Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues go together?

Question

I received the Holy Spirit a few weeks ago at my church,,,Such a wonderful experience to have God so close to me now...I have been asked and heard that if I truely received the Holy Ghost, I would have spoken in tongues, but I didnt...Im not a quack..I just dont believe that everyone who receives the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues...I didnt. Please only nice answers

Answer 1

The Holy Ghost can help someone speak in tongues if it is needed, but the Holy Ghost usually comes as a feeling of joy, happiness, peace or understanding which testifies of truth, prompts you to act or avoid an action or comforts you when you need strength.
Of course there are other gifts of the Holy Ghost like speaking in tongues, but for speaking in tongues to be from God, it will be both spoken and understood. Consider the day of Pentecost at which they were filled with the gift of tongues. People were gathered together from all over. When the disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in the gift of tongues, the people understood in their own language. This is the gift of tongues.
You are exactly right to believe that you can feel the Holy Gost without receiving the gift of tongues.

Answer 2

Look the word tongues up in the Greek so you will know what it means. You will see that it is a language. It was unknown to those around because they didn't speak it. So to speak in tongues is like speaking Spanish, English, and so forth. So why do you need to speak this. The people in acts have not received the Holy Spirit, because he hadn't come yet, untill the start of acts. Those people was saved and baptized but like I said the Holy Spirit hadn't come yet. So the proof that they had receieved the Holy Spirit was speaking in a language they have never spoken in.

Edit: In Acts 19:1-6- Paul asked these certain disciples if they had received the Holy Ghost since they have been saved. They have not heard of the Holy Spirit. They told Paul they was baptized by John the Baptist. John baptized the baptism of repentence. Read all these verses.

So see these men were saved, just they had not received the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit had not come till Acts 2. So the sign letting Paul know that they received the Holy Spirit was tongues, {languages}

Today we are baptized in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and after salvation we receive the Holy Spirit right then.

If you have anymore question, please e-mail me anytime. God bless.

Answer 3

Do you still have the same feeling as you did when you 'received' the Holy Ghost? If not, then it was not the "Holy" Ghost that you received. As for 'speaking in tongues', that is not and has nothing to do with gobbledygook speak. It is the literal languages of earth! Read the account in Acts 2 pay especial attention to verses 6-11. If you had received the Holy Spirit the most likely thing that would happen in your life is that you will feel that you need to know as much about God as you can possible find out as quickly as you can find it. Search the Scriptures! Depend not upon what man tells you God says or what He wants of you, SEARCH FOR YOUR SELF! That is the only way God has ordained.

Answer 4

You are correct. I received the Holy Spirit but I did not speak in tongues at that time.

They must be very careful in what they say, many people have turned their back on God because of what man have said.

For those who tell people they did not receive the gift of the Holy Ghost ( Holy Spirit) need to read their Bible.

Although in the Book of Acts: 2. it says, "All were together in one place. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues,as the Spirit enabled them.

No where does it say you must speak in tongues to receive the Holy Spirit.

You keep on trusting God and He will see you through it all.

Answer 5

Well, I remember the first time I went tot he altar and repented I FELT so WONDERFUL!
It was like someone lifted a grey hound bus off my back and I felt good and clean inside.I was baptized in JESUS name according to acts 2:38 yrs later(I didnt know about it when I went to the altar yrs before) and that was part of what I felt was missing.I felt great like my name had been written in Heaven like a confirmation from the LORD.The next morning I was filled with the HOLY GHOST and I literally felt HIS SPIRIT enter in through the top of my head and it shook me inside out and I beagn speaking in another language.
I was skeptical about whether or not everyone spoke in tongues who recieved the SPIRIT , the LORD confirmed this to me NOT by my experience ONLY, but the fact that EVERY detailed account of someone receiving the HOLY GHOST was accompanied by tongues in acts.Just pray and ask the LORD'S will in this though and believe you'll get just that!

Answer 6

Receiving the Holy Ghost (also known as the "Holy Spirit" or referred to as being "Spirit-filled") refers to salvation. One need not ever speak in tongues to be filled with the Spirit. Every believer has the Holy Spirit.

Answer 7

This is true. I believe when the disciples recieved the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues it was an active miracle/gift to give glory to God. In other words they could speak other real languages so that they could minister to those in other cultures.
Acts 8:16-18
16(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
17Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
18And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money
It doesn't say anything about any of the gifts of the Holy Ghost being in evidence. Only that they recieved the Holy Ghost.

Answer 8

You are right. Speaking in tongues is a gift and not mandatory when receiving the Holy Ghost. Read 1 Corinthians 12

Answer 9

Just because you have never spoken in tongues does not mean that you are not filled with the Holy Spirit. speaking in tongues is one of the gifts from the Holy Spirit, but not everyone has every gift. I have been a Christian and filled with the Holy Spirit for many years but I have never spoken in tongues.

Answer 10

I have felt the Holy spirit enter into me many times and I have never spoken in tongues. Tongues is a gift, and there is many gifts, but the same spirit. Read spiritual gifts 1 Corinthians 12