On Monday, December 8th, I took a fast and prayed in tongues for 2 hours non-stop. In the process, the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation that really encouraged me.
I lead 2-hour praying-in-tongues sessions every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Many times, I don’t get the chance to share the spiritual experiences I get during the prayer sessions.
However, I will share my experience during this particular prayer session to encourage you to keep praying in tongues.
Preparation for the Session
Let me start by sharing how I prepared for the 2 hours of praying in tongues. How you prepare for a praying in tongues session has a huge impact on the experience you get.
On the day of the prayer session, I decided to fast from morning to evening. During the fast, I only took water. I like this type of fast because it is short but very effective.
Since I planned to pray from 6 pm, I wouldn’t eat anything until after the prayer session was over at 8 pm.
When you pray in tongues while fasting, your spiritual sensitivity is at its peak.
Besides the fast, I spent an hour praying in tongues during the day. The 1-hour praying-in-tongues session aimed to eliminate any spiritual hindrances in place.
I wanted to get to the 2-hour praying in tongues session in the evening without any spiritual hindrance.
The 1-hour praying in tongues session I did during the day was not intense. I just spoke soft tongues to nourish my spirit.
Lastly, before the session, I took a nap. The nap took away the fatigue I was feeling from the activities of the day. I felt very fresh entering the 2-hour prayer session.
So, how did the session turn out?
Session Execution
I started praying in tongues, not knowing exactly what to pray for. This happens all the time. I like to pray in tongues for the Holy Spirit to reveal to me what He wants me to pray for that day.
Tongues flowed smoothly from the beginning. The preparation I did worked perfectly.
Though the tongues were flowing smoothly, they felt a bit dry. This is very normal when you start praying in tongues. I’ve been praying in tongues for close to 10 years now, and this has been the case.
It usually takes me about 15 minutes to get my mind settled. On some days, it takes me as much as 45 minutes to overcome the dryness.
On this day, it took me about 20 minutes before I got the first leading from the Holy Spirit. In case you are wondering how I got the leading, here is how it happened.
While praying in tongues, I happened to mention the word ‘tasa’. Instantly, I remembered that word means barrenness in Swahili. I speak Swahili in case you didn’t know.
With that, I knew the Holy Spirit was leading me to pray against barrenness. I started mixing tongues with understanding now that I knew exactly what to pray for.
As I continued praying, I got a picture of a woman in my mind. Whenever barrenness is mentioned in spiritual context, it is heavily linked to women. That is because women are God’s vessels to bear fruit.
At that point, I began praying for barren women to bear fruit. I extended my intercession to include the work of our hands. Sometimes believers work hard, but their efforts don’t bear fruit.
While interceding, the Holy Spirit gave me a very interesting revelation. Here is what happened…
The Revelation
The Holy Spirit showed me an image of a pine tree. I didn’t understand why He showed me the pine tree, and neither did He explain to me.
In my curiosity, I started thinking why I would be seeing a pine tree. Because I was praying about barrenness, I quickly thought about fruits.
That’s when it dawned on me that a pine tree does not produce fruits. At that point, a question popped up in my mind, “Is the pine tree fruitful?”.
I knew it was the Lord asking me. I didn’t know what to answer. On one hand, I wanted to say pine trees are not fruitful because they don’t bear fruits, but on the other hand, I wanted to say pine trees are fruitful because they produce seed.
While stuck in the dilemma, the Holy Spirit gave me the explanation.
He revealed to me that the male species is fruitful when it produces seed, while the female species is fruitful when it produces offspring.
Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of Psalm 1:3, which says…
He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.
With that, He explained to me that praying in tongues is like a flowing river, and whoever prays in tongues is like a tree planted by the river.
Biggest Lesson Learned
From the experience, I learned that the Holy Spirit is the best teacher we’ve ever had. If we pay attention to His gentle communication when we pray in tongues, we will learn a lot.
I was motivated to keep praying in tongues, knowing that the tongues I speak form the river that waters me to bear fruit.
In the same manner, pray in tongues fervently because that is the river that waters you to bear fruit in season.
God bless you!
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