Date: Friday, 19th January, 2024
Text: Mark 16:17-18
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
It is one thing to pray with your mind and it is another thing to pray with your spirit. To pray with your mind means you are praying with understanding. In other words, you are praying in a language you understand, which is the practice of majority of Christians.
However, when you pray with your spirit, you speak in a heavenly language you don’t understand. It is a higher level of prayer. We call it praying in an unknown tongue. It is one of the signs that must follow every believer in Christ.
The Word of God confirms this saying “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues….” Mark 16:17. Once you become born again, the new tongue, a language of praise and prayer, is a sign that is expected to follow you.
The Bible says, “For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself.” 1 Corinthians 14:2,4a
Praying in tongues (in your new spiritual language) does not make sense to your mind, but through it you edify your spirit man. Man doesn’t have a spirit. Man is a spirit. The Holy Spirit resides in your spirit and edifies you from within.
When you charge your phone electrically, you are edifying it. A phone that is not charged cannot function as it should. When you pray in tongues regularly, you are edifying, improving and enhancing yourself spiritually.
Through this regular practice, your spirit will be very sensitive to communications from the Holy Spirit; hearing from God will be easy because your spiritual antenna is well connected. You can see the invisible and hear the inaudible. You will be operating at a higher spiritual plane than those who pray only in understanding (known language).
If you are born again and not yet baptized in the Holy Spirit; open up your heart and ask Jesus, the Baptizer to pour His Spirit on you today, and you too will speak with new tongues.
Action Nugget: As from today, make it a habit to always pray with your spirit, sing with your spirit and operate in the spirit.