14 Benefits of Praying in Tongues

well Church I want you to know that I live 18 years born in 1973 July 21st and February 9th 1992 I was actually born again born into the kingdom of God the reason I bring that up is I lived 18 years apart from Christ and I lived without righteousness and I lived in sin just like everyone else who doesn't know Jesus I lived in the various lusts of the flesh and different things the reason I bring that up is not to glorify the devil or glorify my failure never once in all of my sinful activities and pursuit of Satan by doing whatever I thought was right did I ever have an inkling to speak in tongues when I was a you name it whatever it was I never spoke in tongues when I served the devil is the bottom line the reason I bring that up is some people erroneously have been told that tongues is of the devil now I'm going to tell you a quick little testimony and before I get into this teaching and that is one time I brought a girl to church when I had first been saved and I knew she was demonized and his praise and worship started that demon literally took over her body and her eyes changed and it wasn't the girl looking at me and anymore it was somebody else but I didn't care I'm not scared of the devil I have power and authority over the devil not because I'm a pastor not because I'm in the fivefold ministry but because I'm a believer and I was only born again just about six to eight months at this point just been filled with the spirit and praise and worship began to start and I lifted both my hands up to worship Jesus and I began to sing in the spirit singing other tongues as I did that had my my hand up my eyes closed all of a sudden that demonic spirit that had taken over that girl grabbed my arm and said stop it you're hurting me I want you to know that there is damage done to the Dark Kingdom when you pray in other tongues and by the Spirit of God I was such a baby Christian I didn't know I could do this I said sit down in Jesus name and all the sudden she sat down I say she that the body of that girl sat down with that demon in full control over and it was like a seatbelt was put on her by an angel because she started going like this and she said what did you do I can't move I don't have a scripture for that but I have an experience in line with the Word of God that we have power and authority over all the power of the enemy so don't put up with the devil in your life trample him in Jesus name Amen but that motivates me to teach this tonight that the devil hates speaking in other tongues he hates it when you get filled with the power of God because a powerless Christian he can overcome but a powerful believer he's scared to death he scared the death of amen because Jesus told us he didn't say go into all the world and preach the gospel to his disciples first he said before you go wait in Luke 24:49 he said wait until you are endued or clothed with power from on high he said you need power don't go out and your own ability in your own strength go out in my ability in my strength that's what Jesus told us and the all the 120 believers were in the Upper Room the Holy Spirit came upon them on the day of Pentecost and when the day of Pentecost was all was fully come they're all gathered together in one Accord in one place and suddenly the camp came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire one sat on each of them they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance Holy Spirit didn't fall on the 12 apostles present there he fell on a hundred percent of those present 120 they didn't they had to do the speaking they were filled with the spirit but they began to speak so this baptism of the Holy Spirit is not for elite Christians it's not for those that have the gift of tongues and interpretation it's for every believer can receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit because it's a direct prayer language with the father so I want you to understand there is number one there's no condemnation if you've not received this gift yet if you've not received this gift it's probably because you haven't received faith to receive it yet because nobody's taught you about it the Bible says how shall they believe unless they hear and how shall they hear unless a preacher comes and preaches a message so I'm preaching a message to you about why you can speak in other tongues the Bible reasons you can speak in other tongues so you can receive this glorious wonderful gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit that Jesus didn't even begin his ministry till he had this gift when he was he lived 30 years and he never did a miracle signer wonder but when the when he went down in the River Jordan baptized by John the Holy Spirit came upon him and then his miraculous ministry started and the first Ministry of Holy Spirit was he went into the wilderness and he whipped the devil in his own life and that's the first minute reason all this need the baptism the Holy Spirit is not so we can help somebody else and so we could help ourselves we need help i need help i need to walk in love i need to be conformed to the image of christ i need to change but i can't do it myself i've tried and it doesn't work the one who changes me his holy spirit is his power and his love and His goodness and his ability amen and so I'm talking to you tonight about how you can be transformed personally by God himself by receiving the baptism the Holy Spirit how you can drive the devil out of your life number one and then you can be empowered just like Jesus was in acts 10:38 to go about doing good healing all those that were oppressed to the devil the Holy Spirit will help you do good he'll help you to heal all those are oppressed of the devil you'll help you do the things Jesus commanded us to do Jesus commanded the church to heal the sick cast out Devils raise the dead cleanse the leper why freely you have received freely give we've been we've receiveth or 'ti but we've also received Dunamis power piscis power and kratos power three different Greek words of the power of God a Dunamis power is the explosive power of God like dynamite Kratos power is erupting power that is uncontrollable the power of God can just up just erupt in an area in a second and everybody in that room falls out under the power of God odd Lord give us more of that in Jesus name Amen we want the miracles but we want the the power of God to just I would love it if I just fell out out on this broadcast and I couldn't get up because the power of God was so strong amen amen praise God and but we need the teaching of the word of God too we need the power we need the teaching amen and then there's the iske spout of God and the iske power of God means the strength of God is behind the power that he manifests and his name is El Elyon the Most High God meaning that he is the highest God in the universe he is the only God in the universe he's absolutely almighty and power and no foe can withstand his power and he's in you and he's in me and that's good news are you ready to get into the first reason every believer should speak in other tongues I know I am let's get into the word number one this is isaiah 28:11 and 12 isaiah 28:11 and 12 number 1 the first reason every believer should speak in other tongues is rest and refreshing rest and refreshing this is Isaiah 28 verse 11 and 12 for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said this is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear look at this God said he was going to in the future that people were going to speak with stammering lips and another tongue he's talking about speaking the gift of speaking in other tongues which Jesus said in mark 16 it's a sign that would follow all those that believe and he said this would cause rest and refreshing if you're burned out in your Christian walk if you're burned out in ministry let me tell you why there's a reason why the reason is you maybe don't know about this secret here is the secret to longevity in the kingdom of God it's rest and refreshing I'm called to experience times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord you're called to experience times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord and that times of refreshing from the presence of Lord one of those times yes worship yes but praying in other tongues brings a rest and a refreshing where the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength when I pray in other tongues I'm waiting on God I'm renewing my strength I'm getting his strength I'm getting infused with supernatural strength so that I don't run out of spiritual gas so to speak we drive a car we got to put gas in it we're a spirit being and we're a wineskin we got to get filled with the wine the wine of the Holy Spirit one of the primary ways in the New Testament we get filled with this rest and refreshing is the baptism the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues number two tongues is a supernatural sign that follow them that believe mark 16:17 I just said it tongues as a supernatural sign that follow them that believe the Bible says mark 16:17 and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out Devils they shall speak with new tongues we're supposed to have signs following us more we're not following signs and chasing signs signs are following us as believers one of the signs that should follow you and should follow me is that we speak in other tongues you know it's supernatural to speak in other tongues it may not be spectacular but the very fact that you can just stop at any moment sha da da ba ki hasta bartender abou SATA Larry and Orrin and Amanda and beginning to speak in a heavenly language and some people would say how how do you think you can control God like that how do you think he can turn him on and turn him off no no Holy Spirit is always on Holy Spirit is always ready to give the utterance it's up to me by faith to step out and speak and some of the driest times that you might feel like I don't feel like speaking in tongues that's literally why God gave you the gift literally because when you feel dry you begin to speak in tongues and before long you feel the presence of God you experience the presence of God filling your life up amen as supernatural sign for unbelievers number three tongues the initial sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit how do I know I'm not ties in the Holy Spirit did God just leave it arbitrarily up to any reason whatsoever and I you know I'm baptizing the Holy Spirit because this that or the other no God said that in Acts chapter 2 verse 4 that the initial evidence the the byproduct what happens when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit is you overflow and when you overflow you're going to speak in this heavenly language now you can resist speaking in this language depending on the strength of the anointing the anointing of God can get so strong that you can't resist speaking or you may not even know you're speaking when I got baptized in the Holy Ghost it happened when I got I was in a meeting and I went up front to be prayed for the Evangelist was there he didn't even lay hands on me he just said not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord and the power of God fell upon me and I didn't even know what was going on I just I remember I was experiencing a trance where all my physical senses were suspended but it felt like there was burning glory not a bad burn a good burn like somebody had poured 5 gallons of gasoline all over me and around me and lit it only it didn't burn bad it burned glorious and holy and beautiful and precious and I have no words for it and I didn't realize what had happened but I'd been slaying the spirit I was I was laying on the ground and then eventually I heard this person speaking in tongues and an extremely loud powerful voice and I in my natural mind I went wow somebody really got touched by God in a mighty way and a few seconds later I realized it was me and then I realized I was laying on my back and then I realized my hands were up some people think the Holy Spirit is a gentleman no maybe you've just experienced low levels of the power I'm talking the Holy Spirit I look for his power I had one evangelist it's a friend of mine he said I love the scary power of God where God's power becomes so strong and it's so intense that there's a holy reverence that comes over your body because he's just so awesome not that he doesn't love you not that he isn't a good God but you are overwhelmed by his awesomeness I long for that kind of power to manifest in the church amen amen so in acts 2:4 there's 120 people gathered and a hundred and twenty people everybody spoke in tongues now you couldn't have faith to believe that you'd be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in other tongues unless everybody was but everybody got it if let's say in the upper room if one hundred and nine out of a hundred and twenty got the baptism the Holy Spirit and eleven people didn't well what if I'm not one of the what if I'm one of the eleven what if I'm not one of the the ones that were chosen so to speak and no it doesn't work like that this gift has been given an axe night team Paul said have you received the Holy Spirit since you believe so the receiving is on our end it's not on God giving it God is given the person the gift of Holy Spirit when he comes inside your being in fullness there is an overflow that will cause you to speak in other tongues and it's up to us to receive this gift but again we can't we can't receive the gift unless we've been taught so 120 out of 120 were baptized in the Holy Spirit this is God's will for every single person every single person you might say well didn't the Holy Spirit pass away no God the third person of the Trinity never died he's still alive he's still on the earth and there are built over a billion people that speak in other tongues today right now so those billion people aren't crazy they're receiving what the Bible promised us we could have I want everything the Bible promises me I can have in this life because it doesn't do me any good to speak in tongues in heaven I want to speak in tongues here because it receives it helps me receive mysteries and secrets of the kingdom of God number four the fourth reason every believer should speak in other tongues is supernatural prayer for unknown situations supernatural prayer for unknown situations you know one time my life was possibly spared when the enemy tried to take me out in Bible school because the supernatural prayer for unknown situations at this point I was I was dating a girl and she had a big picture of me in her room and she woke up one morning early it was like 6:30 a.m. and she didn't normally get up till 7:00 and she saw my picture and she felt a compunction an unction from Holy Spirit to pray for me that something was amiss something was up and she she didn't know what was wrong obviously so she she was baptized in the Holy Spirit she began to speak in other tongues and pray for me it went on for 30 minutes and then after about 30 minutes she felt a peace and a joy come and a laughter come she thought everything's good everything's fine well I was driving to work that day and to make a long story short I was in a crash that should have been fatal my roommate was driving his little truck and his the accident was so bad it stopped traffic for over an hour because his truck was ripped apart in the intersection the rear axle the dry the the drive shaft both wheels the front was paved in the bed of the truck was almost ripped off and parts scattered everywhere I walked away without one scratch without one problem because I was prayed for now if the truck would have been a foot and a half the two feet position positioned differently in the crash I would have been killed nearly instantly in the crash God protected me he sent His angels and protected me praise God prayer protected me supernatural prayer and the funny thing was my roommate Brent found out that he had had relatives who were sensitive to Holy Spirit that woke up that night in the middle of the night and prayed for him and he should have been severely injured as well he with both of us were totally uninjured he had a couple scrapes on his knees but we should have been seriously injured or killed and we were fine and it was nothing but a miracle of Jesus and you may have children that you wonder oh my gosh I need to control their life and try and prevent them from ever being in a dangerous situation let me tell you you're not omnipresent but your God is and his Holy Spirit is everywhere at the same time and if your family or loved one or a missionary on the other side of the world needs prayer all you have to do is get baptized in the Holy Spirit and there's times that you'll feel for lack of a better word you'll sense that there's something that needs to be prayed about you don't even need to know in your mind what's going on but you can pray in that situation and you can see God avert strategies of the devil accidents calamities all kinds of things because you spoke in other tongues I'll tell you this is good truth we need to know this we need to take advantage of it amen number five number five the fifth reason every believer should speak in other tongues is it keeps our prayers in line with God's will do you know that I could mess up and I can pray out of my mind in English and I can miss the will of God in my prayer I really could do that but if I pray in other tongues Holy Spirit is giving me those words and I still have to speak them out but that means the words he's giving me are the perfect will of God Romans eight twenty seven says this and the searcher of hearts knows what the spirits meaning is because his intercession for God's people his intercessions for God's people are in harmony with God's will you want to pray the perfect will of God and a prayer you can't mess up pray in other tongues and you'll always pray the perfect will of God in that awesome because you know what half the time I don't even know what I need to pray for I mean honestly I've got a prayer list and things that I pray for you know on a regular basis but I don't know all the other stuff but Holy Spirit knows everything he searches he's the greatest search engine and the universe he searches the will of God he searches and then he brings back the heart and mind of the Father and then he prays it through us so we can experience it in our life you'll always pray in line with God's Word amen when you pray another tongues number number six number six the sixth reason every believer should speak in other tongues is when you speak in other tongues this is Romans chapter five verse five you will keep full of the love of God you will keep full of the love of God in other words speaking in other tongues keeps us full of the love of God Romans chapter 5 and verse 5 says this and hope does not put the shame because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us think of that church our hearts are full of the love of God how does this happen through the Holy Spirit in other words if I'm having trouble with my love walk the first place I should look is am i spending enough time praying in other tongues I recommend this is what one of my spiritual fathers in my life Kenneth E Hagin a great man of God recommended is that every person that's a believer spend at least 30 minutes a day praying in other tongues and that may not seem like a lot but you know what I used to have a commute to work that was 20 minutes and I would just put praise and worship on and I'd pray in other tongues there's 20 minutes right there and then I throughout the day I just pray in other tongues and you can even pray in other tongues under your breath you don't have to you know shout it out every time but you can you can constantly leverage this gift a free gift from heaven the baptism of Holy Spirit and this prayer language for your benefit and to fill you with the love of God number seven the seventh reason every believer should speak in other tongues is praying in tongues stimulates faith praying in tongues stimulates faith what verse do we have this is the book of Jude verse 20 there's only one chapter so it's chapter 1 verse 20 I'm reading in the amplified translation it says but you beloved build yourselves up founded on your most holy faith make progress rise like an edifice higher and higher praying in the Holy Spirit praying in the Holy Spirit so when the Bible talks about praying in the spirit many times it's talking about praying in other tongues when you do this you rise like an edifice higher and higher and you stimulate yourself your faith not your self your faith you still when you stimulate your faith they meant as you pray in the Holy Spirit you rise like an edifice so praying Hung's doesn't release faith but praying in tongues stimulates your faith think about this every word that I speak and you speak an unknown tongues is a word we don't know before we speak it in other words it literally it's exercising your faith when you pray in other tongues because you don't know the next word you're going to say now to the natural mind that kind of seems irrational but we need to get beyond our rational mind and we need to get in the mind of Christ and we do that by praying in other tongues many times amen so you build yourself up on your most holy faith and Galatians 5:6 says that's for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything but faith working through love as I said earlier that the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit when the love of God has shed abroad in our heart then the faith of God works by love and so when we're filled with the Holy Spirit by praying in other tongues the love of God has shed abroad in our heart and what happens our faith starts to work why it's not working by my love it's working because I'm experiencing his love and acceptance and knowing I'm right with him I'm experiencing his presence is I'm filled with the baptism of the holy spirit and I speak in other tongues I experience his presence his love is unconditional love of my daddy God and it gets rid of an orphan spirit and it makes me understand that I'm accepted in the beloved and that acceptance causes me to be able to believe every promise you know you could you could get two people arguing theology is that God's will two hills that not God's will to heal but here's the bottom line he's a daddy God he's a father God and every father on this earth if they had the power would heal their kid are you kidding me if one of my children had something wrong with them and I had power and I do and you do to to change the situation in Jesus name I'm going to use that power to change the situation and you need to understand if I then being evil know how to give good gifts to my kids how much more shall my Heavenly Father give good things to me healing included all the blessings included that's my daddy man that's your daddy number eight moving right along number eight the eighth reason every person should believe or should speak in other tongues and I think this is one of the most important is personal edification personal edification in first Corinthians 14 for says this he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself but he who prophesies edifies the church the church is so big into prophecy and I'm for prophecy I don't despise prophecy prophecies great we need prophecy amen and we need profits that have integrity and we need profits that have gifting and we need apostles that have integrity and apostles that have gifting we need pastors that have integrity and pastors that have gifting we need teachers that have integrity and we need teachers that have gift gifting amen we need all we need evangelists that have integrity and gifting we don't need just gifting and we don't need just integrity we need gifting and integrity amen and we need to be strong in both those things amen but here we see and in this verse for 1st Corinthians 14 for that we edify yourself now edit the edification is great and if I'm going to edify the church I need to speak in an own language in other words I don't edify you by standing here I could I could sit here tonight and I could sit here and speak in tongues for the next 20 minutes and I'd really get blessed by speaking in tongues for the next 20 minutes but I would dare say you probably won't get a lot out of it unless you start speaking in tongues too but I need to teach and prophesy and as I teach i prophesy i'm prophesying out of my spirit man what God is saying but as I'm teaching in an own language your mind is edified in your heart is strengthened and edified amen but when I need to get personal edification from the Lord one of the ways I do that is I pray in other tongues and it's so easy so simple here I have my cell phone and my cell phone requires charging it's at 45 percent power right now and that means that if I let it go long enough it's going to run out of power and what happens when it runs out of power and the battery dies though phone dies and then I can't receive a call do you get it and so what I'm saying is when we pray in other tongues but it's just like taking our phone and plug it in and charging it up and some of the different translations about edify in this in this verse for 1st Corinthians 14 for the CBE translation says you do good to yourself when you speak in tongues the New Living Translation says you strengthen yourself personally in the Lord when you speak in other tongues the Living Bible says you help yourself grow spiritually and the Amplified Bible says you improve yourself well I want all those for my life and for your life I signed me up for all those things and we've got a lot of self-help videos in the body of Christ and and in the world in general the best self-help is praying in other tongues you'll improve yourself you'll strengthen yourself you're you'll edify yourself you'll build yourself up on your most holy faith amen number 9 tongues for giving thanks tongues for giving thanks the Bible reveals that when we pray in other tongues sometimes we're praying in tongues we're releasing Thanksgiving to God now where's that at it's in 1st Corinthians 14 verse 15 through 17 it says this what is the conclusion then I will pray with the spirit and I will pray also with the understanding I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing with the understanding notice Paul says I will that means at your will your will not God's will not God's will your will my will we can step out and we can sing in other tongues or we can pray in other tongues at any moment that we choose to do so and Holy Spirit it's not turning him on he's always on he's waiting on you and me to plug into him and he'll give us the utterance and give us the words to speak so weak but so number one we see that it's at our will to do this gifts God's not just going to always come upon us and make us speak in other tongues I'm not saying that can't happen it can but most times it's you making a quality decision because you've been taught all these benefits you know the tongues and you say based on those benefits I want to take advantage of this gift and I'm going to speak in other tongues amen so you can give thanks by giving by praying their tongues now 1st Corinthians 14 verse 16 and 17 says this otherwise if you bless with the spirit how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say Amen at your giving of thanks since he does not understand what you say for you indeed give thanks well but the other is not edified so at Thanksgiving dinner I pray in other tongues but I've had many Thanksgiving dinners with unbelievers or Christians who haven't been taught about this or experienced this present I don't I don't pray at the Thanksgiving meal and other tongues that would be a little bit weird now I'm not saying you can't do that if God leads you to do it go for it even if there's unbelievers present because tongues is a sign but if you're just doing it without an unction of the Holy Spirit in that case you could cause some you could have a problem amen and and I'm not talking about being seeker-sensitive I'm talking about being spirit lead because tongues are assigned for an unbeliever and if God taps you know if he if he gives you uh pterence to step out and speak in an unknown tongue it's going to impact those you're around and it's going to be a witness amen so you just be letter the Holy Ghost on that but we do know that when we pray in other tongues we can be giving thanks in the process however when we're praying with other people and giving thanks and we're leading a prayer it's better to give thanks in English at least to start with okay amen tongues for giving thanks in speaking in other tongues you can give thanks number 10 freedom from worldly contamination freedom from worldly contamination the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 14 28 let his words be to himself and to God speaking in other tongues let his words be to himself and to God what's the writer talking about what's Paul writing about he's talking about you know you could be going through life and there's some places you have to be just because you have to be there and there can be some really bad influences around you and people that are trying to contaminate you with their perversion their immorality their lifestyle sin their darkness whatever you want to whatever you want to say one of the ways that you can stay walking in the spirit and plugged into the spirit is just under your breath you can just be praying in tongues under your breath and you know what they won't even know you're praying in tongues but you're letting that river flow up bubble up out of your belly you're letting that river of living water flow out of your belly and your receiving rest and refreshing now your tongue is connected to your brain but your tongues also connected to your spirit and when you're speaking in other tongues you're you're praying in another tongue from your spirit you literally can read the Bible and pray in other tongues at the same time because your spirit man is the one who speaks another - who is exercising who's connecting to the tongue so sometimes I'll actually do this I'll be praying in other tongues and reading my Bible at the same time my mind is not bothered by praying in other tongues because my mind is not praying in other tongues my spirit is so you can actually pray in tongues and read your Bible at the same time and get double edification hey I'm all for a good time management right so freedom from worldly connect contamination number 11 helps you become spirit conscious and God inside minded first Corinthians 14:14 says this for if I pray in an in a tongue my spirit prays but my understanding is unfruitful that validates what I just said about my spirits praying not my mind and then first Corinthians 6:19 or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God and you are not your own now look at this church I if I pray an unknown tongue my spirit prays and you know what somebody taught me this some years ago and it really helped me that as you begin to speak in other tongues you identify where the the river of God flows out of your spirit and right here the river of God flows out of my spirit that's where the river of God comes out of my spirit when I pray in tongues you know what the same place the voice of God comes up out of my spirit so when I pray in other tongues I'm becoming conscious Holy Spirit is in me all the time and he's always on and I can always avail myself of his help all the time he's the helper and he's the standby standby means he's ready to go to moment's notice all the time and he's the helper to help me all the time too many Christians are going through life and living by their natural mind and their knowledge level instead of living by the unction of the Holy Spirit and his wisdom his knowledge and his understanding and when you pray unknown tongues all of a sudden you're tuning in it's like taking an old clock radio or old radio that had a analog dial and you're tuning in you know getting off an AM channel flesh Channel and getting on the FM channel getting on the spirit channel God's voice Channel you're tuning in and you're realizing he's in me God is in me God is in me Holy Spirit I have the ability of God and acts 1:8 says you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you that word power in the Greek one translation is super natural ability and so you need to remember Holy Spirit is in you and he gives you and me supernatural ability supernatural power to reign and rule and have the wisdom of God the mind of Christ and have the word of knowledge the word of wisdom discerning of spirits gift of faith gifts of healings working of miracles tongues interpretation tongues prophecy the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit I don't possess the constant manifestation of those gifts I possess the one or he possesses me who has the manifestation but he's always willing to manifest when there's a need amen amen so number 12 number 12 brings the tongue under subjection oh my gosh this is so important the the baptism the Holy Spirit helps you bring your most unruly member under subjection to God James chapter 3 verse 8 says this no man can tame the tongue it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison there is such power and authority in our tongue you know when we use our tongue to bless and edify others were using our tongue and in line with God's Word when we use our tongue to destroy people and hurt them and to I almost don't want to say the word criticize because the word criticize or to critique if it's done by spirit by love so that you can go higher in God is not a bad thing in other words you know growing up I played tennis and football and my coach would critique my performance he'd say hey when you throw the ball up you're throwing it a little too close to your body and it's causing your serve to go long he said throw your your ball up a little farther in front of you and you'll transfer your weight into your serve that gave me more power in my serve and I was less likely to hit the ball out he was critiquing me coaching me but not to tear me down to help me be better I love that and I say Holy Spirit I want your critique and I know you're not out there you know tearing me down but anything you say to me Holy Spirit or anything my spiritual leaders say to me is done out of a spirit of love to help me grow if I'm open to it amen and so the the Holy Spirit is in us to help us in so many ways but that one of the biggest helps we need is to bring our tongue under subjection and when I pray in another tongue I'm literally yielding the control of my tongue to God Almighty through the baptism the Holy Spirit and if I can bring my tongue under subjection the Bible says that's the most unruly member then everything else is going to be easy by contrast amen brings the tongue under subjection that's number 12 we just have two more and we're going to wrap things up tonight number 13 tongues are the door to the supernatural and the rest of the gifts of the Holy Spirit tongues are the door to the supernatural and the rest of the gifts of the Spirit how do we know this Acts chapter 19 verse 6 and verse 6 now this passage Paul comes to Ephesus and he finds certain believers who had only heard the john of john's baptism and he said what do you baptize into and they said oh we've been baptized into john's baptism and he said yeah that was good that you did what you knew but john baptized a baptism of repentance and said you should believe on him that comes after john and that person is jesus and so they heard the preaching they accepted jesus they're baptized and the Bible says Paul laid his hands upon them and all the men were about 12 and they spoke with tongues and prophesied and that's acts 19 6 and when Paul had laid hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied notice they spoke with tongues and then all of a sudden instantly they started operating and another gift of the nine gifts of the Spirit I feel it's important to comment on this as well there is a difference between praying and other tongues for personal edification and the gift that first Corinthians 12 gift of tongues and interpretation okay so I pray in tongues all the time for my own personal edification has nothing to do with anybody else but at times I'll get a message in other tongues and then followed by an interpretation of other tongues and that's in a public setting to edify the body one is for me one is to help others okay everybody can participate in the tongues for personal edification not necessarily everybody will participate in a public setting where the tongues and interpretation operates amen amen praise God so tongues is the door to the supernatural and the rest of the gifts of the Holy Spirit now I've actually seen this happen in my own ministry years ago my wife and I had a couple over to our house and they were born again but they wanted more of God and I love being around people who are hungry for more of God that's one of the biggest keys of receiving more of God is wanting more God and so we were in our living room in her house and we laid hands on them and prayed and for them to receive the baptism the Holy Spirit they fell out on the floor under the power of God begins speaking in other tongues and then the husband began prophesying and he didn't even realize he was probably began prophesying speaking by the word of the Lord while he was wrong a lot round on the floor he was a Holy Roller and he hadn't been schooled in that he was just having an encounter with God and he was rolling on the floor in my living room speaking in tongues and then he begins to prophesy he was prophesying the word of the Lord to himself it was glorious I was standing back rejoicing watching what Holy Spirit was doing awesome awesome time in God amen but he spoke with tongues and he prophesied just like in acts 19 you know we can have the same experiences the Apostles had in the Bible there for us today to enjoy amen and then number 14 number 14 the final reason I'm sure there's more in the word if you want to dig but number 14 tongues is a sign advertisement to unbelievers first Corinthians 14 22 therefore tongues are for a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers there are masses of charismatic Christians who do not understand this and they literally think that all the time that speaking in tongues is always going to cause an unbeliever to run away or be freaked out well that's why I say be led because I have seen that happen I've seen unbelievers hear somebody speaking in tongues and they run away and get freaked out I've seen that happen but let me tell you something I sit here today a man of God in ministry the night I got born again in a church was they called a prayer meeting spontaneously and a person stood up behind me and begin to speak in a booming voice in a message in other tongues and guess what happened when they begin to speak the interpretation of that tongues the fear of God the terror of God the terror of the Lord look it up those words are in my New Testament and your New Testament knowing them the terror of the Lord the fear of the Lord something the church has forgotten something the church's thrown out the church desperately needed because in the book of Acts they walked in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit amen we don't need either or we need both it's a holy reverence for his awesomeness and a respect for him amen but that man began to speak in other tongues I was an unbeliever as soon as he began to speak I knew it was not a man speaking I knew it was God speaking I knew it was God speaking and I said God is real I felt the presence of God come on me and then I went into a heavenly vision and had an encounter at the throne of God that changed me forever all that started when a man behind me stood up in a church service and gave a message in other tongues

Channel: James Fortune @ Oasis Church

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Length: 43min 9sec (2589 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 06 2015