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How Do I Know If My Tongues Are Real?
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GodsChild07
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Oscar, you can't show someone how to speak tongues who is faking the gift. Tongues does not come from us, but instead, from the Holy Spirit.
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Tongues is a gift that God will give to any saved believer. The only two requirements is that the person must be Born Again, and they must want the gift for the right reason. MOST OF THE TIME, when a person who desires the Gift of Tongues and doesnt receive it, it is because they want it for the wrong reason. If you want it because your neighbor or friends has it, He wont give it to you. If you want it to show off, He wont give it to you. If you want it because you are envious of those who have it, He wont give it to you. If you want it so that you can give God joy and praise him in a different language, then he will give it to you. If you want it because you want to start or continue your spiritual growth, He will give it to you. Start by wanting it for the right reason and remember that He can see into your heart.
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I have doubts sometimes, but I speak out in faith anyway. I think about all the idle, inaccuate, or unloving things I might say during a typical day and I realize that our best communication is just a little better than gibberish compared to God's communication. So if speaking in tongues is a heavenly language, as I believe it is, then in faith I feel that I am communing with God in a purer form, albeit limited.
Praying with the Spirit as well as with understanding are both helpful and beneficial. I Cor. XIV.14-15
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Thank you everyone for responding. You all have blessed me. So today something wierd - well, maybe not wierd - happened. I was just sitting around praying in tongues and when I stopped words started coming into my mind - in english - they were praises! I knew that it was an interpretation - God is so cool. That kinda stopped my doubt in its tracks right there. PTL
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That's not entirely accurate. Every born again believer has a perfect spirit within them. This is the new creation. That spirit is perfectly capable of speaking in tongues, and it will always, without fail, speak praises to God.
So then, on some level tongues can very well be coming from us. The kicker is that they would differ in no way from those coming from the Holy Spirit.
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You will know if they are real. Where I used to attend church, several people used fake tongues (it didn't take a discerned ear to tell). Just know that the Holy Spirit will let you know if you seek him on this.
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The bible says it comes from our spirits.
1 Corinthians 14:2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
1 Corinthians 14:16 If you are praising God with your spirit, how can one who finds himself among those who do not understand say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
But the Holy Spirit taught us the language.
1 Corinthians 2:13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
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No, you must have misunderstood what I said. I wasn't talking about tongues coming from our minds, I was talking about tongues coming from our spirits. We are born again and as such our spirits are perfect, just, and true. We very well can pray in tongues from that spirit within us.
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GodsChild07
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You are miss-understanding scripture. It is not our spirit, but instead, is the Holy Spirit that we have.
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I disagree
1 Corinthians 14:2 For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.
In the bible, they use a big S to refer to the Holy Spirit, and a little s to refer to the human spirit. Because their are 2 different greek words.
1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
If he is talking about the Holy Spirit, why does he say he utters mysteries with "his" spirit. We do not own the Holy Spirit, he would have said the Holy spirit spoke through him if that were the case, but he said it is our spirit.
With this evidence, what makes you think its the Holy Spirit speaking the tongues? (normally, we arent talking about the gift of tongues, real languages tongues.)
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