Praying in Tongues - what are you thinking about?

[sharonx9]

When you speak in tongues, what do you think about?

Do you think about prayer needs or do you find your mind wandering but you're still praying in tongues? Sometimes my mind wanders and it scares me that I'm doing it wrong.

 

[Another Lazarus]

When the burden is too heavy God enable me to pray in tongue.

In my church there is a session of singing in tongue where people bow themselves at the chair and sing in tongue like the sound of many waterfalls. this is called to worship God in Spirit and Truth.

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 

[Grace2022]

When you speak in tongues, what do you think about?

Do you think about prayer needs or do you find your mind wandering but you're still praying in tongues? Sometimes my mind wanders and it scares me that I'm doing it wrong.

I have no idea about this. Ive never heard it nor done it. Sounds unnecessary to me!
Prayer to me is simple. Talk to God. Log in to headquarters. For me it's a private thing mostly. Just me and my Lord God.
Someone explain to me what praying in tongues is and what purpose it serves.

 

[JIMINZ]

When you speak in tongues, what do you think about?

Do you think about prayer needs or do you find your mind wandering but you're still praying in tongues? Sometimes my mind wanders and it scares me that I'm doing it wrong.

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I have woken up in the middle of the night, with my hands in the air and Praying in tongues, and the moment I opened my eyes, I felt nothing but LOVE.

1 Cor. 14:15
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

I was asleep so I can honestly say, I was Praying in the Spirit, and not with my Understanding.

Therefore I would say, even if your mind does wander, that is your Conscious Mind (Understanding) your Spirit is what is Praying for you, (Your Edification).

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

When you speak in tongues, what do you think about?

Do you think about prayer needs or do you find your mind wandering but you're still praying in tongues? Sometimes my mind wanders and it scares me that I'm doing it wrong.

Sometimes, I am focused on the subject of the prayer but from my heart I lack the words to express what I want to. What happens then (for me personally) is I get a 'welling/bubbling' in my upper stomach area which rises until it comes out of my mouth in the form of my prayer language.

I've had different instances when doing such prayer - my mind tends not to wander, instead it's like my logical side of my mind (being an ex Baptist lol) gets carried along, lol. Hard to explain. For example, when worshiping every ounce of my being knows that I am praising the Lord and yet it's as though I'm marvelling at the fact that my spirit is singing in tongues. Or the other day in the car, I lacked the words to pray for something that was troubling me but I pressed on praying in English - the next thing the conversation continues except I am praying in tongues but my mind is observing/listening to the tongues and thinking "oooh! That sounds almost like some kind of Middle Eastern dialect". I guess what I'm trying to say is that initially as with any language you get to say things your way

When I first began praying in tongues, I was prostrate on my living room floor and I recall praying for a user on CF who was struggling with a personal issue. I think in that instance I lost track of time. When I was finished I'd been praying for a good 45 minutes straight. And yet all that I recall was that the language was bold as though I was fighting for something. I lost track of my surroundings because I was focused on praying for this person. That might be what you're experiencing?

The main thing is that each person can be different which is where we have the Word of God. I would pray in English (ie your native tongue) and lay your concerns at his feet as he hasn't given us a spirit of fear (see 1 Timothy 1:7). So try to lay any inhibitions to Him in prayer.

I feel and still feel quite inhibited about praying in tongues at church - in spite of the believers around me doing so - due to me not sounding like they do. But on praying about it, what I got back was that I was doing just fine. Hopefully the same will be for you too. xx

 

[com7fy8]

I'm thinking that I am being specially blessed in the Holy Spirit, but God wants me to care as much about any and all others being more and more spiritually blessed with Him.