chooses to use that I heard a lot of stories I've met people who have these stories when they spoke in tongues and people were in the building Who did not know Jesus and did not speak English and understood the message of Jesus clear and cut Came God saved and asked them where which part of that country are they're from and they said I have no idea What you're talking about And how Holy Spirit is able to use that because somebody say man And number four Don't be distracted by those who don't understand You know, it's interesting that though this was the move of God though Jesus was behind it The Holy Spirit was behind it. You know what some people said some said mocking Some mocked some laughed and that's nothing new People still do that today people mocked the idea that Jesus rose from the dead Some of you you know who became Christians you're comfortable with that But then the idea that the Holy Spirit can use people today You might not be comfortable with that and as a Christian when you get filled with Holy Spirit do not be distracted with what people Say we have to pay attention love and respect people But we have to go always back to the word of God Sometimes even a family will rise again and says you went to what you said what you speak in what in that church I told you stay away from those crazy people That's how it happens Disciples had exactly the same thing people mocked them But you know what usually the mocking happens from who it comes mostly from It's not the people it's from us It's when you get filled with the Holy Spirit you begin to speak in tongues And it's so great. It's so awesome. And the next day this thought comes into your head. I made all of that up We all have that I've had that I know when I got baptized in the Holy Spirit I called my pastor and I told him that I got filled with the Holy Spirit But honestly the only thing I had was a few syllables that was coming out. I knew it was from the Holy Spirit And then it turned into a sentence and it felt so awesome felt so great. I knew that was from the Holy Spirit I see that in a bible and I told my pastor finally I got baptized over the Holy Spirit after like six months of praying And then next morning I wake up And I literally have this cloud of thoughts that overwhelmed my mind Vlad you made all of that up Your tongues it you they sound so weird They sound so so different and I told the pastor I said I feel like so this is like not not This is from me. It passes as well. It's supposed to be from you It's supposed to be your mouth, but he says every single person will have that just cast away those thoughts He says the Holy Spirit baptized you and don't look back And I did that on sunday, and I never looked back