how do i receive gift of tongues?

Question

ive been baptized,and been living for god and want to know how to receive gift of tongues.answer if you really know.

Answer 1

Pray and ask Jesus for a "Release(or baptism) of the Holy Spirit. Then just speak in prayer and praise for the gift and your speech may be transformed at any time to tongues(the prayer language).

Paul indicates in 1 Corinthians 14 that tongues should be a normal gift for each believer to use as a prayer language. I use it most when I do not know how to pray. To let the Holy Spirit pray first and open my mind to how Jesus would have me pray. Or sometimes when I pray in tongues first, I Will receive a revelation on what to say to the person I am praying for or a prayer will come to mind for them.

When I was baptized in the Spirit I needed a little help getting started with speaking in tongues, sometimes our mind gets in the way because it is obviously not an intellectual exercise but a humble giving over of your mouth to God.

I was urged to get among others speaking in tongues and just make any noise at all and trust God to transform it into my own personal prayer language. It is an amazing gift and God will be more than happy to give it to you. I have found great peace and comfort in praying in tongues.

FYI i am Roman Catholic, and this gift is not just for any one group of Christians but for all.

Answer 2

I wish I knew. The denomination I'm in now will only allow you to be licensed, ordained, or whatever they call it if you can show proof of having been baptized by the Holy Spirit through the initial gift of speaking in tongues. Because that has not happened to me, I am ineligible for licensure. I think there's too much emphasis placed on that one gift; as someone else said, there are many gifts, and I can't understand why that one is held in so much esteem to the seeming ignoring of others.

Answer 3

Ask God to baptize you in the Holy Spirit. Pray for that and the tongues will come along. You receive this gift by faith. Ask and receive by faith and you'll have it.
Don't overthink it. Just go with the flow of the Holy Spirit and it will come.

Answer 4

Have you been baptized in the spirit? Have you prayed and asked Jesus into your life as Lord and Savior? If so pray and ask that you be given the gift of speaking in tongues.

Answer 5

The Bible says that God gives some gifts to some people, and other gifts to other people. You may not have been blessed with the gift of tongues; it's not something you can learn, practice, or acquire. You have to have been given the gift by God. Pray to Him and ask if He has given you that gift....don't try to fake it.

Answer 6

Pray
1 Cor 12-14
Tongues is a gift given by the Holy Spirit.
No person or group can give it to you.
It's not mumbling or making strange sounds.
If you recieve the gift it is a language.

Answer 7

If you examine 1st Corinthians 13-8 Partial
8 Love never fails. But whether there are [gifts of] prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with

Note Tongues will cease

Answer 8

I recoil once I pay attention people urging others to "in basic terms communicate out." it truly is something you will could desire to hunt for God for. purposely pray for this present. i did not start up speaking tongues till i strengthen into an person in spite of if i had to adventure it because of the fact the 1st time I heard approximately it as a newborn. It wasn't till after some earnest prayer that my spirit began praying. i strengthen into via myself while it happened -- not in front of a congregation and not with somebody urging me to "in basic terms communicate". It did not sound something like what I pay attention very generally in many church homes i've got attended. additionally, i strengthen into form of questioning what I could be doing on an identical time as all of those words have been pouring out of me. I in basic terms saved thanking God for the present till they ceased. because of the fact that then, i've got spoken in tongues on various extra activities (now and lower back it sounds extra like singing than praying). study to comprehend the point of speaking in tongues and pray oftentimes for it.

Answer 9

The first occurrence of speaking in tongues occurred on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4. The apostles went out and shared the Gospel with the crowds, speaking to them in their own languages, “we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" (Acts 2:11). The Greek word translated "tongues" literally means "languages." Therefore, the gift of tongues is speaking in a language a person does not know in order to minister to someone who does speak that language. In 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14, where Paul discusses miraculous gifts, he comments that, “Now, brothers, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?" (1 Corinthians 14:6). According to the Apostle Paul, and in agreement with the tongues described in Acts, speaking in tongues is valuable to the one hearing God’s message in his/her own language, but it is useless to everyone else – unless it is interpreted / translated.



A person with the gift of interpreting tongues (1 Corinthians 12:30) could understand what a tongues-speaker was saying even though he/she did not know the language that was being spoken. The tongues-interpreter would then communicate the message of the tongues-speaker to everyone else, so all could understand. “For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret what he says” (1 Corinthians 14:13). Paul’s conclusion regarding un-interpreted tongues is powerful, “But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue" (1 Corinthians 14:19).



Is the gift of tongues for today? 1 Corinthians 13:8 mentions the gift of tongues ceasing, although it connects the ceasing with the arrival of the "perfect" in 1 Corinthians 13:10. Some point to a difference in the language in prophecy and knowledge "ceasing" with tongues "being ceased" as evidence for tongues ceasing before the arrival of the "perfect." While possible, this is not explicitly clear from the text. Some also point to passages such as Isaiah 28:11 and Joel 2:28-29 as evidence that speaking in tongues was a sign of God's oncoming judgment. 1 Corinthians 14:22 describes tongues as a "sign to unbelievers." According to this argument, the gift of tongues was a warning to the Jews that God was going to judge Israel for rejecting Jesus Christ as Messiah. Therefore, when God did in fact judge Israel (with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70), the gift of tongues would no longer serve its intended purpose. While this view is possible, the primary purpose of tongues being fulfilled does not necessarily demand its cessation. Scripture does not conclusively assert that the gift of speaking in tongues has ceased.



At the same time, if the gift of speaking in tongues were active in the church today, it would be performed in agreement with Scripture. It would be a real and intelligible language (1 Corinthians 14:10). It would be for the purpose of communicating God's Word with a person of another language (Acts 2:6-12). It would be in agreement with the command that God gave through the Apostle Paul, "If anyone speaks in a tongue, two — or at the most three — should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God" (1 Corinthians 14:27-28). It would also be in submission to 1 Corinthians 14:33, “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”



God most definitely can give a person the gift of speaking in tongues to enable him/her to communicate with a person who speaks another language. The Holy Spirit is sovereign in the dispersion of the spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:11). Just imagine how much more productive missionaries could be if they didn’t have to go to language school, and were instantly able to speak to people in their own language. However, God does not seem to be doing this. Tongues does not seem to occur today in the form it did in the New Testament despite the fact that it would be immensely useful. The vast majority of believers who claim to practice the gift of speaking in tongues do not do so in agreement with the Scriptures mentioned above. These facts lead to the conclusion that the gift of tongues has ceased, or is at least a rarity in God's plan for the church today.

Answer 10

The "gift" of tongues is bestowed upon those who suffer from the curse of delusional mental illness. The fact that you even believe in it suggests you might be a suitable candidate.