Satan wants to stop people from praying but especially he wants to prevent them
from receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit and being able to pray in tongues,
because if you pray Satan is powerless against you,
He also knows that if you can pray in tongues
you can now pray all day long, while you are going about your normal life, because
when you pray in the Spirit then your mind is unfruitful but your spirit prays.
As we read in first Corinthians chapter 14 verse 14, "for if I pray in a tongue my
spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful." When you pray satan wants to distract
you and he plays on your mind. He puts all kinds of things, thoughts and
distractions, in your mind but when you pray in tongues then you pray with the
spirit and your mind is unfruitful, so he cannot distract you.
Further he does not know what you are praying because you are praying
mysteries to God. Paul wrote in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verse 24, " the one
who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands
but in his spirit he speaks mysteries."
So, what mysteries are we praying when we do pray in tongues? The Apostle Paul
writes in Romans chapter 8 verse 26, "the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we
do not know how we ought to pray but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with
groanings too deep for words, and He who searches our hearts knows the mind of
the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for the Saints according to the will of
God." When we pray in tongues
the Holy Spirit prays through us and with us
according to the will of God. Although we do not understand what we are praying
the Holy Spirit intercedes through US according to the will of God and we are
edified in our spirit, we are built up in our communion, our relationship with
God. We read in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verse 4, "the one who speaks in a
tongue edifies himself but the one who prophesies edifies the church. Now I wish
that you all spoke in tongues but even more that you would prophesy; and
greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in tongues unless he
interprets so that the church may receive edifying." However, you first
have to pray in tongues and be edified, be built up in your spirit before you
can receive revelation from the Holy Spirit to be able to prophesy. The
Apostle Paul further rights in 1st Corinthians chapter 14:18, "I thank God, I
speak in tongues more than you all;
however in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I might
instruct others, rather than 10,000 words in a tongue." We have to be praying in
tongues all day, always, so that we are edified and built up so that streams
of living water will flow through us and the Holy Spirit will be manifested in
and through us. The Holy Spirit manifests in and through the Spirit filled believer,
through prophecy, through revelation, through a word of knowledge, through
healing, and miraculous working of the Spirit of God. The power of the Holy
Spirit is manifested in
and through those who are filled with the Holy Spirit and who stay filled with
the Holy Spirit. You only stay filled with the Holy Spirit if you pray in the
spirit, so that the Spirit of God flows through you, streams of living water that
bring life to you, edify you and through you
identify the body of Christ. We cannot bear fruit if we are not led by the
Spirit of God; we cannot be led by the Spirit of God if the Spirit of God does
not dwell in us and flow through us.
The only way that the Holy Spirit will flow through us is if we remain in
constant prayer in the spirit and keep our relationship our contact with Jesus
Christ alive; if we stop praying in the spirit stop communicating with God in
the spirit then we become stagnant and unfruitful spiritually passive and
spiritually dysfunctional. satan knows that when you continuously praying in
tongues he is powerless against you because you are filled with the Holy
Spirit power. That is why he discourages people and gets others people to
discourage them to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to pray in the spirit.
Those who do not have the Spirit of Christ flowing through them are
powerless against satan and that is why they cannot overcome, We need to be
praying in the spirit to overcome the wiles of the devil and do the will of
God. Are you going to allow satan to disarm you, to steal from you that which
God has promised to you; the Holy Spirit power from on-high?
Are you going to remain powerless or will you seek
to be filled with the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ promised to those who obey
Him and who wish to follow Him?
Are you going to allow Satan to stop you from praying in tongues so that the
Spirit of God can flow through you?
The choice is yours because the promise is for all those who believe in Jesus
Christ and who want to be fruitful in His kingdom. Choose today whether you
will be an overcomer or whether you will be defeated by satan. May Jesus bless you.