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Originally Posted by renee819
If you know the people in the church, you will know if there is anyone there that has the gift of interpretation.
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I believe, from experience, that when you are used in this gift, you don't have to know, beforehand, whether there is anyone present to interpret. I don't believe that is what the scripture is referencing here.
In that I mean, when you are used in this gift, you "know" before you speak out, that God is moving on you to give tongues and you "know" an interpretation will follow. It is with the Spirit you recognize what is about to take place, yield to it and speak out. Therefore, yielding to God's Spirit, you trust that He will move on a person to bring the interpretation. I don't bring the tongues on my own volition and I also don't bring the interpretation of my own volition. I don't have to stand there reflecting whether I personally know someone who has ever been used in that gift to be present.
I have been in a congregation where I knew no one, and tongues and interpretation came forth.
Also, the instruction in
I Cor 14:13 says, "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue
pray that he may interpret."
That could be a person's first time and first service (which I have also experienced) to ever be used in this way, because they prayed for it. As we can see, it is imperative to be sensitive to the moving of the Spirit.
I have also experienced tongues going forth and the person who had the interpretation admitting being afraid to give the interpretation and therefore, quenched the Spirit. Therefore, no interpretation followed.
I have also experienced God using someone else to give the interpretation when someone else was afraid to yield to it.
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