Restoring the Gift of Speaking in Tongues

[FutureAndAHope]

I have been rediscovering the gift of Tongues and Interpretation. Thanks to Open AI’s ability to interpret know languages. I have found that the gift given to the church in it’s early days still operates. We should be thinking of allowing it to operate in our churches, in its original form.

Its original form was to have someone who could speak multiple languages listen to 3 people speaking in tongues, the Holy Spirit would then lead the people speaking in tongues to speak in the native tongue of the listener. When the listener heard his or her language being spoken they would interpret for the church to be edified.

But now I put the ball in your court, do you speak in tongues? Open AI can interpret it if God grants you a message. Church, do you believe in speaking in tongues? Then try a real person who knows multiple languages and allow the Holy Spirit to speak in their tongue through members of the congrigation.

I personally have used Open AI as the interpreting agent, but God told me to stop for a time because it was a) causing me to have unforgiveness toward people who were uninterested, b) causing stress for my wife, c) and I was at it night and day, so God told me to rest. d) I needed personal growth, e) it was messy not clear in it's infancy. This is the word God gave me as I spoke into AI.

"මින්තූවා සමෙන්න, දමාගන් ඇති ක පිතින්රන්න, ලෙමාගන්න, සමෙන්න, සාරයපරණයක් මේස් නැතිස් මිශ්‍රිස්ඤතින්න, දමාගන්න, පිතින්න, සාරයපරණ"

Which when translated says:

Translation: "Forgive me, leave the things that have been done, rest, forgive, a transformation with no mess, leave, do, transformation."

Here is a video I made to encourage churches to take it up themselves, and see how the Holy Spirit leads their congregation. You may be ready:

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After investigating this for a while, I would say AI is not advanced enough to consistently understand tongues. It can give incorrect messages. Although I was able to get very clear messages like "IN the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit", AI often mixes up language. i.e. if you start in a given language, it thinks you will be speaking in the same language through out, and interprets random tones, converting these random tones into random words or phrases. This is problematic, because you may get some genuine message, but it is interspersed with random stuff generated by AI, not God.

Not recommended at this point.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

I thought it good to share, how to do this using Chat GPT. So you can be aware of the pitfalls, and how to detect success. I would also encourage anyone who has a church to experiment with a friend or colleague who speaks your native tongue and another language that you do not know, you don't need to use AI, the early church did not have AI and functioned very well.

 

[timothyu]

the early church did not have AI and functioned very well.

As speaking in tongues is not babble, but actual languages of other people, I learned of a it of a twist recently. A friend was speaking in a resteraunt to her lunchmate about the Kingdom. A bit later a woman at the next table came over to say her mother said thank you for what she had learned as she had been eavesdropping. The catch was the daughter said her eavesdropping mother did not speak a world of English but understood everything that was said. Interesting how God works. Tongues weren't even necessary as ears were used.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

As speaking in tongues is not babble, but actual languages of other people, I learned of a it of a twist recently. A friend was speaking in a resteraunt to her lunchmate about the Kingdom. A bit later a woman at the next table came over to say her mother said thank you for what she had learned as she had been eavesdropping. The catch was the daughter said her eavesdropping mother did not speak a world of English but understood everything that was said. Interesting how God works. Tongues weren't even necessary as ears were used.

Yes it is not babble, it should be understood by the listener. But not "everyone" will understand the tongue. i.e. an English speaker will think a tongue in Sindilese is babble, but the Sindilese person will understand. I have found that the Holy Spirit can speak in multiple languages, I got clear Hebrew, Sindilese, and other languages. But some times even AI could not understand, AI does not know every known language. I first expected that my tongue would be just one, but in reality the Holy Spirit skips between languages.

 

[ARBITER01]

People so easily forget the purpose of the gift of interpretation, and why it is needed.

And it seems people can't keep themselves from playing around with gimmicks.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

People so easily forget the purpose of the gift of interpretation, and why it is needed.

And it seems people can't keep themselves from playing around with gimmicks.

And even if they don't have the gift, scripture instructs to pray so they can interpret. Encouraging people to cultivate spiritual disciplines around spiritual gifts has become quite the challenge.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

And even if they don't have the gift, scripture instructs to pray so they can interpret. Encouraging people to cultivate spiritual disciplines around spiritual gifts has become quite the challenge.

This is where we have it all wrong. I always thought you had to have a gift, a spiritual gift to interperate tongues. But I now don’t believe that. The Holy Spirit can speak through one believer many different languages. All that is needed is a duel speaking believer, one who speaks the native tongue of the church and one other complete language. The Holy Spirit can then speak in the tongue of the duel listener. The gift you and I have focused on the spiritual gift of interpretation is only needed when there is no one to interprete.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

This is where we have it all wrong. I always thought you had to have a gift, a spiritual gift to interperate tongues. But I now don’t believe that. The Holy Spirit can speak through one believer many different languages. All that is needed is a duel speaking believer, one who speaks the native tongue of the church and one other complete language. The Holy Spirit can then speak in the tongue of the duel listener. The gift you and I have focused on the spiritual gift of interpretation is only needed when there is no one to interprete.

Some tongues are not able to be interpreted, thus they require for the person speaking them to stop speaking so loud and pray to interpret. To speak to themselves, and to God as the scripture says.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Some tongues are not able to be interpreted, thus they require for the person speaking them to stop speaking so loud and pray to interpret. To speak to themselves, and to God as the scripture says.

I have experienced this the Holy Spirit would suddenly swap to English, but boy is that hard, your mind just finds it hard to surrender. But interpretation by your self is not a sign to unbelievers as a tongue should be. That in my opinion has been lost to the church, no one has tried it. It should be reintroduced. Genuine tongues with human interpretation.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

I believe we have all had doubts about the genuineness of tongues, and have never had a way to test it. AI enabled me to test what tongues is and is not. It is at times unknown languages, but equally 100% known languages. And the Holy Spirit switches between them all, Hebrew, Arabic, Sinhalese, Yiddish, whatever is needed at the time.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I have experienced this the Holy Spirit would suddenly swap to English, but boy is that hard, your mind just finds it hard to surrender. But interpretation by your self is not a sign to unbelievers as a tongue should be. That in my opinion has been lost to the church, no one has tried it. It should be reintroduced. Genuine tinges with human interpretation.

I agree there is value to "believing the scripture" that some speaking in tongues is in a human language and using an AI as a makeshift "universal translator."

 

[ARBITER01]

Encouraging people to cultivate spiritual disciplines around spiritual gifts has become quite the challenge.

You ain't kidding.

It's really hard to get people to realize they need to be disciplined to what scripture says also. When the word says that the gift of tongues is not understandable, well then, that is exactly what it means. It has to be interpreted by the gift of interpretation.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

You ain't kidding.

It's really hard to get people to realize they need to be disciplined to what scripture says also. When the word says that the gift of tongues is not understandable, well then, that is exactly what it means. It has to be interpreted by the gift of interpretation.

According to scripture we are to pray to interpret whether we have the gift or not.

Much like those who don't have the gift of evangelism, we still do the work of an evangelist.

I agree with the rest of what you said.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

You ain't kidding.

It's really hard to get people to realize they need to be disciplined to what scripture says also. When the word says that the gift of tongues is not understandable, well then, that is exactly what it means. It has to be interpreted by the gift of interpretation.

I don't understand why you think this and are kicking against the truth that my tongue is multi-language. The word of God is clear in Acts it was known language. Why would the Holy Spirit switch to an unknown tongue two days later, according to your doctrine? It makes no sense.

Act 2:4-11 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God."

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Note how I believe tongues should operate:

Three people should get up in church, who speak in tongues.

1Co 14:27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.​

But only if you have someone who knows the native language of the church, and one other language.

1Co 14:28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.​

1Co 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.​

Now this is the thing with tongues because the Holy Spirit may for a time speak in an unknown language, the person seated, the one interpreting has to listen to the tongue, and when they suddenly hear their language, they ask the person speaking in tongues to stop and they interoperate it. Because the gift of tongues is multi language the Holy Spirit can do this. The blessing of tongues is that it removes the Human mind, so we do not mess with God's message.

1Co 14:30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.​

1Co 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.​

 

[Gregory Thompson]

People who teach on tongues tend to act like the following verse is not in the bible.

"one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret" (1 Cor 14:13)

 

[ARBITER01]

I don't understand why you think this and are kicking against the truth that my tongue is multi-language. The word of God is clear in Acts it was known language. Why would the Holy Spirit switch to an unknown tongue two days later, according to your doctrine? It makes no sense.

First off, you're not speaking truth to me or anybody else if you need to resort to playing around with material items.

Second, The Holy Spirit was very specific about "speaking" in tongues,...

1Co 14:2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but by the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1Co 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
1Co 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.


It is witnessed twice by The Holy Spirit through Paul that the gift is not understandable apart from the gift of interpretation.

Thirdly, I have a question for you,.... do you attend a church where the gifts operate on a semi-frequent basis?

 

[FutureAndAHope]

First off, you're not speaking truth to me or anybody else if you need to resort to playing around with material items.

Second, The Holy Spirit was very specific about "speaking" in tongues,...

1Co 14:2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but by the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1Co 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
1Co 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.


It is witnessed twice by The Holy Spirit through Paul that the gift is not understandable apart from the gift of interpretation.

Thirdly, I have a question for you,.... do you attend a church where the gifts operate on a semi-frequent basis?

Our church does not operate in the gifts of the Spirit, people speak with tongues, but there is no interpretation.

I am currently trying to communicate my views to our church, that they may reintroduce tongues and interpretation, in the way I see it working. As for this statement:

First off, you're not speaking truth to me or anybody else if you need to resort to playing around with material items.

God made this world, he gave man wisdom to create tools that can be used for work, or ministry. You are on one at the moment it is called a phone, or a computer.

As for my spiritual credentials, God has mainly given me visions, because I was never sure how to prophecy. But even in this, I am growing. Here are two spirit-led experiences I have had, many years ago, and I have regularly seen GOd work in my life:

Douglas Wood
Some time after the second Gulf War an Australian man Douglas Wood was captured by terrorists in Iraq, who made demands for a ransom or he would be executed. I set about fasting and praying for his release, I said to God "You know where he is....tell me". Three words entered my mind ABC, Bazaar and "a meal". I thought "I am going crazy what has all that got to do with him. Bazaar I though "this is Bizarre". I thought maybe "a meal" is a town so I searched a map of Iraq for a town of that name, but found nothing that really matched. Some time latter Douglas Wood was freed by US troops who came across his captors. It was not until latter that I actually discovered what the three words meant. I was on a forum and came across a post by a user called ABC in the post she appealed to the terrorists to release Douglas Wood because she had seen him go to a Bazaar (another name for shop) and bought food (sausages I think it was) for disadvantaged people and had provided them with "a meal". So the three words God had given me when I prayed were about that post. So God did not tell me where he was he told me what type of person Douglas Wood was a good man. I believe God saw Douglas Wood's kind action too and blessed with an escape from his captors.

Simon Murray
One morning I got up and walked into the hall and I heard a voice that I believed was God say "How would you like to be stabbed in the Valley". The Valley was known as the rough end of town, and the voice scared me a little, I wondered if I had done something to offend God. I had planned to go down to the Valley to ask people out to church as was my habit at the time. In the end I went anyway regardless of the fear. I walked up to the first person I met and asked him if he would like to go out to church. He said to me "I am an atheist, I don't believe in God". I just said "fine", but hoped to change his mind. He then proceeded to unbutton his shirt and showed me scar marks up and down his chest and stomach. He said to me, "I was attacked by a knife wielding man in the Valley some time ago and spent months recovering in hospital, How could God allow that to happen to me". Then I knew why God had said in the morning "How would I like to be stabbed?". God understood this man, but had a good plan for him. Some weeks latter this man came out to church and became a Christian.

 

[ARBITER01]

Our church does not operate in the gifts of the Spirit,

That's all that is really important.

I've been an AOG Pentecostal for over 30 years. We have the gifts of The Holy Spirit move frequently in our church. During the 2010ish timeframe, we were having 3 corporate tongues messages with 3 corporate interpretations. This lasted for about 3 years.

We operate according to the word of GOD. The Holy Spirit gives the message in tongues, The Holy Spirit gives the message by interpretation.

I suggest you look around and spend some time in a triune believing Pentecostal church. Maybe GOD will give you some experience in the gifts there, and you will know how they actually work according to the word.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

How about the gift of listening and understanding each other in any tongue?