Silently Praying In Tongues???

[Princess Of Yahweh]

I have prayed for a long time for God to allow me to pray in tongues but as yet I have not. Recently however whilst at a Christian Conference I was praying and my lips and tongue just started to move and I was still praying but not specifically or anything I can't really explain. I have found a few references online to praying silent in tongues but I'd never heard about it before. Is it possible?

 

[bibleblevr]

Absolutely it is! Paul says that If you don't have an interpreter, (which I assume you didn't) than you should speak quietly to God. you did the right thing.

Tounges are something you need to be careful with though, God doesn't give gifts for them to be made into a spectacle!!! and It Is disgusting to him when people get whipped into an over emotional froth and blabber like children!!!!!!! That is not the Holy Spirit, God is a God of order

tounges are to express the groanings of the Holy Sprit in you which you don't have words to say. It is a sacred and serios act not one born of exitment

I fully beleve in tounges only because I spoke in it by acedent while praying in the shower. I had never heard people speak in tounges before and was freaked out. Until then I thought it was something idiots did in an act of pride or emotion. Since then I put much study into tounges and found it is one of the most misused and faked spiritial gifts in the bible.

It is hard to find someone who speaks in tounges and has not seen someone else do it first.

If you want the Gift of Tounges Pray that your Heart is right! Make sure you are praying for it for the corect resons!( If it is to get closer to God than just ask to be closer to him he will figure out what you need to do that)

May God Bless!!!

 

[Elijah2]

Yes, when we don't know what to say in prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ, we can pray silently from our heart, and when the heart speaks, it speak in a foreign language.

When we speak out aloud in tongues, then there must be an interpretation of the tongue.

So what happend to you was Biblical, but be very cautious as sometimes too much information can be dangerous and there are many who become obsessed with it, and then go overboard and fall to the "wiles of the enemy"

Yes, this is between you and our Lord Jesus Christ, and it's refreshing to hear another believer being aware of the Spiritual Gifts without desiring it.

Paul says that if we desire the Spiritual Gifts then if the time is right those gifts will be granted.

Keep praying in the Spirit if you don't know what you have to say.

Sometimes when praying for a person, I have no idea what they need, or what to pray, so I silently pray in tongues and the words soon come from the Holy Spirit.

Blessings.

 

[BillynJennifer]

When we speak out aloud in tongues, then there must be an interpretation of the tongue.

This is a personal interpretation. There is no scripture that designates that "praying in the Spirit" or praying in tongues--out loud--has to be interpreted.

 

[SharonL]

Tongues only have to have an interpretation when spoken to the congregation or a group of people, when you speak it aloud it is your prayer language between you and God and interpretation is not necessary.

Tongues carries the power of the Holy Spirit - when you pray in tongues, things happen. Don't become concerned that what you are saying is not of God - you will know by the Holy Spirit - You can sing to God in tongues, talk to Him, when you are praying for someone and you don't know their needs, you can pray in tongues silently.

It is a gift from God - you don't need to try and improve it or worry what it is, just use it - it is a gift.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Using the gift of tongues is something we do in faith. There is a real danger of waiting for something else to move our tongue and lips without any action of faith on our part. Without faith it is impossible to please God, so if some "force" moves the lips and tongue causing some sort of language to come out, then it cannot be of God because He requires us to use His gifts by our faith. The Holy Spirit inspires the words behind the gift of tongues, but we have to do the actual speaking in faith. It is like "making up" the language, but the difference between this and speaking nonsense is our faith. As we step out and start speaking words that we "think" we are making up, what comes out is a language that becomes fluent very quickly. When we are fluent, we don't have time to make it up, so we then know for sure that the Holy Spirit is inspiring the words. But we don't passively open our mouths and expect some other "force" to move our tongue and lips without us making any effort. The devil can quite easily pretend to be the Holy Spirit and can give a counterfeit if we are being passive. Faith is active, not passive.

Also, if a person waits for some hyped up emotional feeling before speaking in tongues, then that is not faith either, because the person is depending on emotions and not on God's promises. Many have received counterfeits from the devil through the misunderstanding that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is an "experience". We must remember that the Holy Spirit lives in our spirit, below our physical being and our emotions.

It is a pity that the emotional "experience" thing has been, and still is, supported and encouraged by many Pentecostal and Charismatic pastors and leaders with disastrous results.

So we approach the gift of tongues through faith - receiving the infilling of the Spirit by faith by asking for Him and receiving Him into our spirit by faith - then stepping out in faith and speaking in tongues, believing that what we are speaking is the prayer language that God understands and appreciates.

 

[Elijah2]

This is a personal interpretation. There is no scripture that designates that "praying in the Spirit" or praying in tongues--out loud--has to be interpreted.

1 Cor. 14:6-19 is written in regards to “Tongues Must Be Interpreted”: “...Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he many interpret. For it I pray in tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful...”

1 Cor. 14:26-31 is written in regards to the “Order in Church Meetings”: “...If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent...”

In verse 13 it gives the reason why “tongues” must be interpreted, so that the assembly might be edified. In verse 14, states the reason for verse 13. If one prays in an un-interpreted tongue, then “his understanding is unfruitful”. Paul’s point is not that the speaker does not understand, but that his own understanding (nous) is unfruitful with respect to the assembly when it is not interpreted.

Paul said LET someone interpret (v. 27). There should be SOMEONE to interpret each message. There does not need to be a CERTAIN one.

Blessings

 

[JimB]

The thread begs an interesting question:

Can a deaf mute pray in tongues?

Can someone born without a tongue pray in tongues?

~Jim

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.​

 

[Elijah2]

The thread begs an interesting question:

Can a deaf mute pray in tongues?

Can someone born without a tongue pray in tongues?

~Jim

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.​

Interesting Jim, so what is your answers to your question?

Blessings.

 

[Giver]

I have prayed for a long time for God to allow me to pray in tongues but as yet I have not. Recently however whilst at a Christian Conference I was praying and my lips and tongue just started to move and I was still praying but not specifically or anything I can't really explain. I have found a few references online to praying silent in tongues but I'd never heard about it before. Is it possible?

Not for me it isn't.

 

[JimB]

The thread begs an interesting question:

Can a deaf mute pray in tongues?

Can someone born without a tongue pray in tongues?

~Jim

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.​

Interesting Jim, so what is your answers to your question?

Blessings.

Praying in tongues is, IMO, equivalent to praying in the Spirit (or spirit). Some prayers cannot be uttered and are inner groanings. This is as much "praying in the Spirit" as is praying in tongues (with your tongue).

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Romans 8.26)

~Jim

Faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.​

 

[Peaceful Dove]

I have been in the Charismatic Renewal for over 40 years now. I have sat under and taught many Scripture Studies on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture talks about 3 and variations of those 3 kinds of tongues.

1st is the gift of tongues as given at Pentecost. This type of tongues are the ones where a person speaks in a tongue of a known language although totally unknown to the speaker. I have seen this gift in action several times. The speakers I witnessed spoke in an Indian (India) language, one in a Chinese dialect, one in Old Gaelic. My friend tells me of a person speaking in an African Tribal language and an old woman from Africa being present to hear and understand. Each of these tongues were Praising the Holy Trinity.

2nd is the Tongue that requires an interpreter. In my experience, this is the rarest of tongue gifts. I have seen this gift only a few times and one time I had the gift of "interpretation" but didn't speak it out but someone else did, speaking exactly the Words I heard in my Spirit. There was a time in Southern Calfornia during a Prayer Meeting when a van load of Down Syndrom adults was brought. These were severe cases, some in wheel chairs and most could not speak much at all. However, in the Spirit they were Speaking in tongues and Interpreting perfectly clearly. They were exhibiting many of the "Word" gifts, including the gift of the Word of Knowledge and Prophesy. I have to tell you that we, including a Catholic Charismatic Priest were stunned by this show of the Power of the Holy Spirit. Every word spoken could be tested against scripture and be found solid.

The 3rd type is what we call our "prayer language". Scripture says when we do not know how to pray, the Spirit will pray through and for us. This is the most common form of the Gift of tongues. We praise God in tongues when we simply run out of words in our own language. We also sing in tongues of Praise and Worship.

We look for the Fruits. That will be the first sign that they are from God.

As I mentioned there are variations of these three tongues and I think that may be why some Christians claim there are 4 types. However, I am very open to hearing more about the fourth one.

Blessings

 

[Elijah2]

The fourth one that I know of is labelled as a false or counterfeit tongue, and sometimes referred to a demonic tongue. I've heard this gutteral tongue on a number of ocassions and my spirit felt uneasy when I heard these people speak and when around them.

Blessings.

 

[Peaceful Dove]

The fourth one that I know of is labelled as a false or counterfeit tongue, and sometimes referred to a demonic tongue. I've heard this gutteral tongue on a number of ocassions and my spirit felt uneasy when I heard these people speak and when around them.

Blessings.

I know what you are talking about. I have seen it. One time, I went to a Deliverance Service with Pastor Win Worley at a private home in Southern California. It was a small group and a young man was bring brought there by his parents. Both parents were Clinical Psychologists who had exhausted all of their medical resources on thier son who was in horrible shape. Finally they turned to a Spiritual healing. It was obvious that the fellow was in trouble but it wasn't until we got into prayer that the truth became very very clear. He was as close to "possession" as anyone I have ever seen. When we got into deeper prayer a number of gutteral sounds started coming out of him. We could hear several different ones.

It was interesting to note that Win Worley was Baptist, I believe and he and his ministers did not pray in tongues. However, there was a group of Charismatic Catholics there and when we started praying in Tongues and calling down the Holy Spirit, some demonic spirits in this young man started demanding that we stop. They finally shouted "stop, we cannot understand those tongues".
The good news is that the young man was finally delivered and accepted the Lord and the last time I heard, he and his family were living a nice Christian life.

The 4th tongue I meant was not demonic but one that several Christians claim is scriptural. They mentioned it after I posted on 3 different tongues in Scripture but I can't seem to remember if I ever saw evidence that it was not a variation of one of the others.

 

[SharonL]

PD - what a beautifuly post - really Blessed me - I want to be sure to keep that and forward it on to many people - the first thing that the Lord put on my heart was get it to Sarah Palin - I'll see if I can find her e-mail on Facebook.

 

[Peaceful Dove]

Really!!!! Thank you Sharon.

Can you really find Sarah Palin on Facebook?
You must teach me how to use Facebook.

I am just being able to be on the computer again. I finally found out that a big part of my physical problems was one of my eyes. Had some laser surgery today and I think the sight might be coming back.
Would love your prayers.

 

[Giver]

I have been in the Charismatic Renewal for over 40 years now. I have sat under and taught many Scripture Studies on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture talks about 3 and variations of those 3 kinds of tongues.

1st is the gift of tongues as given at Pentecost. This type of tongues are the ones where a person speaks in a tongue of a known language although totally unknown to the speaker. I have seen this gift in action several times. The speakers I witnessed spoke in an Indian (India) language, one in a Chinese dialect, one in Old Gaelic. My friend tells me of a person speaking in an African Tribal language and an old woman from Africa being present to hear and understand. Each of these tongues were Praising the Holy Trinity.

2nd is the Tongue that requires an interpreter. In my experience, this is the rarest of tongue gifts. I have seen this gift only a few times and one time I had the gift of "interpretation" but didn't speak it out but someone else did, speaking exactly the Words I heard in my Spirit. There was a time in Southern Calfornia during a Prayer Meeting when a van load of Down Syndrom adults was brought. These were severe cases, some in wheel chairs and most could not speak much at all. However, in the Spirit they were Speaking in tongues and Interpreting perfectly clearly. They were exhibiting many of the "Word" gifts, including the gift of the Word of Knowledge and Prophesy. I have to tell you that we, including a Catholic Charismatic Priest were stunned by this show of the Power of the Holy Spirit. Every word spoken could be tested against scripture and be found solid.

The 3rd type is what we call our "prayer language". Scripture says when we do not know how to pray, the Spirit will pray through and for us. This is the most common form of the Gift of tongues. We praise God in tongues when we simply run out of words in our own language. We also sing in tongues of Praise and Worship.

We look for the Fruits. That will be the first sign that they are from God.

As I mentioned there are variations of these three tongues and I think that may be why some Christians claim there are 4 types. However, I am very open to hearing more about the fourth one.

Blessings

I would like to share an experience of how Jesus used the gift of tongues to teach me the first year or so after I accepted his call.

I would in my mind have a question for Jesus. I then would get a tongue. My wife would then give me the answer to my question. This was, for a long time, one of the ways Jesus would communicate with me. After a year or so Jesus told me no more. He told me to pray to be sensitive and open to his touch and word all day long. My wife and I got into the routine of waiting until the children were in bed and then would go to Jesus. Jesus put a stop to that.

 

[Elijah2]

I know what you are talking about. I have seen it. One time, I went to a Deliverance Service with Pastor Win Worley at a private home in Southern California. It was a small group and a young man was bring brought there by his parents. Both parents were Clinical Psychologists who had exhausted all of their medical resources on thier son who was in horrible shape. Finally they turned to a Spiritual healing. It was obvious that the fellow was in trouble but it wasn't until we got into prayer that the truth became very very clear. He was as close to "possession" as anyone I have ever seen. When we got into deeper prayer a number of gutteral sounds started coming out of him. We could hear several different ones.

It was interesting to note that Win Worley was Baptist, I believe and he and his ministers did not pray in tongues. However, there was a group of Charismatic Catholics there and when we started praying in Tongues and calling down the Holy Spirit, some demonic spirits in this young man started demanding that we stop. They finally shouted "stop, we cannot understand those tongues".
The good news is that the young man was finally delivered and accepted the Lord and the last time I heard, he and his family were living a nice Christian life.

The 4th tongue I meant was not demonic but one that several Christians claim is scriptural. They mentioned it after I posted on 3 different tongues in Scripture but I can't seem to remember if I ever saw evidence that it was not a variation of one of the others.

Well fair enough dear sister, what do you think of these thoughts:

1. Personal edification: “He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself” (1 Cor. 14:4)

2. Interpretation: “I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, UNLESS HE INTERPRETS, that the church many received edification” (1 Cor. 14:5)

3. Intercessional groanings: “Therefore tongues are for a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers” (1 Cor. 14:22

4. A sign to unbelievers: “For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings” (Rom. 8:26)

Blessings.

 

[SharonL]

Really!!!! Thank you Sharon.

Can you really find Sarah Palin on Facebook?
You must teach me how to use Facebook.

I am just being able to be on the computer again. I finally found out that a big part of my physical problems was one of my eyes. Had some laser surgery today and I think the sight might be coming back.
Would love your prayers.

Yes I found her and placed it on her Facebook - I just put Sarah Palin in the search engine - there are dozens and dozens of entries - but the first one I went to was her personal - so it is out there for all to see - several have commented on it.

Just go to Facebook and sign up - I'll hunt for you, I'll send you a PM, and once I find you I'll click on become friends and whatever is on your account will show and what is on my account will show and we can walk through it. You will recognize a lot of people of my account.

Will be praying for your eyes to become clear as crystal.

 

[Peaceful Dove]

Well fair enough dear sister, what do you think of these thoughts:

1. Personal edification: “He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself” (1 Cor. 14:4)

2. Interpretation: “I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, UNLESS HE INTERPRETS, that the church many received edification” (1 Cor. 14:5)

3. Intercessional groanings: “Therefore tongues are for a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers” (1 Cor. 14:22

4. A sign to unbelievers: “For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings” (Rom. 8:26)

Blessings.

Thank you. I never ever disagree wth the Great Lion of God, our dear Apostle Paul. That is true wisdom.