 And I remember saying, hello, good morning. Good morning, Divya. Good morning. Good morning, brother Radesh. Yeah, welcome. So we'll pray and we will get started. And I remember mentioning yesterday, if you know, you have any questions or comments, we will begin with that from based on what we discussed yesterday, right, the pattern of prayer. So you could share that and then we will get into today's subject about praying in the spirit. Okay, so we'll start with the word of prayer. And I would like to ask somebody to please lead us. Okay. Yeah. So who would like to lead in prayer? Okay. Yes, Josh, please go ahead. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much, Joash. That's nice. So today we are at chapter 8. In the first few chapters, we talked about the basics of prayer. And as we are moving forward, what we are learning is how we can apply this to our own prayer life and develop our prayer life. So all these subjects like pattern of prayer. Now we are talking about praying in the spirit. And later on, we will see a few more topics they all have to do with developing our own personal prayer life. So you can apply this here and you can practice these things. And I'm sure that you will see growth in your prayer life. So today, the subject for our discussion is prayer in the spirit. Now to understand what prayer in the spirit means, no, we would simply say that it is praying in tongues. Now you can ask the question, how is praying in the spirit praying in tongues? Sometimes people interpret it as praying with a strong desire or praying earnestly, right? You're praying from your spirit in a deep way. So wouldn't that mean praying in the spirit? But you know, if we look at passages like 1 Corinthians 14, verses 14 and 15, there Paul writes, I pray in a tongue, when I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays. But my understanding is unfruitful. And then verse 15, he says, what is the conclusion then? I will pray in the spirit, which is he earlier already mentioned, when I pray in a tongue, who's praying? The spirit is praying. So now in verse 15, he's saying, I will pray with the spirit, which means he's praying in tongues and he makes a distinction and he says, and I will also pray with my understanding. So two different things, pray in the spirit and pray with my understanding. So if there are two different things, then praying in the spirit does not mean just making strong prayers, right? In our own languages. They are separate things. He goes on further and he says, I will sing with my spirit and I will also sing with my understanding. So separate things. I will sing with my spirit, meaning I will sing in tongues and I will also sing with my understanding. So from this passage itself, it's clear that, you know, he's referring to praying in tongues as something separate from the usual prayers. Now, what does praying in the spirit actually mean? Excuse me. It means praying with the spirit or praying in partnership with the Holy Spirit. Okay. What is partnership? Being guided by or us yielding to the Holy Spirit. Now, is this the only thing we do with the leading of the Holy Spirit? No, we are invited to walk in the spirit. We are invited to be led by the spirit, right? So we are entire lifetime we're supposed to be guided by the Holy Spirit, but especially when it comes to prayer, we are encouraged to pray by the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit or pray in the spirit. And that simply means, so whenever you say pray in the spirit, now we understood what Paul mentioned. Okay. And Paul meant very clearly that when he prays in the spirit, he's referring to praying in tongues. Okay. So praying in the spirit means praying in tongues. Yeah. So what is the advantage of praying in the spirit or praying in tongues? We will look at, you know, several benefits in our notes here. But I also suggest that you go and look up an APC publication and you can find this in our, I'll just put the link here. You see w.org forward slash books. Okay. So if you go to this URL, there are lots of publications available for us over there, but you can pick the publication which is called wonderful benefits of praying in tongues. Yes. So this is the publication which you can download and you can read it because the benefits are enlisted in more detail. Here we are briefly going over the benefits. So those of us who are interested, you can actually do a study on tongues. What does it mean? What are the types of tongues? So on and so forth. And it will be helpful for you. Now, coming to the, the in tongues and what it means, how it is useful for us, we will look at different aspects. So the first advantage of praying without boundaries. Now, it'll be good if somebody can read first Corinthians chapter 14 and verse two, first Corinthians 14 and verse two, please anybody can turn to that and read it. For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God for no one understands. But in his spirit, he speaks mysteries. Okay. Okay. Thank you, John. Thank you for reading that. So we are told here two things we can pick up. One is when we speak in tongues, we can't understand it. Okay. And that is why Paul said, I will pray in the spirit. I will also pray with my understanding. So praying with understanding is unnatural languages. When we pray in tongues, we don't understand it. But here in this verse, we are also told that we pray mysteries or unknown things unknown to who is it unknown to God? No, not at all because God knows all things. Now, when we describe who God is, we generally use omniscient, omnipotent, right? Terms like that, that describe that God is somebody who is present everywhere. He knows everything, right? Omniscient refers to his knowledge. He knows everything. So mysteries for us, but God already knows those things. So when I'm praying in tongues, I am praying things beyond my mind. I'm praying things beyond my understanding. Okay. So what do these mysteries include? These mysteries can include anything. They can include anything that the Holy Spirit would want us to pray through. Now, if we look at other passages, we are told that God can also give us the revelation of what we are praying for. Okay. So maybe after some time, after praying through for some time in tongues, you stop and you say, Holy Spirit, you know, I want a revelation of what I prayed for. God can put it back in our spirit and say, oh, okay, you know, this is what you were actually praying for. So we are praying for things that we don't understand. We could be praying for things beyond us. And that is why one benefit of praying in tongues is that we are praying without boundaries. Okay. We are praying without boundaries. So when I'm praying in tongues, I don't know, but I could be praying for my future. Now, maybe I'm in school, but I'm praying in tongues. For all you know, God might be, the Holy Spirit might be leading me to pray for 20 years down the line when I'm going to establish a company. Okay. So beyond boundaries, boundary happens because of our mind. But when we pray in tongues, there's no boundary, you know, a school student praying in tongues, who knows the individual might be praying for the marriage, which will happen whatever two decades from now. So there's no limit in what we can pray for when we pray in tongues. Now, there are so many testimonies. I'm sure even you would have heard, you know, testimonies from others or you have your own testimonies where there was a time when you were praying in tongues and you yourself did not know who you're praying for. But you got an answer, right? You got an answer that those prayers were for a certain family member. They were going through a difficult time at that point and somehow the Holy Spirit was causing you to pray. Now, without knowing how can you pray for a certain person? It's not possible in the natural, but when we pray in tongues, it is possible. The Holy Spirit can cause us to pray beyond boundaries that we have set. I've also heard of testimonies where, you know, apparently, like a minister of God, he shares, he's, you know, gone to be with the Lord, but he was a wonderful prophetic voice and he shared how one day when he had gone to minister in a certain town, strangely, you know, one of the days of the meeting in the night, he got a severe stomach pain and to the level that he couldn't sleep and he was so distressed because the next day, again, he had to go and minister in the meeting and he was like, what is happening? You know, I don't know, Lord, you know, how is this happening? And I mean, he described it in a very detailed and a vivid way. Okay. And I heard this testimony and he says that, but in some time, as he was just praying and battling it out and declaring healing on himself, he felt like a warm pour, you know, like warm oil is being poured on the part that is paining and then the pain just left him. And then he was wondering, what is this? How is it possible? You know, how did I, how did I recover in this way? Holy Spirit, please show me. And then he was praying and asking the Holy Spirit to give him revelation about how he quickly recovered. And then he shares about how God gave him a vision. And in that vision, he was taken to a faraway, he was taken to a faraway land, something like South America or something in a village and a woman who is completely wrinkled like an old woman. She was praying in tongues. Okay. And little did she know that she was actually praying for this minister of God for that stomach pain to leave. Okay. It was as if the Holy Spirit told him, you know, who prayed for you? This woman in a remote village, she's praying in tongues. She doesn't know what she's praying for, but she was the one who was praying for you. And that oil that, you know, was poured out on you was that, that healing which was released upon you because of the prayer of this lady. Right. So it's amazing, isn't it? So when I heard that testimony, I was like, wow, that's how God works. We could be praying for anyone, but, you know, we are praying as the Holy Spirit leads us beyond for ourselves also. We are in different, you know, time in our lives, but we could be praying about something way ahead in our future, our ministry or, you know, the things that projects that we are going to undertake or one of our family members, you know, sometimes you just feel strongly, I must pray, I must pray, and you're praying. And the next thing you come to know somebody escaped an accident. So, so many things happen that you don't even know what you are praying for. And that is the benefit of praying in tongues that we are praying the mysteries of God and our prayer life becomes limitless when we pray in the spirit. Okay. And that is an advantage that is a benefit. Now, the second reason why we should pray in the spirit is that we pray the perfect will of God. So another passage which we can read is Romans chapter eight versus 26 and 27. Could somebody please read that? Romans eight, 26, 27. Yeah. Likewise, the spirit also helps in our weaknesses for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind. And that's self-explanatory. I don't have to explain it further. The scripture clearly says that the Holy Spirit knows the mind of God and he makes intercession according to the will of God. So every prayer I pray in the spirit, okay, it is a perfect prayer. And that's an advantage because sometimes when we pray with our understanding, we don't know. Okay, God, do you want me to take this job or do you want me to take the other job? We don't know. But when I pray in the spirit, what is the Holy Spirit doing? The Holy Spirit knows. Company two is the company where God wants to position you right now. So when I'm praying in the spirit, I'm praying the perfect will of God. Okay, God opened the door in company two, give the favor, grant the wisdom, give the knowledge in the Holy Spirit and I don't even know. But what am I praying? I'm praying the perfect will of God. That's what God wants for me. And the Holy Spirit knowing the will of God helps me to pray in the perfect will of God. Some people say, okay, so praying in the spirit is praying the perfect will of God. You know, I'm just starting to pray in tongues. I don't know. Like I've just been baptized in the Holy Spirit and I can only say, you know, utter a few syllables here and there. Every syllable is the perfect will of God. Okay, and that's the beauty of it. So we must be encouraged to pray in the spirit. Okay, because when we pray in the spirit, we are praying in the perfect will of God, things that we don't know, but God knows. Okay, and the Holy Spirit, it says he helps us in our weaknesses. We don't know what we should pray for, but the Spirit himself makes intercession through us with groanings that cannot be uttered. And of course, later on the praying according to the will of God. So sometimes when you don't know what to pray, you know, one good thing that you can do. Yes, you can pray a prayer of consecration and say, God, not my will, yours be done. But we can also take time to just pray in the spirit. Okay, you don't know what you're praying for. But one thing, whatever I prayed the last five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, one hour, it is perfect. It is according to the will. That is a benefit that we have when we pray in the spirit. We will pray according to the will of God. Now, what are some other? Are you all with me? Are you understanding what I'm sharing? Yes, I'm sharing. Okay, okay, great. Okay, great. Then I will... Okay, what are some of the other benefits? We just read that the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. Okay, so when we pray in the spirit, one of the other things that we can expect is the help of the Holy Spirit. Now, when do we need help? We need help. And it says in our weaknesses. So even though we are believers, right, we know that we are battling Satan. We are battling the world, right? The world will present with temptations. The world will present with so much of evil against us. And we also know that there is something called as the flesh, which is our own personal weaknesses in our soul and in our body. So as a believer, if I am battling any one of these, the Holy Spirit can help me and particularly in my flesh, particularly in my being. So as I pray in the spirit, as I pray in the spirit, I will notice that I am moving into greater victory. I am experiencing greater freedom by the work of the Spirit. Now, when we read Romans chapter 6, Paul there, he writes that I want to do this, but I am not able to do that. Who will save me? He is battling and he is wondering how to deal with the flesh, how to deal with the weaknesses of the flesh, even though as a believer, he wants to do the right thing. There are all these weaknesses. So fleshly weaknesses, for example, if we have, you know, I am just giving a simple example, maybe I am very concerned about laziness and I am really dealing with laziness, procrastination in my life and I am thinking, God, how can I overcome this? We can take the help of the Spirit. The Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. So I can pray in the Spirit. So when I am praying in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit will help me overcome the fleshly weaknesses. So Paul writes about weaknesses and then he moves on to the Holy Spirit and the work of the Spirit in Romans chapter 8. So the answer for those weaknesses that we may have in our flesh is the work of the Holy Spirit. So as I am praying in the Holy Spirit, those weaknesses are being dealt with in those fleshly weaknesses. Now, even when John came preaching about baptism, preaching about, you know, that the Lord Jesus would come and all of that, he said, look, there is somebody coming who is greater than me. And John preached repentance, baptism that had to do with repentance. But he said, this Jesus who will come, he will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. So what is this? Holy Spirit, he will baptize you with Holy Spirit, we understand. But why is there an association of fire over there? Because we know that the property of fire is to burn up the chaff. You know, whenever you light a fire, the things that are unwanted, that are light, they get burnt up immediately. In the same way, when the work of the Holy Spirit takes place within me, there can be weaknesses of the flesh, but it's also working like fire within me. So I am baptized with the Holy Spirit and that is also a cleansing fire. I'm praying in the Spirit, I'm praying in the Spirit, what's happening? My weaknesses are slowly, slowly beginning to disappear. So I can strengthen myself and overcome my weaknesses as I pray in the Spirit. So that is another added advantage so far. We said that we can pray without boundaries, we can pray in the will of God, we can also overcome the weaknesses of the flesh. Now praying in the Spirit, it also strengthens our spirit man. There are two scriptures which we can look at. So one person can please read 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 4 and another person can read Jude, there's only one chapter verse 20. So 1 Corinthians 14-4 and Jude 120. One who speaks in a tongue defies himself, but one who prophesies defies the church. Thank you, thank you John. Yes, somebody, Jude 120. But you dear friends, by building yourself up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Jeffina. So you see, both these scriptures are talking about an individual being strengthened. So you see words like edify, in what John read, 1 Corinthians 14-4 he says, he who prays in an unknown tongue edifies himself. Edify means build up. And in what Jeffina read, she read that you build yourself up praying in the Holy Spirit. So edify is to build up and it is to strengthen. And what is the connection with building up over here? And these two verses praying in the Holy Spirit or praying in tongues. So when I am praying in tongues, what I'm actually doing is I am strengthening myself. I am spending time every day just setting time aside and I am only praying in the Spirit. I am praying in tongues, I am praying in tongues. How does it help me? Both of these scriptures are clearly pointing out and they are saying that in my inner man, God is doing a work and that work is strengthening me. And I like the testimony which one very wonderful minister of God shared. Now, I don't know if some of you, I mean, I obviously like I'm little careful about the teachings of people, but there are some primary teachings that we can always go back to and enjoy that. And if there are errors and mistakes, those kind of things we can leave out. So that's why I'm not mentioning names of pastors and ministers. But yeah, there is one particular minister of God from the Word of Faith movement, which used to be. He taught so much about the work of the Spirit. And he's probably one of those first people who in a very detailed manner, he shared about healing and the power of God and things like that. And he ministered so often in large gatherings. But one of the things he says is that he used to spend so much time praying in the Spirit, so much time praying in the Spirit. And even after he completed the meetings, he would go back home or go back to the place where they would put him up. And when he started growing older, he was quite old at some point in the ministry. Those times he could not even kneel down and pray, but he would just lie down on the bed and pray in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit. So he talks about how that strength in the inner man, he could experience that strength. He could experience it in his regular normal life, but also in the ministry. And he would go back the next day and minister and he would really see the power of God. So I'm just trying to give you small examples here and there. But there is really that incredible power in praying in the Spirit, praying in tongues that will build you up as a child of God and especially in our inner man because Ephesians 3.16, it says that God would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man. So through his Spirit in the inner man, and we can practice praying in tongues. And even Paul, he writes, he says, I pray in tongues much more than all of you. So you can imagine, he came up with so much of revelation of God's word. So obviously Paul had engaged in a lot of praying in the Spirit and that's something we can do to strengthen our own inner man. And that is an advantage. Okay. And praying in the Spirit will also keep us walking in the love of God. In the scripture that Jefina just read, she also said that, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Spirit. And then the continuation of that says, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. So there's a connection. So you build yourself up in the Holy Spirit by praying in the Spirit, but also keep yourself in the love of God. And how is that possible? You see, when we pray in the Spirit, our inner man is strengthened. One thing, second is that our fleshly weaknesses are consumed, right? They are dealt with by the work of the Spirit. And so what can emerge out of us, the characteristics of Jesus, the character of Jesus, okay? So we become more like Jesus. So Jesus is our perfect example of somebody who walked in God's love and the God kind of love. So how do we walk in that love when we yield ourselves to the work of the Spirit, right? So the characteristic of God will begin to show through our lives and we can walk in the love of God. And that is again an advantage of praying in the Spirit. Now, another advantage, praying in the Spirit is rest and refreshing. Remember this minister of God that I was talking about, he also shares about how apart from physical rest, our spirit sometimes, we are in a turmoil within and our spirit man needs that refreshing, our spirit man needs that rest. So between meetings and you know, between ministering, so often ministering here, there, hundreds and thousands of people, one of the things that he would do was to just pray in the Spirit, right? So as sleep gives rest to the body, praying in the Spirit gives rest to the Spirit, okay? And needless to say that it also gives rest to your soul, right? Your soul part of you, your emotions, your will, your mind, you can receive the rest of God when you pray in the Spirit. So there is a scripture in Isaiah 28 verses 11 and 12. Can somebody read that please? Isaiah 28 verses 11 and 12. For with spammering lips and another tongue, he will speak to this people to whom he said, this is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear. Yeah, sure. Thank you Rosalind. Rosalind, can you also read 1st Corinthians 14 21. In the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips, I will speak to this people and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord. Okay, okay, okay. Is that 1st Corinthians? Yes ma'am. 14. Okay, 14, 21. 21. Okay, okay. Okay men of other lips, other tongues, okay? Sure, sure. Thank you. So you notice here in Isaiah 28 it's talking about a rest, okay? A rest from what? Lips and another tongue, okay, through the lips, spammering lips and another tongue and similarly 1st Corinthians 14 21 also points at another tongue, another language. So through this God promised and he said that there will be rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, okay? And this is the refreshing. So if we want to experience the refreshing of God, we can make use of this privilege that God has given us which is to pray in the spirit, okay? So some people also say it's like a spiritual spa, okay, to put it in a little funny way if you want to because when we pray in the spirit, like we don't know the dynamics of what exactly is going on but the weariness that we may have in our spirit, we can get rid of it, okay? And the refreshing of God with which he may cause the weary to rest that is coming from praying in the spirit, okay? So we can make time to pray in tongues, pray in the spirit and we will experience that refreshing from God. So that's again an advantage that we have. Now what are the other advantages? We can praise and magnify God. Now if you look at the book of Acts where people were praying in tongues, we're told that, you know, they were praying in tongues and they were magnifying God. They were praying in tongues and speaking of the wonderful works of God. So speaking in tongues is also to adore, to worship and to praise God. So we can praise the Lord in our own languages. Remember when we talked about the pattern for prayer, we said, okay, we adore him, we worship him, we praise him, we honor him. Now if I take some time to do that in the spirit there again, what am I doing? I'm giving praises, I'm giving thanks to the Lord. I'm worshiping him, I'm honoring him. So adoring God, blessing him can also be done in the spirit. So spending time worshiping the Lord in tongues is also a way of expressing. You know, sometimes I don't know if you've heard this but I have heard like one of my, the people that I know, he shared that he was unable to pray in tongues, okay, for whatever reason. A lot of people prayed for him for the baptism of the Holy Spirit but he never really was able to speak in tongues. But in his family there was a crisis, okay, and when that crisis happened, whenever he would sit for prayer, he never would get the words to pray. So he would pray, pray, pray in his own language and his heart was so burdened that he didn't realize at some point he was actually praying in tongues because you know, sometimes the spirit does not have the words to express. What is in our spirit, man? And God has given us this language, right, to pray, like we don't know, we don't know what words we are using but we're able to express our hearts in an unknown language. Maybe our English is limited, our, you know, some of us African brothers over here, what Swahili or, you know, Luganda, your languages, we have our languages, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, every earthly language can be limited to express what is in our spirit. But I remember this, this one testimony when he shared that in a time of crisis, he was only able to express his heart through tongues and from that day he just started speaking in tongues. Similarly, when it comes to our deep praises to God, maybe sometimes we don't have the words, you know, we're worshiping the Lord, playing the guitar, we're singing unto the Lord. We want to say thanks, but there's no human language to hold that expression. But maybe you just begin to sing in tongues, right? But what's happening? You're magnifying God, you're praising God, you're speaking of the wonderful works of God. So praying in tongues can also help us release as much as our burdens. It can also help us release our thanksgiving and our worship to God. So we can take time very often to sing in the spirit. You know, Paul wrote about that, right? I pray in the spirit, but I also sing in the spirit. So you might want to rejoice and release those words in heavenly languages by the spirit and you are worshiping the Lord. Okay, then praying in the spirit also helps us receive the mysteries of God for our own lives. And I think I shared this earlier with us. You know, sometimes when we pray in the spirit, we are praying beyond boundaries, we are praying to strengthen ourselves, our weaknesses are being overcome. We, you know, God's revelation is being granted to us. But how do we know? How do we know what God is saying? We are praying in the perfect will of God. Now, there is a passage in 1 Corinthians 2, which is often quoted by believers, no I has seen, no you has heard, no mind has conceived, the things that God has prepared for those who love Him. But in that passage, if you go further down with it, but God has revealed to us by the spirit. So basically it means that the hidden things of God are actually revealed to the believer how by the Holy Spirit. So even if I'm praying in tongues, which I don't understand, I'm speaking mysteries, I'm praying in the perfect will of God. I can ask the Holy Spirit to impart the revelation of what I have prayed till now. Okay. And a lot of people, like if you ask, and even I like, I've kind of started practicing that it's true. Like after you've prayed for some time and you just asked the Holy Spirit, Lord, I didn't understand anything what I prayed. But can you give me revelation? It's an impression in your spirit. You spend time worshiping me just now, or you spend time this, saying this and that sometime. And for some of us who are teaching, preaching God's word, sometimes it happens like this week only, we have a call tomorrow and on that call, there is something to share. So I was wondering, Lord, should I share or should I get somebody else to share? But if you put something in my spirit, I will share. And then I just, what I did is I prayed in tongues for some time. And then I said, okay, Lord, you let me know. Like you put it in my spirit. You put a word in my spirit. You will not believe it. I had finished praying and I think I just went to keep something in my house from one room to the other. And just when I'm going, no, I got the scripture. Okay, this, this, this, this, this, this. Okay. So I, I have my message for tomorrow. I just got that revelation because the Holy Spirit can give you the revelation of what you have prayed now. It's a mystery. It's in the will of God, but it can also be revealed. It can also be given to us. So whatever we are praying for, we can ask for interpretation and Holy Spirit can give it to us. You can also impart things into our spirit. For example, you know, I just said, you know, what I need to talk. God gave me that scripture. He gave me those points in the same way. Maybe you're a worship leader and you're thinking, okay, worship set. I have to lead worship. Lord, what should I, what songs should I lead with? Oh, you know, you help me Holy Spirit, you lead me and Holy Spirit can put it. You can spend some time just praying the spirit, just praying the spirit, spend time worshiping the Lord. And the next thing you know, God puts those songs clearly within your spirit, right? And you know, okay, wow, I need to go with this one first, then I do this one, that one. So we can receive revelation. Basically, that's the point I'm making. We can receive revelation for what we have prayed in the spirit. Okay, because it's the same Holy Spirit who can also reveal those mysteries to us. And that is for our benefit. And praying in the spirit usually helps stir up the gifts of God in us. You know, Paul wrote to Timothy and said, stir up the gift of God in you. Okay, so generally, right? Generally, when we are ministering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, one of the good things to do is to just take some time praying in tongues. Why? Because it's sort of like, you know, it just stirs up everything in you. And before you know it, other gifts start flowing. You're prophesying, you're releasing a word of knowledge, you're moving by ministering all those things. But one of the good ways to get into that is to pray in the spirit. So, you know, particularly for ministry, particularly for ministry, if you're going to share the word, you're going to lead in worship, you're going to, you know, whatever it is, you're going to do, you're going to pray for someone maybe. Just quietly take a little bit of time, pray in the spirit. Because Paul wrote to Timothy, stir up the gifts of God within you. So what are you doing? Basically, you know, sometimes when we have a cup of coffee, what do we do? You put some sugar and do you just leave it there? The coffee will never turn sweet unless you stir it up. So you have to stir it up, then it is ready and you can have the coffee. The same way, stirring up the gifts within us, sometimes it takes a little bit of stirring up and we can do that by praying in the spirit. And particularly when it comes to ministry. So these are all the benefits. I have gone little fast. I have touched only some key points. I've shared a few testimonies here and there. But as I told you, if you could spend some time reading that APC publication called Wonderful Benefits of Speaking in Tongues, you are bound to gain much more. So at this point, I'm going to pause. And if you have any questions, any thoughts, let's take that up for discussion. So silence means there's lots of questions. At least that's what I feel. Thank you, brother. Yeah. Yes, Divya, please, please go ahead. Thank you. Thank you first Nancy. Actually, this has had been my question. Like, I feel it has been covered really well for me today. Yeah, I had this question about how do I understand what I'm praying in the spirit. So can you also give a reference, you know, to which I can go back to with that? Yeah, sure, Divya, sure. So you want a reference for like that truth, what you've prayed? Yeah, the revelation of, you know, what I'm praying. Okay, okay. So it's the same passage, Divya, which is in your notes. 1 Corinthians 2 versus 7 through 16. Okay, okay. There we learn it says, but God, so no, I have seen and all that, right? So there are mysteries in God. But the continuation from there, it says, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit. For the spirit, such as all things, yes, the deep things of God, for what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man which is in him. Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. Now, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. So basically, I mean, he's going on and he's sharing that ultimately he ends by saying, but we have the mind of Christ. Or in other words, what God is thinking, it can be revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah, so I mean, there are more aspects to this. We can also ask God for the gift of interpretation to work in us. So that also is available for us. So maybe I'll spend some time praying. And then the next gift is operational in me and I exactly understand what I prayed just now. Okay, okay. Yeah, sure. No problem. Yes, yes. Yeah. So I would just encourage us to reap the benefits of whatever we have been discussing. Okay, it's only by practice, like when you have prayed in the Spirit, you understand the benefits of it. So in my case, like I was baptized in the Holy Spirit when I was a child, okay, went for one huge crusade and the preacher there, he was praying for people to be baptized. So I saw like hundreds and thousands of people speaking in tongues all at the same time. And I was just a child and I was open to you know, all this. And he said, okay, you pray, you ask Jesus to baptize you in the Holy Spirit, open your mouth and start to speak. And it was as simple as that. I just opened my mouth and I was saying like new languages. But I didn't understand what it meant for many years. I think till I joined college when I was part of a Bible study, where they taught us what is the, what is the reason, you know, God has given us tongues, what is the meaning of praying in tongues. So there they encouraged us and said like, you must spend time praying in tongues, you know, that that will really benefit, that will strengthen your inner man and things like that. So from that time only I understood, oh, it's not something that you can put in the cupboard, close the cupboard. Oh, I have the gift of tongues, but you have to use it. Okay. And from then on, it's a journey we learn. Oh, wow. So as I'm praying in the Spirit, God is helping me to pray even for the things that I don't understand. So sometimes, you know, I just take time, sometimes just like an hour or more and not even the human language pattern of prayer, but just tongues, just tongues worship, pray, pray, pray in the tongues. And, you know, sometimes you can, what we were talking about Isaiah, right? Isaiah 28, the refreshing. You may have come in so weary before the Lord, but you experience that refreshing, you experience that strengthening, right? And God also gives you, he imparts revelation to you. Maybe as you're engaging in ministry, I told you, what should I speak Lord, what should I say Lord, what example should I give Lord? It comes to you. It kind of just comes into your spirit by revelation. And then you can go ahead and minister that. So these are all things I think yeah, we hear what advantages are there, but as you experience it, right? You get really excited about praying in the Spirit. So I just want to encourage all of you, you know, make it a part of your life and everyday part of your life and enjoy the many benefits of praying in the Spirit. Okay, all right. So this class, if there are no more questions, I think we're good to wrap up for now. Yeah, sure. So let's, let's pray and close. I would like to invite, okay, please God, I'd like to invite one of us to lead in prayer. How about somebody who has not led in prayer so far? Okay, I think Lubega, Lubega, are you, are you comfortable to, to pray? Let's pray. Yes, let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you for this wonderful day. And we also thank you for the wonderful lessons that we've had right from the past that that taught us fast and the madam that has also trained us now. We thank you and God, we pray for them to be blessed, them and their families, can let them be a blessing. But again, I come back to pray for us, the students that have attended this trainings, Lord, let it do an addition to our career as we are trying to advance our knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the Almighty. Lord, if there is any of us who has got issues, please, Lord, with your Holy Spirit, with the faith that we're learning, with also the forms of prayer that we've learned, please let no one go wanting. There's a Bible phrase that says that I've lived in this world for long, but I've never seen a saint lacking. So Lord, let any of us lack nothing. And in case there is any other thing, please, Lord, send the Holy Spirit. Remember when Jesus Christ was going, he said, you would be left as orphans. I will send a confeder. So Lord, we call upon the confeder to help us as we're going to take ourselves through this day. We do pray and believe that everything is going to come to pass in the name of the Almighty. And everybody says, Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much, Lubeka. That was a wonderful prayer. Yes. Okay. Okay. So yes, there is one comment here by Brother Abdesh. He says, one of my friends, when Holy Spirit comes on him, only at that time he's speaking in tongues. I was also like that, but then slowly, in many times I learned whenever I faced Spirit of God. So now when I'm free and doing anything like reading or riding a bike, I speak in tongues. Am I doing good? Am I okay? Yes, Brother Abdesh. So going back to that first passage, where we said Paul says, I will pray in the Spirit. I will pray with my understanding. Over there, you have to note it says, he says, I will. Okay. So I will means even though the Spirit is helping us, who has to pray? I have to pray. So the will of man is involved. So it's not like, you know, Holy Spirit will come, he will shake us up on me, then we can pray in this Holy Spirit. No. Anytime, if I want to, I will, it is in my control. I can pray. So what you're saying, right? When you're riding a bike, other times you, you choose to pray in tongues. That's, that's correct because it is in your control, in that sense, the operation of the gift. Okay. So you are correct. You're doing it right. Okay. I hope I answered it. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. So thank you. Thank you for that question. And thank you, everyone. God bless you. Have a great weekend and we'll see you again next week. God bless. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye for now.