[SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians 14, let me continue in verse six.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now, brothers, if I come to you, speaking in other languages or in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge of prophecy or teaching?
[SPEAKER_01]: Even inanimate things that produce sounds, whether flute or harp, or if they don't make distinction in the notes, how will what is played on the flute or harp be recognized?
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, if the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will prepare for battle?
[SPEAKER_01]: In the same way, unless you use your tongue for intelligible speech, how will what is spoken be known?
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the importance of speaking in other tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talking about the importance of being baptized in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that people can understand the things of the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we'll go to back to chapter 12, and we'll start in verse 4, and we'll read through verse 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: There'll be on the screen there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says now, there are different gifts, but the same spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the same Holy Spirit that we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Paul's making this clear distinction that this is not different, different spirits, different things, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, this is the same Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are different ministries but the same Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there are different activities but the same God, look at this, activates each gift and each person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I wanna stump any kind of false theology that you may have bought into that would said, some of the gifts of the Spirit are not for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have that gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't operate in that gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: That gift would God didn't give me that gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just read the scripture that God activates each gift in each person.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that includes the gift of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: A demonstration verse seven of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what has been official.
[SPEAKER_01]: to the one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the performing of miracles.
[SPEAKER_01]: to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another different kinds of languages or tongues, and to another the interpretation of languages or the interpretation of the tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: But one in the same spirit is active in all of these distributing to each person as he wills.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah!
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, we're going to get into depth about
[SPEAKER_01]: the language of the Holy Spirit, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so if you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message is the greatest language, the greatest language.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the greatest language you could ever know and it's the greatest language you could ever speak.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the greatest language.
[SPEAKER_01]: to pray with me, Father, we thank you, Lord, for this day, we thank you for the revelation of your word, the truth of your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for wisdom and our lives today, God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We receive from you now, Father, and we believe in part God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything, Lord, that you are gonna teach us, Lord, and we grab ahold of it, Father, God, and we thank you, Lord, that we are leaving here, changed and transformed, marked by the power of your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we thank you that the Holy Spirit is doing a work in our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's already started and he's continuing to do so.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we receive you now Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: We say, come and fill this atmosphere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come and fill us personally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fill us to overflowing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need the anointing of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we receive your word now, and Jesus name it, but I said, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever been in a church environment or a worship environment or something spiritual of some sort, and you can just tell that something is missing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like maybe the worship is really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like maybe the band is super talented or the singers are phenomenal, but there's still something missing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they have great children's ministry, maybe the coffee is better than your favorite local coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it has all of the things that you would want, but you still feel like spiritually speaking, something is missing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in listen church, it's real simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing better and more powerful than an atmosphere of Holy Ghost andointing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Melissa and I have been in services before and we've been in places with large amounts of people worshiping and we look around and Melissa and I and the thousands of people that are standing there are the only ones lifting our hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only ones like that look even remotely like we're running after Jesus in that time.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like just standing there, just doing our thing and just allowing it to be
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it is, but we call it worship, but I'm not sure that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we have been in moments and in times like that where we have wondered, man, there's something missing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you can have a Holy Spirit filled service in the power of God working and moving and you fill, filled up and it's the complete opposite.
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a difference between the Holy Spirit being invited into an atmosphere in the Holy Spirit not being invited into an atmosphere.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when the Holy Spirit is invited into the atmosphere that we're in, the Holy Spirit takes over, he's in charge, and he begins to do things in people's lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he is the missing piece to a lot of places, and a lot of things, and a lot of experiences that we have.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to have worship without the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we had it that way, we wouldn't have worship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say no more worship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to have church without the involvement of the Holy Spirit, or else we'll just shut it down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care about church at that point if we can't have the Holy Spirit here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well pastor that's harsh, no it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's biblical.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the reality of the Gospel and the reality of the Bible and what Jesus left for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have to have the power of the Holy Spirit at work.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't beat when the Holy Spirit falls in a room and begins to minister and touch people's lives like he does.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't beat that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, in Acts chapter 19, we read that the first week, remember Paul, he comes across the people in Corinth, and he says to them, have you heard about the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: And remember, what was their reply?
[SPEAKER_01]: We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: The only reason why I believe Paul would have even asked the people in Corinth, did you hear about the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because when he showed up to the place, he recognized that something was missing.
[SPEAKER_01]: When he showed up to the disciples, there was 12 disciples that were there in Corinth, and when he showed up to them, and he began to conversate with them, he realized that there is a missing piece to their salvation here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says to them, have you heard about the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they say, oh, we haven't heard that there is a such thing as the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, Paul recognized a Spiritless filled Christian.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a difference between a Christian and a spirit-filled Christian.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a difference between a believer and a spirit-filled believer.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a difference between somebody who loves Jesus and somebody who loves Jesus and has the Holy Spirit activated in their life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Paul walks up to these disciples who are leading the church in Corinth and he says, hold on, something's missing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you heard about the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Paul recognized it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Paul's faith, he gets stirred up when they say, oh no, we haven't heard of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Paul's faith gets stirred up immediately.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says he lays his hands upon them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They get baptized in the Holy Spirit, and you gotta catch this the first thing that those guys do in Corinth is that they begin to speak in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't begin to prophesy.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't begin to run around and do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't begin to pray for other people.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't begin to experience miracles.
[SPEAKER_01]: None of that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first thing that happens when they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit for the very first time is that they instantly begin to speak Heaven's language.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for us as believers, we have got to understand the value and the importance of speaking Heaven's language.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people might have, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: At the Holy Spirit is not available for you, and let me give a scripture to help you out, Luke chapter 11, verse 13.
[SPEAKER_01]: For you then who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
[SPEAKER_01]: So God doesn't need all of these things and all of these rules and all of these boundaries and all these formations and all this to give you the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, well, I don't know if I can receive the Holy Spirit, yes you can.
[SPEAKER_01]: All you have to do is ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: Says, if you ask, how much more will the Heavenly Father not give you?
[SPEAKER_01]: the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for someone to say, oh, I can't have the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't learn that way or I was never taught that way or I don't believe I can have it or I've done this or that that it would make it not, you know, line up.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's all false.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he says, all you have to do is ask and I'll give you my spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if we ask for the Holy Spirit, Jesus himself will give him to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it isn't a matter of can I or can't I or should I, but here I mean, it's a matter of do I really want the Holy Spirit in my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the question no longer is, well, I don't know if I can receive the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really, the question is do I really want the Holy Spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because a lot of people will cross their arms and church and say, I don't know if I can even think about the Holy Spirit or get the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not that you're thinking that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because you have made up your mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm stepping on toes right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's OK.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm trying to help you because the spirit of God he wants you to be filled.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants you to be filled with his spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't say ask me and do this and do that and have these things in place.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, ask me, I'll give it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I freely give it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like I gave you the salvation freely.
[SPEAKER_01]: You asked me for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gave it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gave you my spirit in the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Acts chapter two, they all began to speak in other tongues as soon as they were filled.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: We see that on the day of Pinnacost.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're in the upper room.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit shows up, boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tongues like flames of fire and the first thing that happens is what they begin to speak in other tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians chapter 12 that we just read is all about spiritual gifts that we receive as believers of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of those gifts that's mentioned is the gift of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so today I want to show you that the key to really opening the door in the natural is often found by praying in the supernatural, by praying in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there are many times where we can pray and pray and pray and pray and pray and we don't see any fruition of those prayers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then we begin to tap into the Holy Spirit and pray in the Holy Spirit and all of a sudden we see an answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the Spirit prays different than we do.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Spirit is the very living spirit of God and to have communication with the Spirit of God is huge.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see, there is breakthrough that happens in your life when you understand the things of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you begin to understand the things of the Holy Spirit and when you understand that you can speak in other tongues, then you will receive breakthrough in your life unlike ever before.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you can speak the language of heaven, you can begin to understand more of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And through that, supernatural breakthrough is unlocked in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, some people here today are already saying in their head, tongues is not for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or I don't have the gift, like some people do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, baby, just buckle up and get ready because I'm about to help you out today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's three things that I want you to write down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three truths that I'm gonna teach you of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been learning about the Holy Spirit the past couple weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're getting into more in-depth about the Holy Spirit and the operation of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of the operations of the Holy Spirit is tongues, okay, so we cannot bypass this.
[SPEAKER_01]: We cannot steer away from it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a part of the nature of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So three truths of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one is this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're writing notes down, I'll be on the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: The gift of tongues is not the same as speaking intangues.
[SPEAKER_01]: The gift of tongues, the gift itself, is not the same as just speaking intangues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now listen, church.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a difference between what, first Corinthians chapter 12 says is the gift of speaking intangues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then there is just speaking intangues, our heavenly prayer language.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians 12, we read, that there are nine gifts of the Spirit, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And one of these gifts is the gift of tongues, and then immediately following that is the gift of the interpretation of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: which is a powerful thing, too, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so spiritual, it's so heavenly.
[SPEAKER_01]: For someone to be able to speak something and an unknown language and somebody receives the interpretation of it and speaks that out is powerful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I have been around some of the most powerful times like that and it's like, whoa, to hear what the voice of God is actually saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, it's powerful, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is the gift of tongues?
[SPEAKER_01]: If the gift of tongues is different, then just speaking in tongues, then what is the gift of tongues?
[SPEAKER_01]: The gift of tongues is when someone speaks in an unknown language to the body, to the church, which is a special message from God, and the Bible says throughout various parts of the New Testament that it has to be interpreted.
[SPEAKER_01]: The gift of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you were to have somebody that in the middle of service right now stood up, and just all of a sudden started, I don't know, okay, that would be, that would be fine, however, the Bible teaches us that there has to be an interpretation that follows.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, the person is just blabbering out something, and I have been an atmospheres.
[SPEAKER_01]: where people have all of a sudden, boom, let it out, and then there was no interpretation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have to ask yourself, was that person hearing from God?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or were they not?
[SPEAKER_01]: Was that person led by their flesh, not their spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did they think that was something for the edification of the church that needed to be announced to the church?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or wasn't something that the Holy Spirit was just trying to minister to them, but they got it wrong and they let it out loud?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the gift of tongues, according to Scripture, requires the interpretation of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is completely different from just you speaking in your heavenly prayer language.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the gift of tongues is for the whole body.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we come up here for pre-service prayer in Eric or whoever myself or whoever says, okay, let's pray in the spirit, that's not the gift of tongues happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's us praying in the Holy Spirit, praying in our heavenly language.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just speaking in tongues, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: But when somebody before the church speaks in an unknown language, speaks in tongues, that is the gift of tongues, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So what does that mean exactly?
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me explain it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Bible is very clear that you and I can and that we should pray in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: we can, and we should.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is our prayer language that is given to us by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gives us a language that we can commune with him beyond our known language, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when you pray in tongues, you must remember that the Holy Spirit is the one that is praying through you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not you praying, it's the Holy Spirit in you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Holy Spirit is speaking what God is saying in that moment, what all of heaven is speaking in that moment, that is what's coming forth and coming out.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the gift of tongues is one of the nine gifts of the spirit, and it's a gift for the building up of the church, and it comes with the interpretation, but speaking of tongues is not one of the spiritual gifts, but it is a heavenly communication that we get to part taken when we have been baptized in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything that we see in first Corinthians chapter 12 are gifts of the Spirit, meaning it's the Spirit that's in control in that moment, and the Spirit is leading us to do those things, being gifted in those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just having a prayer language is beyond the gift of tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does everybody understand?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we good?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we on the same page?
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so watch, you may not have the gift of tongues, and that's perfectly okay, but remember each God activates each one and with the each one of us, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: But you can still pray in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I've had people say, well, God has never given me the gift of tongues, so I can't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, that's false theology, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the gift of tongues is different than just speaking in tongues, all right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So simply, praying in tongues is a thing of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the evidences that you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a personal heavenly language for you to communicate with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: That right there, alone, makes me want to have that kind of life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Makes me want to live that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Makes me want to have that communication with God, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to have a one-on-one communication with God that nobody can understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then even I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Paul's teaches us that I pray not in my own understanding, but what the Spirit is speaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when we pray in tongues, we're not praying.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's something that we know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what we're saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Spirit of God speaking through us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Spirit of God has way better things to say about your problems than you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Spirit of God, let me help you out, has way better things to say about your problems than anybody else does.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you can come up to somebody and ask them for prayer about a very serious or intimate or personal situation you're going through.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can turn around and run their mouth to anybody about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And their prayers are completely ineffective because they turn that time into a time of gossip, slander, whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of you may have experienced that in your life before.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you pray in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit can't turn against you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit can't say opposite,
[SPEAKER_01]: glory to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I don't just want the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues as a evidence that I've been filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but I want it for the sake of my personal language, my personal prayer language, heavenly language with Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, number two is this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Toms are biblical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that passed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we now tongues are in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: You already read about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, listen to me for just a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just because it's biblical, doesn't mean everyone's OK with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of things that are biblical that people don't live out.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of lifestyles that are anti-bibal and we somehow say, oh, God's OK with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you hear what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: But I made up my mind a long time ago that if it's in the Word of God, and Jesus said I can have it, that I want it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we read first Corinthians chapter 14, verses one through four, let's put it on the screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't read that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We read the second part of First Corinthians 14, but let's look at the, let's look at that first part there, look at this, pursue love and desire spiritual gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's saying, hey, desire these spiritual gifts, like in other words, you shouldn't want these, and above all that you may prophesy for the person who speaks in another language is not speaking to men, but to who, you're not talking to somebody, you're talking to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: since no one understands him.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, he speaks mysteries in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_01]: But the person who prophesies speak to people for edification, encouragement, and consolation, the person who speaks in another language, tongues, builds himself up.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he who prophesies builds up the church.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you speak in tongues, you are building yourself up.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is something that is happening in you, that has been activated in that moment, there is something that's happening and take in place that is beyond you, beyond your understanding, but on what you know, beyond what you can speak, come on, it's so much greater and so much better.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in verse two, he says that you are, when you speak in tongues, you're speaking mysteries.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're speaking mysteries in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Mysteries are hidden things, secret things, not obvious to natural understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when Paul teaches us this and he says, hey, when you pray in the Holy Spirit, you are praying the mysteries of God, you are praying the mysteries of heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the hidden things that you don't know, but all of a sudden, are being revealed to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the secret things that are obvious to your natural understanding, but only come through supernatural things, a supernatural moment, and that is praying it out in the spirit and tapping into the mysteries of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of these things, like, they add up so perfectly for me where I'm like, I don't understand how it anybody, especially a believer would say, I don't want nothing to do with the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, if I don't know what's going on in my life or in my situation or whatever it may be, I need to tap into what is known.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to know the mysteries of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the only way I'm going to find that out is to begin to speak the very language of heaven, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So catch this.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you begin to pray in the spirit, those hidden things become obvious for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were once not obvious, but all of a sudden, now they are obvious for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doors begin to open up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Issues begin to be resolved.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, things begin to work out for your favor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you begin to experience God in a whole new level.
[SPEAKER_01]: You begin to see God show up in the middle of your problem, in the middle of your situation, all these things, why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you are praying in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's no longer in your control and your power and your authority and your own knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's the spirit of God taking over.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, I don't know what to do about my boss.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just so terrible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you, pray in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit will take care of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a job one time, I prayed in the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not just for one boss who was, Yish, control freak.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, Lord, you gotta take him out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pray in the Holy Spirit, guess what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Next thing you know, all of a sudden, rude awakening, next day gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: got replaced with someone that was no one better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, oh Lord, I went from bad to worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I got to pray them out, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I started praying in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And after a while, the next thing you know, all of a sudden, bye-bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, look, if you don't know how to handle situations, just pray in the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just allow the Spirit of God to handle those situations for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the best way to do it anyways.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a believer, you're literally resourced and tooled with this weapon to be able to use.
[SPEAKER_01]: We sit there and we're like, they're good, help me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, are you there?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, yeah, I'm there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to help.
[SPEAKER_01]: Will you just tap into my spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you can just start praying in the spirit, the spirit can begin to work on your behalf and do things that right now, you're caught up in your emotions, you're caught up in your problem, you're caught up in stress, you're caught up in anguish, you're caught up in all these things.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you just pray in the Holy Spirit, you can step out of the physical realm and into the spiritual realm and allow the spirit of God to begin to move and operate in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to deal with stuff by myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I don't want to deal with the crap of life by myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need him to handle the things I can't handle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need him to handle the things I can't figure out or I can't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what is hidden begins to become plain sight when the Holy Spirit is involved.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is why I believe that praying in tongues is really a secret code of heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a secret code of heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's powerful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And listen, I've said this a million times before, and I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the only language that the devil cannot understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I tell you what happens when you sit there, and you pray about that problem, and you just go to God, and you're just God, if you're real, take care of that person, they're hurting me so bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do about them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, the devil hears that, and he's like, ooh, they feel that way about that person.
[SPEAKER_01]: They said this and they feel that and they, they, they, they, you know, what can I do to make it worse?
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I come and do to steal Killing Destroy and make things even worse for them?
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you sit there and you don't know what to pray and you say, I'm not allowing the devil to come and step into this position into this place in my life and you begin to pray in the spirit and close to K at Amasul.
[SPEAKER_01]: You at Amasul, you begin to pray that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: The devil says, I don't know what the heck you are saying right now, I don't know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna step back and obviously this is not something that I can control anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why praying in the spirit is so important.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to give the devil credit, but the devil hears everything we say.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna pass it, that's a little bit overboard.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not really how God would do things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not how God does things, it's how the devil does things.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to kind of rob you and mess up your life in every way he can and he'll take a serious, genuine prayer that you have prayed to heaven and he'll turn that thing around and he'll try to attack your life even greater.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not me giving credit to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's giving you the reality of the warfare that we're in.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a spiritual battle that's taking place in the heavenlies every single day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there is an all-out war against your life for your very soul.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the greatest thing that you can do is just pray in the Holy Ghost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: says this and I've already alluded to it once before he says well what then I will pray in the spirit and I will pray with my own own understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in other words Paul is saying I will do both at times I will pray with my own understanding and at other times I will pray in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a weird freaky thing where I'm telling you never praying English again.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, again, the only way to make the Holy Spirit weird is if you make it weird, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so what I'm saying is Paul's teaching us, there are times to pray in the Spirit and there are times to pray in your own understanding and in your own language, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: When I go up to pray, if somebody comes up here and asks for prayer in their real serious about a prayer need, I'm not gonna say, okay, let's pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course you get it, I'm not gonna.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're going to be like, what did you say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what just happened?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a time in place for that, but sometimes we speak our own known language and our own understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other times, we pray in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: OK?
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's nothing wrong between going and interchanging between the two.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be praying for people all day long.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, start praying in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the Holy Spirit gives me more revelation and knowledge about what's going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I pray in my English again.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 39 goes further down and look what this says.
[SPEAKER_01]: Says, therefore, brothers be eager to prophesy and do not forbid speaking in other languages.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do not forbid speaking in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this should be kind of a warning to us, I'm kind of an awakening to us where the Spirit of God would speak unto us today and say, do not forbid speaking in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do not forbid it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we should pray what we know, and then we should let the Holy Spirit pray what we don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or can we say it this way?
[SPEAKER_01]: We should do what we can do, and then let the Holy Spirit do what we cannot do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So number one is to give the tongues not the same as speaking in tongues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number two, tongues are biblical.
[SPEAKER_01]: And number three is this, I've mentioned it already, but tongues build us up, it builds us up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have been in situations or moments or trying times or times that I didn't know what to pray, didn't know what to do or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Time after time, where all of a sudden I realized, I just need to pray in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not gonna, I don't know, I guess I'm just not gonna exhaust myself with just trying to pray this thing, like, I'm just gonna pray in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just allow him to take over for me, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Take the wheel of my life, so to speak, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Allow him to be in charge and allow him to be in control.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's what he wants ultimately, anyways.
[SPEAKER_01]: But first Corinthians 14, four, we've already read it, says the person who prays and tongues build himself up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you feel weak, if you feel like the thing that you're going through is difficult, if you feel like you've been beat up, emotionally and all of the things, then when you begin to pray in the spirit, the Bible teaches us that it builds us back up.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it can do for us things that another person can't do for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, people can encourage you all day long.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm there for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll help you and all that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know?
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll tell you all those kind of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's nothing like being built up in the spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's the spirit of the living God that wants to do a work in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if he wants to do a work, I need to allow him to build me up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the encouragement of the Holy Spirit that is so supernatural.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I will receive prayer and encouragement and all that from people all day and long, but it does not top the building up of the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does not top it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, somebody can give me the the the the warmest loving, you know, whatever speech, but it has nothing in comparison to just praying in the spirit and allowing the spirit to God to build me up over what I'm feeling, what I'm going through, what I'm dealing with, what I'm facing in life right now, and he builds me up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, those of you in the room that have been baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak and tongues, you can testify to this, that, as you pray in the Spirit, you get built up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I would like to challenge us in the sense of when we're going through a situation to first take it to prayer through the Holy Spirit before we do anything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I would really strongly challenge us to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: because it's through that, that the work of the Lord can begin to move and progress forward and really be activated.
[SPEAKER_01]: A prayer may start out weak and before you know it, you start praying in the Holy Spirit and you feel like you're Superman, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: You feel like you can take on anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like Superman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of feel like the Hulk.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think of it that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think of like, you know, I'm just little doctor bainer here, going through my problems.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden, I said, I need the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get excited and I get ignited and all of a sudden, faith increases in me and I feel like I can blow through walls.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I feel like I can punch through anything, you know, that I can just jump as high as you can imagine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I have this strength unlike ever before and it's a fate that comes over me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's because it's through the power of the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And nothing can take it out, nothing can destroy it, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's powerful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I feel like so many times we pray the same prayers over and over and we feel defeated even in our prayer life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like his God can never answer this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, why don't you try praying in my spirit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you try praying in my spirit and let's see what happens with that, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're not praying, what you know, now you're praying what you don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know a lot of the stuff that we go through.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know a lot of the things that are happening behind the scenes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know when people are talking about us.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's a lot of things that are happening that are not known to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when we start praying in the Spirit, then all of a sudden the Spirit of God starts taking care of all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Spirit of God says, you didn't know that your boss and your co-workers were secretly talking about you every day, and now the Holy Spirit goes and boom, convicts them, takes care of them, gets them fired, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the Holy Spirit does, I am serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit will take care of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's, you know, you may think, oh, this is just out there pastor.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are just preaching and out there message today.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is just lunitoon land.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not, no, it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is real.
[SPEAKER_01]: And nothing beats being bold with your faith.
[SPEAKER_01]: and speaking out loud, I mean, nothing beats it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just all of a sudden, just boom, blasting it out there, you know, just let the devil know, yeah, nice try.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't hear me, you can't understand me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm on a whole, another level.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it just, it gets you excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, talking about being high in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a real thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my God.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, it, Mary says in the scripture, don't get drunk with new wine, but get drunk in the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be drunk in the Holy Ghost where I'm just so lost in the things of the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where the Spirit of God just takes over my thinking and all of who I am and I'm just lost in His Spirit and all I can do is just worship or bring out aeration or praise them or just be in His presence and just allowing Him to move in my life.
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