Category Archives: speaking in tongues

Something Amazing I’ve Learned

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Steve Simms

I’ve learned that receiving and regularly using the supernatural gift of speaking in tongues is enriching, empowering, and life transforming. I first encountered and received this miraculous gift about a year after I graduated from high school. I’ve used it … Continue reading →

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Self-focus Wastes My Time (This Helps Me Soar Beyond It)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Steve Simms

Self-focus is a waste of my time and hinders my pursuit of inner peace, love and joy. Those things come from looking beyond myself. Here’s an amazing activity that always helps me to look beyond myself and to experience inner … Continue reading →

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My Apollos Moment

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Steve Simms

I had a moment decades ago that still reverberates loudly within me every day of my life. The way water moves a mill wheel, Christ’s living water moves me from within my innermost being throughout each day. It all started … Continue reading →

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Speaking in tongues is better than Starbucks (and any bar anywhere).

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Steve Simms

If it’s acceptable for people to talk about drinking coffee and beer it’s acceptable to talk about speaking in tongues! So here goes . . . To neglectOr rejectGod’s giftOf tonguesIs to miss outOn somethingThat’s infinitely betterThan coffee or teaOr … Continue reading →

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Self-love & speaking in tongues

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Steve Simms

The Bible’s “love chapter” says that love isn’t boastful, proud, or self-seeking. A self-love focus seems to contradict that. Self-love can make us forget about our neighbor. That love, care, and concern you’ve been giving to yourself; give it to … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Ways I Have Grown In Christ

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Steve Simms

Top 10 ways I have grown as a Christian: 1) Salvation experience; 2) Baptism in the Holy Spirit; 3) Continually, listening to and obeying Jesus’ voice; 4) Daily Bible reading (and doing) with an open heart; 5) Regularly speaking in … Continue reading →

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Do the CBS (“Crazy” Bible Stuff)

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Steve Simms

It’s time to begin to do the CBS, the “crazy” Bible stuff. Dare to read it, believe it, & boldly do it — now. Definition: “Crazy Bible stuff” is stuff in the Bible commonly considered to be crazy. Here’s an example: “If … Continue reading →

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I’ll fight with spiritual weapons!

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Steve Simms

Plenty of people will fight with the physical weapons of guns and bombs. Where are the people who will dare to fight with spiritual weapons instead? Christ-followers are called to fight evil with spiritual weapons rather than physical weapons. So … Continue reading →

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What I Learned From Corrie Ten Boom, Andraé Crouch, Dennis Bennett, David du Plessis, Chuck Smith, Kathryn Kuhlman, Jack Hayford, and Walter Martin

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Steve Simms

In the mid 1970s I attended Melodyland School of Theology in Southern California for a year.  While there I was blessed to be taught by many powerful men and women of God. Here are 8 powerful lessons that I learned from … Continue reading →

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Some Keys To Releasing God’s Power (From Acts Chapter Two)

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Steve Simms

Here are some keys to releasing God’s power from Acts 2: 1) Going along with God’s plan to use all believers, not just special ones like the apostles.  At the end of Acts 1, the believers pick one disciple to … Continue reading →

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