do you speak in tongues

[Floatingaxe]

1 Corinthians 14:14-15

14 For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying.

15 Well then, what shall I do? I will pray in the spirit, and I will also pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will also sing in words I understand.

[Mark2005]

Tongues certainly was a help to evangelize the many various people who frequented Jerusalem in that day. Tongues is also given to do the same job today.

There is also another use for tongues by Holy Spirit, and that is in personal prayer---and worship.

Public Gift of Tongues

Spoken with interpretation to the church (Equal to prophecy-1 Corinthians 14:5)

To be interpreted (1 Corinthians 14:5)

Edifies the church (when interpreted-1 Corinthians 14:4-5)

A sign to unbelievers (1 Corinthians 14:22)

Personal Prayer Tongues

Spoken privately to God (1 Corinthians 14:2)

No interpretation necessary (1 Corinthians 14:28)

Edifies the individual believer (1 Corinthians 14:4)

Can be manifested when no unbelievers are present (Acts 10:46; 19:6)

Should be desired and practiced by all Christians (Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:5; Ephesians 6:18; Jude 20 ).

Wow, that is a good explanation!

Do tongues ever happen in ways Lauri mentioned, where someone is perhaps in a foreign country and speaks a language they don't know, but is somehow understood by listeners? That would be freaky, to speak something that you yourself do not know.

[Mark2005]

Oh my goodness!! That's pretty remarkable!

But..... if a person can speak in some real language without learning it, then why do foreign missionaries bother to spend years learning languages?

[Guest]

Oh my goodness!! That's pretty remarkable!

But..... if a person can speak in some real language without learning it, then why do foreign missionaries bother to spend years learning languages?

Because that might be what the Lord requires of that person, and its how the world works in general without the supernatural gift of tongues. I was a believer and stationed in Germany in the 1980's and had to learn the local language -- and I was surprised by the doors it opened to present the gospel. English is taught in German schools, but I was surprised at the way folks opened up more when I started off in German. They might have winced at my bad accent, but they respected my trying to learn their language even if I mangled it rather badly. I had a lot more fun while stationed there than I would have if I had not learned the language.

[Floatingaxe]

Tongues certainly was a help to evangelize the many various people who frequented Jerusalem in that day. Tongues is also given to do the same job today.

There is also another use for tongues by Holy Spirit, and that is in personal prayer---and worship.

Public Gift of Tongues

Spoken with interpretation to the church (Equal to prophecy-1 Corinthians 14:5)

To be interpreted (1 Corinthians 14:5)

Edifies the church (when interpreted-1 Corinthians 14:4-5)

A sign to unbelievers (1 Corinthians 14:22)

Personal Prayer Tongues

Spoken privately to God (1 Corinthians 14:2)

No interpretation necessary (1 Corinthians 14:28)

Edifies the individual believer (1 Corinthians 14:4)

Can be manifested when no unbelievers are present (Acts 10:46; 19:6)

Should be desired and practiced by all Christians (Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:5; Ephesians 6:18; Jude 20 ).

Wow, that is a good explanation!

Do tongues ever happen in ways Lauri mentioned, where someone is perhaps in a foreign country and speaks a language they don't know, but is somehow understood by listeners? That would be freaky, to speak something that you yourself do not know.

Yes, it does happen. It also happens that a person will speak in a tongue in an English speaking church here in the west and a visitor speaking that very language is present and receives a revelation from God through it. God is a very personal God!

[Floatingaxe]

Oh my goodness!! That's pretty remarkable!

But..... if a person can speak in some real language without learning it, then why do foreign missionaries bother to spend years learning languages?

We need to do some work ourselves to be able to communicate with people and know what we---and they---are saying. Tongues doesn't replace human communication---it is God talking!

[Mark2005]

Tongues certainly was a help to evangelize the many various people who frequented Jerusalem in that day. Tongues is also given to do the same job today.

There is also another use for tongues by Holy Spirit, and that is in personal prayer---and worship.

Public Gift of Tongues

Spoken with interpretation to the church (Equal to prophecy-1 Corinthians 14:5)

To be interpreted (1 Corinthians 14:5)

Edifies the church (when interpreted-1 Corinthians 14:4-5)

A sign to unbelievers (1 Corinthians 14:22)

Personal Prayer Tongues

Spoken privately to God (1 Corinthians 14:2)

No interpretation necessary (1 Corinthians 14:28)

Edifies the individual believer (1 Corinthians 14:4)

Can be manifested when no unbelievers are present (Acts 10:46; 19:6)

Should be desired and practiced by all Christians (Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:5; Ephesians 6:18; Jude 20 ).

Wow, that is a good explanation!

Do tongues ever happen in ways Lauri mentioned, where someone is perhaps in a foreign country and speaks a language they don't know, but is somehow understood by listeners? That would be freaky, to speak something that you yourself do not know.

Yes, it does happen. It also happens that a person will speak in a tongue in an English speaking church here in the west and a visitor speaking that very language is present and receives a revelation from God through it. God is a very personal God!

God actually gives messages to individuals or groups of people?

[Floatingaxe]

God speaks to the entire assembly sometimes and sometimes His word is just for an individual. It's His call.

[LOVE SONGS]

Tongues certainly was a help to evangelize the many various people who frequented Jerusalem in that day. Tongues is also given to do the same job today.

There is also another use for tongues by Holy Spirit, and that is in personal prayer---and worship.

Public Gift of Tongues

Spoken with interpretation to the church (Equal to prophecy-1 Corinthians 14:5)

To be interpreted (1 Corinthians 14:5)

Edifies the church (when interpreted-1 Corinthians 14:4-5)

A sign to unbelievers (1 Corinthians 14:22)

Personal Prayer Tongues

Spoken privately to God (1 Corinthians 14:2)

No interpretation necessary (1 Corinthians 14:28)

Edifies the individual believer (1 Corinthians 14:4)

Can be manifested when no unbelievers are present (Acts 10:46; 19:6)

Should be desired and practiced by all Christians (Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:5; Ephesians 6:18; Jude 20 ).

WOW...GREAT EXPLAINATION ..... !!!

[Floatingaxe]

I can't take the credit for putting it together, but I am just happy that I have been able to share it!