We can live filled with love and wanting to share the love of Jesus with others around us. Here are 3 of church denominations view to help you understand what churches believe in on the topic of tongues.
The Pentecostal church believes after a person is saved and repentance of their sins, the Holy Spirit will dwell in them. Can they speak in tongues after the Holy Spirit dwells in them? You have to ask the Holy Spirit to fall upon you. Pentecostal believe any Christian can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Pentecostals belief if you are filled with the Spirit, you have the ability to speak in tongues.
They believe tongues are meant for today and are another gift of the spirit. They strongly believe in the gifts of the Spirit and say they bring praise to God.
The view among Baptists is split, southern baptists do not believe in tongues, but there are many Baptists who do believe in tongues. Most southern baptists believe tongues were only meant for the people in the people and the gift has ceased. Believers do vary from pastor to pastor and Baptists admit there are differences among their churches as to the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. Overall, most baptists would not believe in speaking in tongues being for today.
Among the pastors who do believe in the gift of tongues, most of them believe not all Christians can speak in tongues. Even though there are differing views among Baptists, most of the people and pastor within their churches long for them to come together as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
They believe after Salvation, you can be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Once the Holy Spirit has fallen on you, the gifts of the spirit are given to you. They do believe tongues are an important part of corporate worship times and that they can be used during personal prayer times as well.
They see both as important. The Holy Spirit gives people the gift of speaking and praying in tongues in the New Testament. Paul wrote about the rules and guidelines for the gift of speaking in tongues. He stressed how much greater prophecy was verses tongues because the body of Christ can be encouraged by prophecy.
They cannot be encouraged by tongues unless there is an interpreter. Above speaking in tongues and prophesy, we know love will never pass away. So, if you agree with tongues being for today or not, you can still choose to love people around you. Without love, we merely make loud noises. We need to ask Jesus to give us his love and to fill us up. We need to do everything in love and we cannot do it without Jesus helping us. What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
Prayer is how Christians speak to God and one way they are able to hear him speak back to them. During times of prayer, Christians are able to praise God, thank him, ask for forgiveness, ask him for their needs and intercede for people they know. When Christians pray, they are acknowledging God and admitting they need him to be with them and to guide them.
You can read this blog post to learn more about prayer. The only way to interpret your prayer language speaking or praying in tongues is to ask God to give you the ability to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. You cannot know what you are speaking when you pray in tongues. Ask God to reveal to you what you are speaking. Tell him your desire to know the words to the language you are speaking. There is no guarantee he will reveal what the language means, but he could!
You could also ask for him to allow someone else to have the gift of interpreting and be able to tell you what the words you were speaking meant.
Glossolalia means speaking in a foreign language that the speaker themselves does not know. This is practiced by Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians who believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit including speaking and praying in tongues. Praying in tongues: When you pray to God in tongues and only he understands what you are saying. Some people also pray in tongues over people during corporate prayer.
Speaking in tongues: When you speak in tongues and then someone is given the gift of interpreting and can tell you and the fellow believers with you what you said. When you speak in tongues, there should be an interpreter to understand what you are saying.
The only way to increase your prayer language is to pray and ask God to give more. You can ask him to give you the gift of speaking and praying in tongues. You can also pray he would give you the gift of interpreting tongues. There are no tricks or certain prays to make your prayer language increase, you simply have to ask God for an increase.
Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar. Since the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, all of His gifts live inside of you as well, including the gift of prophecy.
It is there for you any time the Lord prompts you. So, just tell the Lord you are available, and ask him to train you. And then when He does give you something to prophecy, then you take a step of faith and speak out what He is moving you to say. The Baptism with the Holy Spirit and the included ability to pray in tongues is absolutely available to all believers.
We are all encouraged to seek and receive that. That is a different thing altogether and that is the purpose of the article on this page. Thank you for this post brother! I have a question. Is speaking in tongues, praying in tongues and praying in the Holy Spirit the same or all different?
Thank you and Bessings! They are all different ways of saying the same thing. Paul uses the terms interchangeably in 1 Corinthians Hope that helps! In 1 Cor chapters , Paul is bringing correction in the area of the gifts of the Spirit, as opposed to the use of your prayer language that you receive when you get baptized with the Holy Spirit. The believers at Corinth seem to be confused as to when it is appropriate to speak in tongues.
Speaking in tongues is encouraged for private prayer and edification 1 Cor , 4 when you are by yourself The gifts of the Spirit, including tongues and interpretation, are encouraged when you are in a group setting , In 1 Cor , Paul is telling the believers that someday when we are present with the Lord, we will no longer need things like tongues, prophecy, knowledge, etc.
At that point, knowledge will be set aside and tongues will cease. But until that day, things like prophecy, tongues, and knowledge are very much needed. Hope that helps. Feel free to reply with any follow up questions. I explained to her and a group of others who began to question me about what is the difference between having your prayer language and having the gift of speaking in tongues.
I explained to them much of what you posted here. However, I have a question about whether when praying in tongues, is it our spirit man praying to God or if praying in tongues is it the Holy Spirit Himself praying through our spirit directly to God? I guess my question is how is it only your spirit that is praying, when we do not know what we ought to pray and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is evidence that the Holy Spirit is living inside of every believer.
I know that the Holy Spirit is waiting on our yielding to Him in prayer whether He leads us to pray in our native tongue or in our spiritual language. So is it or is it not the Holy Spirit praying a spiritual language through us once our tongue has been yielded to Him?
I ask because the scriptures you listed concerning prayer as often as we can in the Spirit, have capital Spirit not spirit with a little s. Your spirit is a combination of you and the Holy Spirit. It is no longer just you by yourself. So, to me that means that whatever your spirit is doing, it is not just your spirit, it is a combination of you and the Holy Spirit.
This is one of the most precious truths I have ever come across in scripture, and it is almost too amazing to grasp. But it is true nonetheless. That being said…. And since I am told as a believer that I should do this as often as I can, then that implies that I am the one that initiates it under normal circumstances. But even when I am the one that initiates it, and I am the one praying, it is never just me because my spirit is joined to the Holy Spirit, and we are one.
Whatever my spirit is doing, it is always in cooperation with the Holy Spirit. He is with me helping me do whatever I am doing. But I am the one doing it with His help. The reason I made the point in my article is to deal with confusion and questions that I often run into when I teach on this topic.
There are many people that believe they just need to sit and wait on God to force them to speak in tongues. They use different language for this like waiting for an unction…etc , but it all adds up to waiting on God to take over their body.
And I like to clear up that confusion by using 1 Cor It is you the believer that speaks in tongues, and you decide when it happens. And when you decide, the Holy Spirit will give you the ability every time. There are times, as you alluded to, where the Holy Spirit will prompt me, and He is urging me to pray in tongues, and He is the one behind it Rom for example.
But it is still left up to me whether or not I will cooperate. There are exceptions to all of this…I am just speaking generally. I am blessed, I read through the comments… Very interesting.
Pls keep it up. Question: when one is praying in tongue and had an understanding that he is asking for a car? Can that be seen as speaking in tongue? You are speaking in tongue but you have an understanding in your spirit, what is that? Pls if I got this right, Praying in tongue is praying in ones native or whatever language and speaking in tongue is praying in the Holy Ghost? Hi Daniel. Thank you for your questions. If I understand you correctly, you are asking specific questions about what language you speak when you pray in tongues.
It is supernatural, and you are doing it by faith as a spiritual action. Sometimes when you pray in tongues, the Lord will reveal things to you. He may reveal to you what you are praying about. Or He may give you some insight into a situation. Or He may give you some wisdom about future events. Or a variety of other things. I hope that helps. If not, please reply and let me know. Question s : Hello, I really enjoyed your post — it has blessed me tremendously!
I had a question regarding the validity, if you will.. Some people even say that your tongues should be continuously developing, ie: adding more words.. I really need a little more light shed on these areas. Can you please expound?
Hi Elena. I am so glad when I hear that my posts have been helpful. Thank you. And thank you also for your question. Here is my answer for you: 1 Cor tells us that when you pray in tongues, only God can understand it…no human can understand it.
To you, it may sound like you are repeating the same sounds over and over. But that is because you are trying to figure it out with your mind. Praying in tongues is not a mental exercise, it is a spiritual exercise. So you should never worry about how it sounds, or if your mind thinks that you are doing something repetitive. When you pray in tongues, your spirit is praying…not your mind.
It is not something that you can analyze. It is something that you have to do by faith. I have been around many hundreds of different people praying in tongues, and there are all kinds of languages. Sometimes it even just sounds like the same syllable over and over. Sometimes it sounds like all kinds of unknown words. Sometimes it even sounds like just noise and clicking sounds. And there is all other kinds of variety.
So there is nothing wrong with something sounding repetitive to our natural minds. What you are doing when you praying tongues is real, and you should not let anyone hinder you in that. It is a private language between you and your heavenly Father, and He is able to understand you just fine.
God is your audience, not other people. I hope that helps! Praise God! This has blessed me tremendously! Thank you again!
I have been blessed with the holy spirit and recieved diverse tongues as a gift. I can read any language and speak any language. It is such a blessing and I know God will take me places to minister to his people in their native tongue.
I cam use this gift also at will. I think I would like to speak Welsh or Greek and I just start speaking. I dont understand what I am saying mostly. But some words I do. In about every language I do understand the word for God. He works thru. But like I said I can think of a language and I just start speaking it. This gift is to exalt our God in high and do his bidding. Praise his name. Bless you all and keep the faith. Bless you Neal. It is absolutely amazing. I can read any language even syllables and heirglyphs.
I am so humbled to have this gift as I dont hear of many around that do. It is all for his glory. He will. I am glad be that vessel. I love God so much to him in prayer tongues throughout the day.
He did give. Keep up the good work my brother. Bless you. This is most definitely the gift of tongues! Just like in acts just like the examples of tongues in the bible.
Neal — your teaching on the speaking in tongues is right on , it is exactly what I have experienced over the years , I will use your comments in a home group that I am attending and their is a lot of confusion about tongues and the gifts. You say it so much better than I do. My spirit bears witness. Thank you Gary. Neal I have looked for many years in the San Diego area for a spirit filled church and finally God has lead me to a good one.
The upper room and the Crucifixion were a surprise to the disciples , Jesus spent most of his time teaching on the Kingdom , what are your thoughts on the Kingdom , have you heard of Mark Hoffman? I am currently working on some articles where I will share my views on the Kingdom.
But if you are interested, I did an introductory sermon on it a few months ago. I caught your sermon on the Kingdom of God and you teach it like I am taught at Foothills. If it is prompted by the Holy Spirit, then I would go with what He is prompting you to do. Sometimes that means you are being used to intercede for someone or something that you are not aware of. Thank you for this article. It Left me in awe. So much fell into perspective. I have for so many years asked so many people if they experienced the same.
As I was getting baptised by the Holy Spirit I continued praying in my mother tongue, but what I uttered was a completely different language. Have you come across a case like that? What does it mean? Hi there. Yes, I have seen cases like that several times, and it has been used for different things. Here is one example:. One time we were praying for someone in our home. One person tried to pray in English but it kept coming out in a different language. She kept trying to pray in English but it kept coming out in a different language that we did not understand.
After the prayer time, the person that we were ministering to told us that she heard the prayer in her own native language that none of us knew , and that the prayer was speaking to her about something from her childhood. There are many varieties. Always trust the Lord and follow the Holy Spirit. Ask Him to tell you whatever you need to know, and I promise you that He will. My name is Emmanuel. I was made an assistant pastor of a growing church.
Every time my mum and I and some other people with the gift of the Holy Ghost speak in tongues in the church,the senior pastor gets annoyed. Because of that and some other reasons,we had to stop the going to the church without his notice or any explanation. But I pray that he will one-day know the truth and probably speak in tongues too! Thank you for your comment Emmanuel. I will join you in praying that the senior pastor will receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit! I believe the Lord wants every believer to receive it.
This is the best Scriptural explanation about this subject that I have read so far. Thank you, and may Father God continue to use you in this manner. The body of Christ needs these teachings. Thank you for providing this format for questions regarding tongues. I received my prayer language shortly after I was saved in I have since then, resumed my private prayer language and have been blessed with peace because of it.
My question is whether a private prayer language can be an actual language? What scared me is that I googled words that sounded like words I use in my prayer language and it seems Arabic.
Is it wrong for me to do that? Some of the words were interesting and seemed like real warfare kinds of words. But why would God have me speak Arabic? Should I not do that and just accept what was a blessing before I tried interpreting my language as an actual language? This is really bothering me, so I hope you can help. There are some very bizarre languages on the earth, and there are so many varieties and dialects of each language.
At some point we have to choose to believe based on our best understanding of what scripture teaches. I believe that each individual prayer language is a real language. It is just a language that we do not know. I base this on my understanding of 1 Cor and 1 Cor When I pray in tongues, I believe that I am speaking a real language, even though it is a language I do not understand.
And I believe that the same is true for everyone that speaks in tongues. The scripture tells us that we can pray for the interpretation of what we say when we pray in tongues 1 Cor See especially 1 Cor. Tongues is also a form of praise 1 Cor. Tongues is also a way in which we edify or strengthen ourselves.
It is good to take whatever steps you can to edify yourself, to build up and strengthen your soul, so that you might be better able and equipped to build up others see 1 Cor. Prophecy is to be preferred over uninterpreted tongues in the corporate gathering of the church because it is intelligible and thus can serve better than unintelligible tongues speech to build up, edify, and encourage the people of God.
But this obtains only in the absence of an interpretation for tongues. What does Paul mean in 1 Cor. In 1 Cor. If Israel violates the covenant, God will chastise them by sending a foreign enemy, speaking a foreign tongue. This is the judgment that Isaiah says has come upon Israel in the 8th century BC when the Assyrians invaded and conquered the Jews cf.
BC, Jer. When God speaks to people in a language they cannot understand, it is a form of punishment for unbelief. It signifies his anger. Incomprehensible speech will not guide or instruct or lead to faith and repentance, but only confuse and destroy. Thus, if outsiders or unbelievers come in and you speak in a language they cannot understand, you will simply drive them away. So when you come together 1 Cor.
Otherwise the tongue-speaker should be quiet in the church v. Therefore, Paul is not talking about the function of the gift of tongues in general, but only about the negative result of one particular abuse of tongues-speech namely, its use without interpretation in the public assembly.
So, do not permit uninterpreted tongues-speech in church, for in doing so, you run the risk of communicating a negative sign to people that will only drive them away. One objection to the gift of tongues…is that nothing is of spiritual value unless it passes through the cerebral cortex of the brain and can be cognitively understood. Any notion that the Holy Spirit might engage with the human spirit directly, by-passing our cognitive thought processes, is anathema to most evangelicals.
If it is to be spiritually profitable it must be intelligible. But there is a vast difference between the necessity of intelligibility for the sake of the entire body of Christ, on the one hand, and whether or not a Christian can be edified and blessed and built up spiritually while speaking in uninterpreted tongues privately, on the other.
Tongues in the corporate assembly must be intelligible or interpreted for the sake of others who are listening. When you pray in tongues in private, you are most certainly praising. But praying, praising, and giving thanks is most certainly taking place!
And all this at the same time he lacks cognitive awareness of what is happening. Shut it down. Forbid it. If Paul had been fearful of trans-rational experience which, by the way, is far and away different from being irrational , would not his next step be to repudiate the use of tongues altogether, or at minimum to warn us of its dangers? At the very least we should expect Paul to say something to minimize its importance so as to render it trite, at least in comparison with other gifts.
But he does no such thing. Paul asks the question, in view of what has just been said in v.
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