Subject: Does speaking in tongues come naturally? |
Bible Note: "If one was alone, I don't know if there was a need to use any of the gifts, since it is for the one body ... if together, we should exercise our gift(s) and not try to exercise the gifts we do not have (vv 12-31)." Can't agree, Searcher. Tongues for the church is always to be accompanied by interpretation, of should be----unless you are moved to just pray in tongues, quietly in church, which is different and no interpretation is needed. Tongues is most used in an interccessory way. If you think about, when asked to pray, you really don't how to for a given situation, but the Holy Spirit does. I know folk who pray aloud, in tongues, moved by the Holy Spirit, for hours. Many times the Lord reveals what He is going to do to that one who is obediently yeilded and stands in the gap. Many times there comes presence to wonderful to express in english. Paul experienced such a thing in 2 Corth 12.2 "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven..... and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." I realize this is not tongues speaking but lets just not dismiss the supernaturalness of the Holy Spirit out of hand in the matter of tongues speaking just because we look for an excuse not to participate in something we're told is extremism/extrabiblical. Get a better teacher, it's not. It should be normal for the Christian experience that requires power to mature unto 'sonship'. |