TUESDAY, 7TH OCTOBER, 2025
PRAY EFFECTIVELY BY PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT – Pastor Chris
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).
Praying in the spirit is the primary way for Christians to pray and pray effectively. God wants you to have a productive life. Therefore, it’s important to know how to pray in an effective way because prayer is our communication with God. And from our opening scripture, a most effective way to engage and talk with the Lord and have real results is praying with the spirit.
The Apostle Paul in our opening scripture distinguishes between praying with the spirit or in the spirit and praying with the understanding. Praying with the spirit is when you pray in other tongues; tongues of the spirit. Praying in your understanding is praying through your mind, using a language that you understand. However, praying in the spirit takes pre-eminence over praying with the understanding.
Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” This is as insightful as it is instructive: You’re to pray always in the Spirit. It’s one of the sure ways to pray effectively. James 5:16 AMPC, says, “…The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].”
A righteous man is one who’s born again, whose righteousness is the righteousness of Jesus Christ and that’s you. Therefore, when you pray, tremendous power is made available to produce amazing results. But many don’t experience this; their prayers aren’t effective because they don’t pray in tongues.
Make no mistakes about it; when you pray in tongues it generates a lot of fire-power that subdues the works and forces of evil amongst other transcendent benefits. The results will be evident in your home, in your place of work, in your city, in your country and around the world. Hallelujah!
PRAYER
Dear Father, thank you for the blessing of praying in the spirit. As I pray in other tongues, the forces of evil are subdued, and your will is accomplished in the earth and in the lives of people everywhere. My life is continually aligned with your perfect will, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Romans 8:26-27 AMPC So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. 27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Colossians 1:1-23 & Isaiah 44-45
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: John 4:19-29 & 1 Kings 13
