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I hear you very well on this subject. There are false tongues, not of God at all. In church settings where some tongues really are of God, people misuse or abuse their gifts even as some ministers really called by God misuse their calling. Especially for people without the gift, who are not...

A spiritual Hebrew is what it is. Not really Hebrew as men speak it but language we have in common with God. Anyone who really believes has a language in common with God. But as He has given other gifts to other believers, to some, such as you or me, He has provide this gift. For we who receive...

People work in the gifts God has given them. Probably a great many "believers" do not work in the gifts available to them because they refuse believe God would really work through them. In this they are like the natural children of Israel who at the time of Jesus already for about 430 years...

Quite a few people apparently have thought that, but did God so intend it? I would say rather that God intends for His people to have their vision improved by the work of the Holy Spirit within them as the words read from the scriptures are quickened [brought to Life] within them making them the...

I began praying to God in an unknown tongue in 1976. So you should revise your timeframe. I have never stated nor believed that the majority of Christian were less than me in the eyes of God, whose view in the only one that ultimately matters. I, of course, cannot speak for everyone else, but...

Just keep on walking by faith... toward a better vision, that better 'sight' of face to face. In spite of what you have understood sight or vision really is needed, isn't it? Maybe we have failed to communicate: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part...

Freewill is good? The only choices a man are God or mammon. So most people go for mammon. Is that good or is it God who is good? "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Mark 10:18

Read carefully Jesus' own explanation as to why he spoke in parables which many people were unable to understand. Why did he do that? Why did Jesus speak in parables? "He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is...

Yes, a real atheist with no interest in looking beyond where he is will not be included. But... we should not be too quick to decide a person has no hope nor any real desire for God simply because he calls himself an atheist or an agnostic or any of the other various names people may apply to...

When you are walking in the Spirit and open your mouth in response to someone's needs, that can be the interpretation even if it is in your native language. The correct interpretation is always from God. Jesus always spoke that way, but not everyone always understood him, because their hearts...

When they are used by God to speak to people as Jesus spoke to people, but as I indicated in my OP there are at least two other uses for tongues. There may be more. My own gift with tongues is as special means of communication between me and God. My wife's gift of tongues and interpretation...

If you have already read my OP also read I Corinthian chapters 12, 13 and 14. Also read Acts chapter 2.

Jesus spoke in parables to accomplish the same purpose with His audience that tongues may accomplish with their audience. Jesus knew all of the interpretations of his parables and knew what to say and when to say it. We do not know all of these things, but God in us does. He may use us to...

There is a great deal of difference between a donkey and a pig/swine. As you see in Balaam's donkey, God does care about them, but swine, if they remain swine are mentioned elsewhere by Jesus: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they...

And what of the sheep? Who are they? Are you one of His sheep? "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice...

This can be a real problem when a person's connection to his own home nation [patriotism] is so strong that it influences or even overwhelms his desire to always please and obey God. A verse I often refer to is: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things...

Changes in our heart at this moment may not immediately be seen by everyone and everything else you have may seem to remain the same for a while. The changes as a result of a change may take a while. Just do not lose whatever it is that God has given you and do not doubt Him. Initial salvation...

Just recently, @justbyfaith testified of a new experience with God that has changed him radically. I heard him and I am watching carefully wanting to be supportive. I have been changed favorably by God more than once during my years and would not want deny the possibility of God working...

I do hear you, but who can we trust to do it right according to what God would say right is? Unfortunately there is selfishness and politics involved wherever we might look for help among men. The UN or NATO might do it, but I would be surprised to see them send troops into any country with the...

Yes, into the self destruct mode sometimes without really knowing it. That also becomes a delusion to some presuming because of a good event [or events] in their own history that ultimately nothing can go wrong for them. 'I am saved and nothing can change that'... nothing but their own pathway...