Have you spoken in tongues?

[Charlie_Zeaiter]

I would like to see some storys about people here who have ever spoken in tongues.

Have you spoken in tongues in the past, but now realise that you were just kidding yourself?

Does anybody here speak in tongues? Is it a positive experience for you?

 

[swariffin]

I did once in a certain ritual. At least that what people around me told me so. But, I keep on denying. I do not believe that I was given the “talent” to speak in tongues. It was uncontrollable. I could not stop eventhough I tried to. I could hear the funny sort of sound. I was still in full consciousness so much that I could see everybody around me, heard and understood them. I could feel my tongue was some sort of vibrating inside my mouth uncontrollably. I never ever had that same experience again eventhough I join the same ritual again. Anyway, the language of tongue was given to specific persons and only for those persons. The language of tounge is not for everybody. But, there is no specialty of any person who can speak the language of tounge as compared to another people in the church.

 

[strngrnrth]

I spoke in tongues for the first time in private at a friend’s house when my friends were out. I asked God to give me something to say in a tongue I didn’ know. I opened my mouth and said something I had never heard before. As it sounded like Hebrew, I looked it up in a Hebrew dictionary and it meant something like “the love of God”. I am glad I had that experience. It feels really good.

 

[retrovert]

Yes, I was hood winked into thinking I was speaking tongues. A bunch of jiberish came out and they had me convinced it was from the Holy Spirit. I’m ashamed to say I bought into it and now realize it was only a psychological reaction to those around me in the prayer meeting I was attending.
This was at the beginning of the charismatic renewal many years ago and had the effect of driving me away from the church. I went “non-denominational” for many years and now, thank God, have returned to His True Church. It’s no wonder the chrismatic renewal has gone by the wayside. I can now see why a lot of people called us “charismaniacs”.

 

[water]

It happened to me when I was first actually truly praying the Rosary. Something happened to me but first I thought I imagined or did it on my own, but then I gave it up to God.

I don’t pray in tongue as it has not come to me. I don’t want to make up sound similar to what I had experienced. My life has been changing since and the Rosary is my favorite prayer.

Some people thought wrong about me when I said I could no longer praying in tongue. They could be right, but right now, for me, the Rosary and other prayers are what I know I need the most.

 

[dparker]

I have prayed/spoken in tongues for 35 years.

Received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit when I was 15. Completely changed my life. Praying ‘in the Spirit’ is so often best because the Bible says it is the Spirit giving utterance and He always knows what is needed.

It is no more emotional than native language prayer and is greatly edifying. Singing in tongues is also a frequent prayer/praise mode with me.

The Gifts of the Spirit and The Baptism of the Holy Spirit are very real and were normal Christian experience in the early church, according to Acts.

 

[Mimi]

I have prayed/spoken in tongues for 35 years.

Received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit when I was 15. Completely changed my life. Praying ‘in the Spirit’ is so often best because the Bible says it is the Spirit giving utterance and He always knows what is needed.

It is no more emotional than native language prayer and is greatly edifying. Singing in tongues is also a frequent prayer/praise mode with me.

The Gifts of the Spirit and The Baptism of the Holy Spirit are very real and were normal Christian experience in the early church, according to Acts.

Didn’t St. Paul say that if people who have the gift of tongues speak there should also be someone there who can inerpret (which is another gift of the Holy Spirit)?

Perhaps someone can look up the passage I’m referring to and quote it. I’ll do a little research myself meantime.

I was involved in the Charismatic mvmt too, some yrs ago ('80’s) and perhaps rec’d toungues, but don’t think it is very important anymore. I do think I was “slain in the Spirit” though. Nothing monumental happened. We were standing in a circle praying, holding hands (maybe not, though), and reciting the Our Father. I had a passing thought of “God, it’d be interesting to know what it’s like to experience being ‘slain in the Spirit’”, or something like that, just a fleeting thought, and BAM - next thing I knew I was lying on the floor. My head had brushed up against a metal folding chair, but I hadn’t felt a thing! No bruises, nothing hurt. People were asking me if I was okay. Guess I laid there for a few seconds. Then I got up; felt fine. Actually, I felt a little sheepish about the thought I’d had. I was happy that God only gave me a tiny evidence of power bc I was apparently not in need of anything more. I took the incidence to mean that it’s not necessary to see or experience phenomenon like being “slain”, but to seek Him and keep being faithful.

Yeah, Charis-maniacs; heard that one before!
I liked the exuberant Masses, though. I used to play in a guitar group for them sometimes.

Mimi

 

[cheese_sdc]

I have spoken in tongues.

However, it was tied into the spiritually and mental abusive family/prayer group I was a part of at the time, and I avoid any resemblance of it now.

 

[retrovert]

Slain in the Spirit! Ah, that’s another thing. I don’t know how many times I saw people look behind them for someone to catch them before they were “slain in the spirit”. More psychological/emotional gobbeldy gook…

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

I would like to see some storys about people here who have ever spoken in tongues.

Have you spoken in tongues in the past, but now realise that you were just kidding yourself?

Does anybody here speak in tongues? Is it a positive experience for you?

I have spoken in genuine “missionary tongues” in the past. Basically, the Holy Spirit spoke through me in a known earthly language to a person who speaks that language. In each instance of this there was a third party witness, whom simply saw that we were having a conversation in that person’s native language.

No, I have never spoken in gibberish because it was salient that what was going on was nonsense produced by immitation of others who were acting out of their flesh. Scripture does not teach that there is a seperate kind of tongue known as a “prayer language”.

Read Acts 2 on pentecost the Holy Spirit gave the early Christians only known earthly languages to speak.

Basically, I view the tongues movement as being simply psychological, in group vs out group dymatics.

 

[He_Man]

I am quite adept at speaking with tongues. Chewing also.

 

[b_justb]

Mimi:

Didn’t St. Paul say that if people who have the gift of tongues speak there should also be someone there who can inerpret (which is another gift of the Holy Spirit)?

Perhaps someone can look up the passage I’m referring to and quote it. I’ll do a little research myself meantime.

I think these are the verses you were looking for:

1 Cor. 14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.

All of this chapter deals with tongues and other gifts of the Spirit.

I also like these verses which I believe describes tongues as a prayer language, which is what I think you might be asking about:

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. 27 And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

1 Cor 14:2 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

I believed I have, and continue to, pray in the Spirit. I sometimes don’t get to when I want to or desire to. I just sit and wait but silence is all that I meet. That is fine too, it’s good for me to learn to just listen.

But I have never gone up to a stranger and spoke in a language I don’t know that he does and proclaim the Gospel of Christ to him in that language. Nor have I spoken in my native language and had someone tell me they heard the Gospel of Christ in his own language, like Peter did in Acts 2. Nope, I’ve never done anything even close to that.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

Look into the psychological research into tongue speaking.

Basically, pick up a tape of an earthly language that most americans would not know. A tape of known message or passage of scripture. Then play this tape for those who claim to have the gift of interpretation. What you will find is simply no one will give the correct interpretation period. This experiment has been repeated often by believers and by unbelievers. Never has anyone even come close to the correct interpretation of said tapes, no NOT ONCE.

 

[East_and_West]

I would like to see some storys about people here who have ever spoken in tongues.

Have you spoken in tongues in the past, but now realise that you were just kidding yourself?

Does anybody here speak in tongues? Is it a positive experience for you?

I used to “speak in tongues” in high school. Looking back now, I think it was pretty silly considering that God is calling us to a SOBER inebriation. Not the emotional silliness and fenzies of the charismatic movement. We must remember that the Charismatic movement is a NOVELTY, MODERNISM, that has never been seen in the Church. It actually finds its roots in a non-Christian form of Pentecostalism. Not a very good place to find spirituality.

 

[strngrnrth]

A woman came to my last church as a prophet and was very polite, very patient, said what she had to say at the end of the service, and then the pastor asked her to pray in her prayer language. It sounded like Spanish and I caught what would probably mean “what is made” and a few other recognizable phrases in it, but I’m not sure that it was Spanish, as I don’t speak much of that language. I might have been Portuguese or another Romance language.

 

[Ahimsa]

Read the book Thank God for Evolution!, by Rev. Michael Dowd. He discusses the psychological benefits of ‘speaking in tongues’.

 

[dparker]

Didn’t St. Paul say that if people who have the gift of tongues speak there should also be someone there who can interpret (which is another gift of the Holy Spirit)?

That is the Gift of Tongues. As we read Acts, Corinthians, and Romans, it is clear that there are two different types of ‘tongues’.

Paul says that a message in tongues with interpretation (in the church) should be no more than three. Here is Paul’s description of the gift at work in an early church assembly…

I Cor 14:26-33 *26 What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret; 28 but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment. 30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted; 32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
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The second type is observed in Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-47, Acts 19:1-6, and is discussed by Paul in 1 Cor 14 too.

I Cor 14:14 *14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also. *

Remember, it is Paul that also wrote: I Cor 14:18 * I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all* and I Cor 14:39 Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

The difference between the Gift of Tongues and the Prayer Language is that all do not have the Gift of Tongues (message with interpretation) but that all CAN have the prayer language as a result of th Holy Spirit’s work. One is from God to Man (the message with interpretation) and the other is prayer from Man to God as the Spirit gives utterance. Similar, but operating in two different directions with different purposes.

 

[sanboribobo]

well speaking in tongues,what is the motive behind it?

 

[mozart-250]

I would like to see some storys about people here who have ever spoken in tongues.

Have you spoken in tongues in the past, but now realise that you were just kidding yourself?

Does anybody here speak in tongues? Is it a positive experience for you?

On occasions yes (as a prayer language). I would say it has generally been positive. At the same time my Christian life / experience does not center around this. Neither do I believe that it is particularly indicative of a greater spirituality on behalf of those that have this gift.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

That is the Gift of Tongues. As we read Acts, Corinthians, and Romans, it is clear that there are two different types of ‘tongues’.

Paul says that a message in tongues with interpretation (in the church) should be no more than three. Here is Paul’s description of the gift at work in an early church assembly…

I Cor 14:26-33 *26 What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret; 28 but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment. 30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted; 32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
*

The second type is observed in Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-47, Acts 19:1-6, and is discussed by Paul in 1 Cor 14 too.

I Cor 14:14 *14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also. *

Remember, it is Paul that also wrote: I Cor 14:18 * I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all* and I Cor 14:39 Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

The difference between the Gift of Tongues and the Prayer Language is that all do not have the Gift of Tongues (message with interpretation) but that all CAN have the prayer language as a result of th Holy Spirit’s work. One is from God to Man (the message with interpretation) and the other is prayer from Man to God as the Spirit gives utterance. Similar, but operating in two different directions with different purposes.

Ah, you are just reading your opinion into scripture. Take the time to outline each book of the NT to determine the flow of argument. The greek word for tongue(s) simply means language(s), nothing more. You could argue that the gift of tongues can be employed in different ways, prayer language, delivering a message of encouragement, teaching, prophecy to the church, or even as missionary language like in Acts 2. But, it is the SAME gift employed in different ways. I Cor 14:28 plainly teaches if there is NO interpretation in the church, stay quiet.