Every believer should pray in tongues as God gives you the utterance. Jude 1:20 says " But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the holy spirit." Many people believe you shouldn't pray in tongues or that "tongues" aren't for today. I beg to differ, we should pray in the tongues and its for today. Also, it's important not to so focused on tongues that you miss the point. In fact, speaking in tongues is evidence that you have his spirit. And, be careful because those who " speak in tongues" are sometimes not of God.
We pray with understanding. God knows the thoughts of our hearts and understands the intent his word does not return void.
It does one of two things, either it as it is written gives us the desires of our heart or he turns away from it.
Tongues is a sign of those who
rebel against prophecy .That law of interpretation is not subject to change or turn upside down .It applies to the whole bible.
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Clearly it does not say tongues is a sign to those who do believe the word of God’s prophecy,found in his book of prophecy .Seeking after things seen destroys the gospel and does not add to it.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1Co 1:22
Joh 4:48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see "signs and wonders", ye will not believe.........(No faith coming from God.)
There is no good news connected to seeking after that seen as a sign. The Holy Spirit attributes that to a evil generation the generation of Adam, natural unconverted man. They must walk by sight as their source of no faith, coming from God..
Prophecy for those who believe God. Its an evil generation that seeks after as sign .Signs are used for observation not to seek after in a hope they provide an outward evidence a person has become born again.
He who lives in the believer witnesses daily to our born again spirits by unseen work of His faith that works in us to both will and do His good pleasure.
To repeat what the apostate Jews performed by requiring as sign before they believe is to follow another gospel another Christ. We walk by faith (the unseen ) not by sight as that seen . For who hopes for what they think they already have and call it a witness? All saints die not receiving the end of their faith a new incorruptible body.