Jude 1 v 20: But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Dearly Beloved, one of the best things that can happen to your prayer life is to know how to pray in tongues. You receive this ability when you get filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. This experience is supposed to empower and transform your prayer life forever. So are you filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues? This is an important question you need to answer if you want to experience the benefits of praying in tongues that I have been sharing with you for some time now. So again, what do you stand to gain from praying in tongues?
REASONS FOR PRAYING IN TONGUES:
9. Because it enables you to Worship or Magnify God in another way. I know that there are several ways of magnifying God’s name but praying in tongues is one of the most significant and profound ways of worshipping God. This is so because it:
* Enables you to worship God in a very private and intimate manner because speaking or praying in tongues is an exclusive and intimate way of speaking to God (1Cor. 14 v 2). And am sure you don’t want to miss this special means of communing with your Maker.
* Enables you to celebrate and magnify God in an unknown or special language. Speaking in tongues is a special language and it’s not a function of your natural brain but an operation of the Spirit (Acts 2 v 6-8).
* Enables you to express your Worship to God from the depth of your spirit man because when you speak or pray in tongues, you are communicating to God from your heart (spirit) and not your head (1Cor. 14 v 14-15).
So my dearly beloved ones, it’s time to tap into this supernatural means of worshipping your heavenly father.
10. Because it helps you to be aware or conscious of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit within you. This is one very important truth that you must not forget as a believer, i.e. the presence of the Spirit of God with you, in you, for you and on you. This one of the benefits you derive from speaking or praying in tongues. As you pray like this, you are stirring up and activating the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life, thus bringing about a refreshing and renewing experience for you with regards to God’s presence (Jn. 7 v 37-39). My dear reader, you and I need this constant renewal if we are to stay relevant in our World and endeavours too. So my admonition to you is to stay fresh and revived in his presence.
Other Scriptural References: (Acts 10 v 46: 2 v 11; Isa. 28 v 12).
Prayer for Today: Thank God, blessed Holy Spirit, for the privilege to know and have you as my comforter for life. Help me to maximise this relationship to the fullest in Jesus name, amen.
CONFESSION: Heavenly Father, I thank you for the opportunities and benefits that abound in praying in tongues. Help me experience all these possibilities to the fullest of my life and service to you and humanity. Help me live my life like you intended and designed to live it in Jesus name. My heart desires to experience the fullness of Christ in my prayer life. Lord, I believe and receive this by faith!
Yemi Adeoti is a pastor, teacher, life coach and mentor & also a prolific writer.
As I pray in tongue I stir up and activate the presence of the Holy Spirit and as a result I have a renewing and refreshing experience in my fellowship with HIM.
Hallelujah! What a blessed assurance.
Thank you Sir.