Imagine you received a mobile phone this Christmas. No matter how sophisticated it is, you won’t enjoy it if you don’t charge the battery. To enjoy the benefits of the phone, you’d have to plug it into power to charge!
The same way you’ve received the gift of the Holy Ghost; He’s not in you to just make you feel good. No! You have to take advantage of this gift by charging up yourself. This you do by speaking in tongues consistently. That way you’ll enjoy the good life that God has called you to live on a daily basis.
Pastor Chris in today’s devotional says, “Speaking in tongues ‘quick charges’ your spirit; it helps your spirit respond very quickly to spiritual things”. How true!
Allelluia.
It is not something that is given to every believer. You can seek for it, and if it is given to you, then great. But if not, don't worry, because the Lord will provide other gifts for you, such as wisdom, knowledge, service, etc...
As good as your intentions may be, that simply does not match up to what many devout and undoubtedly regenerate Christians over the centuries. Many of the giants of the faith such as Athanasius, Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, etc. never had such experiences, but who it could hardly be denied that they were godly Born Again Christian men
I think speaking in tongues is a gift of the spirit and like any other gift one can have one and not the other.
As a body of christ we should therefore use our respective gifts for the glory of God and not to outdo one another, as there is no gift that is superior than the other but infact they complement each other.