It's Supernatural

Sid:  My guest is red hot for the Messiah but you know what that’s normal.  And what people call normal Christianity that shouldn’t even have the word Christian attached it should just have the word tradition attached.  It should have the word religion attached.  No wonder the world makes fun of us, but the real thing is about ready to come. It’s about ready to be an outpouring of God’s Spirit and one of the necessary ingredients to get you prepared for what is about to ready to happen on planet earth is for you to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaking in unknown tongues.  Now I’m speaking to Tim Enloe at his home in Wichita, Kansas. Tim you’ve come out with a new book called “Want More.” Why did you write this?

Tim:  Well there’s always been a burning desire in my heart for people to experience what I had experienced. I’ll never forget that night that I experienced the baptism in the Spirit.  Christ became more real to me; I had always thought of the baptism of the Holy Spirit as being some kind of an auxiliary optional benefit or blessing you could seek if you wanted to. But that night I didn’t encounter per say the Holy Spirit as much in what I anticipated; instead you know what I encounter more I encountered a revelation of Jesus as the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit.  The one who is pouring out His Spirit upon me became so real and he ignited a passion in my heart about telling people about Jesus.  Just two days after I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit I began to lead people to Christ.  I’d never done that before.  The day after I began to pray for people and I saw miracles take place.  It’s just incredible the passion that God will stir in your heart when you obey Him and follow His promise.

Sid:  You know what’s exciting to me is that I’m reading just average people that you have activated their gifts and their excitements for Jesus.  Because that’s what you do you proclaim the Risen Lord.  The person you can have intimacy with your best friend, and then how to activate these gifts. And then in your book you talk about people that just get saved; just get filled with the Holy Spirit and immediately they’re like Benny Hinn.

Tim:   (Laughing) Well one of my favorite stories happened in the mid-west several years ago.  We were ministering in a small town and at the end I think that it was like a Monday night service I was praying for those to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and only one person came forward.  Which is really unusual a young single mom.   Well, she received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit that night very easily, very beautifully it wasn’t really emotion of anything like that but just beautiful reception of the Spirits gift upon her life.  Well the next night I asked for testimonies and that night previously there had been some pretty wonderful healings and so there was some healing testimonies.  And I was just getting ready to open up the word and begin to share again teach out of the word. And she raised her hand and said “Maybe I should say something.” And her words went something like this she said “Well, last night I got that Holy Spirit thing where you say those funny words.”  Which I thought was priceless, I knew right away that she was a new believer because she didn’t have all our religious jargon you know and she said that…

Sid: I hope she stays that way forever, but go ahead. (Laughing)

Tim:  She said “You know (she pointed at me) you told me that was proof to me that God would guide my known language, my words in a new and a powerful way; so today I decided to try it out.” She said “I put my kids on the school bus and I had my baby in my arms and I went and knocked on a trailer next door.” And by the way the pastor told me later on she had only been born again for less than 2 months at this point okay.  She knocked on the next door neighbor’s trailer and they were getting ready to go to work and just finishing up a cup of coffee and she “Hey can I tell you guys something real quick?  Last night I got this thing from church where you say these funny words and you feel God and it’s just unbelievable.”  And while she was telling them this, and by the way you mentioned on yesterday’s program that people are afraid of presenting tongues and afraid of the ramifications and turning people away and making other people think that we’re crazy.  But instead it stirs spiritual curiosity; it’s an unknown mystery it stirs and draws people.  Well, here she is in very un-technical and perhaps in some wrong language describing what she had experienced; her neighbors began to cry. And after a little while she told me later on that it was like I couldn’t believe the words that I was saying to them they just felt so right.  Pretty soon the husband and wife began to cry and they said “Well, how do we get this gift too?  And she said “Well, you have to be born again first.”  And she prayed and led them to the Lord.  She was so excited she went to the trailer on the other side and after about 20 minutes she had led the husband and the wife and a little girl to the Lord. Then it as laundry time about 11:00 in the morning had her little baby bouncing around on her knee and had a Ladies Home Journal in the other and all of a sudden it dawned on her “I bet all these people in the laundry mat would like to hear what I have to say.  Because after-all she’s only had 100% acceptance because she’s dependent on the Holy Spirit.  And she put the magazine down and began to share with them. Well, as she’s telling the testimony at this point all of a sudden her eyes, her countenance changes, her chin drops her eyes kind of go to the floor and she begins to very apologetically say “Well I hate to say it but I wasn’t as near as successful in the laundry in the Holy Spirit well you people you’ve had this for years so I’m not as good at this as you are. So only 7 of the 8 women there received Jesus as Savior but I’ll get better, this Holy Spirit thing is all it cracked up to be.”  And I watched a room full of people that had experienced that gift back in 1990 your business kind of slide down the seats there in that church in kind of embarrassment because this lady who was only born again for a short time was experiencing what this power was for.

Sid: How did… answer this question Tim I’ve been pondering this for a while.  How did something that started out with the least follower of Jesus walking in extraordinary supernatural power evolve to the superstar system?

Tim:  Well I think it really goes back to a transcendent principal Paul brings out in Galatians “Having begun in the Spirit are you now going to finish in the flesh?”  We all have this tendency I think because we depend on God until we can handle it from here.  “Lord, thank You so much you’ve gotten my car towed out of the ditch now I’ll drive home.”  And we have that mentality, I’ll tell you in my own life the Lord spoke to me it was actually about a year after I had received the Baptism of the Spirit that as I began to seek and pray about the gifts flowing in a greater way in my life, I was just a 13 year old child, the Lord spoke to me; I’ll never forget it wasn’t a flat out vision or anything like that but in my heart as I began to pray I began to see a bicycle. And someone was welding wheels on a bicycle that if we would trust on God for balance and stability then we wouldn’t lean on our own understanding and there would be a consistent level of power in our lives. And this is why I believe that it is so imperative for us to pray in that language of the Spirit in the day; it brings us back down to the first day that we were ever baptized in the Spirit. Trusting God for every syllable trusting Him for every word.  It’s a recounting of our daily dependence on God guiding and directing and empowering us by His Holy Spirit to minister.

Sid: You know I recently interviewed a man that been a believer for many many years in ministry and he challenged me to pray in unknown tongues every spare second that I would have.  I’ve been doing that lately and I do not believe I’m kidding myself, I do not believe that it’s coincidence, but things have been working out better things have been flowing.  It’s almost as though I am praying these mysteries as the Bible calls it and making things happen in the time that I usually listen to talk radio shows.

Tim:  Well, that’s one of the powerful dimensions of praying in the language of the Spirit.  I mean there are two types of prayer; the first type of prayer flows out of our intelligence.   We hear about a need it forms concern and out of that concern we pray Lord heal Aunt Mable’s arm that she fell down in the pasture and broke yesterday you know.  But then there’s another level of prayer a level of prayer that doesn’t… is not inspired by our understanding by our intelligence. The Bible tells us in 1^st Corinthians chapter 2 that the Spirit of God searches all things even the depths of God for who among men knows what is in a man’s heart except a spirit of a man within him; likewise the Spirit of God He searches the depths of God.”  That’s the same Spirit that prompts us to pray; so when we’re praying in that unknown language we’re not praying with our unknown language gut we’re praying with God’s intelligence.  That’s why we have such a significant difference in our life when we pray more in the gift of the Holy Spirit.  We are praying God’s perfect will; we are not just saying “Lord, whatever Your will is let it come to past.”  But in that language of the Spirit Romans 8:26 and 27 tell us that “With those unutterable gushings, groanings from our heart” words that we cannot utter out of our own intelligence. We’re praying God’s intelligence for our life for that day for the circumstances.  Praying in the gift of the Holy Spirit is a powerful powerful vehicle for us.

Sid: Why is it that so many people receive this gift and then very seldom use it?

Tim:  Well see, that is the clincher that is question that really began this week of broadcasts looking back to churches that are backing away from the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.  We’re afraid, we’re afraid.  Honestly I think that we really trust in our own understanding more than we trust in God’s ability and God’s wisdom.  We would much rather manage it ourselves than leave it to the wind blowing where it lists us. And we’re afraid that God might just do something that would upset our apple cart, but isn’t that just exactly Pharisaical religion wanting a god that we can control; fashioning a god after our own image.  I mean doesn’t that break the very first of the commandments having no other God before Him.  But instead now we want a god that is remote control accessible and controllable by our own judgment.  Which every one of us would know that our judgment is tainted to begin with.  Why don’t we trust in God trusting in the prompting of the Spirit. We see Philip one that received the baptism in the Spirit early in the book of Acts.  He’s on his way ministering and all of a sudden here comes a chariot going by and all of a sudden the Lord just prompts him.  “Hey, why right now spontaneously run right up along side of that chariot.” And as he runs up along side of the chariot he looks in and here this Ethiopian eunuch is reading from the prophet Isaiah about the suffering Messiah to come; the suffering servant. And he says in this strange man running upside of his chariot. “What in the world does this mean?”  And all of a sudden Philip understood that spontaneous prompting of the Holy Spirit.  I believe as we trust Him… I believe that if it were you or I I can speak for myself certainly. You know God suddenly prompts us as we’re walking down the street maybe pushing our shopping cart at Wal-Mart. “Hey, run upside that pickup truck and look in the window.” You know we’d be afraid what in the world to do because our natural reason kicks in and tries to prohibit us from violating those boundaries of dignity around our lives.

Sid: You know many times our greatest asset is our greatest liability.  For instance with you you’re an analytical type person and I am too and that’s very helpful in things in the natural realm but in the supernatural it doesn’t count dittly.  Listen Mishpochah we’re out of time right now.