7 Biblical Principles Why Christians Should Speak in Tongues

1. The manifestation that came with the gift of the Holy Spirit was
speaking in tongues.
It wasn’t the wind, fire, noise or feeling of God’s presence that was evidence of the gift being received but a spirit language
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believers began speaking languages of the Spirit they didn’t understand. It was
God’s plan for the gift to function as a spirit language for His children (Acts 2:4,
11; 1 Cor. 14:2).
2. Jesus commanded us to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
When Je-
sus commissioned the disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they received the
promise of the Father, He didn’t say, “Do this if you feel led to do so, or if it fits
in your doctrinal or denominational beliefs, or if you have the time, or if you are
so inclined, or if you feel comfortable about it.” No! Jesus commanded them to
wait until they received the gift of the Holy Spirit. Since Jesus put such impor-
tance on their receiving this gift, that’s more than enough reason for every
Christian to seek God until they receive it too (Acts 1:4; 5:32; John 14:16
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17;
Eph. 5:18).
3.
The Scriptures exhort us to be filled with the Spirit and to pray in the
new tongues of our spirit language.
Our spirit language enables us to live in
the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, be led of the Spirit, have the fruit of the Spirit, mani-
fest the gifts of the Spirit and go from glory to glory until we are transformed
into His same image (Gal. 5:22
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25; Rom. 8:14; 1 Cor. 12:7
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11; 14:15; Eph.
5:18; Acts 19:2; 2 Cor. 3:18).
4. A spirit language is the greatest gift the Holy Spirit can give a be-
liever.
Jesus is the greatest gift God could give for the redemption of the world,
and the Holy Spirit is the greatest gift Jesus could give to His church. Of all the
resources in heaven and the eternal universe, nothing is more valuable, benefi-
cial or important for the Holy Spirit to give the individual child of God than her
own spirit language (1 Cor. 12:31; 14:4).
5. Our spirit language enables us to have spirit
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to
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Spirit communication
with God.
Humans are spirit beings clothed with flesh
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and
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bone bodies. While
man’s sin deadened the spirit, Jesus brings the spirit back to life by imparting
His everlasting life into us. The Holy Spirit gives us a spirit language so we can
communicate directly with God (John 4:24; 1 Cor. 15:45; Gen. 2:7; Rom. 5:12;
John 3:3
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5, 16).
6. The Holy Spirit directs our spirit language to pray in accordance with
the will of God.
Probably the only time we can be assured that we are praying
100 percent in the will of God is when we are praying in our spirit language.
God always answers requests that are made in alignment with His will (Rom.
8:27; 1 John 5:14
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15).
7. Praying in tongues quiets the mind.
When Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neu-
roscientist, compared brain scans of Christians praying in tongues with Bud-
dhist monks chanting and Catholic nuns praying, the study showed the frontal
lobes
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the brain’s control center
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went quiet in the brains of Christians talking
in tongues, proving that speaking in tongues isn’t a function of the natural brain
but an operation of the spirit (1 Cor. 14:2, 14).
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Adapted from
Seventy Reasons for Speaking in Tongues
by
Bill Hamon
(Destiny Image).

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