Agree.

The Holy Spirit is recieved as a permanent indwelling presence by the believer as the result of the Holy Spirit baptism. That is why John the baptist made a point of telling people that the one coming after him would baptize with the Holy Spirit. This in fact was a profound declaration because in the old testament the Spirit of God came upon the prophets and filled them but then departed for a time. I was aware of the presence if the Holy Spirit around me and was filled with the Spirit before I ever recieved the Holy Spirit. The Word " recieve" in the original Greek of the new testament means " to take hold of". Even a free gift must be recieved before we have it. When I recieved I had two altar workers who had already been baptized in the Spirit take me to a prayer room and lay hands on me and pray for me as I prayed for the Lord, fervently, to fill me with His presence. Once the Lord answered my prayer and filled me I had to surrender the last vestige of my will, my tongue, to the Holy Spirit because the Word says that no man can tame his tongue( James 3:8-10). Man can't but God can. So stopped thanking the Lord for answering my prayer and opened my mouth and relaxed my tongue consciously surrendering my tongue to the Holy Spirit. Within a few seconds I felt control of my tongue seized by the Holy Spirit and I began to fluently speak in what we refer to as speaking in " tongues". The effect was staggering. Never had i felt such pure joy. Now I understood why i saw beforehand pentecostals acting as they did in church. Joy is being " beside yourself" you are so happy. It was later that the Spirit showed me that when I had surrendered my tongue ,and He had taken control of it, that it had triggered the fillings' overflow, which is what Spirit baptism is, while at the same moment the Holy Spirit joined with my spirit becoming one forever to be an indwelling presence in me.

@@robertnieten7259 that is a great explanation and I agree 100 percent with your testimony. I sometimes felt the love and peace of the Spirit as a child and did not know what it was. I just knew I wanted to always feel that way somehow. It would come and then go. I was 25 when God brought me a great teacher who explained the Bible to me and brought me to church. At the altar I heard a roaring bonfire all around me. I cried . I was water baptized in Jesus ‘ name. After they fasted and prayed a week for victory over my fear of the unknown, I felt the Spirit sink in like a white silvery mist and when it hit my heart it burst out of my mouth with tongues and I felt a river of power and love and joy unspeakable. That was the baptism of the Holy Ghost and it has never left me in 41 years. It is always in me with peace and love.

@Patty Sherwood Thanks for the wonderful testimony sister !

@@robertnieten7259 You are welcome. See you in heaven!

If I may say, the speaking is from the Holy spirit but it is you which must let the sound out. Derek Prince explains the difference.

Same!

What experience? He hadn't experienced anything do has no understanding to even speak on this topic.

Frances he was asked a question sis and he spoke the truth of the word of God.. Why are you angry? Must he speak in tongues to be able to answer a simple question 🤷🏾‍♂️

Yeah he was so sincere I once tried to speak in tongues because they lay hand one me for the purpose of speaking in tongues asking me to speak I spoke because i didn't wanted to be different But i knew it wasn't it

@@famendiangne9623been on the same boat.

I’m not religious at all, I’ve been told I speak in tongues in my sleep, and I’ve had paranormal activity around me. I don’t see it as a gift

@@omniscient3776 This sounds annoying as hell. I'm glad I don't have any powers! I enjoy being a normal human :)

Speaking in " tongues" occures as a result of the Holy Spirit baptism which is to be filled with the Spirit to overflowing. A believer must pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit continuously until God answers your prayer. It's biblically cited that having others that have spoken in tongues to lay hands on you and pray with you. Once the Lord fills you then you must yield your tongue, "the body's most unruly member ""that no man can tame" to the Holy Spirit until He takes control of it. Then He confirms to you and those praying for you that you have been " born of the Spirit". He does so be giving you a new spiritual language that the English translation of the Greek calls " tongues". Now you can pray in your language and pray in the Spirits language( tongues) any time you want.

@@BigDrawersMcGraw Normal humans won't be those who are saved but the children of God who have His Spirit dwelling in them will. Come join us friend.

@@BigDrawersMcGraw that's why scripture talks about when it is not done in love, it is like a clanging gong.

The word unknown was added later ,SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE SPEAKING GIBBERISH .Not tongues.

@@wendymitchell8245 yea the Bible said you would think that

@@DamaDojo1 I do not know what you mean. how could the BIBLE SAY A WORD WAS ADDED IN THE K.J.V.

@@wendymitchell8245 in 1 Corinthians people thought the apostles were talking drunken gibberish.. just like you are here saying it sounds like gibberish. It’s not the flesh that’s speaking in tongues it’s the spirit

@@DamaDojo1 It does not say that in Cor. ch.14:9 'except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken'. Does that sound like gibberish . ? You are thinking of ACTS WHEN THEY SPOKE IN GENTILE LANGUAGES ,SOME THOUGHT THEY WERE DRUNK ,or said they did .See my comment a week ago for more detail.

The most important thing you need to know about speaking in tongues is what Jesus said about it, and He did not mince His words in Mark 16:17: "And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues." Jesus declared that tongues is a supernatural sign that can and should accompany everyone who believes in Him. God does not give His children any bad gifts, so we shouldn't fear or ridicule the gift of tongues.

Adenrele Ojeniran the gift of new tongues means they will speak in languages the did not previously know.

no, theres no god

@@adenreleojeniran9423 HE WAS ADDRESSING THE 11 AFTER REPRIMANDING THEM FOR THEIR LACK OF BELIEF . IN 2 COR .12;12IT IS CALLED THE SIGN OF AN APOSTLE .Not you. Read in context.

@@adenreleojeniran9423 you need to know everything the Holy Spirit said through Paul and the prophecy of Isaiah 28. 11-14. that is why you do not understand it at all.JESUS WAS ADDRESSING THE 11. SAYING THESE GIFTS WOULD FOLLOW THEM WHEN THEY BELIEVED .READ IN CONTEXT.

I agree with you.. I feel like I am dealing with something similar now

I agree with your first sentence but not your second. If you want to hear God's message to you, get someone to read the Bible out loud to you. Interpretation of tongues is for the body of Christ and not for anyone's personal benefit. If you speak in tongues and give an interpretation in your private prayer time you risk going into New Age mysticism and getting your message from the wrong spirit.

@@Paul8276 WRONG 🙄

​@@Paul8276Paul does instruct for the interpretation while one is praying. Please read 1 Cor. 14 again. Gb.

Biblical speaking in tongues is speaking in a known human language. Nowhere in scripture is speaking in tongues ever speaking in random incoherent babbling gibberish. Sadly, many Pentecostals/Charasmatics have twisted the scripture, misinterpret it & take it out of context, in order to justify their false teachings of what speaking in tongues actually is. If you were to do a deep dive study into the origins of the Pentecostal/Charasmatic religions of the turn of the 20th century, you’d learn how their false teaching of tongues & their practice of false speaking in tongues came about.

​@@DerekCulpepper-vu3cdThat's definitely debatable. The Bible seems to pretty evidently speak of both forms of tongues.

Good ...i think he says it like it is..

Speaking in tongues is the result of the Holy Spirit baptism. It is to filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit. The old testament prophets had the Spirit of God come upon them and fill them ,but then depart for a time because God had not yet allowed man to be " born of the Spirit". It is the Spirit baptism that results in the Holy Spirit remaining in the believer.

@@robertnieten7259 You demonstrate that you have no idea of what being filled with the Holy Spirit is. You need to start with the foundational principles of Christianity.

@Removing Veils Thanks for your reply. Back in '78 having no church background whatsoever I accepted an invitation to go to a church Bible study with a friend. Before it began I noticed people going through a side door. My friend saw me watching them and asked me if I knew where they were going ? I told him no. He said they were going back there to pray and if I wanted I could too, so I did. .. when I walked back there I noticed a carpeted room with low sitting benches scattered around and people kneeling at them I found one off to its' self toward the back, went back there, knelt and closed my eyes like I saw they were doing. I had picked one off to its self because I really didn't know how to pray and wanted to hear how they were doing it. After a few minutes I heard a girl come back there and she was praising God and thanking Him as she came. Then suddenly she started speaking in this stuttery sounding language I had never heard before. Keeping an open mind I remember thinking, " That's interesting". Immediately upon thinking this I felt this presence approaching me. Usually with your eyes closes you can detect someone's presence up to about three feet away. This presence had to be at least seven feet away when I first detected it. I could feel the power of this presence as it approached me but I also felt love so I wasn't afraid. After a few seconds I opened one eye thinking that someone must have knelt nearby me and it was their presence that I had detected. No one was anywhere near me so I concluded that it must be God. That next night I went to church again. People were nice in greeting me. During the service I saw some of them shouting, dancing, and running the aisles. I remember thinking that they had seemed to me to be solid, sane people when they greeted me and they must be acting this way because they were experiencing something that made them so happy that they were " beside themselves" in expressing it. I then decided that the presence I had become aware of the night before near me they must have in them, and I wanted that. So when the altar call was given I went up. The altar worker asked me what I would like the Lord to do for me ? I told him that I wanted the presence I felt around me in me. He told thr pastor this and him and another worker took me back to their prayer room. On arriving back there he told me to kneel facing the wall and start asking the Lord for what I wanted. I knelt, closed my eyes and started asking. The workers were quietly praying for me behind me. After a few minutes I heard footsteps and then the pastors' voice telling me, " Brother Bob, stand up, lift your hands, and recieve the Holy Ghost". I stood up,with my eyes still closed, and lifted my hands. I immediately saw a window appear to my upper right. It had what looked like those old fashioned shutters on the outside ends of it and they were wide open. I looked in the window and saw this beautiful blue sky. Then I saw this bright light appear ar the right hand corner, inside the window, and it began to move across my field of vision until it reached the centerpoint. It then stopped and shined on me. Right away I felt this warmth at my ankles begin to move up my body. I felt like my body was a container being filled with a warm liquid. When the filling approached the top of my head i was thanking the Lord for answering my prayer. Then I heard the pastors voice in front of me telling me to surrender my tongue to the Holy Spirit I stopped thanking the Lord, opened my mouth and started relaxing my tongue as a way of surrendering it. Suddenly I felt control of my tongue being seized and I began to fluently speak in this language I had never learned. The effect was staggering. Never in my life had I experienced such pure joy in my life. Now I was beside myself I was so happy. I led the way out of the prayer room feeling as if I was in the midst of a great celebration I couldn't see. I stopped and faced the seated church members. Suddenly I felt such love for these people that I really didn't know. I felt like I was facing beloved family members of mine. Lastly, when I arrived home I decided to read a little from the Bible before bed. When I opened it and started reading I was amazed. Suddenly it had taken on much more depth and I became aware of the Spirit that I had recieved guiding me in understanding what I was reading.

@@robertnieten7259 Hello Robert, I understand what you are talking about. Similar things happened to me also over a period of 24 years. My experience started the same time as yours as the charismatic spirit started in our country. In the 70's David Cassidy overtook the frenzy of the Beatle Mania in England. One girl had a heart attack and died in the auditorium. Now if you boil it down, she died for nothing. People get hyped up in their spirit and anything can happen. People see what they want to see and feel mysteries. But it is mist. I know; having gone through it for nearly a quarter of a century. Over my now 40+ years of experiences in charismatic / "evangelical" churches I have seen things that would make a sane person run for the hills. But then I started reading scripture under a rule I gave myself: count everything that I had been taught as doubtful and prove the truth of it. I did this because leaders could not answer my questions truthfully or reasonably. I started knocking on pastors all around my city (including my overseer in Seminary who holds a doctorate, and the dean of the college) and not one was able. So I began my own research. I devoured my Bible and read numerous books, particularly the old saintly writers. If you seek truth, or if you think you have truth, then bear it up for scrutiny. If it holds up to intelligent scrutiny, then keep it as truth. If it doesn't, then discard it as falsehood. And if you are not prepared to do that then know that all you hold is dogma, not true doctrine. Bad doctrine cannot stand up to the scrutiny of scripture and reason. Both are required to validate a truth. Try it; you will be shocked at what you find. But I must warn you: when you find one truth, it will turn your whole world upside down. But as you add to that truth other truths, you will find yourself more and more free (as Jesus promised). But this new freedom will not be as these churches give. They will not be mist and mirages. There is much I can say on your experiences. But if you are honest with yourself and really learn to value your soul and the honour of God, you will seek what I suggest. I wrote an article on my own experience of tongues compared to the reality of truth in the scriptures and the history of faithful men. So far no one has been able to refute what I said therein. I would strongly suggest that you give it a read. You are welcome to challenge me on anything I wrote. removingveils.com/talking-in-tongues-true-or-false/

@Removing Veils Thanks for your reply. I read your article. First of all the reason that most people in church history were not ever known to speak in "tongues" is because the never recieved the Holy Spirit. They were told they had simply because they believed but that belief conflicts with scriptural accounts of believers recieving the Holy Spirit. For example, in Acts ch.19 Paul asked the disciples if they had recieved the Holy Spirit since they believed ? For Paul to ask that question debunks the belief the believers recieve the Spirit when they believed. On hearing from them that they hadn't even heard that there was a Holy Spirit his question to them was, " How then were you baptized ? They said Johns' baptism and Paul said John said, " John said to believe in the one to come after him, Jesus Christ". Upon hearing this they didn't make a confession of faith they believed by what they did and that was to go down to the water to be baptized. Afterward they recieved the Holy Spirit confirmed by them speaking in " tongues". The Word " tongues" in the original Greek is singular not plural. Lastly, there is in biblical study what is known as The Law Of Repetition based on the fact that the Word will repeat something said or an event three times to direct our attention to an important spiritual truth. Three times only do we have accounts of believers recieving the Holy Spirit and what occured immediately upon them recieving, Acts ch.2, 10, and ch.19. In each instance the first thing that happened was that they spoke in " tongues". The scriptural speaking in " tongues" can only occur after repentance and water baptism as the result of the Holy Spirit baptism. It is to filled to overflowing. Once prayed for and answered by the Lord by Him filling you with the Holy Spirit one must surrender their tongue to the Spirit until He takes control of it, " tames" it, and enables them to speak in the spiritual language that we call " tongues". Once this happens it triggers the fillings' overflow while at the same moment the Holy Spirit joins with our spirit, becoming one. Now the believer has recieved the Holy Spirit.

his answer was I do not know .

amen

Haaheo Tagaloa same here! I pray in English and tongues take over

Haaheo Tagaloa I do believe you. God is good. he does give amazing gifts. praying to the father in tounge is a beautiful gift only the 2 of you share together.

Lol what , you can turn it on and off ? It’s crazy how not once did you give the Glory to God , instead you made it all about yourself ! This the problem with people claiming to have these gifts , they take away the Glory from God and make it all about themselves . It becomes a selfish act, thus the church is not edified or built up in any way . Praying for you b

NickNackMan uh i think we go to the same church lol

nick nack That is because you are from a Pentecostal they do not teach ..He is basically saying I do not understand it.

@@wendymitchell8245 wrong. Pentecostal theology is very clear and biblical articulated. Is people's responsibility to study it. You studied the subject, but you became the wrong teaching. So you're not in a better peace. Peace

@@passiveyoutuber4972 PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGY is none of those things .It varies from church to church and has some like the word of faith movement claiming to be GOD ,WHICH ARE BLASPHEMOUS ,AND IS CULT TEACHING .Right from it's foundation there were false prophets .in their churches. In G.B. there was IRVING with prophetesses claiming later their prophecies were demonic .Then the so called holiness movement claiming to be sinless. HEB.1:1 SAYS IN TIMES PAST GOD SPOKE THROUGH THE PROPHETS.it ended with the complete inspired revelation given under the control of the Apostles,or it would not be in the past .

ot@@passiveyoutuber4972 sorry I am not sure what you are saying ,your Engish is not very good.

HE SAID HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT .

Jon & Alycia exactly what I’m dealing with right now

True brother, I have been a Baptist all my life. So Sad they don’t still get it in the 21st century, and having denied you credentials due to their poor understanding. Keep it up

hearing "denied credentials" is intense on it's own when speaking about a church. just me?

PENTECOSTALS ARE FALSE TEACHERS ,LEAVE THEM.

That's the fault of that particular church that requires every credentialed ministry has to speak in tongues. You'd be better off seeking credentials from a Baptist church that accepts people from a Pentecostal background. I fellowshipped in two Baptist, and spent 23 years as an elder in a Presbyterian church, and made no secret of my Pentecostal background, and I was fully accepted as part of the hard core of those churches. I gained my M.Div from an on-line Bible college where the faculty staff are allied to the Church of Christ, and they fully accepted me with my Pentecostal background and award me with high grades for my research paper on the healing ministry.

You learnt it from men ,who do not study and check the Bible. There is no such thing praying in the Spirit is not tongues .Whey would God give a tongues message you do not understand to return to him when Paul said at the end 1 Cor.14, DO ALL THINGS WITH UNDERSTANDING .IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN.

Everyone in my family speak except for my brother and I. I don't know why he does not speak, but I know why I do not. The so-called unknown tongue doesn't proceed from God. It is the invention of men and manipulation of the devil.

There is a difference between speaking in tongues in Acts 2 and 1 Cor 14 which you should check out if interested and to verify for yourself, which I have done. In Acts 2 it is a known language, 1 Cor 14 it is an unknown language. In Acts 2 it is for public benefit, 1 Cor 14 it is for personal benefit In Acts 2 it is understood by humans, 1 Cor 14 it is only understood by God In Acts 2 no interpreter needed, in 1 Cor 14 an interpreter is needed if it is to be publicly used

Bigdee---THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE USE OF TONGUES TODAY. Please read on, thank you: Bible tongues were a gift to the apostles and their hearers. Seeking this gift today overlooks its persons, promise, and purpose (Mark 16:14-17; Heb 2:3-4). The gift of tongues was the property of the apostles and those under their ministries (Acts 8:14-17; 10:44-48; 19:1-7). ✿ Bible tongues BEGAN on the day of Pentecost in 30 AD, fifty days after the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, just as He had promised (Mark 16:17-20; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4). God used the gift of tongues to magnify the apostles as heavenly messengers, in spite of lacking education, reputation, and human authority (Acts 4:13; 5:12-13; 8:14-19; 19:1-7). ✿ BIBLE TONGUES LASTED ONLY A SHORT TIME. Paul told the tongues-speaking church at Corinth that the Spirit's revelatory gifts would end (I Cor 13:8). In spite of their emphasis on prophecy, tongues, and gifts of knowledge, Paul promised that these gifts were temporary. Charity was a more excellent way of serving, for charity was permanent and would never end (I Cor 12:31; 13:8,13). ✿ BIBLE TONGUES ENDED BY 70 AD, forty years after they began, when the apostles had finished writing the New Testament scriptures and such partial and obscure gifts of revelation were no longer needed (I Cor 13:8-12). While Paul was alive the apostles confirmed each other's writings (I Tim 5:18; II Tim 3:15-17; II Pet 3:15-16). The need for tongues had ended. ✿ BIBLE TONGUES WERE A SIGN TO UNBELIEVERS. Today's emphasis on speaking among believers in church services, crusades, or so-called revivals is contrary to God's will for the gift (I Cor 14:22). Tongues were to convince unbelievers that the speaker was sent by God with a divine message, as at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-11). The use of tongues among believers misses God's purpose for them. ✿ Bible tongues was the gift to speak foreign languages without study. But Charismatic and Pentecostal missionaries study languages for years to be able to speak them, and they never expose their "gift" to linguists or native speakers of any language (Acts 2:1-11; 10:46). Benny Hinn, the greatest tongues speaker today, must use translators to communicate with anyone of any language! ✿ MODERN FALSE TONGUES are emphasized over the other sign gifts. The reason is simple - tongues are much easier to counterfeit. Would you rather babble or handle snakes and drink poison? So Benny Hinn goes to coliseums to heal, not to hospitals! Charismatic faith and power tremble, when real miracles are required! Remember how and why Pharaoh's magicians had to quit (II Tim 3:8-9)! ✿ Modern false tongues are not God's anointing. Paul, the great apostle to the Gentiles and our example in following Christ, used the word only ONCE, and that was in a different context (II Cor 1:21)! He never used it in the three Pastoral Epistles. ✿ Modern false tongues are not the heavenly language of angels. Angels do not babble, gibber, bark, cackle, laugh, or oink! Some take Paul's hyperbole of I Cor 13:1 and make it some mysterious heavenly language, and then they claim that is what they speak! But Paul merely drew an extreme illustration of how worthless even the most glorious gift of tongues would be without charity. ✿ Modern false tongues emphasize women. Paul warned of televangelists entering homes and taking captive silly and lustful women (II Tim 3:6-7). The apostles taught that women are the most easily deceived by these seducers (I Cor 14:34-35; I Tim 2:14; I Pet 3:7). Paul warned women to be silent in the churches, but Charismatics promote women as pastors (I Cor 14:34-35; I Tim 2:11-12)! ✿ Modern false tongues have been proven NOT to be any language. If Charismatics disagree, they should take their gift to a linguist and preach to him. Or they can take their gift to a nation of that language and confirm it among native speakers. But they will not do this any sooner than Benny Hinn will clear a cancer ward or empty a morgue. He stages healings, and they fake tongues. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mstynrupvrrMqmQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZxdbMqctbDGn4k.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbyDf8ZhyNfQioE.html #

@@drspaseebo410 God bless you. Sell your arguments are wrong, because you misunderstood the teaching of the Bible. What do you understand of 1 Corinthians 13:10? How can you support your conclusion? If you want to discuss this subject, I'll post my opinions about the information you posted. How do you understand Facts 8.18 10.45-47. Needed the Peter to hear the gospel? So your argument that the tongues were just for preaching is not biblical. 1 Cor 14.23. This verse means that the gift is spiritual empowering from God but in church people should not disturb the service. I hope you want to talk with arguments. God bless you

@@michaelnewzealand1888 YOU HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD 1 COR 14. SEE MY COMMENT TO JACOB STANZIOLE

Pray for the Lord to fill you with the Holy Spirit and keep praying until it happens.You will know when it happens.Then relax your tongue until you feel the Spirit take control of it.After that, you will be able to pray in the Spirits' language anytime you want.

amen brother

You need to give yourself more fully to fasting, prayer, and the Apostolic doctrine. Just a word of encouragement.

I agree 100% Joshua. I have always seen speaking in tongues as meaning different languages. Glad you share my thoughts. Not many people see it that way.

The problem is that that never happened and you know it. These kinds of things simply dont take place anymore. This has not happened since about 60AD. Not one word written or spoken about it since Paul wrote about it until the 1800s. Literally no Christian has ever said one word about this until the 1800s where in each case since the 1800s, the speaker of these other languages never spoke them to a person whos native language was that which was being spoken, meaning that not one person has been given the gospel in their native language by this gift and said one single word about it as part of a testimony of theirs as it relates to how they heard the truth of the gospel. These kinds of lies do nothing for the advancement of the kingdom and at the end of the day, only hurt it.

jacob walters you reason like an Atheist. It happened and I am an eye witness. I am not gullible nor am I a liar. It's arrogant of you to presume that because you've never seen it, it's impossible. There's no scripture that supports your point of view.

Amen sister, very good post. Nice to read.

How is it a gift? Whom does it edify? What purpose does it serve other than to show off?

@@DigitalPraise7how can you show off if you’re praying in tongues in your personal prayer closet? I received the gift of tongues while interceding for a family that was about to leave the church over me offending them, and all of a sudden I started speaking in tongues, that was not showing off, it was in deep travail & deep communing with God over those sheep. Some gifts come when we humble ourselves & are not envious/jealous of Joseph’s coat of many colors.

​@DigitalPraise7 It is a gift and an edifying one since the Bible calls it that.

What are you saying ! I hope you do not mean your ecstatic gibberish means more to you than .the Lord.

Obsession, delusion, deception. To even think that you couldn't live without the prayer language!?! What's a prayer language? The devil has wrapped a counterfeited gift to look like the gift of the Holy Spirit, and because of the blindness of many, coupled with the gross deception at this time, many continue to tread on the wrong path.

Standing In Awe Gracefulybroken This is false teaching. The gift of speaking in tongues is not what the disciples experienced on the Day of Pentecost. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 14:26-27 explains how when the *gift* of tongues is operating, there are only two or three taking turns and another interprets. On the Day of Pentecost they *all* spoke in tongues at once 120 people, *not* two or three and *not* taking turns. Lastly, Jesus Christ(Yehoshua HaMoshiach in Hebrew) said in Mark 16 that to speak in tongues all you need to do is believe. I ask you to just surrender yourself wholly and completely to the Lord. Ask Him to speak through you and He will. He is not a respect or of persons and there is nothing you need to do but believe Him. Remember, it’s not a task for you to accomplish. It is simply allowing the Holy Ghost to manifest in you.

An unconverted church goer said he prayed in tongues (gibberish) ,I said why if you know you are not a believer ,answer was ,I get a 'high' out of it.

Very curious about your statement. When you say "it's amazing," what exactly do you mean? What is it that makes it seem amazing to you? And when you speak in tongues, are the people who hear you also amazed by it?

Please get out of it, and try as much to discontinue it. If you do speak in "unknown tongue", it's obvious sign of end-time deception one.

@@NTZCh7 What makes you say that? I’m genuinely interested.

@@jamesdewbrey bed time here. 11:33pm Hopefully, tomorrow, first light.

I submit that you have been put off tongues by the misuse of it by false Charismatics who are ignoring the clear teaching of Paul in 1 Corinthians 14. If you are born again of the Spirit of God, you have the ability to pray in tongues. But if you have been put off by the spooky misuse of it, then I can understand that you would not have the level of faith in God to be able to ask, receive, and use your faith to allow the Spirit to flow out of you in a prayer language that God understands and appreciates. It doesn't have to be "ecstatic" or spooky. It is just the same as speaking any language to God. I pray in tongues in the same cool, calm and collected expression that I pray in English to Him. I don't get worked up in an ecstatic frenzy like some who think that is the only way to speak in tongues. Problem is that such people imbibe a wrong spirit and the tongues are generated either from the flesh or a paganised incantation fueled by an occult spirit. Where there is the genuine article, there is always the counterfeit.

@@Paul8276 You said "I submit that you have been put off tongues by the misuse of it by false Charismatics who are ignoring the clear teaching of Paul in 1 Corinthians 14. If you are born again of the Spirit of God, you have the ability to pray in tongues. But if you have been put off by the spooky misuse of it, then I can understand that you would not have the level of faith in God to be able to ask, receive, and use your faith to allow the Spirit to flow out of you in a prayer language that God understands and appreciates. It doesn't have to be "ecstatic" or spooky. It is just the same as speaking any language to God. I pray in tongues in the same cool, calm and collected expression that I pray in English to Him. I don't get worked up in an ecstatic frenzy like some who think that is the only way to speak in tongues. Problem is that such people imbibe a wrong spirit and the tongues are generated either from the flesh or a paganised incantation fueled by an occult spirit. Where there is the genuine article, there is always the counterfeit. My reply *@BaldEagle... What you are saying is in correct. There's no such thing as you have the ability to pray in tongues. What you are doing is not of God, you YOURSELF putting a bunch of silly syllables together is NOT speaking in tongues at all. That is just gibberish nonsense, and there is no such thing in the bible as a prayer language. What you are doing is counterfeit and you are definitely NOT speaking in tongues.*

Michael Morgan You said "I've been afraid of "tongues" myself, so I've never asked God for that gift. I'm just blessed that he answers my prayers that I do ask, insofar as it comes to healing. But there are some things in my life God has said NO to. One being a wife. The worst trouble I've gotten into was just accepting the first person who after several rejections, would accept me. I can attest first hand when God says NO to something, it's best to leave it alone. I didn't hear the "NO" and kept on pursuing a relationship with someone who almost got me away from God, and my Christian roots, but her grandson almost killed me three years ago. By God's mercy and Grace I'm still alive. But I know to listen to God when he says NO now. My reply *@Michael Morgan... If a person have not spoken in tongues they definitely do NOT have the Holy Spirt and if any man have NOT the Spirit of Christ they are NONE of his.*

@Michael Morgan God is protecting you from this because tongues have ceased. Your fear was warranted. God has given you discernment. Keep listening to the Holy Spirit brother and He will guide you in all things.

Amen. Very powerful and clear

You are speaking directly to God, not man. Check the Bible.

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Don't.

God bless you...Without faith it is impossible to please God. In your prayer time, as you received Jesus as Lord and Savior... ask, receive and do it... the Father will not withhold any good gift from you... and if you get too high and mighty -- you may get a thorn in the flesh. 🙂

Me too brother. I know that I have been filled with the Holy Spirit but I can not speak in tounges. I find myself worshipping God.

I literally grinned at this. By the way, the tongues going round in end-time gatherings are deceptions, since the gift enables the 'user' speak human languages

Yessss!!!!! Thank you for posting!!!

Not real

@@jkey3835 That’s just not the truth. Read 1st Corinthians friend.

I am googling/youtubing what speaking in tongues means and the more I learn about it the less I know what it is haha. Can you explain to me in simple terms what it means?

Its a unknown tounge speaking in that heavenly lanuage is praying in the spirit.The unknown tounge is a personal relationship to you and God.Only God knows what your speaking and what you dont know what to pray for he allows you to pray for it in that way

Are you understanding what he's saying in this verse that iscso often misinterpreted. It starts with IN THE CHURCH, he would rather speak 5 intelligible words....... He's still explaining the same thought from the verse right before it! Paul says he thanks God that he speaks in tongues more than others but IN THE CHURCH, tongues should only be spoken when interpreted

Breath of fresh air! Amen bro.! Been doing the same for 38 years! Give me a buss,I'll tell you some stories about what I have been witness to !

Mr10glorious Understanding Enlightened from what God has taught me through the bible and what the bible says, I have came to this same conclusion as well ...and i don't even pray in tongues

I am impressed that one who does no,t can agree because of the scripture as opposed to what they might have been taught or based on their(lack of) experience! Paul says to,"Earnestly desire spiritual gifts",which He never repeats about anything else! If the Holy Spirit/God just "chooses" and "determines" who is going to have which gift, why then does anyone have to desire any gift or anything? God's gifts and blessings are not automatic! "I will give you the desires of "your" heart"! One will not automatically have what God wants them to have just because He wants them to have it , any more than God will automatically keep one from sinning just because He wants one to stop sinning! Deut. says that God tells us to "choose blessings or cursing,life or death" it is all encompassing and not up to Him!! One does not "have to have" anything that the devil wants us to have,and one does not "have to have" anything that God wants us to have either!! We can refuse both,or "have i"t through ignorance(in the case of the devil) or "not have it" from God out of ignorance also!!

Understanding Enlightened Just remember that the gift of tongues is not for everyone my friend. The holy spirit distributes the gifts as he wills. It has nothing to do with us.

Ben Booth God must have wanted me to have it then.

Agapiel Escanilla its a mystery and a gift how can you even compare that to service and help

The fruits of the spirit are more important than the gifts of the Spirit.

@@johnerikson828 there all important. You need to repent.

All of the gifts of the Holy Spirit are all important. James 1:17 says Every good thing given and perfect gift is from above coming from the father of lights with whom there is no variation of shifting shadow. All of the gifts have different functions and all of them are for the building of the church. Just as there is no ministry that is more important than the other, there is also no gift that is more important than the other. For all things work together for Good for those who are in Christ Jesus. But the gifts are not the indicator that one is a Christian, it is by the fruits of the Holy Spirit that you can tell that the Spirit of The Lord is with them.

@@chrisgreer9029 its important because youre fucking sick, get help

Thank you

TYRONE HE SAID HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT.

Speaking babble or gibberish that no one can understand or translate -- as Kenneth Hagin did and as Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, TD Jakes and other "prosperity" or "word of faith" preachers (as well as many lay people) do, including "pentecostals" and "charismatics") -- is NOT "speaking in tongues", it is NOT scriptural, it is anti-biblical. It is critical to understand that according to scripture, the gift of speaking in tongues ALWAYS involves speaking a REAL HUMAN LANGUAGE complete with syntax, vocabulary, and sentence structure. A "tongue" is the Bible's word for a REAL, UNDERSTANDABLE HUMAN LANGUAGE (such as Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Tagalog, Swahili or Arabic for example). The gift of tongues means speaking in a foreign language that the speaker does not know and cannot understand. When a tongue (language) is spoken in the presence of a person who knows that language naturally, then that person will immediately understand what is being said because it is the hearer's natural language. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mstynrupvrrMqmQ.html Here's an example: if a Christian who speaks ONLY English has the gift of tongues and is prompted by the Spirit to speak in Mandarin, then this believer will not understand his own speech, which is the essence of the miracle. Nevertheless, the speech is real Mandarin language. Although the speaker cannot understand the foreign tongue, anyone who knows the Mandarin language from China will understand the speech perfectly. So when the Bible uses the term "tongue," it is NOT referencing a strange, nonhuman pattern of speech or utterance; it does NOT mean babbling gibberish which no one understands. On the contrary, the term tongue in the Bible simply means a NORMAL SPOKEN HUMAN LANGUAGE - but a language which the speaker himself does not know or understand. This has to be emphasised. We see this truth at work in Acts 2 when thousands of new Jewish Christians began to speak in "unknown" tongues at Pentecost; we see that these "tongues" were normal, human languages that many foreigners in the crowd could understand naturally: Acts 2:6 And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language. Acts 2:7 They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? Acts 2:8 “And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? Acts 2:9 “Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Acts 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Acts 2:11 Cretans and Arabs - we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.” So you can see that "speaking in tongues" is NEVER a practice of uttering gibberish or chanting repetitive sounds, as we have heard done by Kenneth Hagin, T D Jakes, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn. So much of what passes TODAY as "speaking in tongues" is clearly nothing more than babbling gibberish, and that is our first clue that the modern-day practice of speaking in "tongues" is rife with error and false displays, rather than being a true work of the Spirit. Some people even say they can teach you to speak in tongues -- you will see immediately that this is totally erroneous and UNbiblical. For further information please refer to: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbyDf8ZhyNfQioE.html www.versebyverseministry.org/bible-answers/is_speaking_in_tongues_biblical kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8pln6eWsrDOqGg.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iddzgKeDp8_Xo30.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l61zf8ZqsNrKeXk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNNimt2fqrm9mXk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNBph5R8z5fIkqc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZpN5ppmomdqcomQ.html #

Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus

Infinite This is a lack of self control practised by the pagans .Just of the flesh and not spiritual .The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of HOLINESS AND SELF-CONTROL.

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@@PoeticCollective i’m happy for you!!! Love it

Yh it is a gift of God

Ron Wright You said "Having been involved with a church that held to the, "If you don't speak in tongues , then you need to get saved" mindset, Pastor John expresses here what I've always felt. It's how I saw scripture so clearly tell us. It. Is. A. Gift. Well put sir. My reply *@Ron Wright... Please don't have itching ears. Jesus said these SIGNS shall follow THEM THAT BELIEVE. they shall speak with new tongues... Do you believe Jesus or John Piper? If a person have NOT spoken in tongues they definitely do NOT have the Holy Spirit and if any man have NOT the Spirit of Christ they are NONE of his.*

Unfortunately Ron, this was an extreme view of the Holy Spirit. Tongues is not a prerequisite for Salvation. I was saved for 7 years before I received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. There is a difference in being full of water and jumping into a pool! You never have to speak in tongues to be saved but you are sure missing out on a lot. Most people fill like they just got saved when they get filled but that's not true. Be encourage, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is for you! You will speak in tongues after that experience. It is just what happens. I have never seen a person not speak in tongues after they ask God to fill them. Talk to people who know about this biblical experience and not people who don't.

READ THE LAST PART OF CH14.

C. Jordan no he did not ,say when you speak in tongues the spirit prays for you to the Father and edifies you . He spoke in tongues because he was the Apostle to the Gentiles and it was a sign to the Jews that God had turned to the gentiles Isaiah 28 .That is why it is in the past and Pentecostals are those mentioned in Matt. 7 :21. who claim to be prophets and caste out demons.

Paul was an educated Roman Citizen who spoke a few different learned languages other than his own. Tongue = Language.

@@audrymoore7757 He would have known HEBREW ,GREEK AND LATIN .as did all educated Jews.Even the British spoke Greek as they traded in the Med. from the time of the Greek Empire.

@@wendymitchell8245 you're out of context trying to add and ommit other things written. Read the verse "1 Corinthians 14:2" it is clear and even Paul says "I Thank my God I spoke in tounges" and he (Paul) encourage and told them (church) to earnestly desire the spiritual gifts and do not forbid it.

@@wendymitchell8245 speaking in tounges said by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14:2 is plainly clearly to be understood those who have the gifts of tounges (with interpretation of tounges) are not speaking to men but to God for he is speaking mysteries. Biblically charismatic gifts is Biblical and Theological even Historical true and truth. Abuses are the other issues (out of the topic issue).

Paul is talking about the pagan use of tongues that crept into the fleshy Corinthian church.

@@Max-kn9yi when have u had a fleshly spiritual church?That's not what he's talking about. He was setting order up in the church that each person may seek to edify one another .Read your bible bruah.

@@chrisgreer9029 well he wasn't talking about order yet.. He was talking i believe about the pagan version of tongues.which to them is spiritual. And he goes into instruments sounding distinct tones( a real language) vs an indistinct tone (pagan use of tongues). Jesus referenced how the pagans pray to God using incessantly repetitive words, to not pray like that. Pagans worship was exstatic, and they even talked about a special prayer language. I think Plato or someone wrote about it. John MaCarthur talked about this.

@@Max-kn9yi where is that in the bible?

@@chrisgreer9029 Math 6:7 Jesus uses the word babling.. if you look up that word it means exactly what you hear with modern day tongues.

Thomas, you have not studied it all and you missed the whole point and reason for it Paul was the Apostle to the gentiles that is why he spoke in tongues in gentile languages .As at Pentecost.

Thank you, Thomas Fryxellus, yours is one of the more biblically correct replies I have read here so far. God's people must realize that the natural, reasoning, carnal mind of man fails in the presence of and the moving of the Spirit of God. John's gospel 3- the wind blows but you cannot see where it comes from or where it goes, so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. The Spirit of God is God. And as it says in 1st Corinthians 13, whether I speak with the tongues of men or of angels... Not all tongues can be interpreted as an Earthly language but they can all be interpreted by the Holy Spirit in the gift of interpretation through another believer. 1 Corinthians 12: 1-12. These gifts are given to the church by the Holy Spirit. Yes, let love be the root and motive of all we do. But do not try to understand God's Spirit with your natural/ carnal mind any more than you can understand God with your natural/ carnal mind. It is the mind of the Spirit we seek not the mind of the flesh. 1 Corinthians 2: 9-16. The things of the Spirit are foolishness to the Natural mind and they can only be spiritually discerned. Through seeking God with fasting and the Word and worship He will make his thoughts known to you as well as his gifts. May God's people seek the higher things. God's ways are not our ways and his thoughts are so much higher than ours. Isaiah 55:8-9. God bless.

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Hi Sally. You have been seeking the wrong thing. Ask God to fill you with His Spirit. THEN you get to speak in tongues. Tongues should not be your focus. Speaking in tongues is just a byproduct of being filled with The Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues is for EVERYBODY! There is the Gift of tongues that is different. Everyone will not operate in the gift of tongues but all were filled on the Day of Pentecost and spoke with other tongues. But all will not give a message in tongues and then have someone interpret. Be encourage!

1 Corinthians 14:2: (NKJV) For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

Amen a great gift.