Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor David Okoye (Ambassadors Diet, 25th January, 2017) - Pray More In Tongues

“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.” 1 Corinthians 14:2

 The MSG translation puts our opening text thus, “If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him.”


Praying in tongues is one subject that has sprung up a lot of controversies and divisions in the body of Christ. Speaking in tongues is inspired by the Holy Ghost. This means that every Christian that has given his life to Christ and has in him the Holy Ghost ought to speak in tongues; for it is the language of the Spirit.


There is a limitation whenever we choose to pray in our natural language. It is an infirmity.

Romans 8:26 tells us, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

Whenever you pray in your natural language, you pray in the spiritual cycle of the Babel (that is, confusion). But whenever, you pray in tongues, you are exposed to an uncommon knowledge.

You pray the exact will of the Father whenever you pray in tongues.

Romans 8:27 says, “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.”

God is searching your heart because He wants to do what is in the mind of the Spirit.

Whenever you pray in tongues, the Holy Ghost reveals to you the mind of God. The Spirit of God begins to drop pieces of information in your Spirit.

For every time you pray in tongues, you get access to a hidden wisdom of God. Keep yourself constantly edified. Pray more in tongues.

DECLARATION 
I constantly stir up the Spirit of God in me. I take up praying in tongues as a life.

 Scriptural Reference 
James 4:1-3, 1 Corinthians 14