An excerpt from the book I have been reading, “Walk of the Spirit, Walk of Power” by Dave Roberson. The book is available HERE. I didn’t realize. Did everyone else know this? Am I the only one who had no idea what this gift was about?
The book is about the role of the gift of tongues: when I was reading it, it made me think of the scripture in John 3:6 --That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Think of it, God the Holy Spirit, praying in a language that I don't know, in concepts I can't even begin to understand, and using my own mouth to birth into being His own plan to fulfill His destiny for my life. No wonder he says, "I thank God I pray in tongues more than all of you". This is literally a no-brainer. What a relief. I'm going for it, not going to waste time on skepticism.
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With that prayer language, He gets involved directly with you in a one-on-one relationship that is independent of anyone else, even of your own mind. When the Holy Spirit prays for you, He takes the plan He hears the Father utter and pours it through your spirit. And the language He uses to express that plan as it flows through you is the supernatural language of tongues.
Every time you give the Holy Spirit opportunity, He will use that language to pray for your calling, to pray out the plan of God, to edify you, and to charge you with His Holy power. He will lend Himself to you as your faith allows Him to be activated within your spirit. He will pull you out of everything Jesus set you free from and into everything Jesus says that you are in Him.
If you want to, you can go into your room and pray in that supernatural language for two, four, or even twelve hours, and God the Holy Spirit will create every single word that comes out of your mouth. It is your choice to pray or not to pray. But every time you do choose to pray, you will come out of that time of prayer more edified in His plan and purpose for you than if you hadn’t done it.
God’s plan for you is in the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is in you. The Holy Spirit is armed with the knowledge of everything He heard about God’s redemption plan for you before the foundations of the earth. And every time He searches your heart, He does it with the intention to pray that plan -- the mind of God concerning you -- into existence in your life.
The more of God’s plan we find, the more the Holy Spirit (who is the Executor of spiritual law) will be able to bring natural law under subjection in our lives.
Natural law governs the circumstances that surround us, causing things to go for or against us -- making us either rich or poor, sick or healthy, happy or sad. But God designed natural law to be made subordinate to spiritual law. And since the divine plan for our lives comes from the very heart of God, it is enforced as spiritual law… The Holy Spirit then employs those laws to see that circumstances -- natural laws -- line up with the purpose and plan of God for our lives.
We cannot pray consistently for very long (in tongues) before the things that don’t belong in God’s plan for us begin to fall away.
The Holy Spirit continually searches your heart with the intention of removing everything that is contrary to the will of God, your Father the Planner. Then the Holy Spirit replaces it with the plan He heard for your personal life before the foundation of time when God formulated His plan for you. He prays the perfect plan of God into your spirit so you not only know what you are called to do but how to fulfill that call in the perfect timing, will, and power of God.
God trades your natural plans and ideas for His through the supernatural medium of exchange, tongues for personal edification. You can know beyond a shadow of doubt that as you yield to that divine exchange, all things will indeed work together for good for you, because you love God and are called according to His purpose.
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In the book Roberson tells about how he left his job because he knew God had called him to ministry. He didn’t know what to do next, so he decided that he would pray during the hours he would have worked and trust God to pay him, to take care of His family, meet his needs.
Yesterday I found out that I am not going to be able to go to work until I can walk, till I can perform my job normally. Even though I am healing well and quickly, that means at least four or five more weeks. Yesterday I was wondering what to do with my time, and today I found an answer to that question. I am highly motivated to get me some of the above -- so I am going to spend the whole time, more or less, praying in tongues.
I am getting so much from this book. It clears up so many things that I just didn't understand about how God "strengthens us with might through His Spirit in the inner man". I have been praying about this a lot. It is the foundation of my prayer for everyone on my prayer list. Now I have information.
He is faithful, so faithful.
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