Notes

TONGUES

The Purpose:

(1.) Spiritual edification - 1 Corinthians 14:4, Jude 20

(2.) Speaking divine mysteries (inspired ideas) - 1 Corinthians 14:2

(3.)To magnify God - Acts 10:46

(4.) Praying according to the will of God - Romans 8:26,27

(5.) Giving thanks - 1 Corinthians 14:17

(6.) Strengthening our inner man - Ephesians 3:16

(7.) A sign to unbelievers - 1 Corinthians 14:22; Mark 16:17

(8.) Tongues = gateway to become increasing in very well pleasing to the LORD (Heb.11:6 (faith pleases God & Jude 20 (tongues builds and increases your faith = more pleasing

Tongues is super important according to Bob Jones. 1 Cor 14:2 those who talk to their Papa. Speaking another language. Tongues is the Dedicated phone - It goes right through the 2nd heaven. There's only 2 that can hear on a dedicated phone: you and your Papa in heaven. I pray in tongues more than you all. "I want to talk to the people who talk to me (in tongues)." When you start treating me like a papa (on the dedicated phone of tongues), I'll start treating you like a son.

After I brought all those words I said, we want to hear what the Lord has sent you here to give us Ray. He said, The reason the Holy Spirit left is that we quit talking to Papa. The church wanted the signs and wonders, but they did not want the speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is talking to your Daddy. It is a dedicated line between you and your Papa. When you don't want that you lose communication. We need to get back in relationship with our Daddy. That is what stopped it then.

"When you pray in tongues you don't pray to men, you pray to THE MAN!" —Bob Jones

(Q.): What is one unique characteristic of all these saints?:

-Apostle Paul
-Smith Wigglesworth
-John G. Lake
-Lonnie Frisbee
-Benny Hinn
-David Hogan
-Todd Bentley
-Jason Westerfield
-Corey Russell
-Dave Roberson

(A.): They all are intentional with praying in tongues for extended periods of time.

"Tongues has been the making of ministry." - John G. Lake

This will get 1 of 2 responses:

1. Sneering or mocking and "that's not what made his ministry" ( even though that's his own personal quote)

or

2. "I think I'm gonna pray in tongues more."

Please choose wisely (like what Paul would want you to):

"I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all"; (1 Corinthians 14:18 NKJV)


-Smith Wigglesworth prayed in tongues for one hour a day every morning.


Christ in you!: We have a billion dollars in our bellies, yet most of us live on 20 cents a day.

Our God is rich; we cannot fathom the wealth of resources that He has placed in us through His Spirit. I like to use the analogy of an ATM. We have been given the riches of God in our inner selves; we have a billion dollars in our bellies, but we must use our ATM cards to access the money. We must use the language of the Spirit to access the Spirit and the riches of His glory. Pray in tongues. Paul did more than anyone. "I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you." (1 Corinthians 14:18ESV)

We are living in a generation that places great emphasis on physical fitness, health, and body building. I appreciate this because physical health is important, and I am constantly seeking to develop this area of my life. However, the Church today is filled with Christians who may be fit in their bodies, but many times are weak, apathetic, and vulnerable to every attack of the evil one in their spirits.

The truth that if we were as committed to developing our spiritual might as we are our physical might, we would see revival break out in this nation. God wants to release revival more than we want it, but He is waiting for us to rise up with spiritual strength and violence and grab hold of Him ourselves.

Many believers are walking around like Arnold Schwarzenagger in the natural, but their spirits are on life support. The sword of the Spirit is the most powerful weapon in existence, yet so many are trying to wield William Wallece's sword with a Minnie Mouse spirit.

PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT:
JESUS CHRIST SAID THEY SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES (MARK 16:17 ).

THE GIFT OF TONGUES IS A GIFT OF REVELATION, SANCTIFICATION, INTERCESSION,
PEACE,
ORDERING LIFE,
MIRACLES
AND POWER.


Health Benefits of Tongues:
In a research study done on tongues, it was found that the immune system of those monitored improved by 30-40 % .

Another well-known study done by an agnostic scientist, Andrew Newberg of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that a part of the brain was activated by speaking in tongues that otherwise was dormant. SPECT imaging was used to analyze blood flow to the brain. There was a decrease in activity in subjects frontal lobes while speaking in tongues.

"That is a part of the brain that makes us feel as if we are in control of our actions," Newberg said. "How do you know they are speaking in tongues rather than faking it," Newberg asked. "But the fact that we found similar changes in the brain in all our subjects suggests that something is really happening." Michael Persinger, a behavioural scientist at Laurentian University in Canada, praised the study. "It tells us a great deal about spiritual, mystical expriences," said Persinger, who has studied glossolalia.

Dave Roberson, who speaks in tongues many hours a day, claims to have lived in Divine health for decades.

PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT
Jesus said in Mark 16:17, " and these signs will follow those who believe: in my name the will cast out demons , they will speak with new tongues".
The apostle Paul said that he prayed in tongues more than anyone. Jesus is the Son of God and Paul wrote several books of the Bible. Both walked in incredible revelation from Father God in heaven. In Jude 1:20 it says, " building yourselves up on your most Holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God".

David Hogan, who has a ministry in Mexico prays in tongues up to 15 hours a day. With great results !! The people there have raised over 400 people from the dead !! ( to hear the testimony, go tofathersglory.com , click inspired messages and click on David Hogan )

Dave Roberson spoke in tongues 8 hrs a day for several months and then suddenly God launched him into a miracle ministry. In India during a meeting, while he was preaching, 5000 people had gold fillings put into their teeth by The Lord. ( Dave's tetimony can be heard on sidroth.org click on listen online, click archives, click 2000 and scroll down to Dave Roberson tongues )


Tongues - The Ultimate Prayer Power
by Glenn Arekion

Acts 6:4; " We shall be persevering to THE prayer and the service of THE saying(Logos)." NT Greek Interlinear

The Early Christians understood that they could not neglect prayer. They were a praying church and how great and mighty things they achieved in prayer. Even when they became very busy in ministry, they did not allow business to get in the way of prayer.

I want you to notice in the literal text it says, "We will persevere and give ourselves to the prayer..." Pay attention to the words

'the prayer'

not just a prayer. It was a definite article meaning a determiner that introduces a noun phrase and implies that the thing mentioned has already been mentioned and was common knowledge. The Early church comprehended that 'praying in tongues' was the prayer.

Praying in tongues was known as the prayer.

There are many kinds of prayers in the Scripture but Tongues is the ultimate prayer in the New Testament. The Early Church gave much time and attention to it. This was common knowledge to the early disciples and it should be so in the modern church.

Prayer, especially praying in tongues, is a vital aspect to our spiritual growth, walking in the supernatural and being sensitive in the spirit. There is no way around it! If you want to grow in the anointing, it is imperative that you become a person of prayer. Jesus was a man of prayer as was the Apostle Paul and the early church was birthed and based on prayer. The Holy Writ shows that prayer and specially 'tongues' played a very prominent role in the life of the early church and it must play a prominent role in your life.

If you want to grow in the anointing, it is imperative that you become a person of prayer.

One of the greatest ministers who ever graced this earth was Reverend John G. Lake. Although he went through terrible hardships, he was a world shaker. What was the secret to John G. Lake’s deep revelations, extraordinary manifestations, and the success of his ministry? Here is an excerpt from his own mouth:

“I want to talk with the utmost frankness and say to you, that tongues have been the making of my ministry. It is that peculiar communication with God when God reveals to my soul the truth I utter to you day by day in the ministry. Many times, I climb out of bed, take my pencil and pad, and jot down the beautiful things of God, the wonderful things of God that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart.”

Notice these words: “Tongues have been the making of my ministry.”

Tongues will be the making of your life. Another great man who knew the power of praying in tongues was Smith Wigglesworth. Here was an uneducated plumber who, when he partook of the blessing of tongues, was transformed into the apostle of faith.

The miracles, boldness, and manifestation of the supernatural became evident in his life and ministry. The church and the world are waiting for endtime apostles who will be carriers of power and deliverance. You can be so as you develop the habit of praying in tongues! Apart from the obvious and common knowledge ones, let me list two benefits that you will enjoy as you partake of this marvelous blessing:-

1. Praying in tongues is strengthening your inner self with might.

Ephesians 3:16 tells us, “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.”

The Weymouth New Testament words it like this, “To grant you—in accordance with the wealth of His glorious perfections—to be strengthened by His Spirit with power penetrating to your inmost being.”

To strengthen means “to make stronger.” It also means “to increase in strength and force.” According to the apostle Paul, when you pray in tongues, you are strengthening or fortifying your spirit man with might.

Obviously, he would know more about the might of tongues, as he declared to the Corinthian saints that he prayed in tongues more than them all (see 1 Cor. 14:18).

The word ‘might’ is the Greek word ‘dunamis’, and it means “miracle power and explosive power.”

The more you pray in the spirit, the more you are increasing in spiritual force on the inside of you. The more you pray in tongues, the more explosive power and miraculous power are growing inside of you.

How can you be depressed when the strength of God is within you? Just like barbells will build up your arms, praying in tongues will build up your spirit. When your spirit is strong, it will help to keep that flesh body of yours in line. The more you pray in the spirit, the more you are increasing in spiritual force within.

2. Praying in tongues is part of the offensive of the armor of God. It is the lance that will shoot down the enemy.

Just like barbells will build up your arms, praying in tongues will build up your spirit.

Ephesians 6:13-18;”Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”

“The whole armor of God”: Pay attention to the words ‘whole armor’ referring to the Greek word panoplia, meaning “whole, complete set.” It was a word used to depict the full armor of a hoplite or heavily-armed Roman soldier.

Whenever the Roman soldier would put on his full armor, there were seven things that he would put on. The apostle Paul listed all the other Roman weaponries by name except for the lance. No Roman panoply would be complete without the lance. Since six is “the number of man” and seven is “the number of God,” seven stands for completion.

That is why in the Old Testament we see and read of the seven feasts of Israel, seven sacrifices, seven furnitures of the tabernacle, seven lamps of the candlestick, seven pillars of wisdom, and seven cities of refuge to name a few. The New Testament, specifically the Book of Revelation talks of the seven churches, Seven Spirits of God, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven lamps of fire, seven seals, seven horns and seven trumpets to name a few.

God does things in sevens, and the seventh weaponry of the armor of God is the lance of prayer in the spirit. The Roman lance was called a pilum. It was the typical legionary weapon together with the short sword gladius. It was designed to penetrate the shield as well as the soldier holding it, and to bend upon impact to make it unusable for another opponent. The pilum was used for long distances by throwing it, and for shorter distances they would use it to charge.

It was a very offensive weapon. Praying in tongues is an aggressive and offensive weapon to put holes in the cover of the devil. The lance of tongues is designed to paralyze the movements of the devil against your life. No wonder the devil fights tongues so much, as it causes great harm in his kingdom.

When Peter’s life was threatened by Herod, the church tapped into ‘the unceasing prayer of tongues’ and reversed the death sentence and demonic assignment. Tongues will make your progress unstoppable! Pray in tongues!

I thank God that I speak in [strange] tongues (languages) more than any of you or all of you put together; (1 Corinthians 14:18 AMP)

But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the Holy Spirit; (Jude 1:20 AMP)

Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God’s consecrated people). (Ephesians 6:18 AMP)

as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth]. (1 Corinthians 13:8 AMP)

101 benefits of praying in tongues from Glenn Areikon

1. Tongues is the entrance into the supernatural.

2. Tongues is the prayer in the New Testament.

3. Tongues is a direct line to talking to God.

4. Tongues is the believer’s direct access to the throne room.

5. Tongues is speaking divine mysteries – divine coded secrets.

6. Tongues is drawing secrets to life’s complicated issues.

7. Tongues is prophesying your God-ordained future.

8. Tongues is praying out God’s plan for your life.

9. Tongues is knowledge, counsel, and secrets withheld from the wicked.

10. Tongues is the entrance into the realm of the spirit – the miraculous zone.

11. Tongues is strengthening your inner man with might.

12. Tongues keeps you spiritually fit.

13. Tongues is praying things that have been concealed to be revealed.

14. Tongues is decreeing the rhemas of God.

15. Tongues pulls you from the past into the future.

16. Tongues is home improvement and a source of spiritual edification.

17. Tongues is building a strong premise to carry the anointing.

18. Tongues builds and stimulates your faith.

19. Tongues gives you unstoppable progress that your enemies cannot deny.

20. Tongues is giving praise and thanksgiving well unto God.

21. Tongues lines you up with the divine will of God.

22. Tongues is speaking the language and will of God.

23. Tongues is help with your ultimate weakness.

24. Tongues is the ultimate assistance to prayer.

25. Tongues qualifies all things to work for your good.

26. Tongues renders you to be God-inside minded.

27. Tongues makes you miracle-minded.

28. Tongues magnifies God.

29. Tongues enlarges your perspective of God’s potency in your life.

30. Tongues gives spiritual refreshing and rest.

31. Tongues hones your sharpness and accuracy in the anointing.

32. Tongues facilitates the entrance into the gifts of the Spirit.

33. Tongues equips you for the wonders of God.

34. Tongues is fine-tuning and sensitizing your spirit man to the voice of God.

35. Tongues is assistance to bring your natural tongue under subjection.

36. Tongues develops intimacy with the Holy Ghost.

37. Tongues is your private conversation with God.

38. Tongues is deep calling unto deep.

39. Tongues accesses revelation knowledge.

40. Tongues taps into the mind of God.

41. Tongues opens the Scriptures to you from a divine perspective rather than an intellectual standpoint.

42. Tongues is part of the armor of God, the lance that will shoot down the enemy.

43. Tongues is the pilum to cause great damage to the kingdom of darkness.

44. Tongues helps you to develop your prayer life.

45. Tongues synchronizes you with the timing of God.

46. Tongues is alignment with the assignment of God.

47. Tongues is a door of utterance and boldness.

48. Tongues is the Holy Spirit searching your heart and praying through you the perfect will of God.

49. Tongues is pulling treasure out of you.

50. Tongues is leaning upon God.

51. Tongues is blowing the ram’s horn for battle.

52. Tongues is the rallying sound of victory.

53. Tongues is releasing angels on heavenly assignments to change earthly situations.

54. Tongues is a brainstorming session with God.

55. Tongues taps into the creativity of Elohim.

56. Tongues overrules and overturns death assignments against your life.

57. Tongues reverses demonic assignments against your well-being.

58. Tongues removes you from the limitations of the flesh to God’s abundant supply of the Spirit.

59. Tongues is making demands upon the power of God.

60. Tongues enables a closer walk with God.

61. Tongues is speaking the hidden wisdom of God.

62. Tongues is the beginning of being led by the Holy Spirit.

63. Tongues is living supernaturally in a natural world.

64. Tongues opens the heavens and charges the atmosphere.

65. Tongues is the release of the shekinah glory.

66. Tongues is getting drunk on the new wine of the Holy Ghost.

67. Tongues is pouring in the oil and wine of the Holy Ghost.

68. Tongues are life-filled words, faith-filled words and anointing-filled words.

69. Tongues lights the fire of God in your life.

70. Tongues delivers you from the scourge of the tongue.

71. Tongues is unlocking every closed prison door in your life.

72. Tongues is a well springing up into the Zoe-God kind of life.

73. Tongues is the beginning and the maintaining of partnership with the Holy Spirit.

74. Tongues is Koinonia with the Parakletos.

75. Tongues is releasing the winds of God to blow in your life.

76. Tongues is the wind in your sail.

77. Tongues is the wind beneath your wings.

78. Tongues unleashes the winds of revival and refreshing in your life.

79. Tongues is refilling empty vessels.

80. Tongues is spirit-to-Spirit communication.

81. Tongues helps in living effectively in the last days.

82. Tongues is the ignition key to walking in the power of God.

83. Tongues is being endued with power from on high.

84. Tongues is rivers of living waters flowing out of you.

85. Tongues is drinking from the river and reservoir of God.

86. Tongues is serving God from your spirit.

87. Tongues enables you to perform your priestly duties.

88. Tongues is building your image of God in you and confidence.

89. Tongues is expressing, enforcing, and declaring the will of God in your life and the earth.

90. Tongues is extracting answers from the indwelling Spirit to solve life’s problems.

91. Tongues is praying from your spirit.

92. Tongues is giving your spirit ascendency and power over your flesh.

93. Tongues aids you to mortify the deeds and evil cravings of the flesh.

94. Tongues connects the intercession of the Holy Spirit with your great High Priest Jesus.

95. Tongues is the highest form of the prayer of agreement.

96. Tongues is the divine agreement of the prayers of our earthly and heavenly intercessor with the plans of God.

97. Tongues is the threefold cord that will not be broken.

98. Tongues is ministering to yourself, to the Lord, and unto others.

99. Tongues is worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth.

100. Tongues charges your spiritual battery.

101. Tongues makes you God-friendly rather than seeker friendly, confuses the devil, and ignites revival.

God has given us the gift to speak in a language we do not know by human means. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:10) and therefore of great help to us. Paul said: "Thank God, I speak in tongues more than any of you" (1 Cor 14:18). Through the gift of tongues, the Lord builds us up (1 Cor 14:4), enables us to utter "mysteries in the Spirit" (1 Cor 14:2), and empowers us to thank and praise Him (1 Cor 14:16-17). The gift of tongues is a sign, especially for unbelievers (1 Cor 14:22).

--tongues is not just a badge of "you have it or you don't, then you move on."

Praying in the Spirit is not a filler till we get specifics, it is our love expression of enjoyment and union with Him.