HQ Holy Spirit Outpouring [Day 2] Morning
January 13, 2024 • Tom Scarrella
Twenty Reasons to Speak in Tongues
1. Scriptural Exhortation: The Scripture encourages believers to be filled with the spirit and pray in new tongues.
2. Greatest Gift: A spirit language is considered the greatest gift the Holy Spirit can give to a believer as it transcends the natural mind.
3. Building Faith and Love: Praying in tongues builds you up on your most holy faith and keeps you in the love of God.
4. Spiritual Edification: Tongues are for spiritual edification, allowing you to intercede in a way for yourself, praying out things before they happen.
5. Opening Spiritual Antennas: Praying in tongues opens your spiritual antennas, making you more spiritually aware of God's voice.
6. Praying in God's Will: Praying in tongues helps in praying the perfect will of God, as the Holy Spirit uses your tongue for this purpose.
7. Spiritual Refreshing and Rest: Praying in tongues brings spiritual refreshing and rest, helping to rejuvenate and calm the spirit.
8. Control over the Natural Tongue: It helps keep the natural tongue subject to the spirit, avoiding negative speech influenced by negative forces.
9. New Language for a New Race: Under the new Covenant, a new species or race of people with their own language is created, symbolizing a new beginning in Christ.
10. Quieting the Natural Mind: When praying in tongues, the natural mind gets quiet, allowing you to hear your spirit more clearly.
11. Triggers Other Spiritual Gifts: Praying in tongues can activate and open up your spirit for other spiritual gifts.
12. Praying Divine Mysteries and Secrets: When praying in tongues, you are communicating divine mysteries and secrets, as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 14:4.
13. Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit: Praying in tongues enhances your sensitivity to being led by the Holy Spirit.
14. Interpretation of Tongues: It allows you to begin to learn to interpret your own tongues, understanding the messages you are conveying in the spirit.
15. Spiritual Training Wheels: Speaking in tongues acts as spiritual training wheels that kickstart your spiritual life.
16. Easier Access to Words of Knowledge: The more you speak in tongues, the easier it becomes to receive words of knowledge and to hear God's voice.
17. Sign to Unbelievers: Speaking in tongues serves as a sign to unbelievers, as stated in Mark
16, that these signs will follow those who believe.
18. Prevents Grieving the Holy Spirit: Regularly speaking in tongues helps to ensure you do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
19. Praying When Unsure: When you are uncertain how to pray or what to pray for, speaking in tongues allows the Spirit to make intercessions with groanings.
20. Brain Health Benefits: Scientific studies have shown that 30 minutes of praying in tongues can activate parts of the brain and help in cleansing the brain of toxins.
Acts 2:3-4 (NKJV)
3 Then there appeared to them [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%202-3&version=nkjv#fen-nkjv-26953b]divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:14-22 (NKJV)
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+2-14&version=nkjv#fen-nkjv-26965e]the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’
22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—
Isaiah 28 10-12 (NKJV)
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
I Corinthians 14:21 (NKJV)
21 In the law it is written:
“With men of other tongues and other lips
I will speak to this people;
And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me,”
says the Lord.
Romans 8:26 (NKJV)
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered
