 Okay, welcome back everyone. We will get into our next topic here which is very interesting and very, very important. We will talk about praying in the spirit. Okay, but before we get into this, we realized that the volume, there was some issue with the audio for the online students. We couldn't hear you here in the classroom. So if there are any questions we missed out, then please do tell us. If not, I'll just proceed. Fine then, we'll go ahead. So prayer in the spirit. In the class today, we will look at some of the main benefits of praying in the Holy Spirit or in other words, praying in tongues. But there is a book, a publication known as the wonderful benefits of speaking in tongues, APC publication. So you can just go online and get a PDF copy of that from our, you know, books section or we have a library here. Those who want to pick up a hard copy can also do that. And you can actually study through regarding speaking in tongues and how it is very useful for us. Now, when we term in the spirit, right, when we use the term in the spirit, it means in union with the Holy Spirit. So in union with the Holy Spirit is like saying in partnership or in, you know, sort of being yielded, submitted, surrendered to the Holy Spirit. So together with the Holy Spirit. So when we are using that term in the spirit, we must recognize that the spirit that we are referring to is the Holy Spirit, right, the Holy Spirit whom God has sent to dwell in every believer. So does every believer have the Holy Spirit? Yes, that's the answer. So when we are born again, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell on the inside of us. However, we find that there is a separate experience known as baptism in the Holy Spirit. So when we as believers are baptized in the Holy Spirit, the Bible teaches us that there are gifts of the Holy Spirit that get activated in us and we start to manifest the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now tongues is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So when this gift gets activated, which is after the baptism in the Holy Spirit, then we have a prayer language. What is tongues? Tongues is essentially a prayer language, a prayer language which the believer can use because there are many benefits of praying in tongues. Now, whenever we use the term praying in the spirit, what did I say earlier when we use that terminology in the spirit, we generally refer to partnership with the Holy Spirit. And so when Paul says that praying in the spirit, he means praying in communion or partnership with the Holy Spirit. Now, there are questions. People say, how can you say that it is praying in tongues? Praying in the spirit can mean praying powerfully or praying passionately or praying earnestly, isn't it? So praying in the spirit can mean all these things. But when we look at one particular passage, it's there in our notes. The 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verses 14 and 15 where Paul he says, for if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. So he's commenting on praying in tongues. What is praying in tongues? When Paul is praying in tongues, his mind cannot understand. That's what he's saying. When I pray in a tongue, my mind is unfruitful, meaning mind cannot understand. Now verse 15, he says, what is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray with the understanding. So two separate ways of praying that he's mentioning here. One is I will pray with the spirit. So he already said in verse 14 that when I pray with the spirit, my understanding is unfruitful when I pray in tongues. And then he adds to that another kind of praying. I will pray with my understanding, meaning there is a prayer which we can pray, which we can understand. So which is in our own language, which is in our own, you know, with our own words, which our mind can grasp. So quite clearly Paul is talking about two different kinds of prayers. So praying in tongues is not simply praying strongly or praying powerfully or passionately. That's not exactly what it means because Paul himself is saying that I will pray in the spirit, which means I will pray in tongues and I will also pray with my understanding. So I will pray two types of prayers. One is I will pray in my language, but I will also pray in tongues. And what else does he say here? He says, when I pray in tongues, I can't understand. My mind is unfruitful. Okay. So we've understood, you know, couple of things regarding tongues. Now let's go on. He adds to that. I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing with the understanding. So same thing, two distinctions. When he's saying I can sing with my own words, which are, you know, which I can comprehend, but I can also sing in words that I can't understand. So there are two separate ways of praying or two separate kinds of languages that a believer can engage with God in prayer. So we'll, you know, go through and we'll discuss more things. Now this in the spirit, right? In the spirit, you would find in the writings of Paul, he uses that in the spirit by which he simply means praying in tongues. Okay. As for Paul's writings, it is in the spirit or in tongues. So Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18, it is there in the notes. Can someone read it please? You can use the mic. Yeah. Any one of you? Go ahead, please. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit. Praying once full tooth is in with all perseverance and supplication for all the science. Very good. Thank you, Reena. So here Paul had, we saw this scripture earlier when we learned about the different kinds of prayers, right? And we said that we must pray all prayer. And here Paul is adding supplication in the spirit, in the spirit. I already shared that in the spirit. By that he means praying in a unknown tongue. So that is also a kind of prayer which the believer can apply or work with. Now let's come to what is the importance or what is the benefit? People ask the question, why, why did God give this language? Why can we pray in English, Hindi and all our different languages? Why did God give us this kind of a language to pray? There are many reasons. Okay. And there are many benefits that we can see in the scripture regarding praying in tongues. So let's try to understand that. Okay. If you have any questions, please feel free. You can ask. So let's first look at first Corinthians chapter 14 and verse two. First Corinthians 14 verse two. Can anybody read it? You can turn in your Bibles and read it aloud. So whoever speaks in a tongue does not speak in their tongue, does not speak to men. But to God, for no one understands him, whoever in the spirit, he speaks my stories. Okay. Thank you. So whoever speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Right? And no one understands him. He speaks mysteries, three things. One is he who speaks in a tongue is speaking to whom? To God, not to people. So when we speak in tongues, our prayer language, that is why we call it prayer language. What is prayer? Speaking to God, isn't it? So that is why when we, when one who speaks in tongues is speaking to God and not to men. Okay. Point number one. Second, no one understands. So what is the meaning of that? When we pray in tongues, our mind cannot understand. What am I saying? I don't know what I'm saying. What is the third thing? He speaks mysteries. Okay. He speaks mysteries. Mysteries. What, in, what is that word in maybe Hindi? What does it say? Hindi? Okay, rahasya. Okay. Things that we cannot understand, secrets. Isn't it? Secrets. So we are speaking some mysteries to God, which we cannot grasp. So three things are very clear when we pray in tongues. So here is the importance of praying in tongues. See when we are speaking mysteries, now you tell me, is anything a mystery for God? Is anything a mystery or a secret or rahasya? You can hide it from God. No, God knows everything. So when we are speaking mysteries, it's not a mystery for God. Right? Then when Paul says we speak mysteries, who is it a mystery for? For us. So we are speaking things which are too big for us. You know, too great for us, too wonderful for us, which we can't even understand. Right? It's not so amazing to God because he already knows everything. But when I speak in a tongue, I am speaking to God. Nobody understands me, but I am speaking mysteries to God. So what are these mysteries? These are prayers beyond the limitation of my mind. You got it? Because my mind is only capable of praying prayers that I can grasp or understand. Like I may pray for maybe five years. I can think of only five years ahead of my life, what I might be doing. So, you know, I could pray God bless me with a house, you know, bless me with this, bless me with that, you know, do all this in my life. I can only think so much. But when I pray in tongues, I may be praying beyond those five years. I may be praying way into my future. I may be praying for my descendants. I may be praying for, you know, other people whom I don't know. I may be praying for things that God has called me to do that I still don't understand. Right? Now, a young person may be praying. They may still be in school, but they may be praying for their career or their choice of, you know, a life partner. So many prayers could actually be happening in those mysteries that we are speaking, but we don't know. It's beyond the limitation of our human thinking. So, God taught it important to give us a language like that in which we can address matters beyond boundaries. Okay? So, when we are speaking in tongues, initially, we may not know what we are praying for, but through the power of the Holy Spirit, we are praying beyond boundaries. So, many people also term praying in tongues is limitless. There's no limit when you're praying in the spirit because we may be praying for great and wonderful things, which right now, maybe our mind also cannot accept it. Did you understand? So, praying in the spirit is important because the Holy Spirit helps us to pray for things in the future, things concerning other people, you know, things that God wants us to do, which we may not have the capacity to grasp right now. So, it's really beneficial because we can put all this in prayer to God without even knowing that we have prayed for these things. Okay, yes, yes. Okay, good question. So, Akhil is saying, then can we say that praying in tongues is more effective than praying with understanding, right? But I don't think so. There's no question of replacing one with the other. And that's why even Paul said, he said, I pray in the tongue and I also pray with my understanding. I pray in the spirit and I also pray with my understanding. So, I think praying in our own language also has its place, right? So, you can't replace it. It's not this or that. It's not like that. All of us are? Yeah. So, okay, so that's another thing, Akhil, which I don't think we can get into it quite elaborately today. But I will recommend you this APC publication called as the gifts of the spirit. Okay, gifts of the spirit. You can check it up in our resources. It has a section where we talk about how the gifts are offered to all believers. So, all believers can flow in all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Yeah. So, it is possible. You can maybe read through that and then ask me more questions. Yeah. Thank you. So, in that case, in follow up to what Akhil said, all of us can pray in tongues according to what scripture tells us. Yes. See, without baptism means which baptism? What about baptism? Okay. Yeah. See, becoming a believer is the first thing, right? First, you accept Christ. So, when you accept Christ, what is it? In John chapter three verse three, Jesus said that you must be born again. Okay. Born again is a spiritual experience. So, when that spiritual experience happens, even the book of Titus says that the Holy Spirit comes. The regenerative work of the Holy Spirit takes place inside. So, Holy Spirit already comes. Now, the believer may be water baptized, may not be water baptized at that point. The moment we are born again, Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside the believer. That's what the Bible says. Yeah. Anything else? Or we can move to the next benefit of praying in tongues. So, we can pray beyond without boundaries. So, every day you can set aside some time to just pray in tongues. Pray in tongues, right? Now, we don't know, we don't even know what we're praying for, but you will see the value of praying in tongues, maybe later in your life, at least I can testify to that. There are prayers I've prayed, I don't know what I've prayed, but when you commit time to praying in the spirit, the way things unfold in your life, you know, hey, God actually had me pray for these things way back. And now it's all happening in my life, right? So, in this manner, God can actually lead us. So, committing to pray in tongues for a certain part of your prayer time or certain part of the day. Just pick a time and say, I'm just going to pray in the spirit and go on, just pray, right? One hour, one and a half hours, two hours, just pray in the spirit. Don't worry about, what am I praying? Don't worry about that. Because it's anyway mystery. So, there's really, you don't have to worry, but we'll see later on that the Holy Spirit can actually give us the interpretation also. So, there are times that we pray in tongues, but we can even understand what we prayed for, because Holy Spirit gives us the interpretation, right? There is another gift of the spirit known as the interpretation of tongues. So, even that can operate and we can understand the meaning of some of the prayers which we are praying. But the important thing is to recognize that it's a very precious prayer language and you just have to use it. So, when we pray, we pray beyond boundaries. Our prayer life becomes limitless. Maybe we are praying for the nation, we are praying for the city, we are praying for the lost. We don't know, but we are saying, okay God, use me, I will pray. We are praying without boundaries, borders, limits, and you know, it's really powerful. The second important thing about praying in tongues is, oh okay, there's a question. Okay, there are many questions. So, tongues cannot be understood by Satan. So, Brother Viju, you are asking, tongues cannot be understood by Satan. I would say so, because we just saw 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 2, right? Where, in this prayer language, when we are praying to God, only God understands, because he is the only one who knows everything. Now Satan is a created being. He is not like God. He was first an angel and then he rebelled against God. So, he is limited. He is not infinite. So, obviously, he will not be able to understand the prayers which we are speaking to God. So, that's my answer to your question. Tongues cannot be understood by Satan. That is right. Next, Lucy is asking, sister, how do we end prayers when praying in tongues abruptly? I didn't understand, Sister Lucy, because we wouldn't know, right? Like, abruptly meaning, how do we pray? How do we end prayers? Don't worry about that anyway. We don't know what we are saying. You can stop at any point. It should be fine, I guess. Just pray, you know, in reverence to God, that's the most important thing. So, it should be fine, because we wouldn't know which is actually the end or the middle of our prayer there. Now, coming to Daniel, does the Holy Spirit know what we pray? If yes, does he want us to pray when he knows what we are going to pray for? Okay, so does the Holy Spirit know what we are praying for? Yes, he knows. Why he wants us to pray? Okay, see, Jesus also said, right, that he will not do our praying for us. In this session, we've discussed about this, that praying is a way for us to release our authority. So, it's a function that we have to engage in. Yes, God knows many things, but we have to pray. So, that's the design that he has given us. So, even if the Holy Spirit knows, he wants us to pray through. Okay, and Daniel, many things we will discuss in the coming chapter, so then it will give you a better understanding regarding this. Sure, so even the Holy Spirit knows, we would need to pray. Alright, fine. So, let me go to the next question. As I cover the notes also, you'll have a better grasp. Now, the next point is, we can pray according to the will of God. Now, I said that we can pray mysteries, right, things that we don't know. Now, Romans chapter 8 verse 26 and 27, maybe we'll ask another person to read. Anyone else? You finished reading? You already read once. Okay, then read. Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weakness, for we do not know what we should pray for as we out, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now, he who searches the hearth know what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the sense according to the will of God. Okay, very nice. So, here it's quite clear that there are times that we don't know what to pray. Isn't it? What decision to make? What to ask God in the given circumstance? We don't even know. So, in those moments, what does the Scripture say? We do not know what we should pray for as we out, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Then it says, now he who searches the hearth knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the sense according to the will of God. So, there are times in our lives where we don't know what is the right request that we must ask God. But at that time, who do you think knows what is the right request? Holy Spirit, because he knows the mind of God. He understands what God is thinking. And with God's wisdom, only he knows what we are supposed to pray. So, the Holy Spirit helps us to make intercession how? It says according to the will of God. So, when I don't know what to pray, some of the best prayers that I can pray is just praying tongues. That's all. Why? Because whatever I pray, what does it say? How does the Holy Spirit guide us to pray? According to the will of God. So, if I pray in tongues, 100% what I prayed is like, you know, they say like, paka, paka prayer. Because it is in the will of God. It is in the heart of God for me. It is according to the purposes of God for my life. It cannot go wrong. So, it is in the will of God when we pray in the spirit. So, that is another benefit. Let's say I spend 5, 1 minute praying in the spirit. That's a perfect prayer. Even though I prayed, how much? How long did I pray? Only 1 minute. It is a perfect prayer. Because tongues is always in the will of God. The Holy Spirit helps us pray according to the will of God. Now, maybe I prayed for 10 minutes. Perfect prayers. 10 minutes perfect prayers. Because my mind is not involved in it. I don't even know what I'm asking for. But Holy Spirit, according to the mind of God, is helping me to pray those prayers. Now, I may pray for 1 hour. Even more powerful. Why? Every word I said, everything I prayed is 100% in the will of God. So, you see, that is another benefit. Firstly, I said I'm praying for things which I cannot even understand. Second, I am praying perfect prayers or prayers in the will of God. And so, nothing that I say will contradict or be opposite to what God wants for my life. So, that is another advantage of praying in the spirit. So, I'll quickly come to the questions. So, Blessie is asking, when we started praying in tongues, after sometime we pause and pray in our own language, it feels like something is missing. Why is it happening? Maybe the Spirit wants you to continue praying in tongues. Maybe, I don't know. But yeah, if you feel like when you stop, something is missing, then you just pray more in tongues. When you come back to your language, maybe much later. But nothing wrong in praying in our own language also. We can also pray in our own languages. So, you try to do that. Then, when we start with tongues, should we end with tongues? So, there is no such rule, Blessie. You can pray whichever way you like. You can pray in English and close praying in tongues. You can start praying in tongues and then go into praying in English language or your own language. So, it should be fine. Or you can pray in between. You can even alternate, pray a little bit, own language, little bit tongues. So, there is no such rule. You can just pray how you wish. Then, next one here. When we are praying in the spirit, we feel we are repeating a few words. Is it fine? I think that a lot of people wonder about that. I am saying the same words. Why do you worry? Anyway, you don't know what you are saying. How do we know that, you know, God, it could be that with the same word, there is so much expressed to God. We don't know, right? We don't know anything about that tongues language. So, don't worry. Even if you are saying only one word, you could be communicating pages or books of information to God. And God could be communicating books of information into your spirit. Let God do what he wants to do. We cannot try to understand everything. Because we cannot understand. That's why he said, okay, don't worry about it. Whatever you can understand, you pray in your language. What you cannot understand, you pray in the spirit. Sister, I hope my answer is fine with you. Yeah, we don't know. It may be a few words, but the information can be different each time or, you know, it can be a large chunk of information. So, we'll just let God do his thing. Sure, let's... Okay, interpretation of tongues and different kinds of tongues. How do you distinguish? Fine. So, tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Interpretation of tongues is also another gift of the Holy Spirit. Okay? So, both of these are operational. Like, you would... When you read that book, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you'll have an idea how they actually begin to operate. So, the point is, each gift is for the right time. Understood? So, when I pray in tongues, every time I may not need an interpretation. For example, in personal prayer language, when we pray, sometimes we can ask God. We may want or desire and say, God, I want to know what I prayed for. Then the interpretation comes. Got it? But every time that may not be the case, most of the time you may just pray and then it doesn't, you know, like you can't grasp what you prayed for. And the second thing, you said kinds of tongues. So, there are tongues, which, like, we talk about a variety of them. So, one is the prayer language. The other is known as tongues as a sign. And that we won't discuss today. Tongues as a sign is what happened in Acts chapter 2. So, when people started praying in tongues, others were hearing them in their own human languages. So, that's a different kind of tongues. Then there is one more. Tongues as a message. So, when we speak tongues as a message, you need an interpreter. For example, I can't come here in your class and just start talking to you in tongues. You won't understand anything that I'm saying. So, if it's a message to the people, then I need an interpreter. I'll say the message, they'll interpret. They'll operate in the gift of the, you know, interpretation of tongues. I'll operate in the gift of tongues. So, there are all these categories. But what we are talking about in today's class is tongues as a prayer language. Okay? We are clear? Fine. Great. So, let's go on. Okay, lots of questions. I don't think my vehicle will move today. I'm stuck at point 2. Okay, coming to the next question here. What happens if we pray for something and without getting those things, we died? Okay. What about God's promises? Asked, I'll fulfill your desire. Okay, Vicky. So, when something like this happens, you know, we prayed and it was God's promise. But let's say, it never got fulfilled. There can be so many reasons for why such a thing happened. Isn't it? But one thing for sure is that it's not like God did not want it to happen. It's not like that. But there may be other factors like faith, like obedience, so many things, which may not have aligned so that that promise can be fulfilled. But it's not just these two reasons. There can be many, many more reasons. And sometimes, we may never get a reason. We can ask God, God, why did this happen? Why did this happen? God says, okay, I don't need to tell you. So, we want to find out everything. You have to tell me. God says, no. I don't want to tell you. Then what will we do? Sometimes we may not know the reason because God may not think it necessary to tell us what exactly went wrong. But we should be okay to not know everything. Is that fine, Vicky? So, you can let me know if you're okay with that. Great, thank you. So, bless is saying, when we are praying in tongues in the group, there is a lot of difference in tongues. Why? But language is one. Why are the words different? See, again, bless is very hard to tell because we don't even know anything about this language. We are just following the way Holy Spirit is guiding us. So, again, I would say don't worry about it. Let anybody speak however they like. We should just concentrate on, you know, fellowshipping with God and especially, we will see later when we pray in tongues the other gifts of the Holy Spirit start getting activated. So, when we are praying in tongues even when we are praying in tongues, we may feel like we are receiving from God, different things, even prophecy. Words will come to us. Pictures will come to us. So, focus on all that. Don't worry which words other person is saying because even if we focus, we can't do anything about that. Is that fine? Okay, great. Okay. Praying in tongues without experience. So, when you are saying praying in tongues without experience, you mean like, you know, some people feel hot, some people feel like presence of God manifesting in a different way. Yeah, it's okay. See, all the time we won't feel we won't have that experience of the presence of God the same way, right? But don't worry about that. Sometimes you'll have the manifestation. Sometimes you won't have but praying in tongues is a discipline. The way you do your normal prayer, do you feel something to start praying? Not really. We anyway pray. Even praying in tongues, you can do like that. Don't wait for an experience. Okay? Great. Alright. So, we've looked at two benefits. We said we can pray for many things. Then we said that we can pray in the will of God. Now let's look at the next one. Verse 26 of Romans 8 which we read. It says spirit helps in our weakness. Okay? Spirit helps in our weakness. We don't know what to pray for. Then he helps us pray according to the will of God that we saw in verse 27. So, when we pray in tongues what happens is that some of the weaknesses which we have in ourselves all those weaknesses will start leaving. When John the Baptist, he introduced Jesus. He said Jesus, behold the Lamb of God. And then he said, Jesus he will come after me. He will baptize you in Holy Spirit and in Fire. You remember that? That's what John said about Jesus. Jesus will baptize you in Holy Spirit and Fire. Now tell me what is the work of Fire? If I bring some fire you know I keep some dust, some leaves, some paper, everything put the fire. What will happen? It will burn up. Anything that is light, anything that is unnecessary. The fire will burn up. So, what did John the Baptist say? Jesus will baptize you with Holy Spirit that we understand. Baptism in the Holy Spirit activate the gifts of the Holy Spirit within us and Fire. So, the way the fire burns up all the unnecessary things when we experience the baptism in the Holy Spirit and even praying in tongues. What happens is it's like a fire. There could be some unnecessary attitudes in my heart. There can be some unnecessary imaginations, unnecessary habits, right? So many weaknesses as we saw. Romans 8 26, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. So, I want to become a strong believer. I want to follow Jesus. I don't want anything to hinder me. One thing that I can do is pray in tongues. What are we doing? We are becoming stronger. Weaknesses are being burnt up on the inside, right? So, that is another advantage. So, when I am praying I am speaking to God, I am praying in the will of God, but I am becoming stronger. If we want of a spirit man to become strong how to do it? Put the word. Pray in tongues. Why? Because of these reasons it will make you so strong. All your, all our weaknesses we can deal with it when we are praying in the Spirit. Okay? So, that is another benefit of praying in tongues. It will help us overcome the weaknesses of our flesh. Now moving on, what is the next benefit? When we pray in tongues, it will build us up spiritually and I already mentioned that. So, in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 and verse 4 Paul says he who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself. Edify that word, edify it means strengthen. So, when we pray in tongues what happens? We strengthen ourselves. Okay? And that is why we have to spend time praying in tongues. Now, there are other scriptures here. Maybe we can read them quickly and then I will move on to the next point. So, Jude 1 verse 20 can we pass the mic? Another person anyone else would like to read? It is in the notes. 120 Please pass it back sir. But you below building yourself up on your most holy faith praying in your Holy Spirit. Okay? So, it says building yourself up on your most holy faith how to build yourself up? Go to the gym. Yeah, spiritual spiritual building up how to build ourselves up? Spirit man. Okay? We want to build the spirit man. What is it telling us to do? You want to develop some muscles in your spirit man? So, what to do? Pray in tongues. So, that is what I am trying to tell us. We want our spirit man to become stronger and stronger. Pray in the spirit. That is what Jude is saying. Building yourself up on your most holy faith praying in the spirit. Okay? So, that is the way in which we can strengthen ourselves. Now, Ephesians 3 and verse 16. One more verses there in the explanation in the paragraph. There is another verse. Okay, let me read that for you. Don't want any confusion. So, Ephesians 3 and verse 16 it says that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man. So, the Bible tells us there is an inner man. We have to take care of the inner man also. That is our spirit man. Make the spirit man very very strong and that can be done through praying in tongues. Okay, now we are also told that we can keep ourselves in the love of God which means that to continue to love God to continue to love people when we pray in the Holy Spirit it helps us to do this, to love God and to love people. It's in the same passage. Jude 1 verse 20 and verse 21 would somebody like to read it? But you believe building your soul is up on your most Holy faith praying in the Holy Spirit keep yourself in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life. Okay, so building yourself up on your most Holy faith we discussed about it but it also says keeping yourself in the love of God. So, when we pray in the Spirit it will help us to that character of Christ to be able to love others and to love God that can also be developed within us when we pray in the Spirit. Now the next important reason why one must pray in the Spirit is it brings rest and refreshing. So I'll read this Isaiah 28 verse 11 and 12 says for with stammering lips 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. So, my question to us is when we become very tired what do we do? Take rest. Okay, take rest maybe get some sleep and then you feel better because what have you done? You have just refreshed yourself, you refreshed your strength you refreshed your body now spiritually when I may feel tired what should I do? That's what it says rest and refreshing rest and refreshing Isaiah 28 God has promised rest and refreshing through tongues through another tongue he will speak to the people so when we pray in tongues it will also refresh our spiritual man sometimes you wonder right like I heard somebody say this that when they do ministry sometimes ministry can be so busy because you have to do this you have to do that you have to go preach there do so many things we know how to take a physical rest what about my spirit man if my spirit man is feeling weary so they were telling that what they do is just take some time to pray in tongues then what's happening you are actually refreshing your spirit man as well we refresh our body but even the spirit man is renewed and refreshed you find rest when you pray in tongues sometimes you may just want a spiritual rest and for that you can pray in the spirit okay so all these wonderful benefits are packed within praying in tongues so I think I will just stop here because we have just about 4 minutes left so if there is any clarifications I can attempt to help you out and yeah we will wrap up for today so when I got baptized in the Holy Spirit and I started speaking in tongues I didn't know anything about it I got the gift but then I never used it never used it so I think was baptized as a child I started praying in tongues when we went for one prayer but I never used it because I did not know the benefits of praying in the spirit but it's only when I was in college in one of the youth group meetings they taught us about the value of speaking in tongues and they said it's a prayer language you have to decide that every day you will pray in tongues so do that and I'm so grateful for what I was taught because till that day when I go for a prayer or church service little bit I will speak and I will stop I started making it a habit daily to just pray in the spirit pray in tongues yeah so there are many benefits that each one of us can actually experience from it so let me just stop here we will pray in close let's come back in the next class and discuss more there are some more points that I could not cover so I will just leave the time open and pray please either here in the class or online anyone can pray would like to pray amen thank you so much thank you everyone god bless you and yeah we will meet again in the next class