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Here's my advice, stop caring whether you speak in tongues or not!!!!!!!!!!
How about you focus on praying more, or getting in touch with God better, and let him work out the means. If you are praying, focus on praying not babbling! if God wants you to speak in tongues, you will! It is a gift, you don't do anything to get it,It is fully up to God. If you are generating it, then it is a mockery of the gift! In addition, I hope that you are praying in tongues between you and God, and not making a spectacle out of yourself by speaking uniteligably without any interpretation!
I may at first glance sound like an opponent of tongues, but I assure you I am not. I have spoken in tongues on multiple occasions when I was in deep prayer. My first time praying in tongues was accidental, and at that point I didn't believe that it was for this time. I never really got a huge kick out of it. My view is, if it happens, then it happens if not then who cares, remember prayer is for God not for you.
I agree that we should take the gift of tongues very seriously, and I would respectfully encourage you to relax and use the gift of tongues more deliberately during your normal prayer times. You don't have to wait for "deep" prayer before you can speak in tongues. Waiting for some sensory feeling before you feel can speak in tongues is not really faith. Faith when you are using tongues is when you feel nothing and you decide that you are going to use the prayer language for a specific purpose like building yourself up or interceding for a need when you can't find the words for natural prayer. You can speak in tongues whenever you like.
I respect your view, and I would encourage you to lighten up about it. Many, many people are happily using the gift of tongues and enjoying the benefits and blessings it brings to them. Get your eyes of the lunatic fringe who misuse it and get a better understanding of the Scripture teaching about it, and you will be much better off.
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