Pray Up Your Immune System!

1 Corinthians 14:4

4He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself…

Many Charismatics and Word of Faith folks believe that when you speak in tongues, you edify or build up your spirit man. Well, that is only one-third true. The Bible does not say that the speaker edifies his spirit. It says that the speaker edifies himself. This means his entire self — spirit, soul and body. So he who speaks in tongues builds up his spirit, soul and body.
Does this include building up your immune system? Yes, it does! Brain specialist Dr Carl Peterson of Oral Roberts University found out through scientific experiments that when a person prays in tongues, his brain releases two chemical secretions that help boost his body’s immune system by as much as 40 per cent.
Your immune system is your first line of defence against diseases. Remember the SARS outbreak in Singapore in 2003? Not everyone who had the disease died. Only those whose immune systems were weak died. So to boost their immune systems, many people resorted to pills and herbs.
According to Dr Peterson, the two chemical secretions that boost the immune system are released by one part of the brain which has no apparent human activity. And that part of the brain is stimulated by praying in tongues — no need for pills or herbs!
A 74-year-old church member decided to build up his immune system against more heart problems. For more than 30 years, two of his main veins were 70 per cent blocked and five smaller vessels were 80 per cent blocked. So during a church service, when I asked those who wanted to be healed of heart problems to stand up, he stood up, placed his hand over his heart and prayed in tongues.
He shared that at that moment, he believed that the Holy Spirit touched him and that he became a different person. When he went for his medical check-up, his surgeon found that all the blockages in his veins were gone! Even a scheduled heart-related operation was cancelled as there was no necessity for it. Indeed, he was a different person. He literally had a change of heart — a brand new heart from God!
Beloved, you may not have a heart condition like that brother did, but you can also pray in tongues and pray up your immune system!