We make a mistake a lot of times by not just taking Jesus at His Word. Jesus said, "Come and
drink" (John 7:37). Also, how many people can drink and talk at the same time?
Have you ever tried to drink water, for example, and talk at the same time? Or can you drink
and sing, or drink and praise God at the same time? Of course, the Holy Ghost is present to
give the utterance in other tongues. But you can't "come and drink" and speak your native
language at the same time.
When Jesus said, "Come and drink," that implies that you don't have to wait or tarry to drink.
How long does it take you to drink? Jesus said it is just as easy to drink of the Spirit, that is, to
be filled with the Spirit, as it is to drink water or to be filled with water. In other words, if you're
saved, you don't have to wait at all!
Notice another aspect of drinking water and being filled with water is that it is something that
you do, not something the water does. Likewise, drinking of the Holy Ghost and being filled
with the Holy Ghost is something you do, not something the Holy Ghost does.
In other words, if you do your part — receive Him, the Holy Spirit will do His part — fill you up
to overflowing, and you will speak in tongues.
So quit talking and start drinking! Just drink in of the Holy Spirit. Drink until you get full. When
you get full of the Holy Spirit, He will give you utterance in other tongues. Then you will speak
in your new, heavenly prayer language!
Someone might ask, "Do you mean to insinuate that there is no need to tarry anymore?" No, I
don't mean to insinuate it. I mean to state it! There isn't any need to tarry anymore!
"Do you mean to insinuate that there is no need to say, 'Oh, Lord, send the power right now'?"
No, I don't mean to insinuate it. I mean to state it! There is no need to say, "Oh, Lord, send the
power right now."
Jesus said, "You come and drink." And when you drink of the Holy Spirit until you get full, out
of your belly will flow rivers of living water— the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus promises that we would receive power after we receive the Holy Spirit.
ACTS 1:8
8 But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea,
and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
ACTS 1:8 (Amplified)
8 But you shall receive POWER — ABILITY, EFFICIENCY and MIGHT — when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea
and Samaria and to the ends — the very bounds — of the earth.
God doesn't need to send the power "right now." If you have received the Holy Spirit,
according to Acts 1:8, the power is already resident within you.