I'm going to turn to two passages of scripture,

Acts chapter 2 and 1st Corinthians 14.

If this is one of your first times here,

we're glad you're here, and we're going to go through

a lot of scripture in the message and I'll normally give you two

passages to turn to the first one, Acts Chapter 2 is where we'll begin and then please put

a marker at First Corinthians Chapter 14 and we'll flip over there in a moment.

All right?

We're going to continue our series entitled The Wealth of a Word and we're talking about

how important words are. And I hope you remember we've had a couple of

breaks in here. We had the Global Ministries Conference last week, Dr Michael

Brown, great message. A few weeks for that had Pastor Jimmy Evans, the family conference, great message, but I hope you're not losing what the Holy Spirit is doing in you as we're talking about words and about the mouth.

I just want to remind you when we talked

about the sins of the mouth, you were all very quiet that day. Just want to remind you about that,

okay? So we're talking about this, we're talking about how that we can speak good words, how we can

speak words of life, life and death are in the power of the tongue. How can we speak life?

That's what we want to talk about. And a couple of weeks

ago we talked about submitting our tongues to the Holy Spirit, submitting our mouths to the

Holy Spirit. So we're going to talk about today the language of heaven. We're going to talk

about praying in a prayer language and what does the Bible say about it? I know there's a lot of

controversy about this subject. I understand that, but I just want to ask you something,

why is there so much controversy about this subject? Just think about it for a moment. If you were the

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