1 Cor 14:14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
One of the wonderful things about praying in tongues is that it clears your mind.
When Paul wrote, “If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful”, he was not saying that praying in tongues does not benefit your mind. If you read the entire context of that verse, you’ll see that Paul simply was simply saying that in your mind you won’t understand what you’re saying in tongues unless the Lord gives you the interpretation.
But while the edification that praying in tongues releases begins in your spirit (because it’s with your spirit that you speak in tongues), nevertheless, speaking in tongues brings tremendous blessing and benefit to your entire being—spirit, soul and body. As Kenneth Hagin said, whatever edifies your spirit will eventually edify your mind and your body also!
As you pray at length in tongues, the thoughts of the world, the flesh and the devil that assail you and try to defeat you are checked, and in their place thoughts of faith, hope, love, peace, joy and strength begin to wash over your mind like a spiritual shower of living water.
The Bible says that we faint and grow weary in our minds (Heb 12:3), but as you pray at length in tongues, you’ll find that your mind becomes “super-charged” with the very life of God, and that you’ll have clarity where before you had confusion.
You’ll experience internal strength and keen insight that will cause you to prosper in all that you put your hand to as you pray in other tongues!
