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God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 
–Genesis 1:20-23 (NIV)–

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VIEWING BIRDS


LIKE AN ATHEIST

¹⁴ What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.] ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is without [adequate] clothing and lacks [enough] food for each day, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Go in peace [with my blessing], [keep] warm and feed yourselves,” but he does not give them the necessities for the body, what good does that do? ¹⁷ So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].

¹⁸ But someone may say, “You [claim to] have faith and I have [good] works; show me your [alleged] faith without the works [if you can], and I will show you my faith by my works [that is, by what I do].” ¹⁹ You believe that God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror—they have seen His wrath]! ²⁰ But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless? ²¹ Was our father Abraham not [shown to be] justified by works [of obedience which expressed his faith] when he offered Isaac his son on the altar [as a sacrifice to God]? ²² You see that [his] faith was working together with his works, and as a result of the works, his faith was completed [reaching its maturity when he expressed his faith through obedience]. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and this [faith] was credited to him [by God] as righteousness and as conformity to His will,” and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith]. ²⁵ In the same way, was Rahab the prostitute not justified by works too, when she received the [Hebrew] spies as guests and protected them, and sent them away [to escape] by a different route? ²⁶ For just as the [human] body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works [of obedience] is also dead.

–JAMES 2:14-26 (AMP)–

With stammering lips and another tongue
will he speak to this people.
–Isaiah 28:11 (KJV)–

They were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak with other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them utterance.
–Acts 2:4 (KJV)–

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
–Hebrews 8:10 (KJV)–

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John Sherrill, They Speak with Other Tongues (Pyramid Books, 1967).

Watson Mills, ed. Speaking in Tongues (Eerdmans, 1986).

Donald Gee, Concerning Spiritual Gifts (Gospel Publishing House, 1972).

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1975).

Azusa Street 1906, “Azusa Street Revival Eyewitnesses.”

The Lord is a warrior.
–Exodus 15:3 (NIV)–

Do not be afraid of them; 
the Lord your God himself will fight for you.
–Deuteronomy 3:22 (NIV)–

I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
–Exodus 23:27 (NIV)–

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Take me up from this world
Can’t you see this hurting inside?
How you allow him to defile my person

I invite infelicity
And this world it tries to weaken my faith
So You are my strength
In this world of ignorance

Blinded by sin, I question your motives
Leaving myself to abhorrent ways
This devil is beaten, I decollate your servants
Sword of the Spirit, I will defy you

Lord, You are so faithful with me everyday
Your heart forever graceful, assurance of victory

In my heart and soul, no dominion
The path that Christ walked I choose to live
Death is swallowed up in victory
My faith in God, I will not shudder

I will not shudder
I choose to walk the way that Christ did
I will not shudder
I choose to walk the way that Christ did

–Embodyment, “Strength”–