The Walk of the Spirit, the Walk of Power: The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues by Dave Roberson

Author:Dave Roberson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spiritual, Revelation, Christian Life, Christianity, Gifts, Religion, Glossolalia, Prayer, Pentecostal & Charismatic
ISBN: 9781929339105
Publisher: Dave Roberson Ministries
Published: 1999-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Overcoming Impasses In Prayer

God has filled me with compassion for people who start out all “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” in their commitment to pray in the Spirit, but then reach an impasse and stop praying before they enter into the glory on the other side.

An impasse is a spiritual plateau or dry place that generally occurs just before God is ready to move you to a higher place in His Spirit. I want to help you understand the nature of an impasse because there is so much waiting for you in the realm of God if you will press on in prayer.

You will have to push past many impasses if you plan to persevere in prayer, the first usually being the temptation to fall out of prayer. The devil will try everything he can think of to get you out of prayer.

But if the enemy doesn’t succeed in that, he still won’t totally give up. Instead, he will come from a new angle. He will try to deceive you any way he can to keep you from going higher in God.

But just keep praying. Eventually you will come to the place where you are so hungry for God that you won’t have to make yourself pray; it will be your heart’s desire. You’ll want to do whatever is necessary to draw closer to Him.

I know about impasses from personal experience. Day after day during my first year of ministry, I spent a certain amount of time praying in tongues. I was too stubborn to quit, even though there were times when every cell in my body screamed in resistance.

I have to admit it was hard for me to understand why something that was supposed to be so edifying was so hard to stick with. But since then I have come to understand why so many people who start out praying in tongues with such fervency sometimes become discouraged and give up.

Legalism and Condemnation Don’t Come From God

The first reason, as we already discussed, is that people often look for spectacular changes in their outward circumstances and miss the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit taking place on the inside. Another reason is that many people view prayer as something they have to do to avoid condemnation rather than as a blessed time of fellowship with the Father that brings eternal changes.

You see, the human creature is prone to legalism. There is nothing the devil likes more than to impose a set of legalistic rules on a person. Then when that person has a hard time keeping those rules, his confidence that God will move in his life is greatly shaken.

Let me give you a classic example. When a person finally commits to an early morning hour of prayer, he looks like a militant marching off to war. He has that look in his eyes that says, “By golly, don’t anyone try to stop me!” But all he has to do is miss one or two early morning sessions of prayer,

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