Therefore, speaking in tongues eliminates selfishness and praying outside of the will of God
because when we pray in tongues, we are praying the perfect will of God.
Reason Number 5
The fifth reason believers should speak with tongues is that it helps them learn to trust God
more fully. It builds one's faith to speak in tongues. The Bible says, ". . . building up yourselves
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 20).
Speaking in tongues stimulates faith and helps us learn how to trust God more fully. For
example, faith must be exercised to speak with tongues because the Holy Spirit supernaturally
directs the words we speak. You see, we don't know what the next word will be — we have to
trust God for that. And trusting God in one area helps us learn to trust Him in another area.
As a young denominational minister I was pastor of a community church, and there was a fine
Christian woman in our church who dearly loved the Lord. But she was afflicted in her body
with sickness. She had an ulcerated stomach, and the doctors feared that it would lead to
cancer of the stomach. Her husband made good money, but he had spent everything he had
on doctor bills until finally they didn't even own an automobile. He had spent thousands of
dollars.
This woman received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and shortly after that I visited in their home
again. I noticed that she could eat almost anything, whereas before she could eat only a little
baby food and milk, and had even had difficulty keeping that in her stomach.
She told me, "I not only received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues,
but I received my healing as well. I am perfectly healed."
I have seen this happen many times. What is the connection? We know that receiving the
baptism of the Holy Ghost doesn't heal you. However, speaking with tongues helps you to
learn how to trust God more fully in other areas of life — including in the area of healing.
Reason Number 6
The sixth reason every Christian ought to regularly speak in tongues is that speaking in
tongues is a means of keeping us free from the contamination of the ungodly and profane
elements of the world. For example, there is much vulgar talk that goes on around us on the
job or out in public. But we can speak in tongues to ourselves (1 Cor. 14:28).
In other words, if you can speak in tongues to yourself and to God in church, then you can
speak in tongues on the job, too, in a way that won't disturb anyone. In the barber shops, for
instance, if the men are telling jokes that are not edifying, I just sit there quietly and speak to
myself and to God in tongues.
Riding the train, bus, or airplane, you can speak to yourself and to God. On the job you can
speak to yourself and to God. Speaking in tongues to yourself and to God is a means of
keeping yourself free from the contamination of the world.
Reason Number 7
The seventh reason every believer should speak in tongues is that it provides a way for things
to be prayed for about which no one thinks to pray, or is even aware of. We already know that
the Holy Spirit helps us pray for things we do not know how to pray for as we ought. In