What is Speaking in Tongues???
Posted in General Articles by Sarah Flynn on 2/16/2009
1. What is speaking in tongues?
2. Is tongues for today?
3. Whats the point of speaking in tongues?
4. Do people fake it?
5. Was speaking in tongues only for the Disciples?
6. Is speaking in tongues real?
What I have learned...sometimes you can't base an opinion on something just because it's never happened to you. Sometimes I want to experience things that I see others experiencing in Christ and just because it's not happening to me doesn't mean it's not real or that they are necessarily faking it. We are so quick to judge at times and so quick to shut God out and God never gets a chance to do in us what he always wanted to. We have replaced something that's real with a judgment or a false accusation.
1. What is speaking in tongues ? - Speaking in tongues merely means to speak in another language that is not your native tongue. So many times in other countries you are hanging out with a local of a different country and they will stop talking and say "excuse me while I speak in tongues for a while." Then they turn to their friend and carry on a conversation in a different language (thus speaking in tongues).
2. Is tongues for today? - God is the same yesterday-today-& forever. The beginning of all things was when Jesus came to earth and changed religion. He set us free. One of the gifts talked about is tongues (it's a touchy topic) but none the lest it is the most attacked subject. Which would make me to believe if it is the most attacked subject it must be a very important one.
Satan doesn't come in America killing us as martyrs. No, he is smarter than that. He comes to deceive us and imprison us by the very thing Christ wanted to use to set us free. He is a crafty one. 1 Corinthians 14: 39 - "Do not forbid speaking in tongues."
Keep reading it gets better...
3. Whats the point of speaking in tongues? - Well, the bible says: 1 Corinthians 14:4 - "The one who speaks in tongues builds up himself." Now what better statement is that! So if I don't speak in tongues I lack the edification I really need everyday. It builds up your spirit man within to speak in tongues. We all need to be built up it's not a pride thing here. But if we are not built up we wont: 1. Be confident enough to do what God wants us to do, 2. We will seek the appraisal of people not God. It's simple.
4. Do people fake it? - Yes. People fake salvation, people fake their prayers people fake who they really are when they go to church on Sunday. So yes-there is fake out there. But that's not for us to get caught up in. I know in my spirit what is right and I know because the spirit of God gives me discernment to those things.
5. Was speaking in tongues only for the Disciples? - Yes it's only for the disciples of Christ, I am a disciple of Christ. Jesus had twelve close disciples at that time, but they also had hundreds of disciples around. Jesus was an example and made his disciples examples for us to follow.
6. Is speaking in tongues real? - True story that happened on the World Race: The pastor had asked me and Caroline to speak at this night service. He wanted us to speak on the Holy Spirit. At the end we were praying for the ladies and it was a small crowded house that was very dark. This woman we were praying for I felt God doing something amazing in her so we continued to pray. She was praying in some Malawian language really loud when all of the sudden her language started to change. I looked up at Caroline and said "i think she is speaking in tongues!" Her tongues became clearer and clearer until I was shocked to hear her speaking in ENGLISH! I was floored, I said this has to be real. Yea I had my doubts but this was what made me believe. We called her husband over and said "Husband, does your wife speak English?" "NO" he said she only speaks Malawian. We said your wife is speaking in tongues for the first time and it is English. All she said the whole time was: "I thank you Jesus, I thank you Lord, I praise your name Jesus." Then she gave us a prophetic word in English. "I told you to come here, I told you to come to Malawi and to the ends of the earth! WOW. Jesus you ROCK!
I can't question that! I could give you scriptures to back up what I believe but I'm not. It is what it is and I am not messing with what God already is doing. He is God and if I could explain all the questions - Then God wouldn't be God and he wouldn't be worth serving. But he is God and I can't explain God. HE IS GOD!!!!
Posted in General Articles by Sarah Flynn on 2/16/2009
1. What is speaking in tongues?
2. Is tongues for today?
3. Whats the point of speaking in tongues?
4. Do people fake it?
5. Was speaking in tongues only for the Disciples?
6. Is speaking in tongues real?
What I have learned...sometimes you can't base an opinion on something just because it's never happened to you. Sometimes I want to experience things that I see others experiencing in Christ and just because it's not happening to me doesn't mean it's not real or that they are necessarily faking it. We are so quick to judge at times and so quick to shut God out and God never gets a chance to do in us what he always wanted to. We have replaced something that's real with a judgment or a false accusation.
1. What is speaking in tongues ? - Speaking in tongues merely means to speak in another language that is not your native tongue. So many times in other countries you are hanging out with a local of a different country and they will stop talking and say "excuse me while I speak in tongues for a while." Then they turn to their friend and carry on a conversation in a different language (thus speaking in tongues).
2. Is tongues for today? - God is the same yesterday-today-& forever. The beginning of all things was when Jesus came to earth and changed religion. He set us free. One of the gifts talked about is tongues (it's a touchy topic) but none the lest it is the most attacked subject. Which would make me to believe if it is the most attacked subject it must be a very important one.
Satan doesn't come in America killing us as martyrs. No, he is smarter than that. He comes to deceive us and imprison us by the very thing Christ wanted to use to set us free. He is a crafty one. 1 Corinthians 14: 39 - "Do not forbid speaking in tongues."
Keep reading it gets better...
3. Whats the point of speaking in tongues? - Well, the bible says: 1 Corinthians 14:4 - "The one who speaks in tongues builds up himself." Now what better statement is that! So if I don't speak in tongues I lack the edification I really need everyday. It builds up your spirit man within to speak in tongues. We all need to be built up it's not a pride thing here. But if we are not built up we wont: 1. Be confident enough to do what God wants us to do, 2. We will seek the appraisal of people not God. It's simple.
4. Do people fake it? - Yes. People fake salvation, people fake their prayers people fake who they really are when they go to church on Sunday. So yes-there is fake out there. But that's not for us to get caught up in. I know in my spirit what is right and I know because the spirit of God gives me discernment to those things.
5. Was speaking in tongues only for the Disciples? - Yes it's only for the disciples of Christ, I am a disciple of Christ. Jesus had twelve close disciples at that time, but they also had hundreds of disciples around. Jesus was an example and made his disciples examples for us to follow.
6. Is speaking in tongues real? - True story that happened on the World Race: The pastor had asked me and Caroline to speak at this night service. He wanted us to speak on the Holy Spirit. At the end we were praying for the ladies and it was a small crowded house that was very dark. This woman we were praying for I felt God doing something amazing in her so we continued to pray. She was praying in some Malawian language really loud when all of the sudden her language started to change. I looked up at Caroline and said "i think she is speaking in tongues!" Her tongues became clearer and clearer until I was shocked to hear her speaking in ENGLISH! I was floored, I said this has to be real. Yea I had my doubts but this was what made me believe. We called her husband over and said "Husband, does your wife speak English?" "NO" he said she only speaks Malawian. We said your wife is speaking in tongues for the first time and it is English. All she said the whole time was: "I thank you Jesus, I thank you Lord, I praise your name Jesus." Then she gave us a prophetic word in English. "I told you to come here, I told you to come to Malawi and to the ends of the earth! WOW. Jesus you ROCK!
I can't question that! I could give you scriptures to back up what I believe but I'm not. It is what it is and I am not messing with what God already is doing. He is God and if I could explain all the questions - Then God wouldn't be God and he wouldn't be worth serving. But he is God and I can't explain God. HE IS GOD!!!!
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