Hidden Benefits of Speaking in Tongues
Paul spoke in Tongues more than all.
I Corinthians 14:18 - I thank God, I speak with tongues more than ye all - private
Benefits of Speaking in Tongues
{C}1. {C}When you speak in tongues you build yourself up spiritually.
{C}· The primary purpose of speaking in tongues is to promote spiritual growth. When you speak in tongues, you're building up yourself spiritually.
{C}· I Corinthians 14:4 - He who speaks in a strange tongue edifies and improves himself (Amp)
{C}· To build up - it speaks of encouragement and consolation - it also speaks of becoming established in the faith.
{C}· The question to every believer is: is your spiritual structure a skyscraper or a shack? If you feel like your structure is small, speaking in tongues is a God-given method of building up yourself and adding to your faith.
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}2. {C}Speaking in Tongues brings rest and spiritual refreshment.
{C}· It brings rest from discouragement, worry, physical weariness and refreshing in spiritual dry places.
{C}· When you are without spiritual and physical energy and when you are heavy with problems, speaking in tongues bring rest and refreshing.
{C}· Isaiah 28:11&12 - For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, this is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
{C}· I encourage myself when I pray in tongues. When I feel discouraged and tired, I pray in the Holy Ghost until rest and refreshing comes.
{C}· Praying in tongues drives depression and anxiety away every time
{C}· Isaiah 12:3 - Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. You draw peace, joy and wisdom out of your spirit when you pray in tongues.
{C}3. {C}When you speak in tongues, you keep yourself in the love of God
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}· Jude 21 - Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
{C}· God's love for you never changes, but your experience of it does change - And your revelation of His love will revolutionize your life.
{C}· Speaking in tongues enables you to keep yourself in His love; aware of it, enjoying it and growing in an understanding of it.
{C}· Ephesians 3:16-19 - READ - Paul prays for the Ephesian church to be rooted in the Love of God
{C}4. {C}Speaking in Tongues purifies/builds up your faith
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}· Faith - faith worketh by love (Gal. 5:6) - more confidence because of a knowledge of the love of God
{C}· Faith in his power; his person (nature) and in his past works - ability, will, already done
When you pray in tongues, your natural mind doesn't understand. "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding in unfruitful." (I Cor 14:14)
{C}· Your spirit is praying when you pray in tongues
{C}· Unless there's an interpretation, your intellect doesn't know what your spirit is praying.
{C}· Your spirit has the mind of Christ - I Corinthians 2:16 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind the Christ.
{C}· Your spirit knows ALL THINGS - I John 2:20 - But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
{C}· Therefore your spirit always knows how to pray perfectly for situations, yourself and others.
{C}5. {C}Speaking in Tongues enables you to pray perfectly
{C}· There is a big difference between praying from your spirit and praying from your mind.
{C}· Your natural mind typically has incomplete information. It lacks full knowledge of God's Word, His will, the situation and the people involved.
{C}· Therefore you cannot pray from your intellect with completeness and 100% accuracy.
{C}· We have a weakness or infirmity in prayer - Romans 8:26 "we know not what we should pray for as we ought."
{C}· However, since your born-again spirit knows all things, it's impossible to pray in tongues without praying God's will!
{C}· I Corinthians 14:15 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
{C}6. {C}When you speak in tongues, you are speaking the hidden wisdom of God.
{C}· Paul received the REVELATION KNOWLEDGE for the messages he preached through speaking in tongues.
{C}· I Corinthians 2:6-7 - Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
{C}· I Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in and unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
{C}7. {C}When we pray in tongues and ask God for interpretation, he will reveal his will to our mind.
{C}· My spirit is praying - my spirit knows all things. Praying in tongues sends God's will from my spirit to my mind!
{C}· I Cor.14:14 - For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
{C}· I can pray for interpretation - I Cor. 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
{C}· God wants my mind to know what my spirit already knows - I Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written, eye hath not see, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
{C}· I Cor. 2:10 - But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.
{C}· I Cor. 2:12 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God
{C}· I Cor. 2:13 - Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth; but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual with spiritual.
{C}· {C}Proverbs 20:5 - Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
{C}· When I don't know what to do about a situation - I can pray in tongues and ask God to show me what I need to do to bring about the manifestation that he desires - GOD WANTS OUR MIND TO KNOW WHAT OUR SPIRIT ALREADY KNOWS - PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST CAN ASSIST IN THIS AREA
Three purposes for speaking in tongues
{C}1. As the initial sign that one has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
{C}2. Using the gift of tongues in Christian gatherings/church services - which should be accompanied by interpretation
{C}3. {C}For personal devotion and to promote spiritual growth. - today I am not teaching on the gift of tongues and its use in public church gathering, but for personal devotion only. But what you do behind closed doors, others will see openly. Private prayer in tongues produces public power.
Many after receiving the Baptism of the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in tongues put no further emphasis on speaking in tongues as a spiritual discipline. The reason is because they have not been taught about what speaking in tongues does for them after being baptized with it. There are many Christians who have not spoke in tongues; then there are those who have who rarely speak in tongues on a regular basis. This lack of understanding and emphasis on the subject of speaking in tongues is a ploy of satan. He does not want the saints to walk in the fullness of God's power and to take advantage of the supernatural benefits that speaking in tongues bring.
Paul spoke in Tongues more than all.
I Corinthians 14:18 - I thank God, I speak with tongues more than ye all - private
Benefits of Speaking in Tongues
{C}1. {C}When you speak in tongues you build yourself up spiritually.
{C}· The primary purpose of speaking in tongues is to promote spiritual growth. When you speak in tongues, you're building up yourself spiritually.
{C}· I Corinthians 14:4 - He who speaks in a strange tongue edifies and improves himself (Amp)
{C}· To build up - it speaks of encouragement and consolation - it also speaks of becoming established in the faith.
{C}· The question to every believer is: is your spiritual structure a skyscraper or a shack? If you feel like your structure is small, speaking in tongues is a God-given method of building up yourself and adding to your faith.
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}2. {C}Speaking in Tongues brings rest and spiritual refreshment.
{C}· It brings rest from discouragement, worry, physical weariness and refreshing in spiritual dry places.
{C}· When you are without spiritual and physical energy and when you are heavy with problems, speaking in tongues bring rest and refreshing.
{C}· Isaiah 28:11&12 - For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, this is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
{C}· I encourage myself when I pray in tongues. When I feel discouraged and tired, I pray in the Holy Ghost until rest and refreshing comes.
{C}· Praying in tongues drives depression and anxiety away every time
{C}· Isaiah 12:3 - Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. You draw peace, joy and wisdom out of your spirit when you pray in tongues.
{C}3. {C}When you speak in tongues, you keep yourself in the love of God
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}· Jude 21 - Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
{C}· God's love for you never changes, but your experience of it does change - And your revelation of His love will revolutionize your life.
{C}· Speaking in tongues enables you to keep yourself in His love; aware of it, enjoying it and growing in an understanding of it.
{C}· Ephesians 3:16-19 - READ - Paul prays for the Ephesian church to be rooted in the Love of God
{C}4. {C}Speaking in Tongues purifies/builds up your faith
{C}· Jude 20 - But you beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith (make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher), praying in the Holy Ghost.
{C}· Faith - faith worketh by love (Gal. 5:6) - more confidence because of a knowledge of the love of God
{C}· Faith in his power; his person (nature) and in his past works - ability, will, already done
When you pray in tongues, your natural mind doesn't understand. "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding in unfruitful." (I Cor 14:14)
{C}· Your spirit is praying when you pray in tongues
{C}· Unless there's an interpretation, your intellect doesn't know what your spirit is praying.
{C}· Your spirit has the mind of Christ - I Corinthians 2:16 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind the Christ.
{C}· Your spirit knows ALL THINGS - I John 2:20 - But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
{C}· Therefore your spirit always knows how to pray perfectly for situations, yourself and others.
{C}5. {C}Speaking in Tongues enables you to pray perfectly
{C}· There is a big difference between praying from your spirit and praying from your mind.
{C}· Your natural mind typically has incomplete information. It lacks full knowledge of God's Word, His will, the situation and the people involved.
{C}· Therefore you cannot pray from your intellect with completeness and 100% accuracy.
{C}· We have a weakness or infirmity in prayer - Romans 8:26 "we know not what we should pray for as we ought."
{C}· However, since your born-again spirit knows all things, it's impossible to pray in tongues without praying God's will!
{C}· I Corinthians 14:15 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
{C}6. {C}When you speak in tongues, you are speaking the hidden wisdom of God.
{C}· Paul received the REVELATION KNOWLEDGE for the messages he preached through speaking in tongues.
{C}· I Corinthians 2:6-7 - Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
{C}· I Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in and unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
{C}7. {C}When we pray in tongues and ask God for interpretation, he will reveal his will to our mind.
{C}· My spirit is praying - my spirit knows all things. Praying in tongues sends God's will from my spirit to my mind!
{C}· I Cor.14:14 - For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
{C}· I can pray for interpretation - I Cor. 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
{C}· God wants my mind to know what my spirit already knows - I Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written, eye hath not see, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
{C}· I Cor. 2:10 - But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.
{C}· I Cor. 2:12 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God
{C}· I Cor. 2:13 - Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth; but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual with spiritual.
{C}· {C}Proverbs 20:5 - Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
{C}· When I don't know what to do about a situation - I can pray in tongues and ask God to show me what I need to do to bring about the manifestation that he desires - GOD WANTS OUR MIND TO KNOW WHAT OUR SPIRIT ALREADY KNOWS - PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST CAN ASSIST IN THIS AREA.
And these signs will follow those who believe; in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues. - Mark 16:17
Praying in the Holy Spirit is the ability given to believers that allows them to pray in a supernatural language. It is also sometimes referred to as praying in tongues, praying in unknown tongues, or praying with your spirit language.
Praying in the Spirit is the means by which our redeemed human spirit communicates directly with God’s Spirit. Intended to be used for more than just communicating with God in prayer, it is also designed to be a power producer to enhance the operation of all the other gifts and graces of God.
For these reasons it could be considered one of the greatest gifts of the Holy Spirit that a Christian can receive.
A Built-In Power Plant
“But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.” (Jude 20)
One of the best illustrations of the Holy Spirit’s power I have encountered is one used by Bishop Bill Hamon of Christian International Ministries—the analogy of an electrical power plant utilizing a river and reservoir of water to produce electricity.
When a dam is built on a river, it causes the water to back up and form a reservoir. The reservoir water is the same water that will eventually flow through a turbine and continue on as a river. However, in the process of producing power, the water must become more active, noisy, and turbulent as it goes through the turbines.
Spiritually speaking, each believer has their own built-in power plant, which can produce the supernatural power of God in and through their lives. The water could be compared to being filled with the Holy Spirit. When upstream from the dam, it does not produce supernatural power until it flows through the gate (mouth) and turns the turbine (the unity of God’s Spirit and our spirit) to produce power.
When we pray in the Spirit, it is like the river starts flowing and activating our spiritual turbine. The activation of the turbine is what starts the chain reaction that produces power that enables things to work.
Activating the Gift
“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 11:13)
Like any spiritual concept, until praying in the Spirit is understood and received from a perspective of biblical truth, it is usually perceived with doubt or fear. I grew up believing that the baptism of the Spirit and the practice of praying in tongues were in error, and thus certainly to be avoided—if not feared.
When I did finally experience Spirit baptism, I was also eager to pray in the Spirit. With the encouragement and guidance of a mature mentor, it took about three weeks. (I actually seemed to sense or hear it in my mind/spirit before I could say anything out loud.) And although some might pray in tongues spontaneously after becoming filled with the Spirit, my experience was less dramatic.
Those who have been born of the Spirit (salvation) and baptized with the Spirit receive a spirit language. If you have never prayed in the Spirit but would like to, activation involves four basic principles:
1. Hearing and understanding the truth from a biblical perspective (Rom. 10:17; John 8:32). Good scriptures to read and review include Luke 11:13; Mark 16:17; Acts 2:4, 2:38, 10:46, 19:6; I Cor. 14:18-22; Jude 20.
2. Believing in your heart (Matt. 12:34b; Rom. 10:10).
3. Speaking with your mouth (Ps. 116:10a; Prov. 18:21). The words we speak can activate faith or squelch it.
4. Taking action (James 2:14-26). Open your mouth—and try it!
Additional Points to Consider
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…” (1 Cor. 13:1)
I actually do not know how I got by before I learned to pray in tongues. It is such an important part of my life that I commonly set my alarm earlier than necessary so that I can use that time just to pray in the Spirit. I often pray when driving, when cleaning, when exercising, and so on. So long as you’re not praying out loud, there is virtually no time when you can’t pray! And I always pray in the Spirit before a time of ministering or even writing an article.
- It is quite conceivable that the tongue of angels mentioned in scripture (see above) is the believer’s spirit language. If so, then praying in the Spirit attracts angels—and possibly, gives them direction from the Lord’s Spirit concerning our affairs. (See Ps. 91:11.)
- If possible, find a proven believer to act as a mentor as needed. (Heb. 5:14) And again, if possible, fellowship with a body of believers that also prays in the Spirit.
Finally, be persistent. (Luke 11:5-13) It can take time to overcome any hindrances of our mind to begin praying in the Spirit. Continue exercising your faith in full expectation of receiving the gift. Your persistence will be rewarded!
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