Bring others into the intimacy

[VERMAURICE BROWN]

Bring others into the intimacy

Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer,
say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying?
1 Corinthians 14:15-17

So, when you pray in your private prayer language, don’t hoard the experience for yourself. Pray for the insight and
ability to bring others into that intimacy. If I pray in tongues, my spirit prays but my mind lies fallow, and all that
intelligence is wasted. So what’s the solution? The answer is simple enough. Do both. I should be spiritually free and
expressive as I pray, but I should also be thoughtful and mindful as I pray. I should sing with my spirit, and sing with
my mind. If you give a blessing using your private prayer language, which no one else understands, how can some outsider
who has just shown up and has no idea what’s going on know when to say “Amen”? Your blessing might be beautiful, but you
have very effectively cut that person out of it.