ACE #393: Just Ask

My daughter and I were riding in the car listening to the radio. In one of the songs, the soloist began speaking in tongues.  My daughter asked, "Mommy, what is that language they are speaking?"  I told her that it was a spiritual language, what people referred to as speaking in tongues, or Glossolalia.  Then she asked if she could learn to speak that language. 

I told her that speaking in tongues was a spiritual gift that should be used to edify the church.  If she desired that gift, it would be between she and God to develop it because only He could give it to her; but she had to ask God for it herself.  I told her that she could ask through prayer.  By the time I had turned around to look her in the face, she was already in prayer. When she opened her eyes, she said she had already had the conversation with God; she would just wait on His answer.

Never miss a teachable moment and never underestimate how much children know and understand about God.  With little children, you have to expect anything. So, be prepared. 

Whatever your prayer is today, believe God for the answer.  He does all things well on our behalf. 

Mark 11:24
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

 

 

"Just Ask In My Name"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLQQ4XDdHR0

1 Corinthians 12:8-118 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.