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IN CHRIST YOU STAND

Copyright © 2008  by Sharah LaGail Wyatt

First Love Ministries International

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New Edition 2012

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CHRIST IN YOU

THROUGH CHRIST

IN CHRIST YOU STAND

CHAPTER 1

CHRIST IN YOU

“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory.”

Colossians 1.27

Christ in you and you in Christ: It’s a mystery to the natural intellect, yet God willed to make fully known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations of the earth. Verse 26 of Colossians 1 says that the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, has now been revealed to His saints.

We live in the day of fulfillment.  What was once obscured has now been brought to full light.  God has revealed the glory of the mystery so that we can live in Christ and that Christ can live in us.  Everything we are and everything good that we have received is because of Christ.

Romans 5.6-8 tells us that when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  God demonstrated His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  On our own, we didn’t have a chance.  But God, in His awesome love and mercy, stepped in and changed everything – He gave us a future when we had no future, and He did it all in and through Christ.

Ephesians 2 says, “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.”

We were dead, dead in sins and failures – but God made us alive.  This God, so rich in mercy, because of His great love for us, made us alive together with Christ!  Even when we were dead and stuck in sin, He raised us up and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2.4-6).

Why would He do all of this for such seemingly worthless individuals?  Ephesians 2.7 tells us that God raised us up in Christ so “that in the ages to come He might show the EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US IN CHRIST JESUS.”

The heart of God is swelling with love and exceedingly rich kindness toward us.  He wants to show just how much He loves us.  He wants to drench us in His mercy and kindness that is way beyond finite human comprehension – and He does it all in Christ.

It is by free grace – God’s unmerited favour – that we are saved, delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ’s salvation through faith.  And this salvation is not of our own doing, it didn’t come through striving on our part – it is the free gift of God.  It’s not based on works or the fulfillment of the Law’s demands.  It’s not the result of what anyone could do, so no one can boast or take credit for it.  This free gift came from God alone in Christ.

“We are God’s own handiwork, His workmanship, RECREATED IN CHRIST JESUS, BORN ANEW that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them – LIVING THE GOOD LIFE which He prearranged and made ready for us to live” (Ephesians 2.10 AMP).

God recreated us in Christ so that we could live the good and blessed life that He prepared for us before time began.  It is with this in mind that the Scriptures tell us to “Therefore remember” that we were once outsiders with God, separated from Christ, excluded from all part with Him and strangers to Him with no share whatsoever in His sacred promise and covenant.  We were without hope and alone in the world without God.  But now IN CHRIST JESUS, we who were once so far away, have been brought near by the Blood of Christ!

It is through Him, through Christ, that we now have access by the Holy Spirit to the Father, so that we are able to approach Him.  Without Christ, we would still be standing at a distance.  But through Him we have as much right to stand in God’s presence as Jesus does.

Romans 5.1-2 urges that since we are justified by faith, LET US GRASP the fact that we have the peace of reconciliation to hold and enjoy – peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Through Him we have entrance by faith into this grace in which we firmly and safely stand – therefore, let us rejoice in our hope of experiencing the glory of God!

We have peace with God!  The reconciliation Christ obtained for us is ours to keep and enjoy forever!  Through Christ we have full access into this abundant grace and high favour of God in which we firmly stand.  Every day of our lives we should rejoice in the expectancy of experiencing the glory of God because of what Christ has done for us.

This is not theory – this is a living REALITY!  We have been made ALIVE IN CHRIST!  We have been granted audience with Almighty God, Creator of the Universe, IN CHRIST!   We have been given place, seated at God’s right hand in the heavenlies IN CHRIST!  We have an inheritance in the Kingdom of God, IN CHRIST!   We have full access into the grace and glory of God – and it’s all because of and in CHRIST!

Romans 5.17 says, “For if because of one man’s trespass death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive God’s overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ.”

If we have received God’s overflowing grace and His free gift of righteousness, then we WILL reign in this life through Jesus Christ.  But receiving this grace and righteousness is not just referring to being born-again.  The New Birth is certainly part of it, but it is much more than that.  Receiving God’s overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness is something we need to do continually – every day.

God’s grace didn’t stop at your salvation – no, His grace is still there in your life to empower, equip, and anoint you to receive and fulfill His perfect will and purpose in  every situation, every area of your life.

It is the same also with His free gift of righteousness.  This righteousness is as important to your life today as it was the day you gave your life to God.  Righteousness put you in right-standing with God and it’s righteousness that keeps you in right-standing.  So in constantly receiving, drinking in the righteousness of God into your life, you are activating this God-given force of right-ness that will cause everything that concerns you to be right.

Righteousness makes things RIGHT.  It will make you right, it will make your circumstances right, it will make your relationships right, it will make your body right (healed, whole, healthy).  Do you see now why those who receive these gifts of grace and righteousness REIGN IN LIFE?!

Psalm 67.11 says that God crowns the year with His goodness and all His paths drip with abundance.  Grace and righteousness are His paths.  Remember Psalm 23.3: “He leads me in paths of righteousness for His names sake.”

He leads in right paths – and right paths are full of goodness and blessing.  As we continually receive this overflowing grace and righteousness, we will reign in life through our Lord Jesus Christ.  It is through Christ that we reign.  In Him we live and move and have our being.

Colossians 3.4 says that “When Christ who is our life appears, we also will appear with Him in Glory.”

When Christ who is our life…  Christ is our life.  We can do all things through Christ – through the Anointed One and His Anointing – which strengthens us.  (Philippians 4.13)

In Chapters 2 and 3, we will discuss this theme in greater depth. Until then, open your heart and continually be being filled with the overflowing grace and free gift of God’s righteousness.

You have been made alive in Him – Alive to have and enjoy the good life He prepared for you before the foundation of the world.   He has laid before you right paths – paths that lead straight to His very best.

And it’s all because of Jesus.  In Christ you stand!

CHAPTER 2

THROUGH CHRIST

“I can do all things THROUGH CHRIST which strengthens me.”

Philippians 4.13

I can do all things through Christ… That is a wonderful reality.  But what exactly does it mean for you and me to be able to do “all things through Christ”?

In the text surrounding Philippians 4.13, Paul wrote:  “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content; I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.  Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME” (Philippians 4.11-13).

The Apostle Paul experienced more trouble and anguish than most of us could even think about.  His mini biography reads as follows:  “Are they Hebrews?  So am I.  Are they Israelites?  So am I.  Are they the seed of Abraham?  So am I.  Are they ministers of Christ? – I speak as a fool – I am more: in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.  From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.  Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a day and a night I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of water, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils of the city, in perils of the wilderness, in perils of the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness – besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches…” (II Corinthians 11.22-28).

Most of us would have quit long before we experienced the first couple of verses of this text.  But not Paul.  And how can that be?

He said, “Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally.  I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.  I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little.  I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.  What I have, wherever I am, I can make it through the One who makes me who I am.”  (Phil. 4.11-13 MSG)

I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH THE ANOINTED ONE AND HIS ANOINTING WHICH STRENGTHENS ME!

Does this mean that we should just lay down and accept everything – good or bad – that comes along our way?  Certainly not!   It means that you can beat every challenge, stand victorious in every trial through the One who makes you who you are – Christ the Anointed One and His Anointing!

The wonderful thing about Philippians 4.13 is that it’s not limited to just these few areas we have touched on.  “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME” also applies to resisting sin and living dead to the flesh!

In Romans 7.13-23, Paul relates about the battle and conflict that was raging inside of him – a war between his spirit and his flesh.  In verses 15-21,   he said – “What I am doing, I do not understand.  For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do… I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present, but how to perform what is good I do not find.  For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.  Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.  I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.”

Paul further explains in verses 22-23, “I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.  But I see another law in my [flesh], warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my [flesh].”

In the intensity of this battle, Paul cries out: “O wretched man that I am!  Who will deliver me from this body of death?”  Who will deliver us from the dictates of sin and of our flesh?  Paul exclaims in verse 25: “I THANK GOD – IT IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!”

Through Jesus Christ our Lord…  This is further confirmation of Philippians 4.13 – I can do all things THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME!  Through Christ, through the Anointed One and His Anointing, we can do all things – including living a holy, pure life; a life free from sin, free from the dominance of the flesh. Glory to God!

The Word tells us in Romans 5 that just as through one man’s (Adam’s) disobedience many were made sinners, so also through one Man’s (Jesus’) obedience many were made righteous.  Through Christ, where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.  (vv. 19-20)  Now the question is:  shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  Certainly not!  How can we who died to sin live any longer in it? (Romans 6.1-2).

Romans 6.3-4 says, “…as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death… Therefore we were buried with Him in baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

If we have been united together with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we also will be in the likeness of His resurrection.  Our old man, our old nature, was crucified with Christ, so that the body of sin might be done away with.  Because of this, we are no longer slaves of sin.  One who has died has been freed from sin.  We should therefore count ourselves dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6.5-11).

Now that we have been freed from sin, we have become slaves of righteousness (Romans 6.18).  Through Christ we have been delivered from the tyranny of darkness and sin and death, and we have been translated into the kingdom of Light and Life.  The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.

Now we must stand firm in that freedom.  Galatians 3.27 says, “As many of you as were baptized into [the Anointed One and His Anointing] have put on the [Anointed One and His Anointing].”  If we have been baptized into the Anointing, we have put on the Anointing – we are wearing it, the Anointing is our clothing.

Galatians 5.1 urges to “Stand fast in the liberty by which [the Anointing] has made you free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”

How do you stand fast in your liberty in Christ?  By wearing the Anointing at all times.  Sin cannot entangle you, despair cannot entangle you, persecution or trouble cannot entangle your life when you are operating in and wearing the Anointing.

Notice this verse says don’t become entangled again with a yoke of bondage.  We are told in Isaiah 10.27 – “It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of the Anointing.”

The Anointing is the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God.  When the Anointing is in full operation in your life, it will remove every burden and destroy every yoke that tries to take you captive.  Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, put on the ANOINTING. The Anointing raised Jesus from the dead, and it raised you from the dead also.

You have sheer life ahead of you in Christ.  Will you experience trouble along the way?  Most certainly.  But through Christ you will triumph over the trouble.  Jesus said “In the world you will have tribulation – but BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD!” (John 16.33).

It doesn’t matter what may come and go in this life – Jesus has already defeated satan and won the victory.  As long as we live in Christ, victory is certain.

Paul wrote: “now thanks be to God who ALWAYS CAUSES US TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place, for we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing” (II Cor. 2.14-15).

In Chapter 3, we will delve deeper into the revelation of victory in Christ and what it means not only for us, but for the future of the world around us.

For now, I encourage you to take a fresh plunge into Christ – into His Life-giving, Life-changing Anointing.  Let the revelation of Christ in you grow inside you until you, like the Apostle Paul, will be able to not only say, but LIVE the reality – “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME!”

You have been baptized into the Anointing – so wear the Anointing in everything you do.  Remember, In Christ you stand!

CHAPTER 3

IN CHRIST YOU STAND

“But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I Corinthians 15.57

Thanks be to God!  He gives us the victory THROUGH our Lord JESUS CHRIST!                 I Corinthians 15.55 says: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

What victory?  The victory that Jesus won for us – TOTAL REDEMPTION from the curse.  There is no place for defeat in the life of the Believer.  Victory has already been obtained through the Cross of Christ.  There may be occasional set backs or hindrances in our fight of faith, but never defeat.  The eternal verdict has already been finalized – satan is the loser, and you and I are winners because we are IN CHRIST.  It is settled forever.

According to II Corinthians 2.14-16, God always causes us to triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.  For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.  To one we are the aroma of death leading to death, but to the other we are the aroma of Life leading to life.

We are the very “fragrance of Christ” in the earth.  It is so vital to know and remember that no matter what things we experience here on earth, our God ALWAYS causes us to TRIUMPH in Christ.  And through us He manifests the fragrance of His KNOWLEDGE in every place.  We are a breath of fresh air to those who are coming to God.  At the same time, we are like the stench of death to those who are steeped in darkness.  For these God-haters, we are an unpleasant reminder that the Spirit of the Almighty is still present and still actively at work in the earth.

In it all and through it all, you and I can be certain that IN CHRIST God will always cause us to triumph.  With God as our loving Father, we do not have to fear or dread anything.  Romans 8 tells us that, in Christ, we did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we received the Spirit of adoption into God’s family, through whom we can call God “my Father, my dear Father!”

The Spirit Himself testifies within our spirit that we are children of God.  And if we are His children, then we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ.  As joint heirs with Christ, we go through exactly what He goes through.  If we go through the hard times with Him, then we are certainly going to go through the good and glorious times with Him (vv. 15-17 NKJV / MSG)!

There is no comparison between the present hard times and the coming times of glory which will be revealed in us.  Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ or the victory we have received in Him.  Can trials, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or lack, or peril, or war distance us from His love?  No!  It may look like everyone is against us.  We may be accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  “YET in all these things,” Romans 8.37 tells us, “we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him who loves us.”

We are IN CHRIST!  And if we are IN CHRIST, then we are overcomers.  If we are IN CHRIST, God always causes us to triumph.  If we are IN CHRIST, then nothing can separate us from His Love.

Colossians 2.6-7 urges, “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, SO WALK IN HIM, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, ABOUNDING IN IT WITH THANKSGIVING.”

Walk in Him, walk in Christ.  Be rooted, built up and established IN CHRIST – and ABOUND in Him with thanksgiving.  Colossians 2.9-10 says that in Him, in Christ, “dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (in bodily form).  AND YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of all principality and power (rule and authority).”

You are complete IN HIM.  In Jesus resides all the fullness of everything God is.  And if Jesus dwells in you, all the fullness of the Godhead resides in you also – and you are complete in Him!

Galatians 3.13-14 informs us that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a cross”), that the Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law so that the Blessing of Abraham could come upon us.  Through Christ, we are no longer under the curse, but under the Blessing.  What did we do to deserve this Blessing?  Nothing!  It is all because of Christ.

Galatians 2.16 clearly states that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by FAITH in Jesus Christ.  We who have believed in Christ Jesus are justified by faith in Him.  The works of the law can never justify you.  It is faith in Christ that makes you right and keeps you right before God.

It is by faith in Christ that we receive and walk in the Blessing.  And this Blessing covers every area of our existence.  It is what restores us to the level of life that God originally intended for us.  In Christ, we have everything we will ever need or desire – health, wealth, peace, restoration, wholeness in every area.  Beyond that, we have His wisdom to be able to tap into His divine life and provision.

I Corinthians 2.16 tells us that “we have the mind of Christ.”  We have His mind, we have access to His thoughts.  Jesus Christ has been made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (I Corinthians 1.30).

Christ is our wisdom.  He is the intelligence, the insight, the divine counsel, the pertinent information we are looking for in every situation we encounter.  He IS our Wisdom.  How do you access His thoughts, access His wisdom?  The same way that you access any other part of the Blessing – by faith in Christ.

Remember that it is through Him, through Christ, that we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5.2).  It is through faith in Christ that we access the limitless depths of the wisdom of God.

“Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”   – Romans 11.33

God’s wisdom and knowledge are so immense, His mercy and ways so vast that, eons from now, we will still be finding them out – yet, at the same time, we have full access to all His wisdom and counsel right now.   I Corinthians 2 in the Message translation tells us that “God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of His purposes.  You don’t find it lying around on the surface…. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is… But you’ve seen and heard it because God by His Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you” (vv. 7-8, 10).

When you are in Christ, you can know the wisdom and ways of God, because His Spirit brings it all out into the open for you.  Who ever knows what you are thinking and planning except you yourself?  It is the same way with God – except that He not only knows what He is thinking, but He lets you in on it.  You don’t have to rely on the world’s guesses and opinions.

When you are in Christ, you are spiritually alive and therefore have access to everything God’s Spirit is doing.  Isaiah’s question – “Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what He is doing?”– has been answered:  Christ knows, and we have His mind (vv. 11-12, 15-16)!

Since we have been raised with Christ, since we have His mind, His faith, His Life – we should seek and pursue the things over which Christ presides, fixing our mind on things above, not things of the earth.  Sure there are responsibilities and things to attend to here on earth, yet we must not become so absorbed with the things right in front of us.  We must be alert to what is going on around Christ – see things from His perspective.

He is your life.  And when you abide in Christ, when you live in Him, when you access His thoughts, you will fulfill everything – both natural responsibilities as well as spiritual responsibilities – to a much higher degree.

Galatians 6.2 instructs:  “Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.”  This is really the crux of our life in Christ.  One translation says that this is what completes Christ’s law (which is the law of Love).  John 3.16 tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that we could have a whole and lasting life.

When this love is sown in our heart, when we receive God’s gift of eternal life in Christ – that same love is created to grow and increase, not just to the point that our own life is full and fulfilled, but to overflow and produce the life of Christ in the lives of those around us.  This is what completes the law of Christ.  Love began it all.  It is in Christ’s love that we live.  And it is His love demonstrated, poured out through us that completes it.

When we take up and support each other’s load, the more we become like Christ who took our load.  We are His Body – therefore we must do as He does:  complete the Love.

This is when we will fully experience the victory in Christ that God has given to us.  Because it is Love that perpetuates the purposes of God.

When you live in Love, you live in Christ.  And In Christ you stand!

Prayer to Receive Salvation

and the Holy Spirit

Having a close, intimate relationship with God begins by making Jesus the Lord of your life. God desires to be a close and dear friend to you and to enjoy fellowship with you. Because He is a gentleman and respects your right to choose, He won’t just force His friendship on you. You have to let Him know that you want Him in your life. He is just waiting to get to know you personally. So if you’ve never asked Jesus to be the Lord of your life, pray this prayer now:

Lord, I want You in my life. I want to get to know You intimately. Lord Jesus, come into my heart, be my Lord. I believe that you died for my sins on the Cross, that You bore my punishment in hell, and that God raised You from the dead, to be seated at His right hand as my Advocate. I repent of the wrong things I’ve done, I renounce the past, the devil and everything he stands for. Jesus, I receive You as my Saviour and my Friend. I will love You and serve You all the days of my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Take my life and help me to be just like You. Amen.

Once you have given your life to God, you are now born-again. You are now a part of God’s family. As you receive Jesus Christ as Lord of your life, spiritual death is taken from you and you become a new creature in Christ—you are born again. It is the Holy Spirit that makes your new birth possible. The Holy Spirit comes to live within you when you receive Jesus into your life.

In Salvation (receiving Jesus as Saviour), the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Jesus. Then Jesus baptizes us into the Holy Spirit. Jesus said “You will receive POWER after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1.8). Jesus baptizes us into God’s very own power and holiness so that we can live a life full of the greater works He has called us to do as His Anointed Body. Baptism with the Holy Spirit and Fire are received synonymously. The FIRE spoken of here is referencing the Power and Holiness of God. In order to obtain from heaven the Holy Spirit, it is first necessary that you know that your sins are blotted out, that the Blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed your heart and cleansed you from the sinful nature, the inherent nature of sin. When you have repented of a life apart from God and believe Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for your sin, you are transferred (baptized) into the body of Christ, and become a member of His body.

After you become a new creation, God’s desire and plan is that you receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is received by faith in God. Jesus said: “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11.13).

When you ask the Heavenly Father for the gift of the Holy Spirit, He will fill you with the Holy Spirit to overflowing and you will speak in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives you the utterance.

Speaking in tongues is simply speaking in a language that only God understands (even you will not understand it). This happens as the Holy Spirit prays through you about things you may not know or that you may not know how to pray about (Romans 8.26).

The Holy Spirit was given by Jesus to be our Helper. When you pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit searches your heart and prays through you the perfect will of God (Romans 8.26-27). You actually utter secret truths and hidden things which are not obvious to the understanding of your mind (I Corinthians 14.2).

To pray in tongues, you need to realize that speaking with an unknown tongue is the voice of your heart. Speaking in a tongue or language you know is the voice of your human mind (unless one of the nine vocal gifts of the Spirit of God is in operation through you as God may move upon you). The Holy Spirit of God will give you utterance to speak in tongues, the same as your mind gives you thoughts to speak (Acts 2.4).

To speak in tongues, you must cooperate with the Holy Spirit and trust Him. The Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 14.14, “If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my mind is unproductive…” Notice that it was Paul who did the speaking and the Holy Spirit supplied the words.

Ask the Holy Spirit to take charge of your tongue; then yield your tongue to His use. You cannot speak in your own language and in the gift of speaking in tongues at the same time, just as you cannot speak in English and French at the same time. When your voice and tongue begin forming syllables around the expressions that your heart desires to release, you will also speak in tongues. It will be your tongue, your breath, your vocal cords and you will be actively forming words. You will supply the sounds, but the Holy Spirit will supply the words – words that are unknown to you. Continue to speak the words that the Holy Spirit gives to you. Like a child learning to speak, you will grow and develop in the new language that the Holy Spirit is giving to you.

When you ask your Heavenly Father for one of His promises – such as the Baptism of the Holy Spirit – you can be confident that the gift given is from God. If you want to receive your baptism in the Holy Spirit, ask Him now:

Heavenly Father, I am a believer. I am Your child and You are my Father. Jesus is my Lord. I believe with all my heart that Your Word is true. Your Word says that if I will ask, I will receive the Holy Spirit. So in the Name of Jesus Christ my Lord, I am asking You to fill me to overflowing with Your precious Holy Spirit. Jesus, baptize me in the Holy Spirit. Because of Your Word, I believe that I now receive this gift and I thank You for it. Holy Spirit, rise up within me as I give praise to God. I fully expect to speak with other tongues as You give me the utterance.

Now begin giving sound to the expressions in you heart. Speak and hear the Holy Spirit speaking through you. Rejoice in Him because you have just been endued with God’s very own power. And His power is in you to help you to live a life that is free from sin and fully pleasing to Him.

About the Author

Sharah LaGail Wyatt is Founder and President of First Love Ministries International aka FERVOUR™, with an extensive background in the fine and performing arts and in ministry. She is a member of the International Convention of Faith Ministries (ICFM), and is a contributing author and affiliate minister of the online ministry of CFaith.com. As a gifted teacher, writer/author, graphic artist, musician and composer, Sharah desires to lead people of all ages into the presence of God and into developing a lifestyle of faith, worship and intimacy with Him.

Sharah began the journey as a writer in her early childhood. Her young repertoire grew to include original short stories, poetry, adaptations, theatrical scripts, and musical compositions. She began writing Biblical teaching articles at the age of fifteen, and has continued consistently in this field through to the present.

She has authored numerous articles on topics including prayer, holiness/purity, wisdom, faith, love, worship, healing/restoration and living in Christ. She is also the author of several books including: In His Presence: the meaning of true worship (2004), In Christ You Stand (2008), I Will: activating the master switch of the soul (2008). Her monthly ministry publication, first published in 2005, is currently distributed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, East Africa, Argentina, Pakistan, India, Singapore, and the Philippines.   Her young adult publication,  FERVOUR™, is distributed quarterly.

Further information about First Love Ministries International can be found on the following page.

First Love Ministries International

A Christian Ministry organization, serving more than 50 nations on six continents with the teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: Encourages pastors, leaders and general public with monthly ministry letters that are distributed to individual households and churches in nine nations: Provides financial aid for academic education to children and orphans in economically depressed regions through the Marion Education Fund™.

The vision of First Love Ministries International is to help believers worldwide to come to the fullness of knowing Jesus the Anointed as their first love, to help them to grow in faith and in intimacy with God, and to equip them through the teaching of the Word to be all that He has called them to be and to experience fullness of life and heaven on earth in every area of their life. It is not enough to just know about God or about what His Word says— the mission of First Love Ministries International is to help believers live it.

The official Website of First Love Ministries International, www.ps27fr.org, features a full Study Centre exhibiting numerous Online Articles written by Sharah LaGail Wyatt, along with a topical Question & Answer section also compiled by the author. The site also includes a sub-site for FERVOUR™—the Young Adult ministry of FLMI. The website continues to receive recurrent visits from more than 60 nations on six continents.

First Love Ministries International

PO Box 163974, Fort Worth, TX 76161

United States

www.ps27fr.org

Table of Contents

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the

CHRIST IN YOU

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

Prayer to Receive Salvation

About the Author

First Love Ministries International