Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

A Profile of the Ancient Hebrew Prophet

In the first days no one paid much attention to eating and sleeping.When ever the young folks began to pray, the power of God would fall, pros trating many to the floor.It was impossible to have meals at regular hours without interfering with the work of the Holy Spirit.After the power of God lifted from different ones they would go out for a time to rest or to get a snack and then return to the prayer rooms soon to be under the power of the Holy Spirit again. These manifestations of the Spirit were so continuous that nearly all day until late in the night some were under His power.... From the very beginning the manifestations of the Spirit, the visions, and the revelations carried everything into the supernatural realm so far beyond our own limited knowledge or experience of supernatural matters that Mrs. Baker and I confessed to each other that these things had already advanced to the stage where the only recourse we had was to believe that God was bigger than the devil.We took refuge behind the promise that those who sought the Father for bread would not get a stone ...that those with pure motives, like these children, who sought the Holy Spirit would not get evil things or demons, but would get exactly what they sought: the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13). pp.25-27 A confirmation of the reality of these works of the Spirit was that most of the marvelous manifestations were given to those who knew little Bible teaching on the subject. The children had never heard the missionaries refer to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as "the latter rain," for instance, but they experienced it almost literally. To the children it seemed as though they felt water dropping onto their heads (their eyes were kept closed in prayer), with the downpour increasing until they felt "submerged in this wonderful, life-giving flood from heaven." One small boy spoke in pure prophecy when in the Spirit he seemed to be in heaven at the feet of Jesus.The Lord spoke through him in the first person clearing up many things the children did not understand and telling them how to tarry and how to seek the Spirit....These Adullam people have also seen the Holy Spirit brighter than the noon-day sun.This mani festation of the Holy Spirit as a great light has been very common.Some children, having opened their eyes to see if it was something about the elec tric light, could scarcely discern the lights in the room because of the exceed ing glory of the light of heaven which seemed to fill the place. pp.34-35 The very air of Adullam changed. A joyful atmosphere prevailed with the boys praising the Lord in the garden, and even the neighbors said, "Praise the Lord!" when meeting one of the boys. The children were truly born again, and a number of them spoke in other tongues, as on the day 124