What is speaking in tongues? What is actually happening when you’re exercising this powerful gift? Why does it strengthen your spirit so effectively?
As a believer, you have a deep connection with God.
10But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. 11No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. 12And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:10-12, NLT)
On a 24/7 basis, whether you’re aware of it or not, your spirit is fellowshipping with God’s Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, Who knows God perfectly, communicates with your spirit.
Now consider these three realities:
#1 The Holy Spirit prays for you
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. (Romans 8:26, NLT)
That verse is not directly referencing the gift of speaking in tongues, but it is connected.
#2 Your Spirit is one with the Holy Spirit
But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. (1 Corinthians 6:17, NLT)
Your spirit is one with the Holy Spirit. So whatever He prays, your spirit prays.
#3 When you pray in tongues, your spirit is praying.
For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying. (1 Corinthians 14:14, NLT)
So if my spirit prays what the Holy Spirit prays, and if my spirit prays when I speak in tongues, then that means that when I pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit is praying for me, through me. The surrendered syllables and sounds that are released when I pray in tongues carry upon them the Holy Spirit’s very own intentions and meanings.
When you pray in tongues, you declare aloud in the natural realm that which the Holy Spirit groans in the spiritual realm. When you pray in tongues, you pray perfect prayers, crafted by the Holy Spirit. You pray with His power, according to His will, surrendered to His leading.
The Holy Spirit wants to pray aloud for you, and when you pray in tongues, you give Him that voice.
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