How often do you pray in tongues 1cor 12

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1cor 12 and 14 . praying in tongues in the spirit.
Tongues and interpretation
Tongues for personal edification
 
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I’ve had days where I felt like this though!
 
To be honest, I don’t believe anyone prays in tongues. I think it is ALL made up or comes from a source other than God.
 
Speaking in tongues (different foreign languages) AND a heavenly language definitely exists… Theres just a lot of confusion about it in our days. Read 1 Corinthians chapters 12 and 13 all the way through. Context is to be understood as well.
 
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Answer to the question of OP, no. Answer to the Catholics I personally know who pray in tongues, 3. Unasked question as to how many Catholics I personally know: flippant answer 30% of them, guestimate thousands. (Hey, I ain’t no spring chicken).

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Stephie
 
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Right. Maybe I misunderstood the context of the question, but I thought I’d might throw that out three because many think only the foreign language part of that gift exists, rather than the heavenly language. Yes, praying in tongues and speaking in tongues can e considered different. I do like the analogy 🙂
 
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I was brought up in a classic pentecostal denomination and spent a lot of years in pentecostal / charismatic / “word of faith” churches.

As for now, how often to I pray in tongues?

Not at all. And if you ever see or hear me praying or speaking in tongues, you will KNOW that, in the immortal words of Ray Stevens (“Mississippi Squirrel Revival”), “somethin’s gotta hold on me!”. I’m not going to make myself speak gibberish and pretend that it comes from the Holy Spirit.

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I was brought up in a classic pentecostal denomination and spent a lot of years in pentecostal / charismatic / “word of faith” churches.

As for now, how often to I pray in tongues?

Not at all. And if you ever see or hear me praying or speaking in tongues, you will KNOW that, in the immortal words of Ray Stevens (“Mississippi Squirrel Revival”), “somethin’s gotta hold on me!”. I’m not going to make myself speak gibberish and pretend that it comes from the Holy Spirit.

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Would you be willing to acknowledge that there are people who honestly believe that what we’re doing is in fact from the Holy Spirit even if you are convinced it is not?
 
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Protestant innovation from the turn of the 20th century that crept into Catholicism in the 60’s.
 
Jimmy Akin doesn’t seem to agree:
Some of the confusion concerns the nature of the gift. One idea is that tongues is a mode of utterance that can be understood by anyone regardless of his native language. Another is that tongues are a “private prayer language” that is uniquely created by the Holy Spirit for each tongues-speaker. Neither idea is correct, and both stem from a failure to appreciate what the word “tongues” means. Contemporary English speakers often look on the term as if it were mysterious and hard to understand. It’s not. When discussing speech, “tongues” has a simple and established meaning. It just means “languages.” [Emphasis added]
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The second misunderstanding of the gift-that tongues is a spontaneous, Spirit-created “private prayer language” – is rebuffed by the text of Scripture. As the multinational crowd gathered on the day of Pentecost showed, the languages in which the apostles spoke were real human languages that could be understood by anyone who spoke them (Acts 2:11). This has prompted some Pentecostals and charismatics to assert that the gift of tongues in Acts is different from the gift of tongues mentioned by Paul, but there is no basis for that. The claim would appear to be rooted in many Pentecostals’ and charismatics’ awareness that what they are speaking in is not a real language (not to say that the gift of tongues doesn’t occur; it does, just not as frequently as some claim). Paul nowhere hints that the phenomenon he refers to as “speaking in languages” (Greek, glossais lalon, from which we get “glossalalia”) is different from the phenomenon his companion Luke referred to by the same name when writing Acts. [Emphasis added]
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I worked as a technician in the 90s for an alarm company on the bad side of town. We shared a common hallway and restroom with other offices in the building, one of which was this non-denominational strip mall church.

I had to come in late one night and the “church” had some service going on, and there were one or two people babbling in the hallway, walking around in a daze. My first thought was to call the police or an ambulance when I suddenly recalled someone warning me about this “phenomena” if I had to work late. Never seen anything like it. It was like a zombie movie. I guess they were speaking in tongues. Spooky.

That was the only experience I have had seeing people speak in tongues. I hope it never happens again.
 
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Would you be willing to acknowledge that there are people who honestly believe that what we’re doing is in fact from the Holy Spirit even if you are convinced it is not?
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Yes, I believe that they believe that what they are doing is of the Holy Spirit.

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Never. Teaching from this FSSP priest says what we call “praying in tongues” is not so. “Tongues’” origins are from Protestantism, notably Pentacostalism and therefore not from God.

 
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