A PURE LANGUAGE OF THE SPIRIT

A PURE LANGUAGE OF THE SPIRIT

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my 

spirit prayeth, but my understanding 

is unfruitful. What is it then? I will 

pray with the spirit, and I will pray 

with the understanding also: I will sing 

with the spirit, and I will sing with the 

understanding also

 (1 Corinthians 14:14-15).

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No matter how many earthly languages exist, 

there’re  not  enough  words  in  the  human 

vocabulary with which to adequately and accurately 

express yourself to God. Our human earthly vocabulary 

isn’t  pure  enough  to  commune  with  the  holy  God 

that our heavenly Father is. That’s the reason the Holy 

Spirit gave us a language, pure and holy, with which 

to communicate in a way that’s acceptable to God: 

praying in other tongues.  

Many only know how to pray in their understanding; 

that is, in their native language, but that won’t take you 

far enough. No matter how beautiful your words are in 

any earthly language, and how loaded with revelation 

they are, they’re no match for the pure language of 

the Spirit. 

It’s for this reason that Paul, by the Spirit, penned 

the words we read in the latter part of our opening 

verse. Notice that praying with the spirit comes before 

praying with the understanding. Sadly, some Christians 

would rather pray with their understanding first, and 

then pray with the spirit, if they do pray in the spirit 

at all. They’ve made praying with the spirit the “also,” 

and that’s the wrong order. 

Before  you  pray  with  your  understanding,  pray 

intensely and profusely first with the spirit. In fact, your 

praying in the understanding would be more effectual 

if you’d pray first with the spirit. And praying with the 

spirit doesn’t mean shutting your eyes and being mute, 

hoping that somehow, God’s looking into your sincere 

heart to know what you want; no. It means praying in 

tongues; praying in the language of the Spirit—a divine 

coded language. Your mind can’t interpret what you’re 

saying, but in the realm of the spirit, you’re speaking 

mysteries. 

The  devil  and  his  cohorts  of  darkness  are 

confounded when we pray in other tongues, for it’s an 

esoteric language for our direct communication with 

our heavenly Father. What a privilege and blessing to 

be able to access and speak forth divine mysteries and 

secrets from the realm of the Spirit. Blessed be God!  

PRAYER

Dear Father, I thank you for the blessing and privilege 

of being able to speak in tongues. My life is excellent 

and full of glory because of the awesome ministry of 

the Holy Spirit in me, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

FURTHER STUDY:

Luke 18:1; Romans 8:26-27; Jude 1:20 AMPC