Reflections on Chapter 29 of Kenneth Hagin's 'How to be Led by the Spirit of God'- Written by Ademola Adigun
Praying in the Spirit
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding, also- 1 Cor 14:14,15
When you pray in tongues, your spirit is praying- We are used to reasoning things out and when we come to God in prayer, we reason out the way we think He should answer and then, we tell Him to do that. That's funny because our understanding is limited but God's is not. Praying in tongues bypasses the arguments in our minds and goes straight into God's plans for us and the issues we are seeking Him about.
The Spirit realm is the Faith realm- Galatians 5:16 says...walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh. Romans 8:8 says those that are in the flesh cannot please God and Hebrews 11: 6 says without faith we can't please God. The more we pray in the Spirit (in tongues) the less we are praying in the flesh and the more our prayers are pleasing to God because we are praying by the help of the Holy Spirit who knows the mind of God.
Pray in tongues every day and spend considerable time doing it- In one of Kenneth Hagin's books, he talked about praying in tongues for over 4 hours before hitting a gusher (a spiritual free fall where there is an uninterrupted flow of God's power and voice). Meanwhile, all the while the devil was trying to get him to stop by insinuating, he was wasting his time. The fruit of his ministry reminds us he wasn't. That's our power-House. I think it was John G. Lake that said, ' tongues is the making of my ministry.' We ought to do it daily and consistently. It's ok to start with 15minutes, make it regular, discipline yourself and soon you will be spending days praying in tongues 😉
You can do it anytime and everywhere- Under your breath and quietly or out loud when you are by yourself. it quietens our mind and bypasses the worries that cloud our reception.
Just do it- Let me end on a jocular note. It is not just what you know that matters but what you do with what you know. So, let's get praying, the devil can't get in on it and it pains him🤣 and it's our code language direct to heaven. It makes our perception keener.
Blessings