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THE CURRENCY OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

Money is the medium of exchange for all earthly things. A word of faith spoken with Holy Spirit power is the medium of exchange for all heavenly things. Speaking in tongues is the key to our victory, because faith is the victory that overcomes. Faith is the currency of Heaven as money is the currency of earth. If a person has enough money he can purchase anything that man has to offer. If a person has enough faith, he can procure all that Heaven has to offer. Jesus put no limitations on the possibilities of what faith can procure. Jesus said, “If you can believe, all things are possible” (Mark 9:23). Apostle Paul revealed that “God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Eph. 3:20).

Jude 1:20 declares that praying in tongues generates faith in an individual. “Beloved, Build yourselves upon your most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit.” It charges a believer’s spirit and builds him up in his most holy faith. This spiritual power is produced like powerful electricity is produced at a dam. The water flowing out of the water gate through the turbine turns the big dynamos which generate electrical power. The more we pray in our spirit language the more we charge our spirit with faith and power. God is able to do all things in us and through us, but how much can be done is according to the amount of faith and power we have within us. The more ways we can find to increase God’s faith and power within us the more powerful and productive we can be in our lives and ministries.

To increase our faith we must know what produces faith, its area of operation and what activates it. The location and operation of faith is in the heart and mouth. The word of faith is in your heart and mouth—with your heart you believe it and with your mouth you speak it. Therefore, speaking, whether in our native tongue or an unknown tongue, is the determining factor in our victorious living. That’s why the book of Jude tells Christians to build up themselves in the most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit with their spirit prayer languages.

Let us now examine the dynamo and see its application to the Christian spiritual life.

THE DYNAMO—OUR INNER SPIRIT BEING ONE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

The dynamo is located down in the heart of the dam. It is like a giant generator. The dynamo is the machine that generates electricity by rotating conducting coils in a magnetic field. Prophet Ezekiel saw a vision of four wheels and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Wherever the spirit wanted to go the wheels went, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels (see Ezek. 1:16–21). A dynamo is like a wheel turning in the middle of a wheel. And wherever the language of the spirit wants to go the dynamo goes, for the Spirit of the Creator is in the dynamo. Ezekiel saw a vision of the wheel in the middle of a wheel, but we have the spiritual wheel in the middle of a wheel in us, our spirit dynamo.

The dynamo is typical of the redeemed human spirit that has been made one with the Holy Spirit. When we are born of the Spirit and then baptized with the Holy Spirit He becomes one with our spirit and makes our bodies His body.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?… He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.… Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s (see 1 Cor. 6:15, 17, 19–20).

Our redeemed spirit, saturated with the Holy Spirit, is the dynamo within our being where all of Christ’s gifts, graces, power, and attributes are generated within and through us. The dynamo is activated and maintained by the turning of the turbine. The more the turbine operates the more power the dynamo generates.

I received a good illustration of this process after I moved the headquarters of Christian International Ministries Network from Arizona to the panhandle of Florida in 1984. We purchased twenty acres of land, which included seventeen acres of forest and two swampy ponds. So we bought a big 1952 Caterpillar™ bulldozer to clear the forest and to make the two swamps into ponds. It had a gigantic diesel engine with big pistons that gave power to perform. A battery was not powerful enough to start that big engine. It would have taken many batteries combined together, but there was not enough space available to place that many batteries on the Caterpillar™.

So the builders put a smaller motor on the big machine. It was a little larger than a lawnmower motor. When we wanted to start the big Caterpillar™ we had to first start the smaller motor. It was called a “pony motor” because it was used to activate the horse power of the big engine—in fact we had to pull a rope to start the pony motor. We would start the pony motor and rev it up to a fast speed and then pull the big lever that engaged the big engine. The pistons that had been cold and idle would start moving with smoke billowing out of the exhaust pipe. When the engine was warmed up with all pistons moving in rhythmic power, we could then use the machine to accomplish all we needed to do to prepare our land for habitation.

Our spirit language is our pony motor that activates the powerful gifts of the Holy Spirit. Every mighty minister with a miracle-working ministry whom I have spoken with during my fifty-eight years of ministry said that he (or she) prays for hours in tongues in the afternoon before he goes to an evening meeting to minister miracles to the people.