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i think that it would be hilarious if someone, like, caught the holy spirit at the doctor's office or the grocery store, or starbucks and just went at it.

if they don't know what they are saying, and they can't control it, why does it only happen at church?

2007-03-15 07:54:19 · 31 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

31 answers

Excellent, Elfkin! I want to see someone jabber in the grocery store, too!

2007-03-15 07:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

It most often happens at church but not always. Speaking in tongues is the Holy Spirit communicating through someone , to one or more people who can understand the message because they to, are filled with the Holy Spirit, and the message is only meant for them. It's like a personal phone call from Heaven.

2007-03-15 08:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by Bold1 1 · 1 0

Well speaking in tongues could happen anywhere...BUT...according to the scriptures there has to be a Divine reason for speaking in tongues ...AND... there has to be someone there that can interpret what is being said. If these two factors are not present and someone is speaking in tongues, then I would have to believe that the source of their "spiritual experience" is coming from another source. Remember that Satan is the master deceiver and he can mimic (although not exactly) gifts from the spirit. So for instance if your sitting home alone and you are overcome with some force to speak in tongues...it's probably coming from Satan.

2007-03-15 08:07:54 · answer #3 · answered by garo g 3 · 0 1

Yeah that's quite amusing actually.

My dad was in McDonalds once ordering a coffee and he sat down and just started to laugh and laugh and laugh. Couldn't stop. Unprovoked by anything. He wasn't speaking in toungues i don't think but he was certainly carried away laughing. He had a very loud laugh at that!

Anyway a lady came over and started asking him what he was laughing at, he said 'well, i don't know but i believe it's the Holy Spirit.'

After he had calmed down they had a long, deep discussion about God and he found out she had stopped going to church, and he encouraged her to go back and to seek God again. To this day i don't know what she must have thought, but if it encouraged her and got her back into church again i don't mind! So it doesn't just happen in church which some say. LOL !

2007-03-15 08:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Hi,
Please note:
When God confused the languages of His people who were rebelling at Babel in Genesis 11, they also spoke in “new tongues” and this happened without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Some people speak in tongues while:
Singing
Showering
Dreaming
In a car-driving or sitting in a traffic
Daydreaming
Making love
In delirium.

Library > Words > Dictionary
speaking in tongues=glos·so·la·li·a
glô'sə-lā'lē-ə, glŏs'ə-)
n.
Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes.

2007-03-15 08:02:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I think the question should be when one receives the gift? A person with the gift of Tongues (praise God in the language of angels) needs to pray for the person with the laying on of hands.

Person will not receive the filling of the Holy Spirit unless person praises God aloud in the anointing received by the laying on of hands.

Once the gift has been given, it is used in personal prayer life. To praise God in ones prayer closet. A person won't praise God in tongues unless they submit to God in it. So it is controled. It is dependent on the person submitting their vocals to God.

In the case that person speaks in tongues and it isn't praising God and is resulted from cult activity, than that person may be possessed by a demon that has a copy cat version of God given prayer language.

There is also the discernment of the prayer language. This is a gift that God gives. So a person prays in tongues then discernment of what is prayed is prayed in own language. The Holy Spirit reveals either the persons heart to God or Gods heart to the person. The answer could be what God answers to the prayer to God revealing secrets of the heart.

The gift is usually received in church by the laying on of hands. And a prophetic message to the church through different language happens sometimes, and sometimes an interpretation. This is a message to the whole congregation. Sometimes it is a different language of someone in the congregation and only for that someone.

This has happened to my Pastor, that He prayed in tongues and later the person said that was their language and a personal message for them. Also, a couple who didn't speak English, got the message from the Holy Spirit when Pastor prayed in spirit, and they just felt the love of the Spirit of God.

Speaking in tongues isn't something that is a joke or meaningless. Unless it is satans copycat.

2007-03-15 08:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by LottaLou 7 · 1 1

Some people I met Who Claim it still happens say that there are rules;
Viz. One Speaks, and One Interprets.
In some Churches they even limit the number of times it can happen at the Church.
Of Course some say it is an Angelic Tongue that is given by God so you can talk with your Angel " Since God Knows what you need anyway".... At least thats what they told me, basically

2007-03-15 07:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 1 2

I CAN control it, and I pray in a prayer language other than my own often when i am alone.
Anyone versed in the gifts would know that speaking in tongues in the church is subject to interpretation, and one shouldn't be done without the other. They would also know that tongues are not meant for unbelievers so they wouldn't do it in public without an interpreter.

2007-03-15 08:00:50 · answer #8 · answered by watcherd 4 · 1 2

that's pretend. seem it up. do slightly diagnosis on the be conscious tongues in the verses you come across it in the bible. It become a manner began via crazies. The be conscious that must be there is languages. this is stated via just about all the theologists who've worked on the translations of the bible. What become happening in that day with the apostles become that a number of them have been proficient with the understanding of particular languages. They have been chatting with the gang in a manner that all of them with their diverse origins and "tounges" ought to appreciate. the end result become an amazement on the reality that every person ought to appreciate the message. They then began to chatter among themselves with reference to the speech. examine it and study for your self, in no way settle for what yet another guy who's additionally a sinner is telling you. As a remember of path, I bear in concepts in the past listening to approximately conversing in tounges, whilst i become a newborn, thinking that it become demons speaking by using human beings. this is incomprehensible garble, and this is the artwork of the grasp of bewilderment. almost every person is fooled. yet do no longer take my be conscious for it. The e book itself says study to coach your self aproved.

2016-11-25 22:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

yeah they say that they get the holy spirit....i met someone that told me that god call on him and would die.....months later i found out that he cheated on his wife and die from aids
he spoke several languages but he never knew any word
that is gross i don't think God uses thaany more
because in the past the apostles uses the language to give the good news and now they not even share the message that is just a trick from the devil

2007-03-15 08:01:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

It's more than a way for the Holy Spirit to show himself to a body of believers / non-believers. I pray in 'tongues' during my devotions, walking to work, on the train, and I do it very quietly.

You can control when you speak, and the volume.

2007-03-15 07:59:26 · answer #11 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 1 3

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