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Question: When you receive the Holy Ghost does it always have to be an outstanding type of experience, or can it happen when the only thing you experience is hearing "words that you don't understand"? Also, if you don't speak those out, have you still received? When I get in a deep praise mode I often hear these words and a few times I have spoken them out but as soon as I do, they stop coming. Is this the Holy Ghost or is it just me?

Answer: Without becoming real technical, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost seems to have one initial sign evidence, and that is speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gives the utterance. This Baptism is often accompanied by other manifestations such as uncontrollable weeping, laughing, shouting, dancing, etc

Five places in the book of Acts, we read about those that received the Baptism of the Spirit (Acts 2, 8, 9, 10, and 19). These instances either speak directly to the fact that they 'spoke in tongues', or the passages heavily insinuate that they did. I believe that one basic reason that speaking in other tongues is given as an initial sign evidence is due to the fact that the tongue is, according to James, a bodily member that is not controllable by us. If the Spirit is in control of the tongue, then that is a proof that He is in control of the rest of us as well. This is only an opinion. I think that it makes great sense though.

About it being in your head first, and then you quit soon after you begin to speak it out; I think that it may be fear or doubt. There is nothing to fear. It is God ordained and it is a beautiful thing.

The Holy Spirit is God's gift to us that we might be better witnesses for Him (Acts 1:8); and that we might edify ourself as well as edifying God (1 Corinthians 14).

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