Edification

When the scriptures say we must always pray and not cease, it’s because there is a possibility and way for this to happen.

The other night I awoke at about 1 am. I was conscious, but my eyes were closed. I then could hear, distinctively, a voice I knew speaking. It was like hearing someone mumbling from another room, but only that, this voice was on the inside of me.

The Spirit was praying, in that sacred language of tongues. Long before my flesh could even join in, He had been at it for sometime … perhaps all night!

That’s when I confirm the truth that He’s ALWAYS interceding for us. That morning, I stumbled into His intercession. But the fact that I heard Him way before I was fully conscious humbled me.

I liken it to eavesdropping on a conversation. Then one opens a window or a door to hear more clearly what’s going on in that room. When I let His utterance influence my tongue to join Him in prayer, that’s when I ‘opened the door’.

I’ve caught the Spirit in this act many times. Sometimes it’d be in class, or on a bike on my way to an errand. Suddenly it’s like you hear a faint radio frequency that seems to be airing an interesting topic. Our engagement is equivalent to increasing the volume of the signal of the station we are listening to, and suddenly … we are participating in heavenly conversations, that are advocating for us, edifying us, causing us to comprehend mysteries and sharpen our futures into perfect wills reconciled with our Father’s.

He who speaks in tongues edifies himself the Bible says; and to edify means ‘to instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually’. Other synonyms are; enlighten, tutor, guide, and to inform.

This is when it all makes sense.

As we pray in them, we receive instructions to the mind. We are equipped better to stand against the wiles of the enemy. We are able to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of God. We are able to activate the gift of the Holy Spirit — specifically SELF CONTROL — through the mind, to enable us tame the flesh and undress it of the power to influence us.

The enlightening comes when we see new things in scriptures we’ve read over and over again. The tutoring and guiding comes as He educates us about life since He’s to teach us all things, and to inform, well, we’ve heard of people who see events before they occur. It was also written that when His spirit is poured out on us we’d have visions and dreams. I think this is what it meant.

However, this all goes back to where we began. When I awoke, the Spirit hadn’t slept. He had been praying for me and through me so that unbeknownst to me, I’d be informed, tutored, instructed, guided and enlightened about so many things.

The only flaw we have — and I must warn against — is quenching the Spirit. Like I, many of us hear His echo, but we mute Him. We don’t even allow our bodies or minds to engage in that short exercise which could be saving us from an accident coming, or clarifying for us which choice to make in life that we’d face later in the day.

May we not foolishly be passive during these edifications. Even the psalmist engaged in them in his nights. They will do all of us good. I simply ask us, to ENGAGE whenever we hear that still small voice mumbling from the room of eternity embedded within!

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Psalms 16:7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

Isaiah‬ ‭26‬:‭9‬ With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.