Ever heard anyone singing/praying in tongues?

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I experienced this on Saturday and was blown away! Luckily I'd been discussing this with a close friend recently so knew what to expect. She said I'll know if I hear someone doing it and how right she was!
Can anyone do this? Or do you have any other gifts from the holy spirit?
I've had healing experience as in I've laid hands on a friend and dh and it's taken away their back pain. Also tried on MIL yesterday as she's had a headache for days and won't go to the docs. It helped her too.

Lots of Christians disagree with each other over things though FF. Some stick rigidly to the bible but if we did that we'd never get our hair done or wear jewellery etc... There's a lot in it that's not possible in the modern age.

I don't think there's anyone who's found a religion that has every element that suits them or I could be wrong?

This meeting I went to is quite charismatit CofE. There are people at my Church that wouldn't enjoy it though.

meant charismatic

I liked the sensation of speaking in tongues - it felt natural, but also abit separate from. My lips felt as though they had been injected with silicon

FF sounds like they were trying to scare the bejeezers out of you!

From my own personal experience with spiritual sensations / occurances I think you have to either be ready for it or it can feel weird / bad or not happen.

Connected with the retreat i read a lot of frightening publications, i cant actually believe people scare the shit out of each other like this.
My mum is heavily into the messages she recieved and i will not talk to her about it anymore as i find it far too dark and sinister. A lot of this stuff goes on but as you say morning paper it's not talked about.

I too cannot be classified as pure Catholic given single mum status but I still call myself catholic and have DD baptised etc. interesting post morning paper.

I don't think what you experiance at Majorgory sounded very Christian FF.I think when God moves He dose it with gentleness, not with aggression. I've had deliverance ministry and it wasn't like you discribed, it was in prayer with 2 friends and was done in love and gentleness.I don't believe God tries to force us into anything (He's given us free will and that includes the will to reject Him and His gifts as well as accept them)
I recieved the gift of tongues after reading a book called"The God who speaks" by Ian Petit. He calls tongues "babbling to God" and that took away all my doubt and allowed me to "babble"!!I'm a catholic too and as far as I know the Catholic charismatic movement is alive and well, I'm sure they must have a web-site somewhere, they do have a magazine called "Good News". When I'm not being a Catholic I sneak off to a United Reformed Church with a couple of friends!!!!

Try: www.ccr.org.uk

have read this thread with great interest as 2 years ago I did an Alpha course and about 7 people said this had happened to them and everytime we started the meeting the spirit was asked to come into the room, invited actually..I really tried to speak in tongues but just couldn't..perhaps because only new to being a sort of Christian and they'd done it for quite a while..

Well i think god shows himself and doesn't deliver himself in different ways, some people interpret it aggresively and with fear, some accept it peacefully. I don't think it is anything to do with god, its personality and the way we read into things.

when i was young up to the age of about 19 my mum was very ill,the hospitals and the doctors couldnt find the problem other then that she was paralized and couldnt speak,one night we got the phone call that we had been waiting for to say mum was about to die,we lived in a small village in new zealand and i knew a lot of church peaple although i didnt go,i told one of them about the phone call and they got up a meeting on the beach and prayed for mum and they started speaking in tongues,it went on for about 2 hours,i was fascinated when dad got home from the hospital he said mum had opened her eyes and spoken the first words she had said in years and this was the time i was on the beach, mum was mom 95% better 2 weeks after

What an amazing story fostermum

I'll add my two cents here...
The NT says there are muliple gifts of the holy spirit.
Personally I believe the gift of tongues is one of them but that
it isn't something every single Christian does, they may have a different or several
other different gifts to operate in,it says that we are all different parts of the body and
it would be silly for each part to be the same.
I also believe there is such a thing as a prayer language that is spoken by the "spirit man" in each of
us, the Bible speaks of groanings and utterances that we ourselves do not understand and that it is the spirit
interceding,a heavenly language.
I believe one of the reasons for this is, and take a deep breath lol,I believe that Lucifer,the adversary cannot be in more than one place
at a time and that he cannot read our thoughts,I believe the powers, and principalities aka fallen angels in a dark army as well as demonic minions,
part of their job is to steal our prayers, if you don't believe me, go and read what happened to Daniel and look up the "Prince of Persia".
So...this heavenly language or speaking in tongues is almost a holy code language understood only by God and the Holy angels.
The Bible says that speaking in tongues was for the purpose of edifying the church when there is an interpretation...however if there is not
an interpretation and it comes in a disruptive manner,it is not of God.
God is all about order and darkness is all about chaos and perverting what was meant for good into something different.
I'll leave it at that for now.

Genuine question here: doesn't it say something in the Bible about the Spirit 'blowing where it will'? So what happens if the desired effect doesn't happen? Suppose I ask for the gift of praying in tongues (or healing or whatever) and I don't receive it. What would that mean?

I think it would mean that for whatever reason the spirit had decided that wasn't right for you right now? I asked for tongues a couple of years ago and nothing happened. Thinking about it I decided I would probably get a bit cocky about it if I had been given it (as cockiness is my besetting sin!), so God knew it would be best for this to stay a mystery to me...

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I agree, Miranda, that these things are up to God. But I know of people that have been told they're 'not a proper Christian' or are 'blocking the Spirit' if these things don't happen. It seems to me that these things should be left to God to give to us as he wills, rather than us assume we will recieve them on demand? Otherwise it could cause a lot of heartache and even crises of faith.

(Btw I know what you mean about the cockiness, I think God likes to teach me a lesson or two in that line occasionally - all of which prove he has a terrific sense of humour! )

Hi, Bloss! How are you?

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Oh, that sounds hard, Bloss. Hope things improve soon. I'm okay, but very tired - dd2 isn't sleeping well and I can't get her into a routine so our days are pretty mixed up. I'm struggling for time to myself, too - or at least time when I actually have the energy to do anything! Still, this will pass too. I hope!!!

ionesmom,

I think the easiest way to answer that is to have a look at 1 Corinthians chapters 12,13 and 14. The other thing is to realise the Bible clearly states that there are instances when our prayers are hindered be it a spiritual or carnal reason.One specific example is if there is discord between husband and wife (1 Peter 3:7).A more dramatic possibility is principalities (Daniel 10:7-21,Ephesians 6:12)
or even a link w/more info on them

www.visionofthechurch.com/X467.html

Just remember, your gift may not be speaking in tongues to the assembly because its not for everyone.

If you are interested to learn more about "Prayer language" that some refer to as praying in tongues, Oral Roberts the famous Oklahoma American Indian evangelist wrote a small and very informative book about it. I am sure he has a website that has a catalougue of his books.

Hope that helps a wee bit.

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Dixie.

Hello My freind at Church speaks in tongue and they are based entirely on scripture quite interseting
really.

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