Praying in the Spirit

Imagine that you have reached into the kitchen cupboard and taken out a dinner size drinking glass. It is clear and clean. You want to fill it with water and begin to do so with an eyedropper! Yep, one drop at a time you place water into that glass. It takes a long time before you have a full glass to drink.

That is not the way you usually do it though. Instead, you take that glass out of the cupboard and bring it over to the kitchen sink. You turn on the faucet and place the glass under the rapid flow of water that is streaming out. The glass fills quickly and completely.

It works the same with God. Like that glass of water, we yearn to be filled with the wisdom of God. And what do we do? We use an eyedropper. We listen to others preach His word. We read the scriptures one word at a time. We read other's interpretation of His word. We are using an eyedropper.

Ephesians 6:18
Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. (NLT)

We need to turn on the faucet. We need an instantaneous infilling of God. We want to get from where we are in God to a whole new place in God, to another dimension. And to do that most resort to using an eyedropper. But, there is another way.

It is like looking for a vortex to jump through to get to the other side filled with His knowledge quickly. It is like a jump through time and space to another place light-years away.

Romans 8:26
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. (NLT)

But some know the secret. The secret way to the portal that allows that rush of wisdom and knowledge is praying in your prayer language—praying in tongues.

When we allow our spirit to reach out in this way it is like plugging a lamp into an electrical socket and turning on the switch... instantaneously the lamp is lit. And that is how it is with God and us.

When we plug into God by opening up that vortex through prayer in tongues, He fills us to overflowing with His wisdom, His knowledge, and His peace, His Love…

1 Corinthians 14:15
Well then, what shall I do? I will do both. I will pray in the spirit, and I will pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will sing in words I understand. (NLT)

We must open ourselves up to all God has for us. We need to pray in the spirit often. The more we do, the more He can fill us, the more He can give us what we need to become what He has for us to be.

Romans 15:13
I pray that God, who gives you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you believe in him. May you overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. (NLT)