Scripture: Genesis 18:19
Genesis 18:19 says, “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and
his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice,
that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.” One of God’s primary
assignments for Abraham was to keep the way of the Lord and the way of the Lord consisted
of two things. One was to do righteousness so that we could do the next which is judgment.
What do we find out about tongues? We find that tongues always brings a plumbline of
righteousness and a measuring line of judgment. It establishes that in us so we become the
living walking agent of His righteousness and the representative of His justice. When we pray
in tongues and then follow God’s lead, we get to declare His declarations where needed and
thereby becomes His voice to advance God’s purposes in the earth. When the church is not
the agent of righteousness and cannot carry a plumb-line of judgment, then we can end up
losing our nation because the church becomes saltless. That is a complete forfeiture of our
covenant of salt. The Kingdom is not then established in our life and through us as it should
be. What Abraham walked out in the Old Testament, God gave us access to, but God also
gave us a way to pray it into existence. One way to activate this judicial calling is through
praying in tongues!