FOLLOW THE CONCLUSION
THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2022
If you pray in tongues, you are wise because your tongue utters spiritual knowledge in the realm of the supernatural. The gift of tongues is what makes it possible for a Christian to pray in tongues and gain access to the knowledge, counsel and secrets withheld from the ordinary mind.
Reference: 1 Corinthians 14:14-15 New King James Version (NKJV) "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding."
This Scripture grants us insight into a powerful revelation that will keep any Christian ahead through the entirety of handling any spiritual need and functioning by the will of God in any given situation. The revelation is geared towards keeping your mind and spirit in tune and bringing you into adequate standard of intimacy with God. Paul weighed both spiritual transactions on the scale of prayer and came up with the conclusion: "I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding."
This conclusion Paul arrived at is a great option for prayer balance and spiritual accuracy. In other words, the conclusion allows both the "mind" and "spirit" spheres to interact with God successfully. However, it is crucial that we notice the order of importance. When we start out first by praying in tongues, our human spirit joins the intelligence and testimony of the Spirit of God to pray and so we automatically leave the realm of physical feeling and emotion and relate to God directly by a far grander communication. Then, the conviction of our answer is lodged in the human spirit without any mistaken interpretation. So instead of assuming by our feelings and emotion, that our prayers are either answered or not, we are fully convinced about it by the confirmation we receive in our spirit.
It's important for every born again Christian to pray in tongues often and we are left to engage this as the first option because a man has no deeper certainty of any condition in life except by digging deep into the realm of mysteries. Therefore, as you pray in an unknown tongues, you delve into your life's issues and extract the very solution you require to approach and solve life's problem effectively. 1 Corinthians 2:10 (NIV) talks about the deep things God reveals to us by His Spirit because the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. So by encouraging speaking in tongues, we can gain access to the deep things of the Spirit.
Moreover, Paul acknowledged the importance of praying with the understanding also. Now why pray with the understanding? There is no better foundation for the hope and reality we obtain in our spirit than an established understanding. Whatever we have drawn from the presence of God, as well as any solution we have reached in our spirit, after praying in tongues, requires our affirmation in the mind realm.
Remember, your mind is your thinking mode (both conscious and unconscious), and it is responsible for your understanding, thoughts, decision making and actions. So it needs to get involved in your prayer so as to reproduce in your actions what you've downloaded from the spirit realm. Speaking in tongues gives you an assurance of the purpose for your prayer as you're connected to someone greater than yourself - the Holy Spirit. But your mind still has to agree with your spirit to relate with the answer through your belief system. Therefore, by affirming the answer or solution through mindful prayer and declarations, the mind-spirit connection is now in place.
Both praying in the Spirit and with the understanding make all the difference in the world of prayer. The former searches and seeks to get the accurate conviction of God's answer while the latter affirms or pronounces the evidence of the answer in the natural realm. Thus, mindfulness-based prayer goes hand in hand with the substance of the Spirit's evidence in our spirit. Therefore, do both. Shalom!
Scripture Reading - Mark 16:17; Acts 2:4; Acts 10:44-46; 1 Corinthians 14:2; Acts 19:1-6; Romans 8:26-27; Jude 20.
Exuberant Declaration: My prayer life is active and I function in the wisdom of God by sustaining a consistent prayer life. I obtain the assurance of my answers and solutions by praying in the Spirit and it is confirmed by expressing thoughtful and mindful prayers. As a result, I receive great testimonies which are of the Spirit Himself, who works grace in my heart and witnesses to my spirit. Blessed be God!
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