What is Speaking in Tongues?

That praying in tongues according to the scriptures is useful and good. I believe it's deferential prayer. I believe that when you recognize that you don't know what's best, your spirit can groan before God and call out for Him and that His secret inscrutable will would be done.

Even though your tongue can't fashion the words because you don't know what to pray. I think there's a place for that in the Christian life. But that's only one small part of the 50 plus miracles in the book of Acts.

These are the kind of extraordinary things that you should be aware of and praying for because God wants to use you in ways beyond what you've experienced so far. I believe that of myself and I believe that of you.

But if you close yourself off with this artificial construct called cessationism, you won't be praying and asking and fasting and seeking God, desiring to see the extraordinary, not for the sake of the extraordinary, but for the sake of His name.

Begin to pray and ask God. And while we're speaking of tongues, one last application. Guard your tongue. You do have control of your tongue. The spirit of the prophet is in control of what comes out of the mouth, according to 1 Corinthians 14.

Guard your tongue. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 4. It tells us to be careful that nothing coarse, even obscene joking, anything that's unfit comes out of our mouths. Guard your tongue. What comes out of your tongue is an indication of what's truly in your heart.

So speaking in tongues is not what happens when you smack your thumb with a hammer. Guard your tongue.