It means they talk in tongues and you don't    

I wonder if they know the world is laughing at them????
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I'm not against tongues...Have done a little speaking myself...(with interpretation)

What l'm against is people who think you aren't born again if you aren't speaking in tongues...Ridiculous   

Because of course if you follow scripture and logic that would mean you aren't saved at all...and therefore make scripture a liar and tongues a god.

ie asking for bread but getting a scorpion
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I'm not against tongues...Have done a little speaking myself...(with interpretation)

What l'm against is people who think you aren't born again if you aren't speaking in tongues...Ridiculous 

Because of course if you follow scripture and logic that would mean you aren't saved at all...and therefore make scripture a liar and tongues a god.

ie asking for bread but getting a scorpion
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And the sad part is, that a lot fake it...    

You know...like falling in the spirit.  Some just don't want embarrass the pastor so they fall down....Oh boy.........
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In reply to bold type above...agreed wholly...Pentecostals do a great disservice in laying a thing on people...the bible even says 1Co 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? (Implying the answer "no!")

My wife is a born again and has no tongues...she is better than me in many ways as respecting maturity...

Blessings...
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I'm not against tongues...Have done a little speaking myself...(with interpretation)

What l'm against is people who think you aren't born again if you aren't speaking in tongues...Ridiculous 

Because of course if you follow scripture and logic that would mean you aren't saved at all...and therefore make scripture a liar and tongues a god.

ie asking for bread but getting a scorpion
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Well, I go to A Pentecostal Full Gospel Church. Here is what we believe http://www.kenteniafullgospelchurch.org/webelieve.html (It's Just a regular Pentecostal church or at least ours is) Full Gospel just means we believe in what Jesus said we can do, call on the elders to Lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, Talking in the Holy Ghost in Worship or Out loud Only if there is an interpreter, Baptize in Water, Foot washing and Communion....And YOU CAN go to heaven without speaking in the Holy Ghost. Speaking in tongues is a Gift of the Spirit and it's for everyone but some may not want that gift...But we believe you need to Have the Holy Ghost in order to receive any of the other gifts such as The Gift of Prophecy, Because they work off the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Gift of Healing ect.. We believe it as it says in Acts 2,4 ....I'm not sure what Other Pentecostal/ Full Gospel churches believe we are independent and it's just Like the Church of God/Pentecostal....AS for someone who would argue to Me your not suppose to lay hands and pray for a Healing..I just have 7 words to say to you SORRY YOU GOT TO ME TO LATE!! I have seen God do wonderful healings and People being set instantly free from Drugs and alcohol...God IS Still Alive and Well!! Whether you speak in Tongues or Not!
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  It means they talk in tongues and you don't    

I wonder if they know the world is laughing at them????
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Yes there are somtimes squirrels but as Daddy used to say, "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again".

Good thing too.....

I remember when my Nanny took me to her church (Penticostal, where I was eventually led to the altar).  It always had a time of silence built into the program (some program, some freedom of movement) and those who felt led would sometimes speak in tongues.  I thought, "Oh, please God, I want to follow you but please I don't want to do that"  It sounded like total out of control to me.  I guess, now I see it as out of control in a good way.  Then they would wait.  And wait.  And wait.  And sometimes wait more.  And they would wait until SOMEONE said interpreted the message.  They did not believe the Spirit would end a message in His own language without allowing the congregation to know what it ment and if they had to wait on Him they would wait all night.

Then, one day, my Nanny, who I had always THOUGHT was very sane, stood right beside me after songs and started speaking words that never came out of my Nanny's mouth before and she was so overcome and that little old woman was NEVER overcome.  I knew it had to be real, 'cause I know Nanny and she could have NEVER done that on purpose.  The intrepretation....I waited with such anticipation...what had that precious soul that raised me as a child when my mother did not want me, say?

"Just a little while, my children.  Just a little while longer and I will come."  Simple message over and over.

I treasure that more than signs and wonders in weather.

leia
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What a wonderful memory..I have many like that myself...I even remember one little granny was standing up in church during the singing, she got soooo happy she started dancing and shouting all over the front, Funny thing was her Foot wrapped around my granny's purse and that lady was dancing all over with granny's purse on her foot, Granny took off after her purse but Evey time she bent down to pick it up the other granny took off dancing again..LOL Church stories are so funny Lets start a topic of out Favorite/true/funny church memories. My best memories happend in the Chruch...LOL
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My experience with speaking in tongs was not very good.  During my younger years we had a small youth group and we went to listen to a speaker and music.  During the program the speaker prayed over the audience and instructed everyone to speak in tongs.  He instructed us to just start making noises, and gibberish words.  So we all start making words.  I and the people around me were just making noise and we all knew it.  The speaker stated that we were talking in a spirit language and that we were speaking in tongs.  We all left thinking that it was just weird.
I would love to hear the real thing, but I find myself very very skeptical.  Leia, your experience sounds very powerful.

God Bless,
Kansas Dad
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I too am Pentecostal and have many funny memories of many a sweet Grandma shakin' her hair pins out as she danced in the Spirit.  In addition, I agree that those who falsely claim that only us "Tongue Talkers" will be in Heaven are misguided.  My dad is Baptist and does not believe in speaking in tongues or what he calls emotionalism.  Yet, my father is a beautiful example of a servant's heart.  So...I believe praying/speaking in tongues is a gift available to all who seek it, but in no way a measure of salvation or holiness.  Would like to offer a beautiful, treasured blessing/memory of dancing in the Spirit.  As I posted recently, my husband passed away over the summer.  One of my deepest desires was to dance one more time with him.  I never mentioned it to anyone, but one Sunday during worship, our choir director began singing a worship chorus we had sung at my husband's service.  As I began to worship, attempting unsuccessfully to sing, I began to pray and weep in the Spirit.  I closed my eyes as I do often to block everything out, but the Lord.  Before I realized it, I had begun to dance, and could see and then feel myself dance with my husband.  The gift of dancing with the two loves of my life, my Savior and my sweetheart is more precious than words could say.  It has been the Holy Spirit over and over giving me His words in the dark times that I had no more words to say.
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All I know is that it scares me to death, the thought of having it placed upon me.  The speech without control...I was taught the purist Penticostal way as a child: if you don't speak in tongue you aren't saved.  Kind of a right of passage.  They believed that the Holy Spirit had things to say and if He was in you then you would say them too.  If you didn't, then He wasn't there and you really wern't saved.

I said OK and proceeded to worry myself about it.  I don't worry whether I am  "really saved" if I haven't spoken in tongues anymore, but it am still scared every time I go to a charismatic church that that will be the day something will grab hold of me and I will be out of control.

Maybe I should be, I don't know.  But I would just rather leave it to the more secure in themselves. 

I have often wanted to be bold enough to ask and so maybe this type of communication is a good time.  What is it like?  Do you feel?  Do you know?  Does it overcome you?  Are you still there?  Is it a "with" thing or a someone else thing?

I am so embarrassed, but it would be so good to ask now.
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Thanks.  I feel silly.   Perhaps when I am ready.  I have to confess that being that close so as "feel His breath on you"  sounds wonderful.  It reminds me of the movie The Ten Commandments when the two women in Moses' life meet and one says, "You lost him when he went in search of his God, and I lost him when he found him."

Everything after that was God.  What a pleasant place to live in.

We shall see what we shall see.
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Leia,

Before I comment, let me first say what a sweet spirit you have shown throughout your postings. Thank you for that.
As for praying in tongues...For me, it feels different at different times. Similarly to when we speak with different tones and emotion. When the Holy Spirit is interceding for someone through me or I'm praying for my own needs, I often feel the heaviness of their burden or a feeling that I cannot cry hard enough to release all of God's power inside me. In intercession for my husband, my prayers have felt like I was doing battle and taking things back by force. Other times, when He's speaking through me in times of Worship, there is the feeling of the purest Joy I'll ever know. I believe it's unique for each person based upon their anointing and relationship with God, and not everyone sounds the same.
It's such a comfort to know that those times when I am praying in the Spirit, that it's a completely private and personal conversation with the Lord. No one knows the utterings of my heart during those intimate talks with Him. I feel that those times are when God can see into the deepest parts of my heart, and I can release all of my love for Him and the burdens I carry. And honestly, it just feels so awesome to feel that full of his love.
If we can trust anyone to take us out of the driver's seat while the car is still moving it's God...
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All of the above for me and also I often just start laughing and like in my spirit I hear, "Take that devil! You lose!!"

"If we can trust anyone to take us out of the driver's seat while the car is still moving it's God..."

I am a driver by trade and I can tell you this is very true... I have driven at 55 mph down a road in the fog and the Lord has steered my truck with perfection while I have a Holy Ghost meltdown.....
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"If we can trust anyone to take us out of the driver's seat while the car is still moving it's God..."

I am a driver by trade and I can tell you this is very true... I have driven at 55 mph down a road in the fog and the Lord has steered my truck with perfection while I have a Holy Ghost meltdown.....


Seems to me that The Spirit loves to drive our cars/trucks...Get blessed tons in my ride as I listen to K-Love, Cd's or our local Christian station...God is good all the time...All the time God is good!

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Oh Lord I would never say this to anyone but you guys...

OK, never talked in tongues but you guys are decreasing the fear. But that is not the thing.

One day....and for about a week some pretty "never happend before things' He told me about woul dhappen citywide and did....a very mindblowing week, I could write an entire BOOK over...I was driving. I have never told anyone about one dream and probably won't but it included these two huge black dogs flanking that grew up into these two huge men that were sent to kill me. Anyway, I was driving in Bakersfield, California and this voice tells me, "Close your eyes". I figure, there has been so many things happeing that I will, I can always open them when I feel scared. So I close them.

Half of you aren't going to believe this, I know. But I did peep once in the beginning and then I drove all around some housed streets just listening to a real quiet voice..."turn left here, pull to the right now..." and when I opened my eyes I didn't know where I was but I was driving fine. About 35 miles per hour. Maybe 30 to 35. And I laughed, oh Lord I laughed. And then he said "look" and there was a house with a chain link fence around it and a gate by the sidewalk and a huge black dog stood parellel to the fence with its head up like a statue by the open gate. I thought it was a statue at first until I drove almost past it. I had had the dream in weeks and it all became ver physically real, like a dream walking out into reality. And a horrid thought hit me..there wer two dogs. and he said "look over there" and I looked to my right and there was an IDENTICAL black dog crossing the street and heading straight to the gate. Idid not see if it stood with the other. The other still had not moved an inch. Just stood there like those cement things you put out front by driveways, lions and such.

I kept driving straight then turned and turned to get all crossways of that house. I was quite lost and then just went straight until I found a freeway outside of town and picked a direction. I did not even have the sense to ask. I just drove anywhere away. Just away.

Anyway, He drove my car through subdivisions and I thought that was cool later. And I just wondered...maybe He woul dlike to drive our cars sometimes.

I am glad you said that.

leia
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Alright, way cool stories of total trust Leia and Larry! 

I have a story while driving but it was abit different than yours.  I was going across town to my friends house.  This was not long after I was saved, maybe within the first 6 months or so.  I was at an intersection where I could either turn left or straight to get to her home.  I started to drive straight (the route I usually took to her house) something said 'turn left', I thought to myself, why should I, this way has no stop lights.  I was kinda in a hurry, a few minutes late, I hate being late.  Well, after I got down the end of the street and turned left there were nothing but road construction for the next mile of the road.  I was just sitting there watching trucks and bulldozers and people block the road.  I thought to myself, I should have turned left instead of going strait back at that intersection.  And all at once the same voice within me that told me to turn left, the one I didn't listen to and went strait said 'see you don't listen when I talk to you.'  I hadn't realized how many times that soft voice had spoken to me, I always thought it was just me, my mind, my thoughts.  But they were not.   The Lord showed me the difference between His sweet soft voice and my own.  I learned to lesten after that 
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Hi all, we were talking about speaking in tongues a little earlier in this post and I want to tell you how I started........I was praying whilst still very young as a christian.....not so much praying, but talking to Jesus. I was in awe at having realised what He had gone through for us/me and I guess I just ran out of words....G-d gave me special words that we cannot express in our language that pretty well allowed me to express what I felt. G-d knew my heart already, but he understood that I had to say it. It was like a hot line straight to Him and the words may have seemed silly but Boy, they meant a lot.

Meshuganah
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I hadn't realized how many times that soft voice had spoken to me, I always thought it was just me, my mind, my thoughts.  But they were not.  The Lord showed me the difference between His sweet soft voice and my own.  I learned to lesten after that 

I pretty much identified with Leia on this thread. I was brought up in a Baptist church and the first time I witnessed speaking in tongues (not me) was in a charasmatic church. Freaked me out! I went again a while back and thought what if that happened to me and how scary. I just wasn't used to it or brought up into that type of church...that's all. I do believe in it but doesn't the Bible say something about having an interpreter...someone enlighten me.

Meshugnah....had a very cool experience.

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I have to requote this one from Karen. So true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.
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