Praying In The Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26)
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Not sure what this year is going to bring - I’m not a prophet.
tough times
food shortages - famine
unemployment - financial hardship for many
political unrest
war
However we can thrive in tough times.
We can thrive by being planted in the house of the Lord.
Psalm 92:10-15-
Its dangerous to say we are passionate about God and yet despise the local church that God almighty has commanded us to serve and submit to.
We are not going to flourish jumping from conference to conference, church to church, podcast to podcast, author to author,
These help supplement areas of our walk with God but they can’t’ replace the local church.
We need to ask ourselves where does God want me planted? What local church does He want me planted in? And not just attending but how to be engaged in serving.
A lot of times God will lead you somewhere to be planted that you do not want to go. God will send you what you need not what you want. Not where you feel comfortable but were you feel uncomfortable to stretch you and cause you to grow.
The child that triggers you so much. God is getting out of you what He doesn’t want in there. Its uncomfortable to the flesh so that God can reveal what needs to be dealt with.
That church, friend, that job that we snuggle up to might be a idol. Its comfortable there and we don’t like mess.
Lets get planted in community, and were there is community there is conflict, and where there is conflict there is Jesus. If there is not conflict in our life we need to ask if we are walking in God’s plan for our life.
PRAYER
We cannot be good friends with God with a strong prayer life.
Reading your Bible is not prayer, thinking about God is not prayer, watching your favorite preacher on TV is not prayer.
We cannot fully live off the spiritual life of others.
Prayer is this: talking with God
When was the last time you took a half and hour to pray and you didn’t ask him for anything?
A lot of people cannot get to close to God because there is to many people in the way. A lot of parents have their kids as idols.
When you feel like everything is falling apart and when your getting squeezed really hard = its the perfect recipe for us to develop a robust prayer life.
Roadblocks to a prayer life in the west is comfort, apathy, and distractions.
I love the fact I can pull up any verse or google just about anything on this little devise. It’s amoral like a brick you can kill someone with it or build a house with it. This has become such a distraction to people that God doesn’t have any space to brake in on our lives.
busyness is a illness of the spirit.
God will bring you to a wildness to bring you in a deeper place with Him. To brake through the distractions.
Maybe our breakthrough isn’t coming because we are not willing to pray through it.
We need to ask God to make His passion our passion.
If you bring in a preacher you’ll find out how popular that preacher is by how many people show up, if you bring in a musician you’ll find out how popular that musician is, if you call a prayer meeting you’ll find out how popular God is.
Prayer is more than talking to God it is talking with God.
A big part of praying in the Spirit is speaking in tongues.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
15 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
There are different kinds of tongues mentioned in the Bible:
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
The word “diversities” simply means differences. Therefore, the terms “divers tongues” and “diversities of tongues” tell us there are different supernatural flows or manifestations of tongues.
Reason the church is so confused over the subject of tongues is that believers generally try to impose the same set of rules on all the different operations or manifestations of tongues.
There is four basic manifestations are outlined in the Word:
Tongues for personal edification (1 Cor. 14:4)
Tongues for interpretation (1 Cor. 14:5)
Tongues of deep intercessional groanings (Rom. 8:26)
Tongues as a sign to the unbeliever (1 Cor. 14:22)
1) Tongues for personal edification (1 Cor. 14:4) This is the supernatural language the Holy Spirit prays through us that we can use to pray hour after hour as we desire.
4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
Tongues for personal edification (1 Cor. 14:4) This is the supernatural language the Holy Spirit prays through us that we can use to pray hour after hour as we desire. It accompanies the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
In writing to the church at Corinth, Paul encouraged them to continue the practice of speaking with other tongues in their worship of God and in their prayer lives as a means of spiritual edification. Greek language scholars tell us that we have a word in our modern vernacular which is closer to the meaning of the original than the word "edified." That word is "charge"—as used in connection with charging a battery. Therefore we could paraphrase this verse, "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies, charges, builds himself up like a battery."
2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
God has given to the church a divine, supernatural means of communication with Himself.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
Notice that this says, "my spirit prayeth." The Amplified translation reads, "my spirit, by the Holy Spirit within me, prays." God is a Spirit. When we pray in tongues, our spirit is in direct contact with God, who is a Spirit. We are talking to Him by a divine, supernatural means.
It is amazing how people can ask in the light of these scriptures, "What is the value of speaking in tongues?" If God's Word says speaking in tongues is of value then it is of value.
If God says it edifies—then it edifies. If God says it is a supernatural means of communication with Himself—then it is a supernatural means of communication with Himself.
If God says every believer should speak in tongues—then every believer should speak in tongues.
Jesus did not say that just a few should speak in tongues. He said, "And these signs shall follow them that believe . . . " "Them" is plural—it means all. And one of the signs was, “. . . they shall speak with new tongues . . . ” (Mark 16:17.)
He has made me the steward of my own edification. . Now with our own free will, we determine how much or how little we want to be edified by allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us.
We can pray in our personal tongues at will as long as we want.
As we pray in tongues our faith is built up as well.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Now with our own free will, we determine how much or how little we want to be edified by allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us.
2) Tongues for interpretation (1 Cor. 14:5)
This is for whom the Spirit wills and when the Spirit wills
3) Tongues of deep intercessional groanings (Rom. 8:26)
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
It didn’t say we didn’t know how to pray but what to pray for. When we pray in the Spirit we are praying God’s plan over someone.
4)Tongues as a sign to the unbeliever (1 Cor. 14:22)
Kenneth Hagin - Reasons to speak in tongues.