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I've been making a number of thread about speaking in tongues, but don't get me wrong. The most important part of my relationship with the Lord is not speaking in tongues but in having personal conversation via His small voice. Still - I have seen enough of the gift of tongues and how the Lord has used it in my life to feel strongly that we Christians all need to be seeking the spiritual gifts which includes speaking in tongues and getting the interpretation. Let me give just a couple of example of testimonies about the Lord using the gift of tongues in incredible ways.

ACCIDENTS: He has so often used me to pray in tongues over auto accidents, and the incredible part of it is that He has me start praying in tongue before I know about the auto accident.

A few weeks after I was given the gift of tongue there was a week when I wound up going by about seven accidents and praying for them. I would hear His small voice tell me to take a certain route at a certain time, and suddenly the Spirit would move in me and I would start praying in tongues and a mile or so down the road the traffic would slow down and I would be going by an accident scene praying in tongues!

One of those times I was driving my mom and my brother's mother-in-law who had come to visit. The Lord had asked me to drive them on a tour of the city, which was going to take about six hours. I was on the freeway about 20 minutes when the Spirit moved on me and suddenly I was speaking in tongues. The Spirit has me in tears, and I was feeling pretty silly. Still, both my mom and my brother's mother-in-law both sometime spoke in tongues themselves so they had some idea what was happening. So I am in tears and praying in tongues and the freeway then slows down to stop and go traffic. I ask the Lord what was going on, and He told me there was an accident. He told me that someone had died and that person didn't know Him, while another person was hurt and needed prayer. That was supposed to explain why I was praying and also weeping. We shortly came to the accident where one car had wound up off the freeway and had stopped upside down about 30 feet off the side of the freeway.

Another time I was on the way home from work and instantly the Spirit moved on me hard and instantly I was praying quickly in tongues, and as this instantly started I noticed a car two lanes to the left and about 100 yards up the freeway starting to spin out. As I prayed in tongues I watched this car spin and head toward the side of the freeway and towards a drop of probably 25 to 30 feet. There was a guard rail but would it hold, and what would happen when the car hit the rail? The car spun and wound up hitting the rail square with the back of the car. It worked out so perfect that the rail held, the driver was just pressed back hard in his seat, and so got out of his car and walked away, apparently unharmed. Lucky man, or should I say 'bless man'?

Now there are 2 true examples, and I could come up with soo many more and in many different ways. But only considering those two examples, why are we not seeking and desiring to be lead by the Spirit as He needs via the gift of tongues?
 

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I've been making a number of thread about speaking in tongues, but don't get me wrong. The most important part of my relationship with the Lord is not speaking in tongues but in having personal conversation via His small voice. Still - I have seen enough of the gift of tongues and how the Lord has used it in my life to feel strongly that we Christians all need to be seeking the spiritual gifts which includes speaking in tongues and getting the interpretation. Let me give just a couple of example of testimonies about the Lord using the gift of tongues in incredible ways.

ACCIDENTS: He has so often used me to pray in tongues over auto accidents, and the incredible part of it is that He has me start praying in tongue before I know about the auto accident.

A few weeks after I was given the gift of tongue there was a week when I wound up going by about seven accidents and praying for them. I would hear His small voice tell me to take a certain route at a certain time, and suddenly the Spirit would move in me and I would start praying in tongues and a mile or so down the road the traffic would slow down and I would be going by an accident scene praying in tongues!

One of those times I was driving my mom and my brother's mother-in-law who had come to visit. The Lord had asked me to drive them on a tour of the city, which was going to take about six hours. I was on the freeway about 20 minutes when the Spirit moved on me and suddenly I was speaking in tongues. The Spirit has me in tears, and I was feeling pretty silly. Still, both my mom and my brother's mother-in-law both sometime spoke in tongues themselves so they had some idea what was happening. So I am in tears and praying in tongues and the freeway then slows down to stop and go traffic. I ask the Lord what was going on, and He told me there was an accident. He told me that someone had died and that person didn't know Him, while another person was hurt and needed prayer. That was supposed to explain why I was praying and also weeping. We shortly came to the accident where one car had wound up off the freeway and had stopped upside down about 30 feet off the side of the freeway.

Another time I was on the way home from work and instantly the Spirit moved on me hard and instantly I was praying quickly in tongues, and as this instantly started I noticed a car two lanes to the left and about 100 yards up the freeway starting to spin out. As I prayed in tongues I watched this car spin and head toward the side of the freeway and towards a drop of probably 25 to 30 feet. There was a guard rail but would it hold, and what would happen when the car hit the rail? The car spun and wound up hitting the rail square with the back of the car. It worked out so perfect that the rail held, the driver was just pressed back hard in his seat, and so got out of his car and walked away, apparently unharmed. Lucky man, or should I say 'bless man'?

Now there are 2 true examples, and I could come up with soo many more and in many different ways. But only considering those two examples, why are we not seeking and desiring to be lead by the Spirit as He needs via the gift of tongues?

An interpreter must be present.

1 Corinthians 14:22
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 14
27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
 
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An interpreter must be present.

1 Corinthians 14:22
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 14
27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
This is a protected thread and those who post here believe that tongues is for personal prayer, and the gift of tongues is separate, for meeting use along with an interpreter and not all use the gift. But all are able to pray in tongues.

Also, the OP's intention for this thread is for testimonies from those who are able to pray in tongues as a normal part of their prayer life, both personal and intercessory.

To hijack this thread, sow doubt, and invite contention and debate in the way that you have is inappropriate in this thread.
 
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This is a protected thread and those who post here believe that tongues is for personal prayer, and the gift of tongues is separate, for meeting use along with an interpreter and not all use the gift. But all are able to pray in tongues.

Also, the OP's intention for this thread is for testimonies from those who are able to pray in tongues as a normal part of their prayer life, both personal and intercessory.

To hijack this thread, sow doubt, and invite contention and debate in the way that you have is inappropriate in this thread.
I can avoid including any scripture in my posts.
 
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I can avoid including any scripture in my posts.

From the Forum Statement of Purpose:

"The Sign Gifts forum is a discussion forum for CF members who believe that the sign gifts of the Spirit are still active in the church today. The sign gifts (miraculous gifts) of the Spirit are referenced in Acts 2:4, Acts 19:6, 1 Corinthians 14:27-28, and 1 Corinthians 12:28."

"This is a safe house forum for those members who believe that the sign gifts are still active today. Criticizing or mocking members who hold that view is not allowed. If you wish to debate whether or not the sign gifts are still active today, please start a thread in the General Theology forum."

"If you feel that a post may violate the rules of this SoP, or the sitewide rules, please report the post instead of responding to it."
 
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An interpreter must be present.

1 Corinthians 14:22
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 14
27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

The interpreter is you, right???

1 Cor 14:13 Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

The person speaking in tongues has the instruction in the Bible to pray (ask God) that he may interpret!!!!

Jn 15:7 If you abide in Me and My words abide in you ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

So now, if we put the different things in the Bible together we read that we are to desire the gifts - all of them including tongues and the interpretation of tongues. And we read that the person praying in tongues is commanded to pray for the interpretation themselves! And if we are abiding in Him and His words abide in us then what we ask for will be done, which of course would including getting the interpretation of tongues. So back to the question: "The interpreter is you, right???
 
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This is a protected thread and those who post here believe that tongues is for personal prayer, and the gift of tongues is separate, for meeting use along with an interpreter and not all use the gift. But all are able to pray in tongues.

Also, the OP's intention for this thread is for testimonies from those who are able to pray in tongues as a normal part of their prayer life, both personal and intercessory.

To hijack this thread, sow doubt, and invite contention and debate in the way that you have is inappropriate in this thread.

This thread, indeed any Christian site, needs to match up with the Bible. That doesn't mean the Bible has all knowledge, God does, but still my Lord Jesus Christ is the One recorded in the Bible. Now He teaches me, and so saying that mean there are things for me to learn, and if me then others. And there is something about iron sharpening iron.

Now - "tongues" and something separate called "a gift of tongue" - Are you serious?? So what have you personally seen - and more importantly what did you read?

In first Corinthians we read what Paul wrote to a church, which was having meetings, and Paul wrote about how those meeting should go. Paul wrote about the gift of tongues in that context and also mentions that he thanked God that he personally prayed in tongues more than they did, but at the meetings he preferred to get prophecy.

SOOOO - they is not "tongues" and "a gift of tongue" as some might report. But the meeting at that church had a bunch of early Christians just speaking in tongues. A non-believer coming in would obviously think them weird and leave - and we are trying to get non-believers to believe - so why would they be doing that. Which was Paul's message!

And in the very message about having an interpreter at the meeting when tongues is being spoken, so that we don't chase people away, we read this verse:

1 Cor 14:13 Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

So one person may speak in tongues and one person may have the interpretation, and most like it is the same person, if we are truly listening to the Lord and doing what he has asked, thru Paul!

Some things amaze me. I Lord gave me a gift. That gift was the ability to trust Him to have His Holy Spirit use my voice even when I don't understand what is being said - in other words He gave me the gift on tongues. The primarily use is for my personal prayer, but it's use is in no way limited to that! It can be used at a gathering, if the Lord wants.

The gathering might be any type of gathering. If it is a small group of intercessor buddies of mine, then we just speak in tongues as lead because we are not going to chase off one another because the other thinks it is weird. Now we still want to be courteous and not start speaking when the other is speaking. Paul did not address that issue, but it's obvious, isn't it. What Paul wrote about should also have been obvious.

Still I have been to a Christian church that just had everyone start speaking in tongues and all at the same time, and that was at their main Sunday service. There were still doing exactly like Paul was advising the Corinthians not to do.

God is Wisdom - read Proverbs. It was foolish for the Corinthians to be dong what they were doing, because it was just confusing and weird. The Lord can have me in tongues and I can speak it under my breath, and even inside me. I have some control and it is written that the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding (Prov 2:6) It is not always wise to loudly speak in tongues! We need to ask the Lord how He wants it handled, even as His Spirit is putting that fire on us! And one of the things we need to ask is for the interpretation, if we are going to speak in tongues out loud at a meeting where we have unbelievers. That is just wise!!

The gift of tongues has many awesome things about it. God knows how to give good gifts! Still, we need to take all thoughts captive to Jesus Christ and listen to what He has to say about them!!

If I am in a group, and especially if there are probably non-believer's, and that gift is stirred up in me I am going to be asking the Lord how He wants me handling it. If I am in my car driving alone and that gift is stirred up in me, I am going to just let it go but I am going to ask the Lord what He has going on, because that too is the wise thing to do. So I seek the Lord and listen to Him and He makes sense. But that church where everyone just started praying in tongues didn't make sense to me. Who was really seeking the voice of the Lord there? No matter - that church got smaller and smaller because they didn't get new believers and slow people moved away. It is not longer there.
 
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This thread, indeed any Christian site, needs to match up with the Bible. That doesn't mean the Bible has all knowledge, God does, but still my Lord Jesus Christ is the One recorded in the Bible. Now He teaches me, and so saying that mean there are things for me to learn, and if me then others. And there is something about iron sharpening iron.

Now - "tongues" and something separate called "a gift of tongue" - Are you serious?? So what have you personally seen - and more importantly what did you read?

In first Corinthians we read what Paul wrote to a church, which was having meetings, and Paul wrote about how those meeting should go. Paul wrote about the gift of tongues in that context and also mentions that he thanked God that he personally prayed in tongues more than they did, but at the meetings he preferred to get prophecy.

SOOOO - they is not "tongues" and "a gift of tongue" as some might report. But the meeting at that church had a bunch of early Christians just speaking in tongues. A non-believer coming in would obviously think them weird and leave - and we are trying to get non-believers to believe - so why would they be doing that. Which was Paul's message!

And in the very message about having an interpreter at the meeting when tongues is being spoken, so that we don't chase people away, we read this verse:

1 Cor 14:13 Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

So one person may speak in tongues and one person may have the interpretation, and most like it is the same person, if we are truly listening to the Lord and doing what he has asked, thru Paul!

Some things amaze me. I Lord gave me a gift. That gift was the ability to trust Him to have His Holy Spirit use my voice even when I don't understand what is being said - in other words He gave me the gift on tongues. The primarily use is for my personal prayer, but it's use is in no way limited to that! It can be used at a gathering, if the Lord wants.

The gathering might be any type of gathering. If it is a small group of intercessor buddies of mine, then we just speak in tongues as lead because we are not going to chase off one another because the other thinks it is weird. Now we still want to be courteous and not start speaking when the other is speaking. Paul did not address that issue, but it's obvious, isn't it. What Paul wrote about should also have been obvious.

Still I have been to a Christian church that just had everyone start speaking in tongues and all at the same time, and that was at their main Sunday service. There were still doing exactly like Paul was advising the Corinthians not to do.

God is Wisdom - read Proverbs. It was foolish for the Corinthians to be dong what they were doing, because it was just confusing and weird. The Lord can have me in tongues and I can speak it under my breath, and even inside me. I have some control and it is written that the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding (Prov 2:6) It is not always wise to loudly speak in tongues! We need to ask the Lord how He wants it handled, even as His Spirit is putting that fire on us! And one of the things we need to ask is for the interpretation, if we are going to speak in tongues out loud at a meeting where we have unbelievers. That is just wise!!

The gift of tongues has many awesome things about it. God knows how to give good gifts! Still, we need to take all thoughts captive to Jesus Christ and listen to what He has to say about them!!

If I am in a group, and especially if there are probably non-believer's, and that gift is stirred up in me I am going to be asking the Lord how He wants me handling it. If I am in my car driving alone and that gift is stirred up in me, I am going to just let it go but I am going to ask the Lord what He has going on, because that too is the wise thing to do. So I seek the Lord and listen to Him and He makes sense. But that church where everyone just started praying in tongues didn't make sense to me. Who was really seeking the voice of the Lord there? No matter - that church got smaller and smaller because they didn't get new believers and slow people moved away. It is not longer there.
My post about the forum rules was not directed at you. And I thought it was about personal testimonies concerning tongues, not a debate about any aspects of it. I have no issues with anything you have said about it. My post was directed to remind another person about quoting Scriptures that seem to be sowing doubt about the validity of the modern use of tongues.
 
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My post about the forum rules was not directed at you. And I thought it was about personal testimonies concerning tongues, not a debate about any aspects of it. I have no issues with anything you have said about it. My post was directed to remind another person about quoting Scriptures that seem to be sowing doubt about the validity of the modern use of tongues.

I'm sorry if I got you wrong. I have personal testimonies - and they are what's important to me. I have them because the Lord works in my life which is evident to me in a number of ways - tongues being one of them. Yet it would worry me if it didn't match up with what I read in the Bible, but it does match up with the Scriptures. So I always like it when people also provide Scriptures. Sometime I can explain how the Scriptures match, because people sometimes depend on their own understanding of the Scriptures instead of listening to the Lord.

SkyWriting wrote the following:

An interpreter must be present.

1 Corinthians 14:22
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 14
27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

The context in 1 Cor was at a church service, yet we also see that Paul prayed in tongue more than they did but not at the gathering of a service type environment. There he wanted prophesy or at least interpretation and that in an orderly manner. So Paul was using tongues in his personal life more than they were using it in the service. Maybe Skywriting didn't understand that, but why stop the scriptures?

The Lord has given me the gift on tongues, and I have had it for almost 20 years. The fact that is exists is a testimony and sign to the non-believer of what He can do in our lives, and that is why the testimonies I provided - so that some might believe - seek - find - and be used by the Lord to pray via the Spirit of God - like for accidents, even if you have not yet come upon them, and other things too.

I had a friend with YWAM, and they were setting up a Christian concert when they place there were planning on having it at fell through. He sent out prayer requests and as I got the request, not knowing exactly how to pray, I presented it to the Lord and instantly he had me weeping in tears and praying in tongues. This happened for about 20 minutes then as sudden as it came upon me it left and I felt great. My friend wrote back the same day saying God had done a wonderful thing and they got the place back for the Christian concert.

Those who know the Lord understand how that works. The Spirit comes upon you mightily and emotions, and care, and words that you don't know all come out via the Holy Spirit using your spirit. We don't know how to pray like we ought. It is wise to let the Holy Spirit use you. And we have an interpreter - the Holy Spirit - who can tell us what we are praying for via the small voice if we ask Him. Thus we can have the gift of interpretation, if we care to believe for it!

So who writes that we need an interpreter? Don't they know the Lord and His small voice that comes through the Holy Spirit? They should. The Bible says to ask for the gifts and that is in 1 Cor too, if we want to back it up with Scriptures.

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