This episode was from the I Cor. 14 text and the topic of things of the Spirit and prayer.  The question being:  If I didn’t receive something I asked for in prayer than maybe God didn’t want me to have it….He didn’t choose me for this experience?  The answer is there are two spiritual experiences.  The first being the new birth and it is a “whosoever” thing.  The second being the baptism or empowerment or infilling of the Spirit and it also a “whosoever” thing after you have encountered God through relationship (new birth).  However, the truth of the matter is God will never interfere to make you do something you don’t want to.  In order to be filled with the Spirit you must yield to Him and the evidence of this is speaking in tongues.  When we yield our tongue to the utterance of the Holy Spirit, He becomes tangible.  We could say the natural interfaces the supernatural!” 

Another reason or purpose for speaking in tongues is you “are willing the will of God” into your life.  It is a matter of yielding to something (Someone) greater than yourself.  You can be a part of the solution and when you stop inserting yourself in the natural and take prayer and the Word into the spirit you will stop being a part of the problem.  Start out praying in English, pray scripture (the Word) than turn it over in the spirit and speak in tongues ( I willed everything in the natural so now I take it into the spirit….) and allow the Holy Spirit to divinely influence the person/situation.

The spiritual process is much like farming.  There is a natural process…plant the seed…and a spiritual process…I will…pray in natural/spirit (water the seed)…and allow the Holy Spirit to do His work….it is a mystery!!!!!