SID: Many people take it as, “Oh, that’s my sign that my prayer has gotten through. Bye-bye Holy Spirit, bye-bye prayer.” You’re saying, that’s God saying, “You’re doing right, you’re doing right daughter. There’s more, I want you to enter into this wonderful presence.”
DAVID: Yes. And that’s the key is once you’ve rid yourself of the flesh and you’ve been flooded with that peace to where the flesh can no longer torment your mind and keep you from praying. Now I take that peace and because I’m in that place of peace, I can enter into the deeper things of God without being distracted by the flesh. And then I can obtain those things that manifest in my life. And when I say obtain, I don’t mean that you didn’t have them before. I really am describing when that which is in you becomes manifested in the outer shells of who you are.
SID: I know people that pray in tongues all day.
DAVID: It’s an important gift.
SID: And sometimes I scratch my head and I say, “How can you do that?” And they are probably scratching their head. And they’re saying, “If you experience the results and the ecstasy and the joy I experience when I get deep in the spirit, how can you not do that?”
DAVID: Well praying in tongues is one of the most powerful tools that God has given to us in our prayer lives. Romans chapter eight, verse 26 tells us something astounding that the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings according to what? The will of God. So he prays passionately for me, bending me, inclining my heart toward the word of God, inclining me toward the things of God. Now think about this, people travel all over the world. They go and get hands laid on them by many great men and women of God. They go to receive impartation. And that’s wonderful. But think about this, the Holy Spirit wants to lay hands on you himself. And the key to this is the gift of speaking in tongues.
DAVID: First Corinthians chapter 14, verses two and four tell me that when I pray in tongues, I’m talking to God and my spirit is being edified. First Corinthians 14:14 tells me that when I am praying in tongues, I am praying in the spirit. Therefore, when I pray in tongues, I’m connecting with the Holy Spirit’s prayers and I’m praying what the Holy Spirit is praying. Therefore, when I pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit is praying for me through me. It’s as if he’s saying, “I’ll pray for you myself, if only you give me a mouth. I’ll lay hands on you myself, if only you give me the hands.” Now, many people find this prayer eluding them because they can’t really find that breakthrough to where they can start praying in the prayer language.
DAVID: And really I know why people can’t pray in tongues and they won’t like the answer, but it’s the truth. The reason people can’t pray in tongues comes down to one word and one word only, it’s ego. And when I say ego, I’m not just saying pride and arrogance. Ego is doubt, fear, worry, overthinking all of those things. When people are trying to receive the gift, they say things like, “Well, this is just me. Or what if it’s not God? Or what if I’m forcing something God doesn’t want to will for my life?” And it’s those types of excuses that the flesh gives to us that prevent us from receiving this gift.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth