How To Speak In Tongues

[parsley]

Speaking in tongues has nothing to do with salvation and not speaking in tongues is not indicative of having a lack of faith.

When in doubt, remind yourself: Did Jesus speak in tongues? We don't even know. The thief on the cross, who would be in Paradise with Jesus so immediately...Mary and Joseph... Zechariah muted, when he couldn't say his own son's name? Believers who died before the Acts 2 events?

Salvation was dependent on faith and God's provision, not on verbal skills.

Jesus said that when He left his close friends and followers, He would not leave them alone, but send the Holy Spirit to dwell in them.

It is more about having God with us, having His help so ready and close. Insight, wisdom, understanding, the right words to say in a pinch. He is there for us.

The Holy Spirit is not a language, or a bird, or a mighty wind. The Holy Spirit is God indwelling us! Freely given.

 

[iluvtheSims]

I am not pentecostal nor am I apostolic, and I speak in tongues. I follow the word of faith movement, we believe speaking in tongues is for today, along with healing, anointing with oil, and casting out devils.

And no speaking in tongues was not done away with yet like someone had mentioned earlier in a previous reply.Tongues will only be stilled when we all are taken up by Jesus because we won't need a prayer language when we go to be with Him.

Tongues is very real, and very powerful, I recommend all believers to pray and receive this wonderful gift.

 

[Edmond89]

I really have the blessings of speaking in tongues and it's the blessing of the Holy Spirit and I bless the Holy Spirit everyday and every time and I do have Catholic prayers for the Holy Spirit that I shall not worry

I don't worry what will happen next and I shall not worry

because everything will be fine

I shall finish the PhD in History 2014-2018, Post-Doctoral Position 2018-2019 and then I can get a job as a Senior Professor, a Lecturer, Writer, Reader, Researcher, Linguist, Translator, Publisher of books and articles.

yeah I shall not worry how I will work where I will work as a Lecturer, Researcher, Writer, and a Professor

I shall not worry whom I will marry ) too

 

[aangel]

I have a question I started speaking tongues a couple days ago but when I recorded myself doing it and played it back there was demonic voice that said it watching me. Any advice?

 

[gracefaith7]

My experience with Holy Spirit baptism came after I had read a book about tongues by the Sherrills, called They Speak With Other Tongues. When I finished that books I was convinced that this experience is valid for our day, having been in a denomination since my conversion at twelve years old that did not believe in this. So I began praying to God that if this was for our day and He wanted me to have it, I wanted it. It wasn't long until I did receive what I believe to be the baptism with speaking in tongues. I now attend full gospel churches for the most part and believe most like Assemblies of God.

I'm sharing this with you because just trying to speak in tongues won't work; it's the fulness of the Holy Spirit that is needed, and the tongues come as evidence of receiving this. Churches where all speak in tongues at one time might be in error, if they are not just praying in tongues. There is a difference, I believe and Assemblies teach, between giving out a message in tongues, where Paul gives the rules for that, and praying in tongues, which should not be disruptive to the service in progress.

Hope this helps you. I recommend also Catherine Marshall's books and Hannah Whitall Smith's The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, regarding their searches for the Holy Spirit in their lives.

 

[aiki]

No, speaking in tongues is not necessary for salvation nor is it vital to spiritual fruitfulness and deep fellowship with God. The apostle Paul tells us that speaking in tongues is the least of all gifts, which quite flies in the face of those who push it as a necessary spiritual skill.

1 Corinthians 12:28-30
28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

Paul places "varieties of tongues" at the very end of his description of the hierarchy of spiritual gifts. Clearly, it is not the vital spiritual gift that so many in the Pentecostal and Charismatic communities tout it to be. In fact, Paul goes on to ask a series of rhetorical questions that highlight the fact that believers do not all obtain the same spiritual gifts:

29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Paul has answered his questions here earlier in chapter 12 when he wrote,

1 Corinthians 12:18-19
18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

Paul asks how a body could be a body if the body consisted of just one part of the body. By definition, a body is made up of many different parts. So, too, the Body of Believers is made up of members who possess different spiritual gifts. Not all are teachers, or healers, or prophets, or speakers in tongues. If all believers had the very same gifting, where would the Body be? How could it function? Plainly, the answer is that it couldn't. So, those who press you to speak in tongues and tell you it is necessary to full spiritual living are directly contradicting Scripture.

Paul is quite aggressive about downplaying tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:5
5 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 indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

1 Corinthians 14:9
9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:12
12 Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.

1 Corinthians 14:19
19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.


Selah.