PHONOLOGICAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL MYSTERY - PART 9

FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2025

I came to a personal level of recognition and strong belief that speaking in tongues is a spiritual gift that empowers us to function beyond looking to our own interests alone, and focus on the interests of others by praying for their profitable good, all-round blessing and spiritual illumination. 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."

Indeed, 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. This was Pauline epistolary expression, which means that it was apostle Paul's inspired articulation; a man who entirely yielded himself to the predominating influence of the Spirit of truth, by spending so much time to speak in tongues (1st Corinthians 14:18 NIV), in accordance with the ability and utterances the Spirit granted him.

The gift of speaking in tongues was the divine element that drove apostle Paul into the act and exercise of his constant application of the love of God towards the people of God. The more he spoke in tongues, the more his love for God's people increased with an inexhaustible energy. Beloved, nothing more animates and inflames our love for God, than speaking in an unknowable utterance in times of prayer.

On account of this verity, apostle Paul's consideration for the enlightenment of God's people in so many areas of their spiritual growth and spiritual understanding reflected God's abiding love in his life. I can instantiate this phenomenal verity in so many ways, through the evidential intimation of Biblical truths. One of them is numbered as Ephesians 1:17-20.

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power, that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the place of honour at God's right hand in the heavenly realms. Now He is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come" (NIV/NLT).

After studying the above versified passage several times, I came to a high-powered and convincing realization that as he prayed in tongues for the saints in ancient city of Ephesus, he succeeded in praying for more glorious measures of outcome to be made manifest in their lives. Indeed, apostle Paul was an inspired man dedicated to praying in tongues for the saints committed into his hands.

Firstly, in accordance with the versified passage, he declared the manifest grace of God in his tongues on behalf of the saints, by asking steadfastly that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, our glorious Father, might grant them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that they would know Him better. Of a certainty, those who would learn the things of God, and be assured of them, by means of empirical attestation or conformity, must know God better.

Secondly, he prayed for the eyes of their hearts to be enlightened in order that they might know the hope to which God had called them, for the profound details of such hope are "Divine revelations" based on solid knowledge of the Word of truth.

Thirdly, he prayed for them to supremely discover the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. And I'll shed light on this segmental aspect of Pauline prayer, as well as the rest, in the next article. Stay tuned for part 10. Shalom!

Scripture Reading -  1 Corinthians 1:4; Romans 1:8; Philippians 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 3:5.

Exuberant  Declaration:

Speaking phonological and transformational mystery is a sure spiritual gift that is profitable for all purposes of the Christian life. Therefore, I thank God for the abiding presence of intelligent and peculiar Holy Spirit, who showers me with the breath of all heavenly and earthly blessings, and grants me the exceptional utterances to communicate divine mysteries in accordance with the wisdom and knowledge of the Almighty. Hallelujah!