Question about "speaking in tongues"

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

I would suggest that you endeavor to speak in tongues during your private prayer time... Be sincere with God and ask for the gift he has for you. No outside pressure or influence. Be OK if it happens or if it doesn't. When it's real you will know.

Peace

Thank you! That helps.

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

Matt, I think we want to know and understand that our experience with Jesus is genuine and not dependent on the quality of tongues we might speak in prayer. Build up your faith, believe with your heart and confess Christ with your mouth, then you can rest assuredly that you are secure in Him.

Be comforted by His word when you pray in tongues, knowing the former is salvific and not the quality or quantity of the latter.

Blessings to you! I look forward to getting to know you better and hope you enjoy your involvement on AFF.

That's super encouraging and helps ENORMOUSLY! Thank you so much, I feel at home already!

[bbyrd009]

Nice. I'd like to highlight also, as Lafon has just had me in Isaiah, that God seems to acknowledge that we don't get "it" all at once; law on law, line on line, here a little, there a little, is how we come into an understanding of the Kingdom, and I think we should trust that God loves us in this process, and unclench a little about our surely unfounded worries, undoubtedly sinful worries, in this regard; private worries, of course, but even moreso our "public" ones, directed, with ostensibly "good intentions," at unfamiliar interpretations.

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Nice. I'd like to highlight also, as Lafon has just had me in Isaiah, that God seems to acknowledge that we don't get "it" all at once; law on law, line on line, here a little, there a little, is how we come into an understanding of the Kingdom, and I think we should trust that God loves us in this process, and unclench a little about our surely unfounded worries, undoubtedly sinful worries, in this regard; private worries, of course, but even moreso our "public" ones, directed, with ostensibly "good intentions," at unfamiliar interpretations.

Thank you for that.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by Sabby

Only problem for their side is that once you are baptized with the Holy Ghost, you never forget it, or renounce it.

I understand that feeling, but I also have to say that I do not believe that it is accurate. I have heard of some that do exactly that. It is sad that it happens, but it does. However, most do not ever reach that point of hardness toward it, and many will still in moments of brutal honesty wish that they had never left the church. However, most are committed to maintaining the illusion that everything is fine.

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

I would suggest that you endeavor to speak in tongues during your private prayer time... Be sincere with God and ask for the gift he has for you. No outside pressure or influence. Be OK if it happens or if it doesn't. When it's real you will know.

Peace

I don't remember thanking you for that. Thank you.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by shag

Most, if not all the time that I here someone 'speaking in tongues", each syllable ends in a vowel. Especially what I hear from the microphone on the platform.

illio ha shati !!!
ya na na ma ha sa !!!
ya da da ba hashondi!!!

u know....stuff like that.

My question is, what in the world is that?

Shaggy, I thought about you when I saw this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWEHX...eature=related

[shag]

Is he genuinely speaking in tongues?
How does one know he is not really speaking in tongues?
If that isn't tongues, then what is it, and how is the real tongues different?
And how do we know what he is doing is any different than what we so often hear like in the example I gave ?

Lotta nonsense in this video, and a lot of it in Pentecost as well, I think.

[houston]

Nine minutes and fifty nine seconds of my life that I will nevah get back. Thanks, Hoovie.

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by shag

Is he genuinely speaking in tongues?
How does one know he is not really speaking in tongues?
If that isn't tongues, then what is it, and how is the real tongues different?
And how do we know what he is doing is any different than what we so often hear like in the example I gave ?

Lotta nonsense in this video, and a lot of it in Pentecost as well, I think.

I hate to see a gift distorted, as surely tongues has been. I gotta believe a gift will be evident in its giftedness, and will edify virtually by its presence. I haven't watched this. Did it edify you? is going to be all that matters, or maybe, "Did it edify anyone."