Let's stop scripture bashing and look at the benefits of tongues, just for a change.
Some time back I had been interacting with a guy who was pissed at and rejecting God because he believed God had sent his girlfriend to hell because she had supposedly died without accepting Him. I was praying over this in my prayer tongue, speaking mysteries I knew little to nothing about. While praying about her I got an image of these legions of angels rushing into what I interpreted was a cave. When I shared this with him, he got quiet and said "she died in a car wreck under a freeway overpass". Not an exact match but it was close enough to comfort him and make him think that maybe she hadn't died 'alone'. How would I have ever known that? I didn't and couldn't. But the Holy Spirit knew, and thru my yielding to the Spirit, the Spirit clued me into enough of the mystery to help change this guy's attitude about God.
That's what it is all about my friends. The gifts are given to us to fill in blanks we know nothing about. And as long as there are mysteries to be revealed, God will give us the gifts we need to reveal them.
IF we are willing to accept them.
Some time back I had been interacting with a guy who was pissed at and rejecting God because he believed God had sent his girlfriend to hell because she had supposedly died without accepting Him. I was praying over this in my prayer tongue, speaking mysteries I knew little to nothing about. While praying about her I got an image of these legions of angels rushing into what I interpreted was a cave. When I shared this with him, he got quiet and said "she died in a car wreck under a freeway overpass". Not an exact match but it was close enough to comfort him and make him think that maybe she hadn't died 'alone'. How would I have ever known that? I didn't and couldn't. But the Holy Spirit knew, and thru my yielding to the Spirit, the Spirit clued me into enough of the mystery to help change this guy's attitude about God.
That's what it is all about my friends. The gifts are given to us to fill in blanks we know nothing about. And as long as there are mysteries to be revealed, God will give us the gifts we need to reveal them.
IF we are willing to accept them.
I know that the Lord cares for His children so deeply, and will respond clearly to the honest cries of an anguished heart.