TONGUES is a precious gift from God

We’ve been given sooooo many gifts from God our Father in Heaven….speaking in tongues is just one of MANY!

It is our Father’s Will that sinners be saved and sealed, baptized and filled with His Holy Spirit and filled with the knowledge of His Word!

Tongues is NOT false but, there is a counterfeit….you’ll know the difference….No Fear!

We’ve been given sooooo many gifts from God our Father in Heaven….speaking in tongues is just one of MANY!

It is our Father’s Will that sinners be saved and sealed, baptized and filled with His Holy Spirit and filled with the knowledge of His Word!

Tongues is NOT false but, there is a counterfeit….you’ll know the difference….No Fear!

[ersonally I have never walked in that gift but I have noticed he has used me in other gifts that I didn't start out with simply because I was willing. I am able to tell real tongues from fake and it is not false I know firsthand but many do fake it as you said however we cannot discount tongues just because of this or because we have never seen it ourselves

How does speaking in tongues help you spiritually?

We’ve been given sooooo many gifts from God our Father in Heaven….speaking in tongues is just one of MANY!

It is our Father’s Will that sinners be saved and sealed, baptized and filled with His Holy Spirit and filled with the knowledge of His Word!

Tongues is NOT false but, there is a counterfeit….you’ll know the difference….No Fear!

I am very interested to know how are you able to discern the difference? @Blain @Gideon300 According to my understanding it is just an literal language spoken in the world. If you look at the context of the events of Pentecost. You will see that the disciples spoke in languages of the surrounding regions. The hearers could hear the disciples speak in their languages and what is happening in the world today? My view is just that its a deception. How does speaking in tongues help you spiritually?

It's NOT ABOUT helping onesself......It is about edification of the Church.

How does speaking in tongues help you spiritually?

I am very interested to know how are you able to discern the difference? @Blain @Gideon300 According to my understanding it is just an literal language spoken in the world. If you look at the context of the events of Pentecost. You will see that the disciples spoke in languages of the surrounding regions. The hearers could hear the disciples speak in their languages and what is happening in the world today? My view is just that its a deception. How does speaking in tongues help you spiritually?

The critical mistake just about everyone who professes the gift of tongues makes.
It's NOT ABOUT helping onesself......It is about edification of the Church.

The gift of tongues truly is a gift of the Spirit, however, what passes today in many congregations for "tongue speaking' is nothing more than gobblygook!!!! As one lady told my mother....."if you want to speak tongues, stand up, lean your head back as far as you can, rais your arms high, and spin around.......and repeat as fast as you can "THE KEYS TO MY HONDA, THE KEYS TO MY HONDA, and before you know it you will be speaking tongues."

Yeah, right! That's how the Holy Spirit does it...........NOT!

There are people today in congregations around the Country and world that say they can teach others how to speak in tongues.......well, according to the Holy Spirit and Scripture, they are liars. As well there are those who have written Books on the translation of tongues...........they are liars!

Tongues spoken at Pentecost were nothing more than languages of other people there that the Disciples did not know or speak.

As for the "unknown tongue" in Scripture.......only the Holy Spirit can translate, AND NO ONE CAN TEACH IT TO ANY OTHER PERSON!

Do not be fooled by the foolish who learn from the deceivers

More and more, when I discern a stubborn, unbelieving heart, I just turn and walk away. Why beat my head against a wall?

It is simple to simply know if the person speaking in tongues is fake of real. My friend often spoke in tongues during morning devotions, and she radiated God within, they were a blessing to her.

I went to a church that had speaking in tongues part of their service to see what it was like. The church was dark and felt oppressive. Most of the women there were grossly overweight, as if they were using food to feed their lusts rather than for food. No one smiled. A man spoke in tongue, another interpreted saying it was "death of the children". I never went back.

Hello Biblescholar,

If I approach God's Word, God's Holy Spirit and God's Ways with my own human understanding, I'll NOT KNOW or learn anything the way I should. It's best for me to humble myself and acknowledge my need for the Holy Spirit to help me to understand and to teach me the things of God.

I will never understand God's gift of speaking in tongues if I rely on my own human reasoning. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

I agree that it is only by the Holy Spirit we can understand God's ways and our direction, But you seem to suggest that speaking in tongues is evident of the Holy Spirit being present and those who do not speak in tongues can not have the understanding you do.
The fact that I do not speak in tongues is evidence to me that my understanding may be greater than yours.
I see what presented and practiced as tongues today as nothing more than fulfilling the needs of the flesh and does nothing to glorify God, nor drew attention too our Lord and Savior.

I do not wish to offend anyone, but to me it is all about pleasing the flesh.

Oh dear... with all that human reasoning going on how will you ever come to the knowledge of the Truth?

Who cares about offending people?! We just want to make sure we don't offend God.

For your sake, just simply humble yourself under God and desire ONLY God's Truth given to you by God's Holy Spirit - not by you or anyone - Just the Holy Spirit giving you understanding of God and His Word.

I guess we cannot discern by way of appears. The bible say that satan appears as angel of light. All of our doctrines should come from within the cannon. Outward appears will not be beneficial to anybody. It should be scriptural otherwise we open ourselves up for deception. To understand the gift of tongues we should study the easier passages to get the real understanding and then thereafter look at the difficult passages and study it within context and the rest of the bible.