Speak in Tongues and Make Progress

But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the Holy Spirit; (Jude 20)

As you pray in Tongues, you make progress and rise like an edifice higher and higher. It means you make progress till you can't be ignored! When you refer to an edifice, you don't look down for it; you always look up for it. That's how you become. Your stature in life is improved. Your influence and impact cannot be ignored; regardless of the sphere, you are involved.

Also, this edifice is a spiritual structure. A structure that can hold the anointing - the oil of God. If you read 2 Kings 4:1-7, one day, Prophet Elisha helped a widow and her children get out of debt. He gave them a simple instruction to go and gather all the vessels from their neighbourhood, shut the door and pour out into those vessels the oil that she had.

The most interesting part of this miracle is that the oil stopped only when there was no vessel. Sometimes I imagine what if she had taken all the vessels from Syria, Egypt; then the oil would have still flowed. The oil was not the problem. The oil stopped for the lack of a vessel. Even today, the Lord is looking for a vessel into whom He can pour.

Praying in tongues helps build a spiritual structure that can house the precious anointing of God.

The term "edifies" conveys the same sense as a battery being charged. Speaking in Tongues seems to provide a type of "spiritual power recharge."

Many of us have weaknesses. You could call them 'Character flaws'. How do you handle that? You build yourself up. When you speak in Tongues, there is a purging process that happens. Start praying in Tongues and building yourself up.