Gift of Tongues

Understanding the Gift of Speaking in Tongues

  • Rev. Mel C. Montgomery

    E-Mail address: admin@brothermel.com

  • Biography

    I've spoken in tongues and interpreted publicly for the last 17 years. Also, I've ministered pastorally or prophetically full or part time for 24 years. I was prepared for ministry by Sister Goodwin. Mom and Dad Goodwin, as they were affectionately called, were a husband and wife ministry team. Dad Goodwin was a pastor and Mom Goodwin was a prophet. They ministered together for 50 years. Kenneth Hagin Sr. considered the Goodwins to be his spiritual parents, and he learned much from them. The Goodwins also ministered with Smith Wigglesworth, and many times with Howard Carter. Mom and Dad impacted the lives and ministries of Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts, John Osteen, Marilyn Hickey, and Billye Brim. I knew Mom Goodwin for the last 10 years of her life. I spoke with her many times and visited her in her home. Although Mom and Dad were mightily anointed, they were not content to flow in a strong anointing on the platform, and leave their congregation members sitting idly by as mere spectators. But they also did not go to the other extreme and hold "prophesying classes," as some ministries tried to do in the 1990's with disasterous results. No, they followed the leading of the Holy Spirit as He drew them to specific individuals over the years, in their congregation, and to ministers outside their congregation. I was one of the last ministers that the Lord told Mom to take under her wing. I believe my calling is to pick up the Goodwins' mantle, and continue their ministry of teaching and demonstrating the Gifts of the Spirit in general, but specifically to eventually concentrate most of my efforts on pastoring and developing a local congregation in the Spirit. Technorati
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The Grassley Investigation

Posted by brothermel on February 21, 2008

Grassley Investigation…
A Religious Freedom Issue?

By Mel C. Montgomery

     Reasonable people can disagree, and there are certainly a wide range of opinions concerning the propriety of Senator Charles Grassley’s investigation of six major Charismatic ministries.  I would like to share some thoughts about this development.

     At the first Kenneth Copeland meeting I attended back in 1981, I had to walk past Christian protesters who held up signs declaring Brother Copeland to be a heretic, a blasphemer, the Anti-Christ, a space alien, a litterbug, and that there were rumors that he also didn’t recycle.  Which is typical of the criticism we Charismatics have to endure, usually ranging from the untrue to the baseless to the ludicrous.   Google Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Oral Roberts, or any other major Charismatic leader, and you will be presented with dozens of websites which usually misquote and misrepresent Charismatic teachings.  We’ve endured alot from our Christian brethren.

     We are understandably sensitive to criticism and suspicious of motives and agendas.
     Due to space and format limitations, I have moved the rest of this article to my website.  Please click on the link below:
by Brother Mel
 

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