Quote Originally Posted by MichaellS View Post
Thank you for the correction. Would this correct the spirit of the message? “would be a sound decision for building oneself up.”
Regarding this, I used to think that experimentation (I take it this is what you are describing in "unyielding pattern to investigate this element") with "this element" was the right thing to do. But later I found out that the soundest decision for building up oneself is to study the Word. It tells me that it is the fruit of an action that is the measurement of its godliness.

What is it doing for me? I would have to forward that question to the Lord’s own reasoning. How am I to know what He would cl***ify as unprepared territory to bless if I wasn't involved with the gift? If overly concerned with what you will wind up with, keep in mind that p***age in Luke.
This looks like an evasion. I'm just trying to find out how exactly you are defining self-edification as a result of the exercise of tongues. Are you trying to tell me that your self-edification is an intangible unknown to you?

9“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10“For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 11“Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12“Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” (Luke 11:9-13)

It would be difficult to separate the gift from the Giver.
Again, I believe the Bible is telling me to measure a gift by its fruit. If you cannot give me some tangible way of discerning the fruit of your tongue-talking, then how am I to know where your gift came from? Does not the scripture say "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge"?

The trouble with most Pentecostals I talk to is that they run away when their actions are called into evaluation. I hope you won't do the same.
TD