Reflection on the book “Why Tongues?”
Reasons #3 Why Every Believer Should Speak in Tongues - Tongues remind us of The Spirit's Indwelling Presence
Discussion Day 4 by Tosin Leshi
I am excited to know that previous discussions on this platform had established that receiving the Holy Spirit is different from being born again (although related). John 14:16-17 reveal that Holy Spirit has been given to be with us forever. Receiving the Holy Spirit is an unending experience.
The Holy Spirit resides with every believer and I wish to emphasize that as a believer, the Holy Spirit is in you, He dwells in you, He lives there as long as Jesus is not physically present on earth. The challenge however is that we don't often live in the consciousness of this truth. This is what the devil capitalizes to take undue advantage of us. Friends, one of the tragedies of believers is to live without the understanding of the Indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.
It is one thing for you to have the Holy Spirit, it is another thing for you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. This is explicitly illustrated all through the Scriptures. Ex 31:3, Luke 1:15, Acts 11:24, Luke 4:1, Acts 13:9, Acts 13:52, Acts 6:3, Eph 5:18.... We can not be filled with what we don't have. Hallelujah, we have the Holy Spirit and we can be filled with the Holy Spirit.
But how? By speaking in the language of the Spirit which is speaking in tongues
Speaking in tongues is like a stream that must never dry and the source of that stream is the Holy Spirit for us to paddle through life (either stormy or calm), we must be conscious of where the indwelling of the Spirit has brought us and speaking in tongues brings us to the full awareness.
An evidence is you operating from the point of rest Ish 28:11-12. When you speak in tongues, you are brought to the knowledge and full understanding that you operate from God's rest. This understanding changed my life and the experience thereafter transformed my personality. I don't step out of door if I don't bring my spirit to the Indwelling of the Spirit and this is achieved by speaking in tongues. I simply get filled in Spirit, recharge my battery to 100%, become spiritually sensitive all through the day and become courageous to face all the challenges of each day.
Have you ever had the urge or burden to pray and you don't know what to pray about or how to go about with the prayer? We respond to the burden of the Spirit by speaking in tongues.