The Interpretation Of Tongues

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emekrus

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“Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret”—1 Corinthians 14: 14

For several years in my Christian walk, the gift of interpretation of tongues seemed to be very scarce (in my ignorance) - though I have prayed for it severally as the scripture above says. Little did I know, that in my zeal, the gift have been manifesting through me- but I didn’t know.

For instance, many a time, as I discuss the scripture with some argumentative friends and course mates, in other to avoid being thrown off or gainsaid, I open my mouth in Tongues, and as I do, suddenly the right scriptural word to answer will flow into my mind. Even with their exact scriptural backings…

Many a time, as I lead prayers in my unit in the Church, while we’re praying out the prayer point raised, and I keep praying in other tongues, I keep getting inspiration of other powerful prayer points to follow immediately we end the first one raised.

Then sometimes, in my bus evangelism and house fellowship meetings; as I prophecy (speak forth) over the people, after my messages, I speak in Tongues, then immediately after the tongues, I receive Powerful inspiration for edifying prophecy.

In all these period of time, I still thought I didn’t have the gift of Interpretation of Tongues. And these is the situation of so many Christians today. They have prayed for the gift of interpretation of tongues, as the scripture admonishes us, but do not believe they have the gift already… And the bible says when we pray, we should believe that we received what we prayed for (Mark 11:24).

Like me then, they expect the manifestation to be more spectacular than it already manifests in them (or until they can interpret other people’s tongues) before they believe the gift is already manifesting through them…
It was not until late last year that I understood clearly the scriptural scope of the manifestation of the Interpretation of Tongues as I read “Smith Wigglesworth on the Holy Spirit”.

In that particular book, someone asked Smith Wigglesworth, when and how he gets the Interpretation of tongues. And he explained that the interpretation follows immediately after the tongue. That the interpreter does not know what he is going to interpret beforehand, but that however, after the interpretation, the interpreter will know what he has interpreted.

He added that the Interpretation is akin to speaking in tongues itself. You know, before you start speaking in tongues, you do not pre-meditate what you want to speak, but as you open your mouth in faith, the Holy Ghost will begin to give you utterances which you give voice to and you can hear the sounds as you speak.

So from his explanation, it is clear that the Interpretation of tongues, manifests (just like tongues) by faith. It is the divine inspiration you get immediately after speaking in tongues, and you give voice to it by faith.

And when you do give voice to it, it then serves the purpose of prophecy for the edification of others as well as yourself.
Sometimes the inspiration will be so strong that even when you do not give voice to it, it will flow from your heart to your mind just like the Word of Knowledge…

Concerning the above point, a few months back, while I was writing an exam on French-for which I didn’t understand some of the questions, (as I don’t understand much of the French Language-we were only writing it for academic purpose)- as I saw the questions and answered the ones I read about…

When I got to the questions I didn’t understand what they were asking, let alone their answers, I started speaking in tongues by faith (as I had purposed in my heart before the exam, that after answering the questions I know, the ones I don’t know, I was going to speak in tongues and believe the Holy Ghost for the interpretation of the French).

And sure enough, according to my faith, the Holy Ghost brought the interpretation of the French to my mind (as I spoke in tongues); and I answered all the questions by faith, and recently, as I went to check the result of the French, I passed it comfortably.

So if you have earnestly prayed for the gift of Interpretation of tongues, each time you pray in Tongues, open your mouth in faith- believing the Holy Ghost to give you the correct interpretations. And certainly he will give them to you. Because God never turn down faith.

Finally, I must add that the interpretation of tongues is not the same thing as language translation, but rather, a spiritual message (or summary) of all the tongues. To this end, a tongue may be very long, while the interpretation may be very short. While on the other hand, the tongue may be very short, but the interpretation may be longer. Either way, don’t give room to doubt or unbelief.

Although sometimes, your personal thought may interfere with the interpretation, but so long it’s done by faith, it is righteous. It is only when you do it in unbelief that it’s sinful---Romans 14:23 “….. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin”.

This sermon is opened to more insightful, spiritual contributions…

Remain Blessed!
 
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“Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret”—1 Corinthians 14: 14

For several years in my Christian walk, the gift of interpretation of tongues seemed to be very scarce (in my ignorance) - though I have prayed for it severally as the scripture above says. Little did I know, that in my zeal, the gift have been manifesting through me- but I didn’t know.

For instance, many a time, as I discuss the scripture with some argumentative friends and course mates, in other to avoid being thrown off or gainsaid, I open my mouth in Tongues, and as I do, suddenly the right scriptural word to answer will flow into my mind. Even with their exact scriptural backings…

Many a time, as I lead prayers in my unit in the Church, while we’re praying out the prayer point raised, and I keep praying in other tongues, I keep getting inspiration of other powerful prayer points to follow immediately we end the first one raised.

Then sometimes, in my bus evangelism and house fellowship meetings; as I prophecy (speak forth) over the people, after my messages, I speak in Tongues, then immediately after the tongues, I receive Powerful inspiration for edifying prophecy.

In all these period of time, I still thought I didn’t have the gift of Interpretation of Tongues. And these is the situation of so many Christians today. They have prayed for the gift of interpretation of tongues, as the scripture admonishes us, but do not believe they have the gift already… And the bible says when we pray, we should believe that we received what we prayed for (Mark 11:24).

Like me then, they expect the manifestation to be more spectacular than it already manifests in them (or until they can interpret other people’s tongues) before they believe the gift is already manifesting through them…
It was not until late last year that I understood clearly the scriptural scope of the manifestation of the Interpretation of Tongues as I read “Smith Wigglesworth on the Holy Spirit”.

In that particular book, someone asked Smith Wigglesworth, when and how he gets the Interpretation of tongues. And he explained that the interpretation follows immediately after the tongue. That the interpreter does not know what he is going to interpret beforehand, but that however, after the interpretation, the interpreter will know what he has interpreted.

He added that the Interpretation is akin to speaking in tongues itself. You know, before you start speaking in tongues, you do not pre-meditate what you want to speak, but as you open your mouth in faith, the Holy Ghost will begin to give you utterances which you give voice to and you can hear the sounds as you speak.

So from his explanation, it is clear that the Interpretation of tongues, manifests (just like tongues) by faith. It is the divine inspiration you get immediately after speaking in tongues, and you give voice to it by faith.

And when you do give voice to it, it then serves the purpose of prophecy for the edification of others as well as yourself.
Sometimes the inspiration will be so strong that even when you do not give voice to it, it will flow from your heart to your mind just like the Word of Knowledge…

Concerning the above point, a few months back, while I was writing an exam on French-for which I didn’t understand some of the questions, (as I don’t understand much of the French Language-we were only writing it for academic purpose)- as I saw the questions and answered the ones I read about…

When I got to the questions I didn’t understand what they were asking, let alone their answers, I started speaking in tongues by faith (as I had purposed in my heart before the exam, that after answering the questions I know, the ones I don’t know, I was going to speak in tongues and believe the Holy Ghost for the interpretation of the French).

And sure enough, according to my faith, the Holy Ghost brought the interpretation of the French to my mind (as I spoke in tongues); and I answered all the questions by faith, and recently, as I went to check the result of the French, I passed it comfortably.

So if you have earnestly prayed for the gift of Interpretation of tongues, each time you pray in Tongues, open your mouth in faith- believing the Holy Ghost to give you the correct interpretations. And certainly he will give them to you. Because God never turn down faith.

Finally, I must add that the interpretation of tongues is not the same thing as language translation, but rather, a spiritual message (or summary) of all the tongues. To this end, a tongue may be very long, while the interpretation may be very short. While on the other hand, the tongue may be very short, but the interpretation may be longer. Either way, don’t give room to doubt or unbelief.

Although sometimes, your personal thought may interfere with the interpretation, but so long it’s done by faith, it is righteous. It is only when you do it in unbelief that it’s sinful---Romans 14:23 “….. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin”.

This sermon is opened to more insightful, spiritual contributions…

Remain Blessed!
This was a sermon? Ack! Didn't know that until the end. Okay though, I really did read it all.

I have a question or two for you.

What was your score in that French test? Seems to me, if God was helping you, then you got a perfect score. Not "passed comfortably." I really wouldn't bug you on that, except it seems that you're making the same mistake I made when I was younger. You're testing out a gift (which is cool and all), but you think you have it down pact.

Here's the problem. If you didn't ace the test, it rather proves it's not your gift so much as something you can do sometimes. The reason that's a problem is if you go off thinking you got it down pact so say whatever you think God is telling you to say, it can backfire in a terrible way and hurt people in the process.

For instances, I once thought God gave me a vision. A friend of mine had just had a baby boy, but she had three daughters already and hubby was on the road often enough that she had to get laundry done and keep up on the housework. Simple enough life, right?

Well, she lived in an apartment with slate steps up to the second floor, she had her laundry basket in hand taking it up the steps, lost her balance and fell backward. I never did find out who found her on the bottom of the steps, but she was pronounced "brain dead" after being put on life support.

When the church heard about it, we gathered to pray, and I saw her with her three daughters and a baby boy crawling up her lap onto her neck at church. (The son was only 6 months old, so I knew that meant this wouldn't happen for about half a year. She would take time to recover, but would be okay.)

Everyone was relieved, we went home feeling better, and that very night her hubby (also a friend) gave the doctors permission to pull the plug. She was dead.

My "vision" was just me being eternally optimistic. My shame is assuming that was a vision. My comfort is her hubby never heard this story and I don't believe I stopped others from trusting God simply because I was stupid, but either one could have happened. My fear is you're doing the same thing.

So, if you didn't ace that test, exactly how do you know you have the gift of interpretation? Be careful with God's gifts. If we think we have them, but don't, that can have horrible consequences.
 

emekrus

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Hello atwhatcost, the answer to your question is that I didn't get an A in the examination but I did get a 'C'. Though I may not appear to have aced it but I'm still sanguine it was the gift of God that made it possible. Bcos even smart people in my dept still failed the course comfortably.

I'm not doubting the fact that it was God, because as i spoke in Tongues, suddenly, I began to understand what the qst said. So I'm not in assumption.

Thanks for your concern
 
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Wow..finally..someone who actually knows about and is involved with this particular spiritual gift..how rare! Yes, I too have read most all of Smith Wigglesworth's books, sermons, etc, along with John G. Lake's entire sermons. These 20th century men were indeed walking examples of Apostleship, being completely surrendered over to the use of the holy spirit. Just when we think we have GOD figured out..something new and wonderful happens, completely opposite of what us humans think should happen.
I have witnessed 'tongues' being spoken by different people wherein immediately, someone else in the congregation is touched by the holy spirit, stands up and instantly interprets the message. This shows me that GOD confirms things. I have heard evangelists, pastors, etc. speak in 'tongues' and then, after a slight pause, they themselves interpret the message. I have seen others, who are generally very quiet, shy-like folk, suddenly get a jolt of the holy spirit, jump up and speak a holy spirit filled mesage in everyday English, that most all understand, and someone in the audience who is from another country suddenly starts rejoicing because, although their English is limited or non-existent, understands the message themselves as the holy spirit revealed it to them.
I have also witnessed people from all walks of life pray in tongues, which is private and between Them and GOD. Although I personally do not know their words, I realized that the language was extremely similar. Over time, the unknown language begins to all sound the same. I concluded, within myself, that it has to be Supernatural, in that there is no way that the various cultures and races could know the same 'tongue'. An elderly couple was in my hometown a few years ago, attending a Perry Stone weekend revival. They were on the front row in the auditorium, and had their personal recorder running. Perry Stone was off to the side of the stage, praying, raising his hands over the congregation, before the service had started. He was praying in 'tongues', privately, not behind a microphone. The recording device picked up his prayer. After the service, the couple was listening to the entire service after they had re-wound the tape and realized that they had recorded this private prayer tongued message. They did not understand the words, so they allowed a Language professor to listen to it later. The professor got all excited and asked "WHere did this come from?" Of course, they told him. His response was "This is a very ancient language, not spoken in today's world. It goes way back...possibly to the earliest language spoken in Genesis, even before the tower of Babel." The professor did interpret a large portion of the recording and it was a prayer of praise, thanksgiving and prophetic utterances. It amazed this professor that Perry Stone was fluently using this language but had never studied nor knew anything about it.
I have witnessed someone standing up, shouting, speaking in tongues and then got choked, started coughing and said 'Oh, please excuse me!" and then went right back into 'tongues'!
I have also witnessed someone praying in 'tongues' privately to the side of my choir loft, but..as I watched her, I got this very upsetting discernment that this was not a holy spirit inspired event. She was rocking as she was sitting..that did not bother me at all...for when the holy spirit moves upon me, I sometimes sway, fall on the floor, or various other movements. However, she starting snarling, grunting, and making animal noises. Her mouth and face got distorted and she was not at all acting like a human. GOD does NOT lower us to that level, especially in His very presence, when other people around her were also praising, praying in tongues, etc...but they were expressing themselves as giving glory to GOD. She was not in a right frame of mind...which I concluded was that old satan was trying to mimic. Later, her attitude changed towards me, personally, and we, to this very day, are at 'odds' and divided against each other.
We are told to 'test the spirits"...not all spiritual looking events in a service are from the Holy Spirit! I have seen someone walking down the aisle, towards my pastor, speaking out during the preaching. garbling, asking permission to speak. My pastor paused, listened for a few seconds, and then ordered the person to be excused and escorted out the door by two deacons. When the deacons started to usher her out, she started kicking and screaming and threatening in an animalistic snarl!. Satan was using this person to interrupt the fiery sermon that was being preached. This was definitely of a demonic influence in the manner and timing of it.
 

emekrus

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Wow..finally..someone who actually knows about and is involved with this particular spiritual gift..how rare! Yes, I too have read most all of Smith Wigglesworth's books, sermons, etc, along with John G. Lake's entire sermons. These 20th century men were indeed walking examples of Apostleship, being completely surrendered over to the use of the holy spirit. Just when we think we have GOD figured out..something new and wonderful happens, completely opposite of what us humans think should happen.
I have witnessed 'tongues' being spoken by different people wherein immediately, someone else in the congregation is touched by the holy spirit, stands up and instantly interprets the message. This shows me that GOD confirms things. I have heard evangelists, pastors, etc. speak in 'tongues' and then, after a slight pause, they themselves interpret the message. I have seen others, who are generally very quiet, shy-like folk, suddenly get a jolt of the holy spirit, jump up and speak a holy spirit filled mesage in everyday English, that most all understand, and someone in the audience who is from another country suddenly starts rejoicing because, although their English is limited or non-existent, understands the message themselves as the holy spirit revealed it to them.
I have also witnessed people from all walks of life pray in tongues, which is private and between Them and GOD. Although I personally do not know their words, I realized that the language was extremely similar. Over time, the unknown language begins to all sound the same. I concluded, within myself, that it has to be Supernatural, in that there is no way that the various cultures and races could know the same 'tongue'. An elderly couple was in my hometown a few years ago, attending a Perry Stone weekend revival. They were on the front row in the auditorium, and had their personal recorder running. Perry Stone was off to the side of the stage, praying, raising his hands over the congregation, before the service had started. He was praying in 'tongues', privately, not behind a microphone. The recording device picked up his prayer. After the service, the couple was listening to the entire service after they had re-wound the tape and realized that they had recorded this private prayer tongued message. They did not understand the words, so they allowed a Language professor to listen to it later. The professor got all excited and asked "WHere did this come from?" Of course, they told him. His response was "This is a very ancient language, not spoken in today's world. It goes way back...possibly to the earliest language spoken in Genesis, even before the tower of Babel." The professor did interpret a large portion of the recording and it was a prayer of praise, thanksgiving and prophetic utterances. It amazed this professor that Perry Stone was fluently using this language but had never studied nor knew anything about it.
I have witnessed someone standing up, shouting, speaking in tongues and then got choked, started coughing and said 'Oh, please excuse me!" and then went right back into 'tongues'!
I have also witnessed someone praying in 'tongues' privately to the side of my choir loft, but..as I watched her, I got this very upsetting discernment that this was not a holy spirit inspired event. She was rocking as she was sitting..that did not bother me at all...for when the holy spirit moves upon me, I sometimes sway, fall on the floor, or various other movements. However, she starting snarling, grunting, and making animal noises. Her mouth and face got distorted and she was not at all acting like a human. GOD does NOT lower us to that level, especially in His very presence, when other people around her were also praising, praying in tongues, etc...but they were expressing themselves as giving glory to GOD. She was not in a right frame of mind...which I concluded was that old satan was trying to mimic. Later, her attitude changed towards me, personally, and we, to this very day, are at 'odds' and divided against each other.
We are told to 'test the spirits"...not all spiritual looking events in a service are from the Holy Spirit! I have seen someone walking down the aisle, towards my pastor, speaking out during the preaching. garbling, asking permission to speak. My pastor paused, listened for a few seconds, and then ordered the person to be excused and escorted out the door by two deacons. When the deacons started to usher her out, she started kicking and screaming and threatening in an animalistic snarl!. Satan was using this person to interrupt the fiery sermon that was being preached. This was definitely of a demonic influence in the manner and timing of it.

Great contribution sir.