Bible Questions Answered:
“...how does one then pray in the
spirit?”
Jaclyn/ Archamps, France (Rhone Alpes)
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Ephesians 6:18 KJV
Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Jude 20
But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
I Corinthians 14:15 KJV
What is it then? I will pray
with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also:
I will sing with the spirit (In
worship), and I will sing with the understanding
also.
Praying in the
Spirit, is to pray according to God's Word, and His Will!
Praying in the
Spirit, as did the early church, a Pentecostal Church, involved also
praying in the Spirit, in an heavenly language, such as did the
Apostle did.
I Corinthians
12:7,10 NLT
7 the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal.
10 "... another person is given
the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the
ability to interpret what is being said.
11 It is the one and only Spirit who
distributes all these gifts..."
The Apostle Paul,
prayed devotionally, in the Spirit. And in the congregation if there
was one to be able to interpret a heavenly message.
I Corinthians
13:1 KJV (An Apostle of love, Paul, who wrote no less than 14
books of our New Testament said...)
"...I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels..."
I Corinthians
14:18 KJV
I thank my God, I speak with
tongues more than ye all:
This was the early
Pentecostal Church!
Oh, as been said
before here, how some men would love to pen knife the words of I
Corinthians 14:18 right out of their Bible!
“Pastor why would
that be?”
It would be due to
the dispositions of men!
Scores of
denominations, and religious beliefs, all with their earned
theological doctorate degrees, and everyone of them teaching
something different. Just how, in the name of common sense can that
be?
It can be, due to
the “dispositions of men.”
This pastor grew up
in a church, where if you said Amen, during the pastor's sermon, it
would not be very long before one of the deacon board members had a
word with you! That sort of thing was “not,” to be tolerated in
the church! God help us!
(Dear friends, to
be announced before the end of the year, a new book which will cover
this subject and a whole lot more, be looking for it.)
“Dear preacher,
don't you realize that “tongues shall cease!”
Let's read that verse.
I Corinthians 13:8
KJV
Charity
never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall
fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Apparently, for
some, “knowledge,” has already passed away!
The day, Knowledge,
and all prophecy, has passed away, so will speaking in a heavenly
language, but of course, that day has not yet come!
I Corinthians 13:10
KJV
But when that which
is perfect is come (Jesus Christ), then that which is in part shall be done away.
I John 3:2 KJV
Beloved, now are we
the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him;
for we shall see Him as He is.
Until that day,
dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, keep praying in the Spirit.
Jude 20,21 NET
20 But you,
dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith,
by praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 maintain
yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
Amen.
