Glossalalia: The Rest And Refreshing - Pastor Ekpenyong

Isaiah 28:11-12

11. For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,

12. To whom He said, “This is the rest with  which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.

There is a BLESSING and a source of power for everyday life found ONLY in speaking in other tongues.

Despite the confusion, perplexity and anxiety today, we have an abundance of spiritual rest and refreshing as never before.

Romans 5:20

20. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.

GLOSSALALIA is a Greek word for tongues. Father God, in His love has provided a means for us to receive the refreshing that we need by speaking in other tongues.

We can enjoy this rest and refreshing everyday of our lives by speaking in tongues. This is the time and place to rest - to give rest to the weary. This is the place to lay down your burden. But they wont listen.

Since you know all these are available, why wont you listen? You’ve been provided perfect peace and rest - the way to true comfort and happiness.

Tongues is the Father BLESSING us with His ability to be RESTED AND REFRESHED from the inside by the Holy Spirit. It is the BLESSING of self sustenance and rejuvenation.

You don’t have to speak in tongues, you ought to! If you’re not speaking in tongues, you’re missing out.

We have a tremendous powerful gift available to us through the Holy Spirit, but few people take advantage of it. Instead, we ask God to do what He told us to do.

We need to use this gift of speaking in tongues to stir ourselves up or we risk sinking to the bottom.

It's not normal for you to be stressed out, burnt out, depressed, weary, confused, tired and all of those experiences that wear one out.

There’s a trap believers must avoid, when the need to strive for things outweighs their trust in God and their patience for Him to bring something to pass.

God’s ordained way of receiving is not through aggressively going after something, it’s through aggressive peace and rest.

One can become completely exhausted due to nonstop, continuous work or be over burdened by the load of care from family, work, finances or other personal issues.

However, there’s an ever refreshing stream that gushes from you if you’ll turn it on by speaking in tongues, it causes you to be rested and refreshed, rejuvenated and reinvigorated, energized and recharged.

When we strive, God waits, when we rest, God acts.

Whenever we want to, we can rest and be refreshed by speaking in tongues.

When we pray in tongues, we come to a place of rest. We will need a place to rest when we are weary and tired because of all the bad news in the world.

God loves it when you rest. When you rest, you are saying, “Father, I am trusting You. Father, I am not depending on my self-effort, but I am depending on You.” God loves it. That is why rest finds grace in the eyes of the Lord.

The Hebrew rendering for rest is also used to refer to the promised land for the believer today.

When the children of Israel did not want to believe God when He promised them a land flowing with milk and honey, it broke God’s heart and so He said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest”.

Psalm 95:10-11.

10. For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.

11.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

In case you're yet to receive this wonderful gift, today is your day.

Rest is our promised land, our portion in Christ.

Hebrews 4 : 8-11

8. For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

9.There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

10.For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

11. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Sometimes, when we pray in tongues and we do not see results, praying in tongues can feel like a “labor.”

When you pray and do not see your breakthrough just yet, do not give up. Because before you are delivered from that disease or depression, before you can break free from that addiction, God has to deal with the fears, the anxieties, the stress, and the wrong believing that are causing those things in the first place.

As you pray in tongues, the Lord is dealing with all those destructive things from the inside out.

In the times we are living in, stress is a real problem. People are stressed because of all that is happening around the world, all that we watch on the news.

We need to make sure that we are built up on the inside, that we have strength on the inside so that we do not get depressed on the outside.

THE MORE YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, THE MORE YOU WILL LIVE STRESS AND ANXIETY-FREE.

A study done by some Professors at Oral Roberts University found that when you pray in tongues, you boost your immune system by 35–40 percent.

Contrary to what may be a common perception, studies from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania  suggest that people who speak in tongues rarely suffer from mental problems. A recent study of nearly 1,000 evangelical Christians in England found that those who engaged in the practice were more emotionally stable than those who did not.

God gave us the gift of tongues that not only proclaims the wonderful works of God but causes you to see the wonderful works of God in your life.

You can receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit right now if you're yet to. As His child, your loving, heavenly Father has made available for you the supernatural power you need to live the life in Christ.

Luke 11:10-13

10. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

11. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

12. Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

13. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

All you have to do is ask, believe and receive.

Pray :  Father in Jesus name, I thank you for all you've made available for me to live this life on Christ. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit.

I receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit right now by faith.

Thank you for baptizing me. Holy Spirit, I welcome and acknowledge you in my life.

Congratulations! 

You've received the Holy Spirit.

Right now open your mouth and begin to speak in a language you don't recognize and understand.

Open your mouth now and speak in Jesus name. Some syllables from a language you don't understand will rise up from your heart to your mouth.

Speak and release those words by faith.

Please note that it doesn't matter whether you felt anything or not when you prayed. God is a good Father.