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I prayed in tongues for half an hour on the bus the other day, under my breath. I don't notice it really do anything and it's really repetitive, so meh.

That's wonderful! I haven't heard of people converting out of the new atheism before (they just hate Christianity way too much.) How did it happen with you?

Well, quite frankly, given the attacks I have faced by the Enemy over the past four and a bit years I don't want any more than I already have to face! I can honestly say, hand on heart, that my motivations for this are right. But, the Lord knows me better than I do, and it is possible that if he...

K2K: I received the same word from several different people who didn't know each other, which was to wait because I was not mature enough (that's a paraphrase, it's a long story.) I waited for about a year, and then recently I prayed every day for over a month to receive the gift of prophecy. As...

That's a great analogy, ByronArn. :) I think lesser gifts like tongues can be given straight from the moment a person is born again, but greater gifts like prophecy are usually given to more mature believers. This is because receiving a prophetic word for someone gives you a lot of power over...

Come on you guys. Remember that the fruit of the Spirit includes love and gentleness and that if we speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, we are nothing. I personally spoke in tongues a couple of years after I was filled with the Spirit, but I think you could phrase...

I think they all exist today except apostles. The apostolic ministry was a first century phenomenon where a select group of people were given authority to write infallible doctrine. That has now ceased.

To worship pagan gods is wrong because they are false gods and we should worship the Creator and not created things or gods of our own invention. On the other hand, there is no good reason to exclude women from the eldership whatsoever. There might have been in the time of Paul (women were less...

Instead of arguing over Scriptures, can anyone provide a single convincing argument as to why God would limit the position of pastor to men? What is it about men that makes them so much more qualified to teach than women in today's day and age?

Very well said. I don't agree with you on everything but you generally make well thought out and insightful posts. It's people like you that make hanging out on CF worthwhile. :)

"Jesus told me know that if I go to the doctor, when he says I don’t need to, and then the symptom would become the problem that the doctor diagnosed." No offence Giver, but this doesn't really sound right to me in my spirit. When you think God is telling you not to go to the doctor for...

When I first received the gift of tongues, I couldn't start speaking in it spontaneously. I would say 'hallelujah, hallelujah" repeatedly and it would break down into tongues each time. When I got more mature in the tongue I could just start it whenever I wanted it to and stop whenever I wanted...

I speak in tongues. Besides stuff like "faith" that is about it. :P I have only been a Christian for four years.

Oh absolutely. I'm not after this sort of gift because I want to exalt myself or feel special because I know stuff about people. I want it because it would demonstrate to other people that God is really real and they would give thought to becoming Christians. I am just wondering if the reason...

Well, I do that, and I have become so familiar with the New Testament that it is difficult to learn more from it at this point in time. What I meant though was what people call 'words of knowledge', about situations or people. Is this a gift just for the mature?

Any thoughts on this subject? Do you need to be a particularly mature Christian for God to do this in your life?

There are a lot of nasty posts in here and they're not just from one side. I mean this was an incredibly stupid and offensive thing to say for someone who claims to be a Spirit-filled believer on a Christian forum: "I couldn't expect an Anglican to understand the necessity of evangelism...

It's not quite true that Xenolalia is for speaking to people in other countries. When I pray in tongues, I pray in a form of Arabic (having never learned Arabic), and I Google all the words. It's not fluent, what I tend to get is a whole load of small disconnected phrases, which I pray to God in...

The problem is that people who ask to receive the Holy Spirit, simply because they have never received him, don't know what they are asking for.

Don't get me wrong, I don't actually believe that tongues are *the* evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit and born again, but I was under the impression that a number of people in this forum believed that and to prevent any confusion I presented my credentials, so to speak. The fact of...