YIELD YOUR MIND TO THE SPIRIT IN PRAYER
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful (1 Corinthians 14:14).
Praying in tongues is one of the most powerful spiritual exercises you can engage in. It’s the language of the Spirit through which you utter divine mysteries. When you pray in tongues, your spirit communicates directly with God, bypassing the limitations of the natural mind.
However, your prayer becomes far more impactful and effective when your mind is engaged as you speak in tongues. Fix your attention on what you’re praying about. There may be the tendency for your mind to wander as you pray, but refuse the distractions and deliberately keep your mind focused on the Spirit.
As you do, He’ll flood your mind with visions, thoughts, and ideas. These may be revelations from God or creative insights that He inspires within you. He enables you to see possibilities, create godly imaginations, and bring divine realities into manifestation. So, always engage your mind in prayer to perceive what the Spirit is revealing. As He grants you visions, respond accordingly; that’s how you partner with Him to bring Heaven’s plans to pass on earth.
The Christian life is a walk in the Spirit. The Spirit-filled life is a life of rest, joy and victory. He keeps you strong, refreshed and full of faith. So, even in prayer, depend on His guidance, follow His instructions, and yield to His influence. Hallelujah!
PRAYER
Dear Father, as I pray in the Spirit, you reveal divine mysteries to me, and I create and shape circumstances in line with your perfect will. Thank you for synchronising my spirit with your will, causing me to function in divine wisdom and power, and walk in your glory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
If you’re blessed by this devotional, believing every words you heard by faith in your heart, and would love to make Jesus the lord of your life, then speak the confessions below out loud, and mean them with your heart:
“O Lord God, I believe with all my heart in Jesus Christ, Son of the living God. I believe He died for me and God raised Him from the dead. I believe He’s alive today. I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life from this day. Through Him and in His Name, I have eternal life; I’m born again. Thank you Lord, for saving my soul! I’m now a child of God. Hallelujah!”
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Message by Rev. Chris Oyakhilome Dsc. Dsc. DD.
FURTHER STUDY
Jude 1:20 (KJV)
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Romans 8:26 (KJV)
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
1 Corinthians 14:2 (KJV)
2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Matthew 17:14-27;
Matthew 18:1-14;
Exodus 8-9
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 12:11-19;
Job 20-21
