Kenneth E. Hagin shared: “When you’ve preached as long as I have (almost seven decades!), you can start to see some things come in waves. And I can sense it in my spirit—there is another wave coming. Get ready for it. It isn’t coming just because God said it’s coming. We are going to have to enter into the deeper realm of prayer we have been talking about and give birth to that which God wants to do.
If you’ve ever gone down to the ocean and watched the waves come in, you know that before a wave ever breaks on the shore, it has its beginnings way out in the deeper waters of the ocean. The potential energy of the wave begins long before you ever see the final result washing up on the shore.
Well, that’s what praying in tongues accomplishes in the spiritual realm. When you pray in tongues, you give impetus to the next move of God’s Spirit before that spiritual “wave” is ever seen with your natural eyes!
When I talk to other ministers, I realize we all have the same thing in our spirits. We haven’t necessarily communicated in the natural with one another. There is just something in our spirits that tells us another wave is coming!
So what do we do about it? Well, we determine that we’re not going to stay with the old wave and ride it into the shore, only to be left high and dry on the sand! Instead, we turn around and start swimming back out to the deep part of the ocean so we can get on the next wave—the next mighty move of God’s Spirit on this earth. And how do we swim back out to the deep? By setting aside time and dedicating ourselves to fellowship with the Father and to pray in the Holy Ghost!
Don’t stay on the old wave of yesterday’s move of the Spirit. Swim out to the deep waters of the Spirit realm by praying in the Holy Ghost, and get on the next wave of God’s purposes for this hour.
But if we are going to usher in the next mighty move of God’s Spirit in these last days, judgment must begin at the house of God. There is so much more God wants to do for His people. But He can’t do what He wants to do until Christians humble themselves, forget their petty little differences, and come together in unity to enter the realm of the Spirit in prayer.
God is calling us to answer His call to pray in these last days. Jesus is coming soon—but before He comes, there is something He wants to do. And what He does on this earth, He will do through us, His Body.
The Body has no coordination when half of its members are going one way and the other half are going the other way. So God is getting us ready. He is calling us to a common goal—to yield to the prompting of the Holy Ghost to pray in other tongues! The next wave is about to burst upon us in all of its glory, and every one of us should be determined not to miss it!
The Wave Coming
We have seen the wave called the healing revival. We have seen the wave called the Charismatic Movement. We have seen the wave of faith and of the teaching of God’s Word. But now another wave is coming! It’s the wave of the Holy Ghost!
Oh, yes, we’ve seen the power of the Holy Ghost in a limited fashion, but a wave is coming that will bring His power on a higher level and in a far greater measure than we have ever seen heretofore. I can see that wave way out yonder on the deep waters. It’s coming! The waves of Holy Ghost power are building higher!
Don’t stay on the old wave of yesterday’s move of the Spirit. Swim out to the deep waters of the Spirit realm by praying in the Holy Ghost, and get on the next wave of God’s purposes for this hour. Then keep on praying so you can ride that new wave as it builds and builds in divine power and glory.
I’m convinced the wave that is coming will be twice as high as the healing wave, the Charismatic wave, or the faith wave. In fact, it will be twice as high as all of them put together! I believe it is going to be the wave that sweeps us right on in to the shores of the Glory World!
~ by Kenneth E. Hagin, Tongues: Beyond the Upper Room. Book available at www.rhema.org
