PHONOLOGICAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL MYSTERY - PART 3

FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2025

Pauline epistolary expression reads, "And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts" (1st Corinthians 12:28-31 ESV).

Speaking in various kinds of tongues is a higher gift because it is a phonological and transformational mystery. The dynamics of vastness of its purposes can yield unlimited transformation and infinite results. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

The answer is this: Not all born again Christians operate in all of these gifts, but its possible for a Christian to operate with the ability to express all of the gifts, when they are their desired expectation. To that effect, any Christian can earnestly desire the higher gifts and then, manifest all of them by the power of the Spirit, as they go down into the depths of God to acquire or obtain them. More below!

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."

He who knows that God truly loves him can turn speaking in tongues into a great delight, thereby changing all aspect of all things for the better. When the utterance is given by the Spirit, the power flows wherever there is a channel of continuous speaking. Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Beloved, do all interpret? What is the answer again? Yes! You can covet the best gifts. When you have gained the ability to speak in tongues and interpret, you have two of the best gifts.

Speaking in tongues is a property or ability of the Spirit which stimulates constant growth, miraculous results, notable advancement, spiritual advantage, desired expectations, successful endeavours, spiritual and physical development, supernatural possibilities, and all forms of godly transformation in any man, system or process, under the action or influence of divine force. Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? At Pentecost, the disciples spoke in diverse noisy tongues, but the interpretation of their tongues, was revealed by a large crowd that gathered as a result. Here was how the audiences' segmented religious groups gave the tongues' interpretation in the passage below:

"In amazement and wonder, they exclaimed, "These people who are talking like this are Galileans! How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages? We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia, from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome, both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia - yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!" (Acts 2: 7-11 GNB).

By observing my considered intelligence in the above versified passage, what was the interpretation of their various tongues in diverse languages? Answer: They spoke in manifold languages about the great things that God had done! Moreover, it is of paramount importance to grasp and assimilate the verity that the disciples did not interpret their tongues on Pentecost day; the Lord Himself summoned a group of assembled religious people to interpret the phonological and transformational mystery. In other words, based on the contextual analysis of the event that took place on Pentecost day, all did not speak with tongues, and all did not interpret. But the disciples spoke in tongues and the spectators interpreted their tongues.

Pauline epistolary exhortation numbered as 1st Corinthians 14:13 reads, "So anyone who speaks in tongues should pray also for the ability to interpret what has been said" (NLT).

Stay tuned for more on: "The one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret." Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Mark 16:17; Acts 10:44-46; 1 Corinthians 14:14; Acts 19:1-6.

Exuberant Declaration:

I reveal by true confession that as a superior god on earth, I build myself up in my most holy faith, and I pray in the Holy Spirit oftentimes, resulting in ever-greater victories, rapidly-increasing glory and tremendous rocketing impacts. Praise God!