LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
JULY 2025
THE SPIRIT LED LIFE
(Romans 8:14 KJV)
Friday, 11th July
TRAIN YOUR SPIRIT TO HEAR GOD
1 Corinthians 14:14-15 KJV
“For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also”.
The job of hearing God is the responsibility of your spirit. As you may know already, you are made of spirit, soul and body. And all three parts of you have their various responsibilities to keep you going. Your body is designed to interact with the physical world and every human being, while your soul relates with the intangibles like emotions, intellect, ability to choose and decide. But your spirit is saddled with the responsibility of connecting with God.
One way the human spirit is trained is by praying in the spirit. The more you pray in the spirit, the sharper your spiritual senses become. The reason why training is required here is the fact that the mind or understanding is unfruitful, and being unfruitful, it leaves us strictly with the discernment and perceptions of our spirits. Praying in the Holy Ghost is a way of becoming one with the Spirit, it is spending time with the Holy Spirit by speaking His language rather copiously to the point where you receive answers to prayers as well as receive directions and instructions of the Holy Spirit.
This is how it works – when we pray in the Spirit, we get to edify ourselves. The word edify there means to build or charge ourselves, and this is according to the fourth verse of the fourteenth chapter of first Corinthians. We are all at different levels of development in the things of the Spirit, but as you continuously engage the act of praying in the spirit, you begin to rise in your spirit, and all your spiritual senses of hearing, seeing and perceiving begins to come alive. So your walk with God becomes easier by the day. Receive grace to steadily build your spirit to connect and hear God in Jesus Name.
Action Points
i. Determine to spend sufficient amount of time in praying in tongues from today, from one hour and above.
ii. As you pray in tongues, believe God to open your ears and eyes.
Prayer
-Lord, please cause me and help me to pray in the Spirit as frequently as possible in Jesus Name.
-Father, please activate my spiritual hearing and seeing in Jesus Name.
Nugget
The more you pray in the spirit, the sharper your spiritual senses become.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Exodus 24; John 20
EVENING
Isaiah 24
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