Spirit Talk

"He is endless, infinite, and I have forever to keep learning."

I CHECKED MY Spirit-code book before sitting down to pray, carefully pronouncing the words which He’d sent me. Confident I had the syllables firmly on my tongue, I began to speak but tripped over the consonants He’d strung together. If only He’d do this for me …

NOT how praying in the Spirit goes. There is no Spirit-code book. In fact, in Romans 8:26, it says He can even use groanings. What is spoken by the Spirit (notice the word “BY”) through (notice the word “THROUGH”) me, using my lips and tongue is pliable. Unlike earth’s many languages, what sounds may mean one thing today may mean something tomorrow. How do I know this? Well, first Lance Wallnau. He taught a fantastic sermon on prayer in the Spirit (praying in tongues) and made the point to demonstrate there are levels of prayer in the Spirit and what sounds like different dialects. One moment, he sounded peaceful. The next, he spoke what sounded German.

LISTEN TO “Lance Wallnau” teach on the Signet Ring anointing.

This bugs you. So okay, let me point out the Holy Spirit knows every language ever written or spoken, including the dead ones and hieroglyphics. He is the true Master of languages. Let me also point out there are depths of the Spirit. What do I mean by this? You can “come up higher” or “go deeper” in your maturity and your relationship with Him. As long as you are seeking Him, He will continue to take you further. This fascinates me. As an analogy, it is like vacations. Some people want to go to the same spot over and over and stay in the same house during the same season, eat at the same places, visit the same shops. Some people want to go somewhere new and different every single time. Others, like me, want to never go at all. When it means travel and a different bed that I don’t know, in a place I have no idea about, even with pretty scenery – nope, nope, nope.

But if you ask me how deep do I want to swim in the ocean of the Spirit, I’m going to keep diving. He is endless, infinite, and I have forever to keep learning. I don’t want to wait until heaven to start growing. I want to overcome here, to understand things here, to have new revelations here. I want to speak to Him and have Him speak back to me. He speaks to my heart, my inner man, where I know it is Him. But He speaks to my ears through apostles and prophets, pastors and teachers. He also speaks to me through me. There is a level in praying in tongues where it is Him talking and not me.

I liken praying in tongues to secret communication. It bypasses my mind and my thinking and limited knowledge and goes directly to the Father, completely in line with His will. Communication is a two-way street though. We speak to each other, expecting a response. Yet somehow, we speak to God and expect silence. He does sometimes not respond, but actually, not as often as 90% of the church thinks, and He never refuses to say why. Usually, we don’t hear Him, and sometimes, His response isn’t words but presence.

Jesus spoke to His disciples just hours before being arrested, telling them not to let all they didn’t understand of what had been happening to make them afraid. He gave them a reality of heaven and a promise that where He was going, they would one day see. Thomas asked a question, confused by this, and after answering it, Phillip, too, had something to say. It is Jesus initial reply that I want you to see because those words were the Father speaking through Jesus.

"Thomas said to him, But, Lord, we do not know where thou art going; how are we to know the way there? Jesus said to him, I am the way; I am truth and life; nobody can come to the Father, except through me. If you had learned to recognize me, you would have learned to recognize my Father too. From now onwards you are to recognize him; you have seen him. At this, Philip said to him, Lord, let us see the Father; that is all we ask. What, Philip, Jesus said to him, here am I, who have been all the while in your company; has thou not learned to recognize me yet?” (John 14:5-9, Knox)

Jesus words which followed, where Him speaking. But the question is Abba. “What … here am I, who have been all the while in your company; has thou not learned to recognize me yet?”

When Jesus spoke to the unclean spirits in the Gadarene demoniac, they used the man’s lips and tongue to talk. This is not the only time this is shown in the Scriptures but perhaps, the most known. Though that is appalling to us, and comes from the devil’s need to control in order to destroy people, think now of prophets. To be called to the office of the prophet requires submitting your will to the Holy Spirit who speaks through you. But where the demonic is unruly and unforgiving, the Spirit of God is gentle and kind. And far more powerful. At the same time, He is the source of self-control (Galatians 5:23). He parted the Red Sea. He also conceived Jesus in Mary’s womb.

He can be trusted, and if we desire to grow in prayer, if we want to go deeper and know Him better, we will speak to Him, and He will speak back to us. And with His perception in us, we will understand Him.

The devil has no secret language and no ability to interpret what is said. So it is to our advantage spiritually to desire to grow and not to simply stay stagnant. Does an infant continue to speak like an infant? No, the apostle Paul said, as a child grows, they stop thinking and talking like a child (1 Corinthians 13:11). What the devil has is fear. What he can make us afraid of, we will not grow into. Much has been kept from the church because men feared the infilling of the Spirit and praying in tongues, consigning it to yesterday or strictly the book of Acts. There is no chapter and verse for this, and if you’d ask the Spirit, He’d tell you how much He desires to fill you and to use you to pray. How much He can do through you and how truly freeing it is to walk away from fear. There is no fear in Him (2 Timothy 1:7).

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:1-4)

“And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.” (Acts 11:15-16)

“I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:” (1 Corinthians 14:18)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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