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Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh
Friday, May 12, 2023
THE POWER OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES
“But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit.”
Jude 1:20
Main Text: Main Text: 1 Corinthians 14:2
The Holy Spirit resides in your spirit and edifies you from within. The word ‘edify” means to improve, build up (like building a house), strengthen, encourage, activate, or stir up. It also means to charge. Therefore, when you pray in the Spirit you must realize that you are building yourself up and charging your Inner man like a battery for the purpose of function.
Praying in tongues improves your life, because you pray with wisdom beyond your understanding and connect with forces that will add strength and vigor to your physical body. There is so much power in the infilling of the Holy Spirit—power that is meant to flow out of every believer to bring the realities of Jesus to others. It’s reason enough to want to pray in tongues! If you’re a believer, and you haven’t been baptized in Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, today’s your day! Pray this prayer: “Heavenly Father, I ask You according to Acts 19:6, to fill me with Your Holy Spirit. I have been born again, and now I want this precious gift You offer. In Jesus’ Name, I receive the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Amen.”
When you pray in tongues, you are in direct contact with God. It’s your own private language with Him that no one else understands. It is a sharing of intimacy between just you and Him. God has given the Church a divine, supernatural means of communication with Him that is so power-packed, we would be missing out if we prayed in our own language alone. Now, it is important to remember that praying in tongues is NOT meant to replace praying in your known language, but to add to it. We’ve all experienced times when we’ve come to the end of what we can accomplish through natural prayer. That’s when we move over into tongues.
Prayer:
Father, I receive your Holy Spirit in Jesus name, Amen!
Further Reading:
Romans 8:26 “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
Acts 10:46 “For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.”
Read through the bible in 1 year: 1 Samuel 12:1-13:23 John 7:1-30 Psalm 108:1-13 Proverbs 15:4
Read through the bible in 2 years: Mal 1.1-3.5 & Ps 125