Praying in Tongues for Healing

Praying in tongues for healing opens a supernatural gateway to divine restoration and wholeness. This extraordinary gift from the Holy Spirit transcends our natural understanding, offering a direct connection to God's healing power.

Whether you're seeking emotional healing, physical wellness, or spiritual strengthening, this comprehensive article will show you how the practice of praying in unknown tongues can transform your life and deepen your relationship with God. Let's explore this powerful spiritual practice that has changed countless lives throughout Christian history.

Understanding the Power of Tongues in Healing

Part 3 of 3 by Don Bell | ⏱️ 10 minute read

Are you searching for a powerful, life-changing practice to overcome your weaknesses? Look no further than praying in tongues, also known as praying in the Holy Spirit.

Praying in the Spirit is a powerful spiritual practice that bypasses our intellect and enables us to align our hearts with God's perfect will, free from the influence of negative emotions and imperfect intent. It cleanses our souls by exposing our weaknesses and helping us overcome them.

Engaging in the healing process through tongues brings emotional healing on the deepest level despite circumstance. It empowers us to resist the desires of the flesh and walk in the Spirit, preparing us for effective ministry to the Church and others while experiencing wellness and God's will for our lives.

Connecting with God's Perfect Will Through Tongues

Paul writes, "Therefore, my beloved, … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:12–13).

Meaning, we're encouraged to actively participate in working out our own spiritual renewal with reverence and humility. This is made possible because it's God's Spirit working within us, guiding us, purifying us, and empowering us to carry out His will.

How does God do this?

The gift of tongues enables us to PRAY PERFECT PRAYERS that are inspired by the Holy Spirit, originating from the depths of our innermost being, and directly connecting us to God's transforming power. Through this supernatural prayer practice, we can witness transformative change in our old nature and experience positive outcomes in our lives.

The Refining Process: Holy Spirit and Fire

John the Baptist declares, "'He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire'" (Matthew 3:11–12).

The Lord's cleansing process is associated with the baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT and FIRE. When we're filled with the Holy Spirit and choose to live according to His guidance, a cleansing process begins in our souls to rid us of unrighteousness.

This process not only empowers us with God's strength to serve but also helps us recognize our character flaws and weaknesses, which WE may not be aware of but are known by GOD. This preparation is essential for fulfilling our calling in Christ.

At times, we may complain, mistaking the wind and fire of God for a spiritual attack from the enemy. In reality, this is God's way of removing our weaknesses and aligning our thinking with His will, and we must not turn away from the process. After all, we've given Him permission to cleanse us; we've asked Him to be the Lord of our lives!

The threshing floor is never pleasant, nor is it meant to be, but undergoing the shaking and sifting at the mercy of the uncompromising wind of the Holy Spirit is NECESSARY to remove unwanted chaff and weeds from our lives. This process is crucial if we want to be used by God.

Discovering and Overcoming Hidden Weaknesses

Our human nature (Paul calls it "our old man") can easily spot the weaknesses in other people while remaining blind to our own. Nonetheless, God is fully aware of our faults, even when we are not.

Jesus asks, "'Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me remove the speck from your eye"; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye'" (Matthew 7:3–5).

A truly effective ministry is built on understanding and compassion, not judgement. When we judge others, we lose sight of these two crucial qualities that are essential for healing and restoration. Jesus taught that before we try to help someone else, we must first recognize and address our own personal shortcomings.

Identifying our weaknesses is key to overcoming them; however, it's impossible for us to pray in the natural to purge a weakness when either we're unaware of it or in mental denial of its existence. At times, we might have an awareness of our weakness, but without knowing its root cause, we remain powerless to totally overcome it.

Praying in tongues for healing, however, exposes the root causes of our weaknesses to the consuming fire of God. The more we speak in tongues, the greater the cleansing fire, and the greater the freedom we will experience.

Paul explains, "The Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered" (Romans 8:26).

Praying in the Holy Spirit involves UNKNOWINGLY praying for our weaknesses to be overcome in order for us to be more effective in our ministry to others and fulfilled in Christ.

Physical and Spiritual Wellness Through Praying in Tongues for Healing

Throughout the Bible, we find verses that highlight the connection between spiritual and physical well-being. In the book of Isaiah, God reveals that fasting is not about abstaining from food only, but also about breaking free from the bonds of wickedness, heavy burdens, and oppressive yolks.

God asks, "'Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? …Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your HEALING shall spring forth speedily, …'" (Isaiah 58:6,8, emphasis added).

As we fast and pray in the Spirit, we strengthen our faith and allow God's refining fire to loosen and undo our weaknesses, enabling us to receive His healing and blessings.

Have you observed how people's conversations sometimes turn to sharing health concerns and medical treatments? Without meaning to, they express confidence (faith) in medical treatments, while overlooking an opportunity to also express faith in God's healing mercies.

While discussing health challenges and their treatment is natural, we can nurture the habit of speaking words of faith resonating with the healing promises of God. Praying in tongues for healing helps us maintain this positive holistic focus while building our faith in God's healing power.

John writes, "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers" (3 John 1:2). This reminds us that our pursuit of physical well-being should align with our spiritual growth, as praying in tongues for healing ministers to both body and soul.

Grace-Based Purification Through Tongues

Praying in tongues for healing initiates a process of cleansing and purification by God's fire. If we desire to experience God's best and have a fruitful ministry, we must engage in the purifying practice of praying in the Holy Spirit.

Contrary to some religious perspectives, we do not need to be perfect before receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit and His gifts, including the gift of speaking in tongues. That's because it's only through God's GRACE and MERCY that we receive His Spirit, and our prayers uttered in tongues ALWAYS yield fruitful results.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are not given to us because of our perfection or deserving nature. Far from it! He gives these supernatural abilities precisely because we are imperfect and undeserving. These gifts are essential in refining our character and building up our faith, transforming us from the inside out.

Walking in the Spirit: Freedom from Fleshly Desires

Read the following verse carefully: Paul says, "Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (Galatians 5:16).

Note the critical distinction: Paul did NOT say, "Don't fulfill the lusts of the flesh, and you shall walk in the Spirit" — which would be a prescription for religious legalism!

Instead, Paul reveals a profound spiritual principle: when we actively engage with the Holy Spirit, we naturally become less susceptible to fleshly temptations. Praying in the Holy Spirit is a key method of living by the Spirit's guidance, moving beyond external rules to internal transformation.

We've all experienced the futile approach of trying to achieve perfection through our own efforts or through the rigid "thou shalt not" religious constraints. However, God's design is fundamentally different. He desires us to be transformed by His Spirit, not confined by external regulations.

No amount of Scripture memorization or church attendance can produce the deep change God seeks. Instead, as we continually surrender to the Spirit's leadership, the desires of the flesh gradually lose their attraction and power. The consuming fire of the Spirit supernaturally displaces our old nature, bringing about genuine, lasting transformation.

The key is not striving, but surrendering — allowing the Holy Spirit to work within us, reshaping our desires and aligning our hearts with God's perfect will.

Experiencing Deep Inner Healing Through Tongues

Paul prays, "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man" (Ephesians 3:16).

Praying in tongues for healing is a powerful practice that strengthens us in the inner man, our spirit. It grants us power to overcome the desires of the flesh that would hinder us, enabling us to live victoriously.

It allows the Holy Spirit to bring deep emotional healing, freeing us from negative memories and responses such as fear, anger, guilt, loss, and inferiority. We can begin to experience genuine "inner healing" and transformation in the deepest level of our being.

Additionally, as our faith is strengthened through tongues, it enhances our ability to exercise the other gifts of the Holy Spirit, blessing others and ultimately deepening our connection with God.

Fulfilling Your Divine Purpose Through Tongues

The good news is, you don't need a long-established Christian life or a solid Bible background to activate the gift of tongues and other gifts of the Spirit. While leading a godly Christian life and studying the Bible is important, perfection is not required to be filled with the Holy Spirit and utilize His gifts.

That said, there are moments when we must exercise self-discipline and bring to a stop harmful actions. It's during these times that we require the Holy Spirit's encouragement to walk in the Spirit and exercise His gifts, especially the gift of tongues.

By praying in tongues for healing and exercising the other gifts of the Holy Spirit to bless others, we can overcome the weaknesses of our human nature while simultaneously strengthening our faith and the faith of others.

This process enables us to become the ministering saints Jesus intends us to be and to fulfill our role as the ambassadors of God's Kingdom.

End of This 3-Part Series

If you missed it, here's Part 1: Praying in Tongues.

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About the Author

Don Bell is the creator of the Kingdom Anointing website, and a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ. He shares insights from his spiritual journey to encourage ordinary believers to seek God's Kingdom and lead extraordinary lives in the Holy Spirit.

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