Bahasa roh - Memberikan Kesegaran Rohani

(Yes 28:11-12)

Apakah yang dimaksud dengan perhentian dan peristirahatan yang bisa membawa kesegaran? Jawab: Berbicara dalam bahasa roh.

Kadang-kadang dokter menganjurkan kepada kita untuk melakukan istirahat demi kesembuhan tubuh kita, tetapi saya mengetahui satu perhentian yang lebih baik lagi. Seringkali ketika Anda pergi berlibur, Anda harus pulang dahulu ke rumah untuk beristirahat sebelum kembali ke tempat kerja.

Akan tetapi, bukankah sesuatu hal yang indah dan menyegarkan bila kita bisa memanfaatkan “perhentian” yang ajaib ini dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari?

“Inilah perhentian..., inilah kesegaran yang sejati.” Kita memerlukan kesegaran rohani dalam dunia yang penuh kekalutan, membingungkan, dan mencemaskan.

"Your Name is Holy"

Last night in my community group, we sang the song "Your Holy Name".

You are the sovereign "I Am"
Your name is Holy

You are the pure spotless Lamb
Your name is Holy

You are the Almighty One
Your name is Holy

Your are the Christ, God's own son
Your name is Holy

In Your name there is mercy for sin
There is safety within, in Your Holy name

In your name there is strength to remain
To stand in spite of pain

in Your Holy name

I was so very moved by this song. It felt like an answer to my thoughts on yesterday's post. In the post I had told of lying to bring peace to a situation and how this lie had haunted me since. This song says 'There is mercy from sin'. This, of course, is something that I already knew, but hearing it last night brought relief and love to my heart.

God is good. All the time.

Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

I was called a peacemaker once, but does being a peacemaker include lying to accomplish the peace?

I was in a meeting, it was more of a confrontation over a woman's behavior in the church. I sat there with the woman, the Pastor and his wife.

I do not remember what I said, but it set off a bomb. I, in my stupidity, did not think it a big thing, but it turned out to be huge. I was repeating something that the Pastor's wife had said to me.

She denied that she had said this to me. I was taken off guard. She was lying and I was at a loss. The meeting got weird then. She went into a rage and the Pastor did not try to control the room. I watched her freak out and wondered at what I was suppose to do.

This went on for quite a while. She gave a defensive speech and we listened. Then she asked me if I still stood by what I said. I said "yes". And off she went again.

Still, I did not know how to calm the situation. I felt like I had to tell the truth, but this problem was not going to resolve itself and no one else in the room was trying to step in.

My thoughts went to, "you are going to have to swallow this one". But, how? If I lie, I am in sin. If I keep telling the truth, this woman is going to have a heart attack.

So, I made a decision and while asking forgiveness in my head, I said out loud, "I'm sorry. I must be mistaken. Will you forgive me."

Everything stopped with those lying words. She forgave me, knowing she had done the deed, and calmed down. The confrontation moved over to the other woman.

I felt terrible and a bit confused. I lost a lot of respect for the Pastor's wife, the Pastor, and felt I had disrespected God. I deliberately sinned.

I was told later that this was being a peacemaker. I am sure that most peacemaking experiences do not include a lie. But, I saw no other way out. So, I confess publicly that I have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. For this I am sorry and have asked forgiveness from God.

I have felt pain over this ever since. It comes up in my mind every now and then and again I repent. Perhaps it is Satan who brings it up in my mind, but my shame remains. I know that my Father has forgiven me. But, my sadness over my lack of ability to resolve this problem without a lie, continues to take a toll on me and bring me to my knees.

Bahasa roh - Membangun Rohani

(I Kor 14:4 – Siapa yang berkata-kata dengan bahasa roh, ia membangun dirinya sendiri,…)

Dalam suratnya kepada jemaat di Korintus, Paulus menganjurkan mereka untuk terus menerus mempraktekkan bahasa roh dalam penyembahan mereka kepada Allah dan dalam kehidupan doa mereka sebagai alat untuk membangun kehidupan rohani diri sendiri.

(I Kor 14:2 - Siapa yang berkata-kata dengan bahasa roh, tidak berkata-kata kepada manusia, tetapi kepada Allah. Sebab tidak ada seorang pun yang mengerti bahasanya; oleh Roh ia mengucapkan hal-hal yang rahasia)

Terjemahan Moffat mengatakan, bahwa ia berbicara tentang “rahasia ilahi”. Di sini Paulus mengatakan bahwa Tuhan telah memberikan kepada gerejaNya suatu alat komunikasi ilahi dan bersifat ilahi untuk dapat berbicara dengan Allah.

Dalam I Kor 14:14 (Sebab jika aku berdoa dengan bahasa roh, maka rohkulah yang berdoa, tetapi akal budiku tidak turut berdoa) Perhatikanlah bahwa ia berkata: …rohkulah yang berdoa. Dalam terjemahan Amplified Bible dikatakan: ..rohku (melalui Roh Kudus di dalamku) berdoa.

Tuhan itu bersifat Roh. Ketika kita berbicara dalam bahasa roh, roh kita berhubungan langsung dengan Tuhan, yang juga adalah Roh. Kita berbicara dengan Dia melalui sarana ilahi yang sifatnya ilahi.

Howard Carter yang pernah menjadi ketua umum dari Sidang Jemaat Allah di Inggris selama 16 tahun dan pendiri Sekolah Alkitab Pentakosta di dunia, mengatakan kita tidak boleh lupa bahwa berbicara dalam bahasa roh bukan hanya pertanda awal dari kepenuhan Roh Kudus melainkan juga merupakan bukti pengalaman yang berkesinambungan sepanjang umur hidup seseorang. Untuk maksud apa? Untuk membantu kita dalam penyembahan kita terhadap Tuhan. Berbicara dalam bahasa roh merupakan arus kehidupan yang tidak boleh kering, karena akan memperkaya kehidupan rohani kita.

My Mothers Voice

I hesitate writing this one because of feed back. But, one can not say anything that I have not heard before. I have been called everything. I want to share because it brings up the scripture in the bible:

I Thessalonians 4:16

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.



The other night my brother, Only in His Service, whom lives with me, came down the stairs excited. He told me he heard a voice. That the voice had told him something personal. Then he asked me to guess whose voice it was. Of course, I had no idea. He was so excited. He then told me it was our mothers voice, who had died in April.

I got excited myself. Wanting so badly to be with my mother, I felt wonderful.

We went into the living room and told my husband. Now, my brother is not as supernatural as I am, but since living with me, is coming into his own. So, a conversation started.

First, my mother had a similar experience when I was about 17 years of age. Her and I were visiting her father in Kentucky. Her mother had past away a while back and her father was showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's. He was constantly talking to his dead wife. One night, while we were visiting, my mother had gone to sleep with a terrible headache. In a dream she heard her mothers voice. The voice said that when she woke, she would see her dead mother and her head ache would leave. When she woke, there was her mother and her head ache left.

That event was shared in our conversation. We then went to, how can this be? I, of course, in all the supernatural things that have happened to me, did not really care, how this could happen, but became curious. How can this line up with the Word of God?

The verse quoted at the top of this page came up. Since my thoughts on the rapture are, "I hope there is one, but I do not see it in the Bible", I have always wondered at this verse. My brother, who believes totally in the rapture, had a new thought on this verse. He suggested that perhaps we linger here on this earth. That we wait here for the Lord. This began to make sense to me.

In my life, I have seen many dead people. I do not know why I have this gift, but it happens now and then. I see them in their earthly body. I recognized them and know what they want. I do not talked to them because the Bible tells me not to. But, there is a kind of communication, because I always, supernaturally, know what they want. Which is usually comfort for someone.

So, if we linger, why would we not see them or hear them. The spirit realm is alive and active. There is good and evil just like in the realm that we live in. I do not have all the answers, but I know that it is very possible that the dead linger, waiting for that wonderful day of the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am happy. Just like when I see the dead and it brings comfort to someone, my brother hearing our mothers voice has comforted me. It brings me joy to know that she is near. My mother loved Jesus and waits for His presence as I wait for His return. I look forward to that day, when, we are all together in the presence of the Lord Almighty.