surfingangel
A single voice above the noise
I have grown up in a spirit filled church and I gave my life to Christ when I was 6 years old in an alter call at church. I was very used to people speaking in tongues as I had heard lots of people doing it, including my parents. I always thought it was just a 'grown up' thing and I never wanted to speak in tongues.
When I got to the age of 15 I heard people my age speaking in tongues and I decided that I wanted to speak in tongues. In my prayer time with God I would ask him for the gift of speaking in tongues and I just expected him to literally take control of my tongue and make me speak in tongues. After many months of waiting this never actually happened so I just gave up asking and thought that this gift was not for me.
Just after my 17th birthday I went to a Christian youth conference. There were many different seminars at the conference and they all had really random spiritual titles and I had no idea what each conference was about. I ended up going to one which was about receiving the gift of the tongues. In the seminar the preacher taught us about what tongues were and how to receive it and that God desired it for each and every one of his followers. In the end we split up into mini groups and there was someone in each group that spoke in tongues. That person prayed for us to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they told us to just start with a random meaningless word and just keep saying it and thinking things to pray to God about in your head. As I started doing this I just started speaking in tongues and it was such an amazing feeling and I feel a lot closer to God.
As I look back now, I know that it was no accident that I ended up in the seminar about receiving the gift of tongues. I am very glad that I can speak in tongues because sometimes when I run out of things to pray I just pray in tongues and I feel like God is understanding me completely. It's a bit hard to explain.
You can use me on your website if you want. My details are: Laura - Australia.
When I got to the age of 15 I heard people my age speaking in tongues and I decided that I wanted to speak in tongues. In my prayer time with God I would ask him for the gift of speaking in tongues and I just expected him to literally take control of my tongue and make me speak in tongues. After many months of waiting this never actually happened so I just gave up asking and thought that this gift was not for me.
Just after my 17th birthday I went to a Christian youth conference. There were many different seminars at the conference and they all had really random spiritual titles and I had no idea what each conference was about. I ended up going to one which was about receiving the gift of the tongues. In the seminar the preacher taught us about what tongues were and how to receive it and that God desired it for each and every one of his followers. In the end we split up into mini groups and there was someone in each group that spoke in tongues. That person prayed for us to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and they told us to just start with a random meaningless word and just keep saying it and thinking things to pray to God about in your head. As I started doing this I just started speaking in tongues and it was such an amazing feeling and I feel a lot closer to God.
As I look back now, I know that it was no accident that I ended up in the seminar about receiving the gift of tongues. I am very glad that I can speak in tongues because sometimes when I run out of things to pray I just pray in tongues and I feel like God is understanding me completely. It's a bit hard to explain.
You can use me on your website if you want. My details are: Laura - Australia.
Upvote
0