Prayer: our conversations with God

Specific Examples of Speaking to God:

• Adoration: Praising and acknowledging God’s attributes.
• Confession: Acknowledging and repenting of sins.
• Thanksgiving: Expressing gratitude for blessings.
• Supplication: Asking for needs and desires.
• Journaling: Writing down thoughts and prayers, which can help with focus and clarity.
• Meditation: Reflecting on God’s word and presence.
• Speaking God’s Word: Speaking out scripture or promises from the Bible into situations.

Most of our prayers are with our understanding. But when we pray in tongues, the Holy Ghost helps us to pray. This is why so many resist the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, with evidence of speaking in tongues. They were all filled with Him on the Day of Pentecost, the Day of Promise. Jesus told them to wait until they were endued with power.

And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out. -Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭NASB2020

This was not some cerebral or man’s thoughts. A mighty wind and a noise, a violent rushing wind filled the room and filled everyone within it. The evidence of their filling was that each one received their tongue of fire.

James writes that the tongue is the real issue: “the tongue is a fire.” It either brings glory to God or promotes unrighteousness in the world.

This is so evident in the promise of the Holy Ghost! He lit their tongues, each one of them with fire from the altar of heaven. Just as in Isaiah, lips were touched by a coal from heaven’s altar.

So, “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.” It is worth noting that he exhorts us to pray in the Spirit first. He helps us pray! Receive ye the Holy Ghost, TODAY!

-KC