PHONOLOGICAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL MYSTERY - PART 11

MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2025

Reference: 1st Corinthians 14:2 New Living Translation (NLT)

"For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won't be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious."

When you speak in tongues, you speak by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious. This very unco ability of the Holy Spirit is the enabling power that grants us the truth-bearing utterances which are stitched together as manifold versions of phonological mystery.

Acts 2:4 reads, "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance" (ESV). When the Spirit grants you utterance, He gives you true statement - on the strength of divine wisdom and knowledge. So the utterances are true because they are issued or granted by the Spirit of truth. Nobody else can give you the accurate utterances or true statement as you speak in tongues.

Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Ephesians 5:18-19 reads, "Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts" (NLT). This versified statement suggests speaking to one another in psalms and hymns, which can denote - building a network of like-minded saints where one can express godly thoughts and utterances from the Spirit that will strengthen others' belief system in Christ and reinforce the spiritual wisdom and understanding the Spirit gives.

Isn't it marvellous that Jesus' promise regarding the Holy Spirit did not fail? Jesus stated in John 14:17-18 saying, "He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it isn't looking for Him and doesn't recognize Him. But you know Him, because He lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you" (NLT).

Beloved, indeed, we were not orphaned at the absence of Christ on earth or after His ascension, meaning that the Holy Spirit wasn't a fake promise. He came to us as Alos Parakletos, a Greek compound word, meaning "another helper" or "another one of the same kind." In the contextual analysis of this topic, the compound word "Alos parakletos" refers to  "another" of the same type or kind which implies another who would be like Jesus, and be functioning alongside or in company with the saints - as their helper, comforter, or advocate. Now the Bible says, "For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God" (Romans 8:14 NASB). In this versified statement, be notified that His leading role is a fatherly role.

Beloved, the saints are not orphans: the Holy Spirit indwells us, and He remains with us forever, administering His fatherly role by all sorts of divine empowerment. Yes, the Holy Spirit fathers the children of God on earth. Now let me provide a deeper understanding of this truth than someone simply seeing the Holy Spirit as a Father figure. His Fatherly role involves being a Helper and a sure Guide, protective Provider and Teacher, Comforter and Cultivator, Testifier and Reminder, Advocate or Intercessor. He is also a nurturing friend, our beautifully-appointed spiritual model, and One who provides a strengthening support and encouragement, by virtue of His indwelling presence.

As an able Father on earth, He caused a pregnancy in Mary, resulting in the birth of a holy child, namely Jesus, who is called the Son of God. He also caused the birth of new creation. In other words, He caused a pregnancy resulting in the birth of the body of Christ, which aims to establish a relational bearing or significancy between His empowering or governing influence and His inspired outcomes (Acts 1:8 NIV). To that effect, Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the SPIRIT" (John 3:5 BSB).

Someone may ask this question: "Is God, the Father, not the Father of the saints?" Of course, we have an overall fatherhood with our Heavenly Father, which is His eternal responsibility, and His highly exalted position as a Father mainly implies or establishes His supremacy and transcendence, or call it, His sovereign rule over His entire creation. He is the father of heavenly radiance, meaning that He created or gave rise to heavenly lights (James 1:17 NIV).

But you see, on earth, His fatherly role finds expression through the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Holy Spirit fathers the saints and provides the divine ability, leading and guidance necessary for us to always live according to God's will. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Ezekiel 36:26; Luke 4:18-19; Acts 2:17-18; Luke 11:13; Acts 2:38-39.

Exuberant Declaration:

The Holy Spirit is symbolic of the immeasurable greatness of God's power at work in me, on account of my faith in Christ. And according to the working of this great might within me, I endlessly indulge in heavenly-minded interactions - by speaking transformational mystery that yields tremendous and glorious results. Hallelujah!