I witnessed someone speaking in tongues today

friend of · Mar 17, 2019

I've been fairly skeptical about tongue speaking for quite some time, as and I can't say that I had honestly encountered it before today. But I do believe what I experienced this morning was real, and I'm exceedingly grateful for it.

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I was attending a prayer meeting before service for some extra fellowship and prayer time. About a dozen of us were centered around a square table, and we were all invited to pray as we felt led. A man came in late, we made eye contact, nodded, sat next to me. We started praying.

A few minutes in, this man sounded off a string of phonemes and morphemes in rapid succession in a whispered voice. It didn't sound so much like a language. He did not draw attention to himself. When he was moved to speak his prayer, it was not long but it was solid supplication and there was a tenor of strong emotion in his voice as he pleaded with God. A few minutes later, I heard this rapidity again. I felt an urging to look at him the next time he did this.

When it happened again, I looked up and he was staring right into my eyes, nodded, I averted my gaze almost immediately. Frightening. The prayers continued until our session ended a few minutes later. He introduced himself to me and to my friend.

We got up to leave and I called his name and asked if I could ask him a question. In the hall, "Were you just speaking in tongues?" His response was an immediate and confident "Yes." I told him that I had been rather skeptical of tongues and we talked a bit about it. He said tongues was "All from God." I was floored by the clarity, calmness, and peaceful composure of the man.

He spoke encouragingly to me, mentioning for me to plead with God and ask him to find what His will for my life is. To fast and pray and seek earnestly more spiritual gifts to serve our Lord. 1 Corinthians 12:31

All in all, a phenomenal day at church.

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What are you experiences with this phenomenon? Does my account sound genuine with your own experiences? Do you speak in tongues, and if so, how often?

I will praise God for this gift and for this profound experience today. I am now decidedly less skeptical/judgemental about this claim.

Helen · Mar 17, 2019

Yes I do..since 1968 ...
Especially when we get a prayer request and I know God's wisdom for the prayer answer is well above my own...so I petition in tongues.

I never speak of it...because the non charismatic, fundamental christians for some reason get madly angry when tongues is the discussion. They hate it and say it is from the devil.

I would not wish to be in their shoes when the "roll is called up yonder" and the Holy Spirit shows them the truth. ✟

farouk · Mar 17, 2019

friend of said:
I've been fairly skeptical about tongue speaking for quite some time, as and I can't say that I had honestly encountered it before today. But I do believe what I experienced this morning was real, and I'm exceedingly grateful for it.

—

I was attending a prayer meeting before service for some extra fellowship and prayer time. About a dozen of us were centered around a square table, and we were all invited to pray as we felt led. A man came in late, we made eye contact, nodded, sat next to me. We started praying.

A few minutes in, this man sounded off a string of phonemes and morphemes in rapid succession in a whispered voice. It didn't sound so much like a language. He did not draw attention to himself. When he was moved to speak his prayer, it was not long but it was solid supplication and there was a tenor of strong emotion in his voice as he pleaded with God. A few minutes later, I heard this rapidity again. I felt an urging to look at him the next time he did this.

When it happened again, I looked up and he was staring right into my eyes, nodded, I averted my gaze almost immediately. Frightening. The prayers continued until our session ended a few minutes later. He introduced himself to me and to my friend.

We got up to leave and I called his name and asked if I could ask him a question. In the hall, "Were you just speaking in tongues?" His response was an immediate and confident "Yes." I told him that I had been rather skeptical of tongues and we talked a bit about it. He said tongues was "All from God." I was floored by the clarity, calmness, and peaceful composure of the man.

He spoke encouragingly to me, mentioning for me to plead with God and ask him to find what His will for my life is. To fast and pray and seek earnestly more spiritual gifts to serve our Lord. 1 Corinthians 12:31

All in all, a phenomenal day at church.

—

What are you experiences with this phenomenon? Does my account sound genuine with your own experiences? Do you speak in tongues, and if so, how often?

I will praise God for this gift and for this profound experience today. I am now decidedly less skeptical/judgemental about this claim.

Since God's Word is now complete - whereas in transitional Apostolic times it was not - I do question why so called tongues are supposedly necessary.

friend of · Mar 17, 2019

farouk said:
Since God's Word is now complete - whereas in transitional Apostolic times it was not - I do question why so called tongues are supposedly necessary.

I think it's just experiencing an extra dimension of communion that God gives to people. I don't think speaking in tongues is necessarily... necessary. But yeah, my opinion has changed.

"ByGrace" said:
fundamental christians for some reason get madly angry when tongues is the discussion.

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully not all of them?

Willie T · Mar 17, 2019

I was the same way for years. I scoffed and ridiculed it.

Then, one night we (my wife and I) were at a big meeting about 70 miles from here. They asked if anyone wanted to "speak in tongues." I'm not sure why, but I got up and followed several people into a smaller side room.

Frankly, the way the "coaches" were trying to get people to shape their lips and make the same 'canned' sounds and phrases I had heard uttered by so many other people before, absolutely disgusted me. I got up and walked out.

I went out to my car, and sat there... mad as a wet hen! I asked God why He let me get involved with that mockery...…. and then I began crying there, alone in the dark parking lot. I was feeling stupid and suckered.

All of a sudden, I just began to talk in what seemed like a cross between German and American Indian. (I speak some German, but I am just guessing that the other was American Indian..... it was all just kind of guttural.)

That was about 35 or 40 years ago, and I found myself speaking in that "language?" from then on, whenever I really need to reach for God..... maybe every 2 or 3 months.

This continued until about 10 years ago when, while I was out walking the dog, I just began speaking in an Arabic/Hebraic-sounding tongue. I have never gone back to the other sound.

Same thing, I seldom used it, and usually only by myself (or very quietly if others were present). Nothing seems to happen because of it, but since I do feel so totally relaxed and at peace afterward, it really doesn't seem to matter if nothing ever comes of using it.

friend of · Mar 17, 2019

Willie T said:
Frankly, the way the "coaches" were trying to get people to shape their lips and make the same 'canned' sounds and phrases I had heard uttered by so many other people before, absolutely disgusted me

Yeah. That's fraudulent. It's something God enables one to do, after all.

amadeus · Mar 17, 2019

farouk said:
Since God's Word is now complete - whereas in transitional Apostolic times it was not - I do question why so called tongues are supposedly necessary.

An interpreter has always been necessary for God's message to get through to anyone. In the OT He often spoke to the people through the prophets. When Jesus walked with His disciples 2000 years ago He spoke in parables but He gave the interpretation to His disciples. Now the interpretation is given to us by or through the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it is vocalized from the message in tongues by one person and the interpretation into the common by another person. In addition to this there other types among the diversities of tongues Paul. One is the talking to God in tongues. This has been my gift for many years. My wife's gift has been twofold serving both as the speaker of the message from God in tongues as well as an interpreter of such a message into English.

If the Word of God were complete and understood by all precisely the same we might consider you correct... but from this forum alone we know that that is not how it is. The reason people who have the Holy Spirit working in them often disagree is because most everyone speaks a mixed message much of the time. This is a result of not always [24/7] being in the Spirit. People quench the Spirit regularly and mix up what they reason out with their carnal minds with that which is from God. The best example of this I recall in scripture is seen in the Samaritans if you recall their origin after many of the 10 tribes of the north [Israel] were carried away in captivity by the Assyrians. Those of Judah [Judea] hated the Samaritans because of this, but as we know the Judeans were often or usually just as guilty in the eyes of God. So are we!

By the way, I received a gift of tongues in 1976. For many years now I have been praying daily in tongues each morning. During the day I will frequently call on the Lord as the need arises and often my prayer will end in tongues.

Are tongues necessary? Perhaps not for everyone, but for me and I know for some others they are very needful as we walk with God.

"I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:" I Cor 14:18

CoreIssue · Mar 17, 2019

Tongues are a gift of the Holy Spirit. But as anyone can see even in the Bible there use declined rapidly as the church grew.

It is the last gift the list Bible and as Paul says least gift.

I have seen a couple of reported examples of tongues occurring with missionaries in foreign countries that served a unique purpose. Interestingly not by Pentecostals.

Unfortunately some have elevated tongues to a status and purpose that can be found nowhere in the Bible. Such as evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Just like shown in the Bible one receives the Holy Spirit upon repentance without any demonstration of tongues.

The Bible makes it clear everyone gets a gift but not everyone gets tongues.

I've seen friends who were Pentecostals get hurt badly in their feelings and by others because they never spoke in tongues. Yet they sincerely loved God and shown no evidence of not being saved.

So all I can say is God gives tongues where and when needed.

I've also noticed those who receive true gifts of prophecy and other higher gifts do not go around advertising them. Those that do are frauds.

So those on both sides of the gifts arguments need to re-examine Their thinking.

friend of · Mar 17, 2019

@amadeus

Thank you Mr. Clean

friend of · Mar 17, 2019

CoreIssue said:
Unfortunately some have elevated tongues to a status and purpose that can be found nowhere in the Bible. Such as evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Just like shown in the Bible one receives the Holy Spirit upon repentance without any demonstration of tongues.

Yeah, I will never believe that tongues is required for salvation...

Mayflower · Mar 17, 2019

A friend of mine told me a story. She used to be into witchcraft and her friend astral projected. He would do this and they would attack believers somehow. Spy on them. And my friend told me that her friend was astral projecting one time and came across a group of believers. They had a frighhened sense come over them and they all started praying in tongues. Her friend said he didnt know what they were saying, but it was if they were protected and he couldnt touch them.

Mayflower · Mar 17, 2019

I pray in tongues. But my church doesn't believe in it as a prayer language, so I just pray at home. I got prayed over at Teen Challenge, but had a lot of doubts when I started praying in them, so I didn't until I came to this site and talked with my friend Chris.It started off on questions about dreams, and I have just learned so very much concerning tongues, discernment of dreams, and slowly learning peace in a multitude of different opinions, heated discussions, conspiracies, and end times events. I am grateful for what God has been doing in me through this site. I have learned the grey is okay. And tongues has strengthened my prayer life.

Deborah_ · Mar 18, 2019

I pray in tongues sometimes - but only at home, never in public. I received the gift about 18 months after I became a Christian, and it did wonders for my prayer life in English too!

farouk said:
Since God's Word is now complete - whereas in transitional Apostolic times it was not - I do question why so called tongues are supposedly necessary.

I fail to see how having a complete Bible makes tongues superfluous. They were never necessary - because not all believers had the gift even in the early church (I Corinthians 12:30).

Willie T said:
Frankly, the way the "coaches" were trying to get people to shape their lips and make the same 'canned' sounds and phrases I had heard uttered by so many other people before, absolutely disgusted me.

I despair when I come across this kind of thing. Tongues are a gift of the Spirit - you can't teach people how to do it. So much of what is called "spiritual gifts" these days is actually of the flesh, not the Spirit.

justbyfaith · Mar 18, 2019

CoreIssue said:
Unfortunately some have elevated tongues to a status and purpose that can be found nowhere in the Bible. Such as evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Tongues are indeed an evidence of the Holy Ghost...Acts of the Apostles 2:1-13, Acts of the Apostles 10:45-46, Acts of the Apostles 11:15-17.

They are not the only evidence, however. Acts of the Apostles 4:31. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31.

justbyfaith · Mar 18, 2019

My own experience with tongues is that I started going to a church in around 1986 where everyone spoke in tongues. Since the majority of the people in the congregation were of a different nationality than myself, I didn't think of them as being mad. I just considered that they were praying in their own language.

The word was preached with power in that church; I must have gone forward to receive salvation about seven times.

About the seventh time, the eldership took me onto the stage and began praying over me in tongues. They prayed so long that I began to think that if I did not do the same thing I would never get out of there. So I opened my mouth and began to imitate them (although it was my own prayer language); I began to speak in a language unknown to me.

When I would pray in my prayer language in the bathroom, my stepdad had a fit; and not long after that, my family moved out of the area so that I could not go to that church any longer. I backslid and did not go to church for about 3-4 years. When I did come back to the Lord, it seemed like a new conversion. However, I didn't pray in tongues again until after I backslid a second time (while still going to church and seeking to walk the Christian walk; I was captivated/ensnared by a besetting sin that did not plague me for the first year of my second conversion). My second conversion was a Nazarene type conversion.

More recently, I do still speak in tongues on occasion. One time the spiritual battle that I was going through was so severe that I don't know that I would have survived spiritually if I had not been able to "Keep myself in the love of God" through "praying in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 1:20-21).

CoreIssue · Mar 18, 2019

justbyfaith said:
Tongues are indeed an evidence of the Holy Ghost...Acts of the Apostles 2:1-13, Acts of the Apostles 10:45-46, Acts of the Apostles 11:15-17.

They are not the only evidence, however. Acts of the Apostles 4:31. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31.

Study other religions. Many have tongues as well.

Experience does not always equal validity.

justbyfaith · Mar 18, 2019

CoreIssue said:
Study other religions. Many have tongues as well.

Experience does not always equal validity.

If that is an attempt to keep me from practicing my spiritual gift, it is going to take more than that.

You would try to cast doubt on the validity of tongues; nevertheless the Bible teaches that it is a gift of the Holy Ghost; irregardless of what other religions teach about it. You did not deal with the verses that tell us that tongues are an evidence of the Holy Ghost...you simply attempted to try to cast doubt on what those scriptures tell us by appealing to the teachings of other religions.

We are Christians here, so we hold the Bible to be the authority; not the teachings of other religions.

It is satan who would attempt to keep those of us who have the gift of tongues from exercising it...it is a spiritual gift that is dangerous to his kingdom.

With it we are enabled to keep ourselves in the love of God (Jude 1:20-21) in times where he might try to snatch us out of the Lord's hand (if you think he doesn't try just because the Lord promises to some of us that it isn't possible, you don't understand the mind of the enemy).

Also, you said that the elevation of tongues to the position of being an evidence of the Holy Ghost is nowhere found in the Bible...I have shown that it is indeed in the Bible.

CoreIssue · Mar 18, 2019

justbyfaith said:
If that is an attempt to keep me from practicing my spiritual gift, it is going to take more than that.

You would try to cast doubt on the validity of tongues; nevertheless the Bible teaches that it is a gift of the Holy Ghost; irregardless of what other religions teach about it. You did not deal with the verses that tell us that tongues are an evidence of the Holy Ghost...you simply attempted to try to cast doubt on what those scriptures tell us by appealing to the teachings of other religions.

We are Christians here, so we hold the Bible to be the authority; not the teachings of other religions.

It is satan who would attempt to keep those of us who have the gift of tongues from exercising it...it is a spiritual gift that is dangerous to his kingdom.

With it we are enabled to keep ourselves in the love of God (Jude 1:20-21) in times where he might try to snatch us out of the Lord's hand (if you think he doesn't try just because the Lord promises to some of us that it isn't possible, you don't understand the mind of the enemy).

Also, you said that the elevation of tongues to the position of being an evidence of the Holy ghost is nowhere found in the Bible...I have shown that it is indeed in the Bible.

I have acknowledged the gift of tongues. But also have shown it is a lesser gift and has never been called evidence of salvation.

I've also pointed out it is practiced in non-Christian religions and cults.

It used to be a standard practice in Mormonism.

I do not know what your gift is and you sure don't know what mine are.

justbyfaith · Mar 18, 2019

CoreIssue said:
I do not know what your gift is and you sure don't know what mine are.

I have already mentioned that one of my gifts is tongues...so how is it that you do not know that that is one of my gifts?

You are subtly questioning my credibility.

May the Lord abundantly bless you.

Willie T · Mar 18, 2019

CoreIssue said:
Study other religions. Many have tongues as well.

Experience does not always equal validity.

Just about every other religion prays also. I guess we should quit that too, since it must be pagan. And then there is singing...… obviously another satanic influence.

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