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Is there anyone here who has spoken in tongues? [Christian Only]

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  • #32
    JimiTime
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    PDN wrote: »
    I don't believe the ministry gift of delivering a message from God in tongues is rife


    'Delivering a message'? Is it understandable then? The tongues being referred to have been prayers which you have said you don't understand no?

    I see alot of folk in revivalist churches do this type of 'tongues', rather than the interpretted kind.
    - I know that in our church healing and prophecy would be more common.

    Could you give me examples of healings and prophecies experienced at your church? Just to assure you, I wish to scrutinise with the ambition of being convinced of the spirits work. I wholeheartedly believe that such things occurred back in Apostolic times, but I'm a bit of a doubting Thomas with regards to such claims these days. Mainly due to the amount of charlatans, as I'm sure you can appreciate.
    I find praying in tongues to be satisfying and beneficial in that it encourages people to spend more time in prayer, and leaves you feeling fulfilled in that you know your prayerts have 'hit the spot' since the Holy Spirit has been praying through you.

    Do you become overcome with joy or anything? Or is it the same as kneeling by your bedside praying in English, just in a different 'tongue'?

    I appreciate your input.


  • #33
    PDN
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    JimiTime wrote: »
    'Delivering a message'? Is it understandable then? The tongues being referred to have been prayers which you have said you don't understand no?

    I see alot of folk in revivalist churches do this type of 'tongues', rather than the interpretted kind.

    Jimi, you need to understand that spiritual gifts (which are only exercised by some Christians) also have an aspect that is available to all Christians. So, all Christians are expected to have faith and knowledge - but not all Christians have the spiritual gifts of faith and knowledge as described in 1 Corinthians Chapter 12.

    So, the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues, as I understand it, is when a Christians speaks forth a message from God to the Church in an unknown tongue which someone else then interprets into English (exercising the gift of interpretation of tongues). This is quite distinct from someone praying to God in tongues in private (when no interpretation occurs).
    Could you give me examples of healings and prophecies experienced at your church? Just to assure you, I wish to scrutinise with the ambition of being convinced of the spirits work. I wholeheartedly believe that such things occurred back in Apostolic times, but I'm a bit of a doubting Thomas with regards to such claims these days. Mainly due to the amount of charlatans, as I'm sure you can appreciate.
    I've heard prophecies that were fairly general, including encouragement and sometimes warnings. I heard one guy, in 1983, prophecy the collapse of the Soviet Union in 7 years time. I've also heard very specific prophecies given to people in amazing detail - such as calling them by their full names and telling them their date of birth where the speaker had never met them before.

    As for healings, we've seen some fairly dramatic incidences where people had been diagnosed with cancer, then got prayed for, then went back to the doctor who said they must have made a mistake because the x-rays are clear. Just three weeks ago I prayed with a former heroin addict who has had hepititis and HIV for a long time. He contacted me last week to say that his latest blood tests had come back totally negative for both diseases. Of course I must balance that by stressing that most people we pray for don't get healed. Miracles, by their very nature, are unusual events.

    Do you become overcome with joy or anything? Or is it the same as kneeling by your bedside praying in English, just in a different 'tongue'?

    I appreciate your input.
    Actually I often get overcome with joy when I'm praying in English! :)

    But when I pray in tongues I tend to get a feeling afterwards of quiet satisfaction - that the thing I prayed for has been sorted. And often I discover afterwards that is the case.


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