Miracle School/ The Benefits of praying in tongues- Joseph Prince

the bible emphasized a lot on praying in tongues jesus talked about it paul measured on it the devil is trying to take away this powerful ingredient from the body of christ is the missing ingredient i find that when i open the bible the words of scripture just jump out at me and also i see the key that unlocks that passage by praying the spirit if you pray 10 000 words in a tongue you only need five words of understanding to have the power of god release your spirit man is faster than your head if you listen to it you will find profit in every area of your life hi this is joseph prince thanks for tuning in i just want you to know that you are able to watch this sermon for free today because of the support of our gospel partners so to all our partners thank you for making a difference as you watch this video feel free to navigate to different points using the youtube chapter headings you can also watch this sermon at gospelpartner.com with the rest of our community we love to hear what you have learned and how you have been blessed by today's sermon be blessed as you feed on god's word today do you know church that the lord has given us an easy way to walk in the spirit to walk with him i want to share on that today and how in walking in the spirit will possess our possessions again we are continuing our series on uh there's yet very much land to be possessed when joshua was old god said to joshua you are old and advanced in years and there remains yet very much land to be possessed you know i feel that there's so much of my spirit i want to share but i don't want to rush through so that you receive every single possession amen that god has for you so continuing from where we left off last week the lord said to joshua that the way you possess the land is like this joshua chapter one god says every place that the soul of your foot will threat upon i have given you as i said to moses notice that god has given uh joshua and the people of israel the land the promised land the word that i have given is past stance and yet god told him every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon i have given you as i said to moses and he goes on to tell us here in verse 4 about the land that god wants him to possess from the wilderness and this is what god has given to israel from the wilderness and this lebanon as far as the great river the river euphrates all the land of the hittites and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory you know i was reading this one day and then i felt the spirit of god was telling me that there are no redundancy in in the scripture every verse is there for a divine purpose and it will not just rush through it god will unveil what's great things amen so i was thinking that god is talking about possession here and and more importantly joshua and all the events and the happenings of the old testament is actually they are by the shadow they are not the substance we are living in the substance we're in the new covenant we are living in the substance so when i look at that and i know that for this it's a real land a land flowing of milk and honey and notice yet god mentioned the geographical points of this land so one day i just felt the spirit of god wanted me to look at the at all these geographical uh points and i look at this map and it says the first part of the verse says from the wilderness to lebanon so from midbar in hebrew midbar is the wilderness from midbar to lebanon lebanon is north of israel so we have a straight line there right from midbar to lebanon and then it says also from the river euphrates the land of the hittites today modern day iraq from the river euphrates all the way to the great sea it tells you that all the way to the great sea which is the mediterranean sea now you have another horizontal line what do you see people you see the cross so literally going back to the verse god is saying every place the soul of your food will tread upon i have given you from the wilderness and this lebanon as far as the great river the river euphrates and to the great sea towards the going down of the sun which is uh in the west shall be your territory so the great sea is on the west and it ends with the cross we see a picture of the cross when you join all the geographical points hallelujah so today our possession is in the cross amen the lord has done so much for us and and all that we are cognizant of in some circles is just forgiveness of sins and the fact that we have received eternal life through the cross of jesus christ but there's so much more there's yet very much land to be possessed we saw last week how uh we have also possessed healing amen through the cross of jesus christ now even for those who believe that god still heals today there is a perception of it that is not accurate which is uh not based on the finished work of the cross of jesus christ it is based on you know god will be merciful if god wants to heal god can heal and if god is merciful enough you know we we plead with god we we back you know we we entreat god amen it's like a child you know asking the dad for a toy to buy a toy and all that if we'd be perceived long enough maybe god's heart will be moved and god will answer us now that that is not the a faith foundation for asking for healing all right we can do that in ignorance but it's time for us to realize that that the finished work of jesus christ the cross of jesus christ is the solid rock foundation for our healing now when you approach it that way many times you even command the disease to get out of your body in the name of the lord jesus christ with authority because you know that jesus has done the work at the cross he himself has borne your diseases and carried away your pains it's almost like isaiah realized that you know isaiah as a prophet could foresee in the future that of all the aspects of the work of jesus people will have you know no doubts about him bearing our sins he was wounded for our transgressions that part they have no problem all right he'll make his soul an offering for sin that that verse in isaiah 53 they have no problem believing that but notice in all these things it doesn't say surely it doesn't begin surely but when it comes to healing it starts with akhen in hebrew which means surely a strong assertion very strong in hebrew again surely he has borne our diseases and carried our pains it's almost like like the holy spirit is uh reassuring us because he knows that in this area there'll be more unbelief there'll be more doubts so let rest be assured that your healing is based on the solid foundation of the work of the cross amen where jesus bore your infirmities and carried my diseases and with his stripes we are healed hallelujah amen that's how we are to approach it praise the lord and there's so many things that the lord has done for us also at the cross you know the grace of our lord jesus christ we shared last week that through his poverty you might be rich though he was rich he became poor that you through his poverty might be rich and we shared the context that is referring to finances is referring to material and needs being supplied okay so we talk about we end off with how he even redeemed us from stress fears worries and cares when he sweat blood and the blood fell to the ground that was cursed and that happened in the first garden when adam's sin god says by the sweat of your face you will eat bread in other words you have to label for it there'll be painful toil you you'll be stressed and stressed indicated by the sweat sweat is a picture of painful labor by the sweat of your face you will eat bread and yet in this garden what happened in the first garden was ended in another garden when jesus the beginning of his passion he bore he bore our our curse and later on symbolized by the crown of thorns and our cares our worries our anxieties our stress and in the garden he sweat blood and that blood of jesus has redeeming quality when it touch his sweat he redeemed you and i from the curse of sweat the curse of painful labor and painful toil hallelujah you and i are free let's receive that peace that aggressive peace that shalom peace of god that guards our hearts and minds from all fears worries and cares amen let's purposefully pray you know as i was preparing for this message i'm getting ahead of myself right now but i think my share with you right now the lord spoke to me and the lord said to me to tell all of us to pray in the spirit regularly at least every day spend some time at least at least half an hour to one hour set aside time and it doesn't mean that you must you must observe it legalistically every day you can choose the time you want but just say lord let your spirit make intercession right now and start praying in tongues amen at least for half an hour to one hour okay praise the lord every day will you do that amen and there's a promise and as when he spoke to me he also gave me this portion of scripture this is what the lord said to me from this portion here so shall they fear the name of the lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun so something's going to happen right that will cause the people and there's a prophecy by the way in isaiah 59 the people who fear the name of the lord that's the name of jesus from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun that's the east when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the lord will lift up a standard against him in those days they'll carry their banner amen and with that banner they'll go into the battle amen when they lift their banner again in the battle that means they have won the victory those who banned us who have fallen they have been defeated and bible says the holy spirit the spirit of the lord will lift up a standard against the enemy when he comes in like a flood when he comes in like a flood the spirit of law will live up a standard against him and what is this standard he goes on to say the redeemer will come to zion and to those who turn from transgression and jacob says the lord now this is a promise that is repeated by paul in the book of romans and he goes on to say as for me says the lord this is my covenant with them my spirit who is upon you and my words which i have put in your mouth notice this this is talking about covenant a new covenant as for me this is my covenant with them my spirit who is upon you and my words which i have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth that sounds like joshua 1 8 nor from the mouth of your descendants your children nor from the mouth of your descendants descendants those are your grandchildren says the lord from this time and forevermore what do you reckon uh those words what do you think is this new heaven and god says this new covenant i'm gonna put my words in your mouth and in the mouth of your children and the mouth of your grandchildren and and before he says that he'll put his words he says my spirit my holy spirit the ruach hakodesh the holy spirit will be upon you my spirit will be upon you and you will speak the words that i put in your mouth and friend the whole context there is how he will lift up a standard against the enemy when the enemy comes in like a flood amen we pray in the spirit we pray in tongues hallelujah when the holy spirit came in the upper room on all the disciples the bible tells us when the spirit came on them what happened in their mouth their mouth was filled with words hallelujah spiritual words paul talks about spiritual words that man's wisdom does not teach but which the spirit teaches not in words of man's wisdom but in the words which the holy ghost teach us that's what paul says in corinthians another place in corinthians paul says howbeit when he pray in tongues when you pray in tongues howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries and no under the apostle paul who wrote three fourths of the new testament he he was able to understand the mysteries hidden in the old testament hidden from the foundation of the world but was revealed in the new testament and every time paul says behold i show you a mystery you know you wonder how he got that mystery amen he talked about the mystery of the church that was hidden in the old testament the mystery of marriage which is christ and the church which was hidden behold i show you a mystery christ and the church when you talk about marriage and you talk about the mystery of godliness god incarnate in human flesh hallelujah the mystery of godliness he talks about even the mystery of iniquity how it works amen mystery musterion in the greek mystery in the new covenant is not something still hidden mystery in the new covenant whenever you find the word mystery that means it was once a mystery but it's now unveiled it is now revealed hallelujah praise the lord amen so when you pray in tongues how beard paul says whoever speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not unto man but unto god how be it that what how be it means the the mother's operandi how does it work how big in the spirit he's speaking mysteries the same word from the mystery of the church and god will reveal to you uh in your spirit man revelations and that's why when you pray in the spirit a lot the word of god comes to life hallelujah and here we have the promise in isaiah god says when the enemy comes in like a flood i don't think it's time for us to just sit down there and do nothing church we must come together stop fighting one another stop getting into strife there's a whole world going to hell and they need to hear the gospel of jesus christ for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and on the day of pentecost of all the things that god can give us god give us the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues because they all spoke in tongues hallelujah it must be something powerful what was the law that could not uh give man the strength to be holy came on the mount zion not on mount sinai as the spirit amen on mount sinai god gave the ten commandments god gave the law and three thousand people died it was the the first uh feast of pentecost but here when the day of pentecost was fully calm on mount zion not mount sinai mount zion god gave the spirit not the law and 3 000 people were saved and that's why the apostle paul says the letter the law kills but the spirit gave life so what was the law and and the bible said by the law is the knowledge of sin when the commandment came sin revived and i died and people still don't understand what it means to be dead to the lord they think that oh you can go ahead and sin and it doesn't really matter anymore while you're assuming you're dead to the law you can just go ahead and sin that's that's the father's from paul's mind and from my teaching i i it's something that i've never thought before if you heard it from someone that means that someone is lying to you that's not my teaching i always say this the strength of sin is the law the law is designed so that when you try to keep it it brings forth sin but now the bible says in romans 7 one of the provisions of the cross is that you are date to the law that you should be married to another even to him who was raised from the dead and he goes down to he says this let me read the entire thing to you it says therefore my brethren you also become date to the law to the body of christ that you may be maybe married to another to him who was raised from the dead who is that our lord jesus we are dead to the law to be married to jesus the union with christ produces fruit he goes on to say we are married to jesus was raised from the dead that we should what bear fruit to god this union with christ this oneness with christ causes us to bear fruit to god's glory hallelujah good fruit godly fruit but it's only when you are dead to the law alive in christ and to christ that you obey this fruit so we are not law occupied we are christ occupied and when we are christ occupied the moral excellence of the law is fulfilled in us hallelujah but the more you try purposely to try to keep the law what the law is designed by god to do that by the law is the knowledge of sin the strength of sin is the law like paul says when the commandment came sin revived and i died like he says down here for when we were in the flesh the sinful passions which were aroused by what the sinful passions for your aroused by what that's why those of those people are coming against this teaching even grace and all that would say we are normal under the law and all that but they try to make it sound like we are no more on the law means we are no more under morality in fact i'm sharing we are dead to the law that we might produce moral excellence beyond the law the law says don't commit adultery but the moral excellence will cause you to fall in love with your wife that you don't have time or even the taste to think about other women hey man that's moral excellence hallelujah praise the lord the lord says thou shalt not steal doesn't say you shall give but the moral excellence causes you to give amen causes you to be generous hallelujah instead of just passive i'm not stealing i'm not stealing i'm doing fine no friend so we are saying now this is all in your walk with god it's inward praise the lord we're not saying that a nation should not be under the law no no no a nation should be governed by the judo christian commandments and laws and that's what all civilized nation in the world today is based on judo christian laws right even the ten commandments but notice that it only governs you outwardly it cannot change your heart the moment right there's there's lawlessness in the land anarchy rules in the streets people start stealing from shops raping looting healing why it's in their hearts when the police is not there right or the police is no more uh functioning in a nation you see what's going to happen so outward law cannot transform the heart god is talking about being dead to the law so that your heart will be transformed the one twos are gone is what produces sinful passions what produces sinful passion is it's aroused by the law we had worked in our members to bear fruit to death they would work in our members to bear fruit to death the verse before that says when you are married to jesus you bear fruit too god when you're dead to the law but married to jesus you bear fruit to god but when you are in the flesh because the sinful passions are aroused by the law and they work in your members to bear fruit to death which one do you want when you're under the law just like the children of israel when they were under the law the ten commandments what was the result three thousand people died when you're under the on the christ the spirit of christ amen the holy spirit 3 000 people were saved think about it the children of israel never built a golden calf until after they received the commandment nothing wrong with the law the law is holy the law is righteous but the law cannot make man righteous or holy nothing wrong with the law per se something wrong with your heart but it takes the law to arouse what is already lying dormant so those who come against this teaching and look at your own life when was the last time you watched pornography when was the last time you were struggling and yet we hear from this ministry testimonies of the testimonies of people who are freed from pornography you never hear them saying after hearing you preach past the prince you know i i'm now under no condemnation i'm free to continue sinning and watching pornography it's never those testimonies it's always i i'm now free for three years from pornography i'm free for five years from pornography it's always the result of holiness isn't it strange the so-called erroneous teachings of pastor prince is producing freedom from pornography and we are having these testimonies coming in almost every month i want to share with you a testimony that will bless you and encourage you here's a brother from ohio the united states and he shares i have been a christian my entire life but my lifestyle had not been a worthy representation for christ even though the lord had blessed me richly i was a ceo in a non-profit organization and had tried my best to be a good influence for my employees and those i served but i live a secret life dominated by pot smoking alcohol and pornography i knew i was leading a double life needless to say despite my best intentions i lost my job my reputation was tarnished and all that i had built up was torn down during that time i kept asking god to forgive me and change my heart i knew i couldn't become the person i wanted to be without the help of the holy spirit but no matter how much i tried i couldn't change my behavior then i found pastor prince's program on television and as i listened to his teaching on god's grace my spirit started to stir within me it took many months of listening before anything changed in my life pastor prince your message of grace was the turning point for me when i heard god loves me and cares for me even as i struggle with my sins my heart was moved and i knew it was time to change notice is the goodness of god that leads people to repentance and you said to remind myself even in my sin that i am the righteousness of god in christ you see in your in your sin the bible says knowing this one of the provisions of of christ on that cross is also this romans 6 6 knowing this that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be put away all right might be destroyed in the kingdoms but actually be put out of action in the greek that we should not serve sin so our old man was crucified with christ so every time you have a temptation right you you must not acknowledge the old man as if he's alive but he feels alive the temptations are so real amen and you feel the pull towards that direction and yet you must not acknowledge that it is alive don't compliment him the old man by acting like he's alive i'll struggle against it when you struggle against it you're actually saying he's alive when you are cognizant of him when you recognize him when you fight against him what you are saying is that my old man is still alive so what's the right posture you drop down to verse 11 in romans 6 it says likewise reckon yourself dead indeed unto sin and the verse before that says christ died to sin on the cross once and for all likewise in the same manner consider yourself it's an accounting term consider take into account that you have died to sin in other words my old man that i feel so alive in me giving me all the wrong desires different lusts and and different uh feelings of anger or frustration or whatever right i must acknowledge that he's gone that all this is like a mirage to faith he's gone he has been dealt with at the cross hallelujah to god he doesn't exist now to experience he exists but to faith faith agrees with god and say he is gone so don't act and don't don't pray even against it because if you pray against him right you'll find that as you are praying you fall into sin have you experienced that before so the best approach is the bible approach considered done that old man was crucified that's the word reckon or impute amen consider take into account that he has been crucified amen let me come back to this story praise the lord thank you jesus you said to remind myself even in my sin that i am the righteousness of god in christ now this is identifying with what god identifies with god looks at you and god sees the righteousness of god in christ god does not see the the old man remember that as far as god is concerned the old man was crucified and what has been crucified is condemned is done away with just let me god look at abraham in genesis 22 and god said to him take your son your only son your son isaac whom you love now why did god say take your son your only son the son that you love isaac right and offering on one of the mountains why did god say his only son because abraham had two sons already he had he i mean he had an older son ishmael but notice god says take your son your only son in god's eyes what is born of the flesh he doesn't recognize his eyes is not cognizant of what is born after the flesh and no one sees reality of all realities like god does faith is seeing the way god sees amen praise the lord so god said to abram take your son your only son when abraham in a natural head another son but that son was produced by the flesh so god doesn't recognize him so likewise god looks at you and god doesn't recognize what is born of the flesh you got recognized what is born of the spirit you are the righteousness of god in christ that's what i mean when i say acknowledge what god acknowledged thereby you're not acknowledging the existence and the power of the old man who has been crucified i'm breaking this down for you amen praise the lord and uh you said to remind myself even in my sin that i am the righteousness of god in christ i did that and i also started partaking of the holy communion daily i also received a vision that inspired me to change the way i was living all this came from god with the help of the holy spirit i lost the desire to smoke pot drink and watch pornography friend true deliverance is losing the desire for that thing it's not just i still want it i still want it but i'm i'm controlling myself that is not deliverance you are still trying to control yourself by your fleshly effort and soon enough you will break free right from that you know and you know what's happening you're gonna binge on it that's what the flesh does true deliverance is by the holy spirit that's why grace is all about heart transformation it's not about behavior modification amen so with the help of the holy spirit i lost the desire to smoke pot drink and watch pornography today i'm delivered from my shameful addictions and have joined a local church where i can enjoy the company of fellow believers i earnestly seek god's will for me and ask for him to complete the plan he has started in me thank you pastor prince for your teachings because they have changed my life and i can become the person god wants me to be now i wish to serve god and be an instrument of his grace and love god bless you for reminding me how much god loves me is it amazing such effects of my so-called erroneous and heretical teachings to god be the glory hallelujah so god said to joshua that the way you possess the land is by walking literally every place the soul of your foot and as you walk you will possess what i have already given you in other words possessing your possessions possessing what is already yours god says just walk in genesis 5 we find this word about enoch it says that enoch walked with god and he was not he disappeared why rapture they said the rapture is actually something that happened also with enoch and also with elijah in the old testament it's not a new concept okay so he was walking with god notice he not walked with god and he was not for god took him and hebrews 11 it says that without faith it's impossible to please god and it says that enoch was translated that he should not see death that's what rapture is so that you will not see physical death you are translated as you're walking with god one day he just finds himself walking right into the glory hallelujah amen that's what the rapture is the rapture is so that we will not see death that's physical death hallelujah and uh notice again he walked with god like adam if he walked with god so going back all the way down there man still walk with god together with but walking with god is still um outward okay it is still something close yes but not as close as what i'm going to share with you so so you still find enoch walking with god and then in genesis 17 you find god talking to abraham and this is what god said to abraham i am el shaddai now abraham was 99 years old the lord appeared to abram and said to him i am el shaddai literally el shaddai in hebrew almighty god walk before me and be blameless so notice now walk before me literally in the hebrew panim pani means face god is saying walk before my face walk before my face be conscious i'm looking at you be conscious i'm looking at you now this is still a wonderful way of walking with god every day being conscious as you walk with god you are conscious he's looking at you and we know now that uh the blessing of the old testament the lord make his face to shine on you should be put in here that today because of christ a man god's face is shining on us he is beaming on you he is he is radiant on you amen he's he's his rays of light and favor is shining on you he's not angry with you now some people will you know tell the children like the old song says be careful little eyes what you see be carefully lies what you see for the father up above is looking down in love be careful little eyes what you see even though the love is there but again it's like be careful of this be careful of that be careful of that almost like god is out the fine fault even though he does it in love but god is not out the fine fault god is shedding his grace amen beaming his light on you that you through that grace and that light of his revelation will be able to walk with god walk before god and yet i'm going to show you right now the new covenant way of walking with god it's in galatians 5 16. i say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh amen so here we have a more intimate walk walk in the spirit now how you walk in the spirit you're not walking with the spirit you're not walking before the spirit that will indicate that the holy spirit is outside you and don't forget god's the holy spirit is god himself amen the one of the godhead amen the divine person of the godhead the holy spirit and here he's not talking about you walking with the holy spirit or walking before the holy spirit which all indicates he's still outside you but you're walking in the holy spirit hallelujah you're walking in the spirit that is a very intimate term because you know the real you is actually a spirit god made you in his image god made you a spirit you are tripartite being you are a spirit being you have a soul amen your soul is not the the real you okay the real you is the spirit and and you have a soul right i'm a spirit i have a soul and the soul is the mind the will the emotions all that is the soul realm and you live in a body so they're three parts to you you're also tripartite ah man you the true part to you so you you are a spirit you have a soul you live in a body guess what it's a picture of the tabernacle the old tabernacle of moses you find there are three parts to it the outer court which is your body right the holy place which is your soul and then the holy of holies where the ark of the covenant is and god's presence and shekinah glory is there that's the spirit is the most intimate part that's when we pray in the spirit how be it in the spirit when you pray in tongues you are praying in the spirit by the way anyone that tells you you're praying in the spirit means you're praying more gumption and more power and more passion there's not praying in the spirit bible must define bible okay paul says i'll sing with the spirit and i'll sing with the understanding that means what i pray in tongues and i pray with understanding i'll sing in the spirit and i'll sing with the understanding okay so he's saying very clearly that wherefore if i pray an unknown tongue my spirit prays paul says if i pray an unknown tongue my spirit prays the most intimate part of me is praying and that's what the bible says about praying the holy spirit in jude it says praying in the holy spirit it goes together with building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the holy spirit building up yourself on what your most holy faith why is that most holy many years ago i was meditating on this and the lord began to show me let me pray in the spirit because the next verse says praying in the holy spirit when you pray in the holy spirit you are praying for your most holy place the holy of holies most holiness holy of holies you are the temple of god where is which part of you is the holy of holies your spirit man so when you pray in tongues that prayer does not come from your head that's why you know you pray in understanding prayer in english or native language for a while and you stop you run up thoughts you run out of words you run out of ideas to talk with god but when you pray in the spirit you can do it all day long even in undertones you are praying from your most holy place that's why it's called building yourself building yourself on your most holy faith the holy of holies most holy praying in the holy spirit hallelujah and it says keep yourself in the love of god you'll keep yourself in the place where the love of god and all you provides for you will be there praise god thank you jesus you keep yourself in the consciousness of the love of god by praying the holy spirit so it's sandwiched by building your most holy faith keeping yourself in the love of god and what is in between praying in the holy spirit hallelujah friend this is a a gift that is one of the least esteem in the body of christ yet when i study the scriptures with no prejudice and i just look at the scriptures as it is i find that the bible emphasizes a lot on praying in tongues now you might say well in first corinthians 14 paul is saying that prophecy is better no no paul is not saying that paul is saying that in the church prophecies is better than someone speaking out in tongues because the others do not know what he's saying but when you're speaking in tongues you're not talking to others right there is a gift called the gift of thanks not everyone can speak the gift of tongues like the gift of the word of wisdom the gift of healings the gift of working or miracles all that are yes of the holy spirit but that's not the and one of them is the gift of tongues one of the nine gifts of the holy spirit is the gift of thanks that is not what we are referring to when you receive the baptism holy spirit you speak in tongues that's your prayer language the gift of tongues must be interpreted and some people have it some people don't amen when god moves on them these people have it they will manifest that gift and they will they'll proclaim in tongues and then usually they themselves or somebody else will will speak in the understanding of what was said just now in tongues there's the gift of tongues and the gift of interpretation of tongues but i'm talking about praying in the spirit which is the portion of everyone once they are baptized in the holy spirit they pray in the spirit notice paul did not say i wish that you all have the word of wisdom i wish that you all have the gifts of healings paul didn't say that the greatest apostle that ever lived i'm sure you'll agree with me on that who wrote three fourths of the new testament who unveiled to us the mysteries that was hidden from ages and from generations now revealed through the apostle paul amen thank god for all the other apostles as well but the apostle paul stands in the class of his own and most people will agree that the apostle paul is the greatest of all apostles and what did he say he said this i wish y'all speak with tongues he said that i wish you all spoke with tongues only in the church he emphasized prophecy compared to tongues and we'll come to that all right but notice what he says was i wish you all spoke with thanks he didn't say i wish you all have the word of wisdom which is also a gift of the spirit i wish i wish you all had the gift of discerning of spirits i wish you all have the gift of faith have you noticed that he says i wish you all speak with tongues and drop down in first corinthians 14. not only that he says i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all the greatest apostle said i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all not the corinthian church many of them they were they were they were abusing the gifts when they come together just like they were abusing the the communion when they come together so paul was correcting them and and they were yelling to one another in tongues you know like showing off to each other like a batch of spirituality which is not supposed to be and they were all like but at home they're not doing it elsewhere they're not doing it but when they come together they want to try to impress each other by yelling out in tongues and all that and paul talked about things being done decently in all that yet compared to all of them who are who are yelling a lot and speaking a lot in tongues when they are together paul is saying i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all which means paul must have woken up praying in tongues amen he must have spent time with god praying in tongues amen he must have uh journeyed from one village to another village from city to city pray in tongues maybe on the donkey praying in tongues maybe on a camel pray in tongues everywhere he went he was praying in tongues it was maybe undertones amen one thing about praying tongues is that you know it doesn't engage your brain and some people don't like that they want their brain to be involved because they like to be in control amen they forget that when men sin the part they're supposed to be in control is the spirit man but when men sin against god the spirit died it's deaden so they live by their mind or they live by their body that's why either they're hyper intellectual all right which is a dangerous place to be also because when you leave just based on your mind you're not listening to your intuition you're not listening to what your spirit says your spirit is faster than your brain your spirit is faster than your mind your spirit knows things beyond your mind which is confined which is limited by knowledge by experience by what you know my friend the spirit transcends all that the spirit is the place where god's spirit meets and and that's where the holy spirit resides that's what you pray in tongues from that's why it's called praying in the spirit amen or they don't live in their soul in their mind they live in their body because the spirit is dead so they live in their body they develop their body and they become very very strong man like pastor lawrence check out man i'm trying to be humble i gave all the glory to god amen amen okay i'm not knocking that just because i don't have the muscles but i'm just telling you we cannot over develop the soul and the body these are given by god as well the soul in the body but god wants the body to be in subjection to the soul the soul in subjection to the spirit the spirit is dominant and that's what happens when you got born again when you got born again hallelujah your spirit became dominant and then there's a language god gives you they will humble you it will humble you because your mind doesn't understand wherefore paul says if i pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prays but my understanding is unfruitful notice that which part of you is praying my spirit praise hallelujah amen and you don't always have to translate your tongues you don't have to amen uh you but you need if you speak out loud in the church you need to translate it ask god for the interpretation thereof are you with me so far so paul says i thank my god i speak with thanks more than you all let me read that portion for you because there's something very special here i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all yet in the church now notice the emphasis and this is why people say you know paul is emphasizing prophecy more than times but he's talking about prophecy in the church yet in the church i would rather speak five words with my understanding that i may teach others also than ten thousand words in a tongue now notice he says that yet in the church don't forget the context yet in the church 4 6 i'm speaking in tongues like all day long i speak in tongues more than you all but yet in the church when i come to the church they're just a gathering of god's people i would rather speak five words with my understanding in our case in english for the most part right in english our understanding so that i might teach what others also that i may teach others also than 10 000 words in a tongue so you know something it's like the what the lord showed me one time if you speak 10 000 words in a tongue before you go to a service before you go to the church where the gathering of god's people are you if you pray 10 000 words in a tongue all day long you only need five words of understanding to have the impact to have the power of god release amen for your words to carry spirit and life not persuasive words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power you will speak with understanding not with tongues with understanding because your five words of understanding and five is the number of grace your five words were full of grace amen if you've been praying ten thousand words in a tongue hallelujah amen something else i want to show you and this will this will blow your mind when god revealed this to me i i'm telling you i'm so excited now watch this now amen paul says i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all yet in the church i would rather speak five words with my understanding that i may teach others also now what does paul mean that i may teach others also why is also there why why did he use the word also now friend are you ready for this are you ready i hope you brought tight-fitting socks yeah he's gonna bless you out of your socks are you ready now because when he's you know what he is also he's saying that when i pray in tongues god teaches me now when i come to the church i'll speak with understanding that i might teach others also the way others are taught is by me speaking english right my understanding but the way i'm taught that's why he says i'm taught by my praying in tongues when i pray in tongues god talks to me god teaches me hallelujah god teaches me yet in the church i'll speak with my understanding that i might teach others also so there's been a teaching going on already for him to say also are you with me so far in other words when you pray in the spirit the holy spirit will teach you like jesus promised in the upper room he says when the holy spirit is come he will guide you into all truth and he will teach you all things amen and you pray in the spirit he will teach you and i'll tell you this praying the holy spirit has transformed my life when i pray in this in the spirit for a seasonable time you know and that was for some protracted time i find that when i open the bible the words of scripture just jump out at me i understand things that were otherwise you know i can't make sense of it and all of a sudden i see the key that unlocks that passage by praying the spirit and that's why when you pray in the spirit the holy spirit teaches you but when you're teaching others you cannot go you can't be praying in tongues amen you need to speak with understanding but listen when you pray in tongues 10 000 words in tongues amen you only need five words in understanding hallelujah praise the name of jesus are you with me so far so walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the last of the flesh just like what god said to abraham walk before me and be blameless right god says i'm el shaddai walk before me and be blameless now somehow people just sometimes switch the whole thing around and say god is saying if you are blameless you can walk before me god did not say that god says um abraham when you walk in in front of my face because the back parts of god is always god's displeasure amen god's a that's the back parts of god and and for god to say to abraham walk in front of my face walk before me the hebrew for before is the word in front of my face for god to say that means abraham has favor with god and then when you realize that you are you become blameless walk before me and be blameless the result will be blameless he didn't say be blameless and then you can walk before me no you got the the whole thing the cut before the horse amen he's saying walk before me be conscious of my favor on you and you end up blameless hallelujah the same thing for galatians 5 in the new covenant that you and i are living in today with the holy spirit in us god is saying walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the last of the flesh the bible doesn't say try not to fulfill the last of the flesh and then you will end up walking in the spirit it doesn't say that it says walk in the spirit that's positive and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh don't put it the other way around it is not saying try not to fulfill the last of the flesh and then you end up in the spirit you'll never end up in the spirit the more you try to not fulfill you end up fulfilling it friend i'm not telling you to go in dodge i'm telling you the opposite i'm telling you how to get out of it how not to fulfill it by being positive walking in the spirit amen allow yourself and one of the ways that you walk in the spirit is to pray in the in tongues so what god told joshua when you are walking with me every place you walk what i've given you will become yours and then god said to uh enoch walk with me amen and he walked with god and god raptured him that he should not see death and then god said to abraham walk before me and be blameless amen and here god says walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the last of the flesh you know something our walk has become more intimate in the new covenant where your spirit and god's spirit are in the holy of holies and you sense things that's why what you sense deep down is more important than what you hear in your head then your logic than your reasoning your spirit man is faster than your head if you listen to it you will find prophet i am the lord thy god who teaches you to profit and leads you by the way you should go profit in every area of your life amen so what happened watch this now and and and god told joshua right after he says every place the soul of your food will walk right drop down to verse eight because this book of the lord shall not depart from your mouth but you shall meditate in it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success now how many want your way to be prosperous and have good success not bad success all right have i not commanded you be strong and have good courage don't be afraid not be dismayed for the lord your god is with you wherever you go so in the old testament joshua had to meditate on the law the book of the law and you will take out the intestines and lay it on the altar and you shall burn it as a sweet smelling fragrance those are the things he meditates on you know joshua's time there's not much of the bible yet right for him to mention it's all in the the pentateuch right in the torah the five books of moses that he meditated on now think about it this book the law shall not depart from where your mouth but you shall meditate hebrew haga is the martyr with the mouth again is the mouth muttered with the mouth today what has taken the place of the law the spirit the law was given a mount sinai three thousand people died the spirit was given on mount zion 3 000 people were safe so you can put like this the more you pray in the spirit when you keep the spirit of god flowing like jesus says on the last day the great day of the feast jesus cried out with a loud voice if any man curse let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water and the bible says this he speak of the spirit the holy spirit who was not yet given because jesus was not yet glorified so jesus is saying there's coming a time he knows after he dies he goes back to heaven he will dispense he will send forth the holy spirit and then he says out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water hallelujah friend this is amazing so what as you speak today for us as we speak in tongues instead of the law as we speak in the spirit you'll make your way prosperous and you will have good success do you remember psalms 1 someone says what if you meditate on god's word his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law he meditates day and night same word hagar meditates to mapper to mata all day long day and night mata martin what god's law but today this is applied in the spirit in the new covenant is actually his delight is in the holy spirit and how he leads us his promptings his suggestions and his prayer language right and in the spirit he matters day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper keep all these blessings in mind look at the result he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth his fruit in its season it be fruitful whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper now can i say that this is the holy spirit now that's come yes i'm going to show you right now from ezekiel corresponding what jesus said on the last day of called the hoshanah rabbah the great final day of the feast of tabernacles jesus stood up and said you know if you believe on him out of your belly will flow rivers of living water and the writer john said he spoke of the holy spirit who was not yet given because jesus has not yet been glorified but now today he has been glorified so let's check ezekiel 47. now this is a prophecy of ezekiel of the future referring to the gate sea many of you have been to israel you see the dead sea right and the dead sea has become two seas actually which is fulfilling bible prophecy once upon a time is actually one c one large mass of body of of water it's called dead sea because nothing can exist in that water it's so salty with all kinds of different chemicals and all that in in the sea that nothing can survive it's called the dead sea it's the lowest uh place on planet earth okay but now if you look at the map of the dead sea there's now a like a land bridge in between and there's a north sea and a south sea why is this important because prophet ezekiel prophesied years before jesus was born he prophesied that the north part of the dead sea will be healed but the southern part will not you know when when people hear that last time there's only one big mass of sea like a huge lake but now we know in our day and age so this literally coming apart so there's a literal fulfillment but there's also a spiritual fulfillment watch this he brought me back ezekiel says god brought him back to the door of the temple and there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple towards the east notice flowing from the trash of the temple now you are the temple of god spiritually it is like what jesus said out of your belly shall flow out of your innermost man your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water and it flows out of your mouth amen in the beautiful prayer language and it flows towards the east and the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple now drop down and it shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live there'll be a very great multitude of fish now this is true it's referring to the that from the jerusalem there'll be a river of water coming out from under the threshold the temple and it will go to the dead sea and it will heal the north part of the dead sea the larger part look at the map today you'll find that two seas there are two dead sea it will heal the northern part and everything that moves shall live amen will come alive and there'll be a great multitude of fish now spiritually speaking out of our belly when we allow the rivers of living water to flow amen whoever we come in contact with they will live just being in your presence we are praying in the spirit a lot people sense life people sense uh edification strength they find comfort they find refreshing praise the lord because the bible says speaking in tongues is the rest and refreshing isaiah 28. now as you as you pray in the spirit as the reavers go they'll also be evangelism a very great multitude of fish and we know that this uh analogy of fish jesus says follow me and i'll make you fishers of men amen so again evangelism there'll be a lot of people getting saved because you are praying in the spirit you're releasing the rivers of living water hallelujah and it says that because these waters go therefore they'll be healed there'll be healing there'll be healing and everything will live wherever the river goes drop down along the bank of the river on this side and that will grow all kinds of trees used for food their leaves will not wither does that remind you of something psalms one and their fruit will not fail they will bear fruit every month because their water flows from the sanctuary their fruit will be for food and watch this there are leaves they will not fail their leaves for medicine you will have health and this medicine has no side effect because it's a medicine of god amen there is healing there'll be healing there'll be nourishment there'll be food your health your lives will not wither someone tells us that but in psalms 1 the emphasis is on meditating on the law but then we we showed you that the river here is from the temple and fulfilling what jesus said out of your belly shall flow out of your innermost man the deep innermost part of your temple the temple of god will flow rivers of living water and we see that it produces the same results your leaf will not wither your health will not fail your leaf will not widow means you also you always be green perennially green and whatever you do will prosper just by praying the spirit amen and i want to pray for those there's so many of you who are not baptized in the holy spirit my friend oh listen listen um you know uh this david wilkerson who worked among the drug addicts and the gangs of new york in in the in the 50s and uh you know this is what he said he said that uh he tried his best to get them to kick the drug habit and and addiction all that you know they always fall back to drug addiction until he baptized them in the holy spirit so it's not enough just to be safe but when they're baptized in the holy spirit they were delivered from drug addiction just like that with no cold turkey same thing for jackie pollinger in her book chasing the dragon jackie blinger is a is an amazing lady who went to uh hong kong to the area of the whether the gangs and the pimps and the the prostitutes and and uh uh drug addicts are in in hong kong during the 60s and she said that when she was there all by herself she had to learn the language speak cantonese learn cantonese and work among the gangs and all that but you know what she was baptized in the spirit and the only thing that sustained her was she kept on praying the spirit kept on praying in the spirit and then she noticed that when she prayed for others the the people who are drug addicts they can't break they can't kick the habit even after they are saved they receive christ they say complete the habit but when they were baptized in the holy spirit she noticed the same thing that david wilson noticed he should notice that they all just broke free from the addiction without any cold turkey hallelujah there is something here that the church has missed the church has despised the gift of thunks amen the prayer language of the holy spirit and yet jesus talked about it paul measured on it and we have misinterpreted what paul said i think the enemy is behind this the devil is trying to take away this powerful ingredient from the body of christ is the missing ingredient that the book of acts was full of so friend right now if you've never been baptized in the holy spirit there's a whole lot of you who have joined us these past years and all that and you're still not baptized in the holy spirit you need to amen and it's not hard it's a gift to be received amen and it's not dependent on you it's depend on the fact jesus has been glorified like that verse i said just now the spirit was not yet given because jesus was not yet glorified but jesus has been glorified so friends stand to your feet right now wherever you are amen do it right now stand to your feet and uh in the name of the lord jesus christ pray this prayer with me right now say father i thank you for the gift of the wonderful holy spirit lord jesus right now baptize me with the holy we're spirit in tongues right now in jesus name and friend right now in the name of the lord jesus christ be filled with the holy spirit in the name of the lord jesus christ now begin to speak in tongues right now go ahead amen start speaking even you have one word say it out amen the holy spirit not force you to say something there'll be an evil spirit god doesn't force amen you need when you hear that word speak it out go ahead secretary go on just pray in the spirit amen don't wait to be taken over that's an evil spirit that's how he operates the holy spirit wants your cooperation the bible says god fills you as the spirit gave them utterance that means you need to author it amen the holy spirit give you the operands but you need to operate amen so go ahead shake you have received it in jesus name yeah you find that some people find their tongue getting a bit heavy or they find that their mouth is full don't clamp your mouth open up amen yeah that's right praise the lord thank you jesus pray in the spirit in jesus name you can even sing in the spirit right now hey mama when i'm feeling stressed especially i like to sing in the spirit indiana and notice you can stop whenever you want to and you can start again if you want to shaykh that's the true gift because god always works with cooperation i mean he doesn't force you like a demon possessing someone that's forcing no you can start again i encourage you to pray lots amen pray for a protracted period of time pray until your your mouth is dry you're going to pray out loud you can pray undertones because people are around you and pray undertones the bible says let him speak to himself and to god amen speaking undertones amen i'm telling you i don't know how long but sometimes for me five days of praying the spirit i had to break through that that nowadays when i pray in the spirit for one day i had a breakthrough that used to take me five days so i i'm not saying that your experience will be the same as mine i'm just saying keep on praying the spirit and know all the benefits when you're praying the spirit keep the spirit in your mouth amen praise the lord god says the more you pray the spirit it will affect your children it will affect your children's children amen it will lift up the banner against the evil spirit that's trying to bring this this flood of destruction upon the world don't forget that amen when you pray in the spirit your health will not fail you'll always be green always be young when you pray in the spirit that's satisfying your mouth for good i believe that's the good it's not food it's the good of god amen the gift of praying the spirit satisfied your mouth good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles amen amen and whatever you do will prosper amen praise the lord if you've never received jesus christ as your personal savior and lord pray this prayer with me right now say heavenly father say it from your heart heavenly father i believe jesus christ is the son of god i believe you sent him to die on the cross for my sins and i believe he bought all my sins in his own body and he was cursed and condemned in my place that i might be justified favored and blessed jesus christ is my lord and my savior thank you father you have raised him from the date when i was justified in him in jesus name amen welcome to the family of god you are now a child of god all your sins are forgiven amen you can pray in the spirit anytime praise the lord in the name of jesus be filled with the holy spirit every one of you just got saved you can also pray in the spirit right now be filled with the holy spirit in jesus name amen all right church stand to your feet praise the lord hallelujah keep on praying the spirit amen i believe something will happen if we keep on praying the spirit we are the only ones with spiritual authority on this earth spiritual authority to hold back the powers of darkness in the name of jesus amen this coming week the lord bless you and your families and the lord keep you the lord bless you with the blessings of abraham the lord keep you from every danger harm and from all evil the lord make his face to shine on you and be favorable to you and your loved ones the lord lift up his countenance on you and grant to you and all your loved ones his shalom peace tranquility and well-being in the name of the lord jesus christ and all the people said amen i'll see you again i hope you've enjoyed today's episode if your life has been touched by the gospel of grace please share your testimony with us in the comments below once again thanks for tuning in today and i would appreciate it if you would share this sermon with someone who needs to hear it today god bless you and see you in the next episode

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