SID: Dr. Hamon, you teach on the three greatest gifts that humanity has received. Explain.
BILL: Yes. Once a person realizes that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosever would have everlasting life, so God’s gift to the world was his only begotten son. Out of all of his wisdom and resources the only way to redeem mankind was through the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. So he gave that gift. Then Jesus said, “I’ve come to do thy will, O Lord.” He came at the will of the Father, gave his life on the cross because he came to save sinners, because he had to have sinners to make saints. And so Jesus came and died on the cross, purchased the church with his blood, then he wanted to send his gift of the Holy Spirit back to the church to convert and convince, and to mature and equip the church with the gifts of the Spirit, and all of that. Then when Jesus went back he sent the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit wanted to give his gift to the individual believer. But he searched all of Heaven, all of God’s treasures, all that God had to offer in Heaven, and God had agreed the greatest and best gift he could possibly give the individual believer was your own spirit language, where God is a spirit and the worshiper must worship in spirit and truth. So when you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is your spirit language, that’s the gift, evangelicals get upset because they think we’re saying you don’t have the Holy Spirit until you talk in tongues. Now I was born of the Spirit, so I had the Holy Spirit, but I didn’t have the Holy Spirit’s gift. See, it’s a gift of the Holy Spirit, like the gift of God is eternal life. The gift of the Holy Spirit is your spirit language and that spirit language has many, many, many benefits that 90 percent of Christians don’t use.
SID: You know what I found that as you pray more and more in tongues, the Holy Spirit gives you more and more reasons and benefits.
BILL: Yes.
SID: Tell me the latest one he’s given you.
BILL: The latest one he gave me was that the speaking in tongues does the same thing for our spirit person as your heart does for your natural person. Your heart beats and puts blood throughout all your veins and that life-giving blood is what keeps you going. Well speaking in tongues floods and pumps the Holy Spirit presence throughout your whole spirit, soul and body. And Oral Roberts University did research and found that it increases your immunity system 35 percent.
SID: Imagine what my immune system would be if I prayed without ceasing, which is my goal. Give me just some bullet points, benefits of speaking in tongues.
BILL: There are so many. It activates the spirit of wisdom and revelation. It empowers you for ministry and so many benefits of healing of your brain and mind, builds your faith. The only two ways I know to build your faith is the Word of God and praying in tongues, and that’s proven. A psychiatrist received the gift in the charismatic movement. What praying in tongues does, he said, it clears out your subconscious and your spirit clears out your fears, your anxieties, your traumas, and loves and worships God, you can’t do it in the natural tongue. And you’ve got your own built-in psychiatrist. You don’t have to go crazy.
SID: Can I accomplish my full destiny that God has for me if I don’t pray in tongues?
BILL: It’s going to be pretty hard.
SID: I think it’s impossible. Science has revealed the benefits of praying in tongues.
BILL: It’s a language, so it is an intelligent language. It’s a language of the spirit. That’s the reason I call it your spirit language, because it is a language. Paul said if I pray in tongues in my spirit language, my spirit praise, but my mind is inactive. He says it’s inactive. And so they have tests in Penn University, and Dr. Newburgh there did some tests and they put these instruments on the frontal lobes of some people praying, evangelicals and nuns, and when they did this it really activated right here in your frontal lobe. And they gave it to a, put it on a Christian praying in tongues and it went blank, no activity. And that proves what Paul said. If I pray in tongues, my spirit prays, but my natural mind, my frontal lobe area is inactive, and they proved that scientifically.
SID: You me, the acid test is the results you see in people. I know I have prayed in Filipino language and led someone to know the Messiah. I don’t speak one word of the Filipino language. But get this, this doctor that I led to the Lord said, “You not only prayed in my language, did you know there’s over 20 different dialects in the Philippines? You prayed in my exact dialect.” Why do you call speaking in the supernatural language the father and mother of all gifts?
BILL: Oh my, thank you for asking that, because that’s so important. You know, so many people feel like the only time they’re supernatural is they’re healing or you see an angel, or you make a visit to Heaven. But I try to tell people, look, you’ve already experienced the two greatest miracles in the world. I mean, when God created the heavens and the earth that was a miracle. But when you receive born-again experience and God washes away all your sins and makes a new creation out of you, and that’s not just religious, you literally become a new creation in Christ. All things pass away, all things become new. That’s the father of all miracles, the born-again experience. Then the mother of all miracles is what James said, “No man can tame the tongue, but God can.” So when you receive your spirit language and God tames your tongue and speaks a language through it, that’s the mother of all miracles. And really, I try to [unintelligible] and say, look, you’ve already experienced the father of all miracles and the mother miracles, you shouldn’t be, the rest are your kids. Your healing, your miracle, your fulfillment, financially, whatever the rest is, is small compared to that. So if you’ve got the faith you just got to exercise it.
SID: All right, I am ready, I know you’re ready to have a million volts of power surge through your body and help you achieve your destiny. We’ll be right back.
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Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth