I was prayed over in tongues

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Larry1700 said:
How many times did you go before it happened to you? I really wanted it to happen, but nothing did.
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The first time - I came without knowing anything about it. I came because I wanted to please my mom who bought an admission ticket. It was about $100 for food and other things…well, it costed my mom a lot. It turned out my obedience to my mom was the best decision I ever made in my life.

However, I don’t pray in tongue right now. I let it happen in God’s will. So, it did happen to me for the first 2 days. It’s been a year now without that happening again.

My advices for you are - you need to think about why you really wanted this to happen. What is the purpose of having the gifts? What would you do about it? Would it make you better than anybody or would it hep you humble yourself and know that you are a sinner?

Pray that the Holy Spirit guides you and helps you closer to God according to His way - not the way you wanted. In the mean time, try to be prayful, attend masses, regular confession, do charitable works. Pray that God help you to love to pray and to know what He wants of you. Don’t get so caught up with the gifts that you loose the purpose and responsibilities that God has given you.

I don’t want to sound like I am teaching you, but I only said from what I know it is more important to me, and I thought it might be important to you as well - praying the Rosary, Divine Mercy, Eucharistic Adoration…these are the few things that you should do - they have been given us for years and they have been ignored for years.

God bless.
 
The reason for this caution is because I have seen some cases where people even got jealous of others about who got what gifts. I had also been asked if there were any more gifts I recieved … comparing and contrasting…I have seen people thinking that those with the gifts are the holy ones. In fact, at the time I spoke in tongue, I was in the worst shape of my spiritual life.

It is easier to think for oneself he is better than others than to see himself the lowest of the lowest. That is just human weakness. So, be careful and be prayful.

God bless.
 
Larry1700 said:
Yeah, that’s something I neglected to mention in my previous post regarding my (failed) charismatic experience. I wondered if those who said they were prophesying and speaking in tongues were just faking it – perhaps even to themselves.
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I use to think that people who spoke in tongues were faking it also. And to be honest, I think I would still think that if God hadn’t humbled me and let me experience it myself!

Is it okay for me to suggest that your charismatic experience wasn’t a failure just because you didn’t speak in tongues?

Tongues is a gift of the Spirit, but it isn’t the only gift. And St. Paul seems to refer to it in 1Corinthians as the ‘least’ of the gifts. Is it possible the Spirit gifted you with something else and maybe you didn’t recognize it because you were so focused on tongues? It’s just a thought!
 
Deidre said:
Is it okay for me to suggest that your charismatic experience wasn’t a failure just because you didn’t speak in tongues?
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That’s a good point to bring up. There are quite some people whom I know do not have the gift of tongues, but surely their love for God and neighbors is amazingly increasing, and that is the most important gift.
 
I’ve never heard of charistmatic spirituality mixed into a Light of the World retreats, which has a pretty set format, and is supposed to be a kergyma, or “proclaiming” retreat.
 
Deidre said:
I use to think that people who spoke in tongues were faking it also. And to be honest, I think I would still think that if God hadn’t humbled me and let me experience it myself!
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Yes, I realize that I can’t definitively say they faked it, and I hope you didn’t take it that way. All I was saying is that I **wondered **if they were. I appreciate your personal testimony.
Is it okay for me to suggest that your charismatic experience wasn’t a failure just because you didn’t speak in tongues?
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All I know is that I experienced nothing at all, during or after the event. I sincerely wanted to experience something, and I think I sincerely believed in it. I don’t know why nothing happened to me, and quite frankly, it concerns me.
Tongues is a gift of the Spirit, but it isn’t the only gift. And St. Paul seems to refer to it in 1Corinthians as the ‘least’ of the gifts. Is it possible the Spirit gifted you with something else and maybe you didn’t recognize it because you were so focused on tongues? It’s just a thought!
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I’m aware of this verse, and have thought about it many times, but I can’t figure out what my gift is.
 
Larry1700 said:
All I know is that I experienced nothing at all, during or after the event. I sincerely wanted to experience something, and I think I sincerely believed in it. I don’t know why nothing happened to me, and quite frankly, it concerns me.
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Have we ever received everything we ask of God right away? No- Even if you sincerely wanted to experience something, you just leave it up to God and He knows what and when is best for you.

From what I saw and heard before, some people thought something wrong with others who did not receive the gifts. On the other hands, some people thought they were holy because they had the gifts. Others said to others …oh they were such holy because they got the gifts.

This is the reason why I mentioned earlier about being prideful.

I don’t want you to give up your hope but keep praying and following God’s will.

God bless.
 
Larry1700 said:
Yes, I realize that I can’t definitively say they faked it, and I hope you didn’t take it that way. All I was saying is that I **wondered **if they were. I appreciate your personal testimony.

All I know is that I experienced nothing at all, during or after the event. I sincerely wanted to experience something, and I think I sincerely believed in it. I don’t know why nothing happened to me, and quite frankly, it concerns me.

I’m aware of this verse, and have thought about it many times, but I can’t figure out what my gift is.
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Ahhh! I know that feeling well!

When God gifted me with tongues, it wasn’t the type of gift I could pull out and use whenever I wanted to! (Some people can, I think!) And I really think that the real gift was the sense of humility that I experienced - which came gift-wrapped in tongues, if that makes any sense!

But I’ve also spent time going through that list of gifts of the spirit trying to identify my gift so I could put it to use. It’s very frustrating not to be able to identify one special thing as my gift! But I don’t think it means that I don’t have any gifts, just because I can’t identify what it is.

After giving it some thought, I think maybe - for me anyway - it might be best that way! If this makes any sense, I think if I knew what it was God was expecting of me, in my desire to please Him, I would rush right in and try to do things my way. And if I’m doing the work, I’ll probably screw it all up, because my ways aren’t His ways. But if He can work through me when I’m not even aware that He’s doing so, I can’t mess it up for Him!

I think if you’re just open to His will, and willing to let Him use you as an instrument, that’s a gift in itself!

I don’t know if any of this helps! But I really think God might be using you for his purpose, even if you can’t identify how. So please don’t feel discouraged!
 
LoverofChrist said:
Last night at our LOTW retreat I was prayed over in tongues. One of the men had me and another gentleman stand in front of the statue of Mary and a total of 1 man and 2 women began to pray over us. It started in English and then I was no longer able to understand the words. After the man had been praying in tongues for a while he spoke in English and I am assuming he was translating what he had been saying. It was a beautiful message from Mary. He then finished in the words that I could not understand. I walked away wondering if it was real. I had only met this man over the weekend but I know the 2 women very well. Both women are very spiritual and the man seems to be also. I can not believe that they would try to fool anyone by doing that and yet I felt like it wasn’t real. I thought about it a great deal of the night and this morning I am thinking that I am the problem and that I am not believing like I should and that I am in need of tearing down some walls. My questions are, was what happened last night real? If it was real, how do I believe? How do I reach the place in myself that allows me to believe? Thanks for any help on this one! God Bless:blush:
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I was raised in an assemblies of God church where people spoke in tongues every church service. I felt the same way you expressed in your post. The main problem I had with it was that they did not follow the prescription for speaking in tongues as outlined in the Bible: I Corinthians 14:27-28, *“If anyone speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, each taking his turn; and let one person interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let the those persons keep silence in the church and speak to themselves and to God”. *The issue I had with the thing was that the preacher would ask the entire congregation to speak in tongues. There must have been 1,000 to 3,000 people in the congregation, possibly speaking in tongues, not always interpreted. I know that the Holy Spirit will never contradict Himself, and what had happened didn’t seem to follow the very commandment from the Bible about speaking in tongues. So I had doubts about it. I understand how it could be questioned. I do believe some may have the gift of tongues, but I’m not sure how many people authentically have the gift. But I understand where you’re coming from.
 
Deidre said:
Ahhh! I know that feeling well!

When God gifted me with tongues, it wasn’t the type of gift I could pull out and use whenever I wanted to! (Some people can, I think!) And I really think that the real gift was the sense of humility that I experienced - which came gift-wrapped in tongues, if that makes any sense!

But I’ve also spent time going through that list of gifts of the spirit trying to identify my gift so I could put it to use. It’s very frustrating not to be able to identify one special thing as my gift! But I don’t think it means that I don’t have any gifts, just because I can’t identify what it is.

After giving it some thought, I think maybe - for me anyway - it might be best that way! If this makes any sense, I think if I knew what it was God was expecting of me, in my desire to please Him, I would rush right in and try to do things my way. And if I’m doing the work, I’ll probably screw it all up, because my ways aren’t His ways. But if He can work through me when I’m not even aware that He’s doing so, I can’t mess it up for Him!

I think if you’re just open to His will, and willing to let Him use you as an instrument, that’s a gift in itself!

I don’t know if any of this helps! But I really think God might be using you for his purpose, even if you can’t identify how. So please don’t feel discouraged!
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Thanks Deidre. I would appreciate it if you would say a prayer for me for this purpose.
 
Mijoy2 said:
I have such a difficult time with this concept. I’ve never witnessed it nor can I imagine what the experience is like.

Does one not have control of the syllables exiting ones mouth or is one participating? In other words is it somewhat involuntary, or is it speaking what comes to mind in a rapid manner where the words or noises do not conform to english (for english speaking people). Is it trancelike?

My only experience is a tape I have heard on the Bible Answer Man broadcast of (I believe) Kenneth Copeland having a conversation in tongues with some other protastant preacher. To be perfectly honest it sounded as though these men were almost delibrately putting on a show. They were laughing and conversing in a ridiculous manner.

Genuine question I am trying to understand.
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I am not blessed with the Gift of Tongues, but my beautiful mother is. It freaked me out at first, but I have grown to love the Charismatic Masses. Our Beloved Pope John Paul II spoke in tongues also. I was a lapsed catholic for many years, and it was 1 particular Priest and the Charismatic Masses which brought me back wholly into my beloved Church. I thank and Praise God for that.

I have never understood what anyone was speaking in tongues… I think it is personal between them and the Lord.

I don’t think it is for everyone, for me it took a bit of time for it to grow on me. And it has grown on me and so has my love for Christ and his sufferings. I feel such love in the CM’s. Leave it up to God and the Holy Spirit to guide you in your path.

I have been annointed with Holy Oils and have fallen down with the spirit and i felt the hand of God touch my lips. I have never felt such an experience before. It was life changing. I have seen one woman who just giggles when she is annointed, i think it is a wonderful sign that the Holy Spirit is working in us.

God’s blessings be yours.
 
hi everybody. i’m fairly new here and i found the topic of speaking in tongues quite interesting. i attended a christian living program seminar very recently and i too was prayed over in tongues. i had questions about this gift. i mean, i do believe that it does genuinely happen but how do you determine that it is so? i asked the person who spoke in tongues if she had the gift of interpretation also since St. Paul clearly encouraged followers that if they seek the gift of tongues that they also pray to receive the gift of interpretation. our “Spiritual” lead said having the gift of interpretation does not necessarily go side by side with tongues! is that not a contradiction of what St. Paul said that he’d rather speak 5 intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand in a tongue, that a person who speaks in tongues but does not interpret edifies himself alone? the one who spoke in tongues could not tell me what she said and nor could the two others who prayed over me and instead of me worshipping with them during that prayer session i felt almost like something wasn’t right. the group who led the seminar is purporting to be catholic but i just find that their practice of the gift of tongues almost misguided although i’m not exactly an authority to say for sure. this group observes The Lord’s Day too, which is again not Catholic Practice. I was invited by our Catholic spiritual lead to go to one but i said that practicing it makes a mockery of the Holy Eucharist. if anybody out there has some useful answers, do reply to this post. Thanks!
 
green_apple said:
hi everybody. i’m fairly new here and i found the topic of speaking in tongues quite interesting. i attended a christian living program seminar very recently and i too was prayed over in tongues. i had questions about this gift. i mean, i do believe that it does genuinely happen but how do you determine that it is so? i asked the person who spoke in tongues if she had the gift of interpretation also since St. Paul clearly encouraged followers that if they seek the gift of tongues that they also pray to receive the gift of interpretation. our “Spiritual” lead said having the gift of interpretation does not necessarily go side by side with tongues! is that not a contradiction of what St. Paul said that he’d rather speak 5 intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand in a tongue, that a person who speaks in tongues but does not interpret edifies himself alone? the one who spoke in tongues could not tell me what she said and nor could the two others who prayed over me and instead of me worshipping with them during that prayer session i felt almost like something wasn’t right. the group who led the seminar is purporting to be catholic but i just find that their practice of the gift of tongues almost misguided although i’m not exactly an authority to say for sure. this group observes The Lord’s Day too, which is again not Catholic Practice. I was invited by our Catholic spiritual lead to go to one but i said that practicing it makes a mockery of the Holy Eucharist. if anybody out there has some useful answers, do reply to this post. Thanks!
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Hi,

Welcome to the forums! You will find that praying in tongues is a very controversial subject here!

Personally I feel uncomfortable when I hear anyone praying in tongues and would feel very uncomfortable if those prayers were directed at me!

However, with that being said, I have experienced praying in tongues myself! On each ocassion it was a very personal experience between God and me. I had no control over what I was praying - except that I could physically close my mouth if I wanted and I was able to keep my voice very soft so that others would not be uncomfortable.

I did not seek this gift out and I still don’t “try” to pray in tongues. I really prefer to know what I am praying. However, if the Holy Spirit feels I need help, I guess He’ll jump in and help me out again, and that’s fine with me! I trust Him completely, and I’ll take whatever He offers to help me grow spiritually.

I think the main thing is not to try to limit God. If we pray for the gift of tongues and won’t settle for any other, we’re limiting Him. If we refuse to accept that the gift exists, even though it’s clearly referenced in scripture, we’re also limiting Him.

It’s also important to discern the gifts we receive. If you suddenly find yourself praying in tongues but not growing in Christ, the gift may not be of the Spirit. You should be able to tell the gift by the fruit.
 
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