Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues: Revelation knowledge from God.

Jude 1:20
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

Benefits of speaking in tongues.
1.Builds you up
2.Keeps you in the love of God.

Galatians 5:22 says
God has already given us the fruits of the Spirit, we need to stir in and get it into our spirit and life. It is our responsibility to keep ourselves in the love of God.

Romans 5:5
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
It is already poured by God, it is our responsibility to keep ourselves and stay ourselves and take all things and encourage and build ourselves in it.
Speaking in tongues is one of the ways of stirring up ourselves. It is foolishness to our mind when we speak in tongues.
1 corinthians 14:14
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful
There will be natural, mental or emotional resistance in the begining when we pray in tongues, by practice we can breakthrough all the resistance and go into the realm of faith.
Colossians 2:6-7
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness
1 Corinthians 14:17
You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.
Connect the above two verses. It says that speaking in tongues means you are giving thanks well. and colossians 2:7 says that we should strengthen our faith, overflowing with thankfulness. so it leads that speaking in tongues leads to abounding in faith.
God has given us a tool when we are baptised in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, you naturally build yourselves up with the most holy faith. All we have to do is to just speak in tongues.
Many people are not taught the benefits of speaking in tongues and they do it occasionally to prove to themselves that they have received the anointing of God, they do it under some emotional urge.

Benefits:
1 Corinthians 14:17
You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified. (it is a powerful way of speaking to God).
Isaiah 28:10-12
For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there." Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people, to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This is the place of repose"— but they would not listen.
1 Corinthians 14:21
In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord.
1 corinthians 14:21 quotes the old testament prophet isaiah 28:11 and the context of corinthians chapter 14 is speaking in tongues. Isaiah 28:12 says that this is the resting place. Speaking in tongues refreshes you. You are ministering rest and refreshment to you.
1 Corinthians 14:2 and 4
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself
The word edifies means to promote spiritual growth. Praying in tongues gives us revelation knowledge also. It is not acquired knowledge (forcing to learn in school and daily life). Revelation knowledge is imparted by God directly.

1 John 2: 20 and 27
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
*****Jesus says to his disciples that when they are persecuted and stand before the authorities He asks them not to premeditate on what they will speak but that God will put things in their heart on what to talk.
1 corinthians 2:1-10 (background)
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written:
“ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[c]
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.
1 corinthians 14:2
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
compare the above verse with 1 corinth 2:7 that wisdom of God is spoken in a mystrey.
1 corinthians 2:16
For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Our mind is limited and we keep forgetting, but it speaks about the spirit
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
we are already renewed in the knowledge, it is not our physical brain. We have a mind in the spirit also as it is there in the physical body.
according 1 corinthians 14:14 when we pray in tongues we pray in spirit, so by doing this we can draw in on the knowledge of God.
spirit is the one which has the mind of christ, which has the holy anointing from God, which is perfect so on.... so when you pray in tongues you can draw in on the truth of God.
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
Holy spirit will help us draw up on things which are to come, not just the present things, but future things also. In the spiritual realm God has given us the ability to see things in the future, we need to understand the same and try to walk in it.