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10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Skillz92: 2:44am On Aug 13, 2017


And this Signs shall follow them that believe ….. They shall speak in Tongues.(mark 16:17).

The issue of speaking in tongues in Christendom has for some years now been an issue of debate. Some people believe that every believer must not speak in tongues backing their statement with the fact that speaking in tongues is the only evidence or proof of the Holygost. Some other group of believers on the other hand on the other hand maintained that speaking in tongue is the Evidence of the presence of the Holygost.

In this Article, I am not going to argue whether it is a must for every believer or not, I will be giving you ten reasons why every believer should speak in tongues.

1 Tongues is the initial sign.

“And they were all filled with the Holygost and began to speak with other Tongues as the spirit gave them utterance” Acts 2:4

The word of God clearly explained that the Disciples of Christ spoke in tongues immediately the holygost came on them while they were praying in Jerusalem.



2 Tongues for spiritual Edification

“He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies himself” 1 cor 14:4

The term edification means building up, especially in a moral , emotional or spiritual sense. So when we speak in tongues we build up our selves spiritually. Paul explained that a man speaking in other tongues speaks not unto men but unto God.

“For one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands because in the holygost he utters secret truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding.” 1 cor 14:2

Anybody who speaks in tongues charges himself before God. ie he builds ups and strengthens himself.


3 Tongues remind us of the spirit’s indwelling presence

“And I will ask the father and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the holy spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him, but you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you”. John 14:15-16

Notice that jesus said that he lives with you now and later will be in you and after the death of jesus the holygost. It means that the Holy Spirit then dwelled in them. We all know what happened when the holygost filled the disciples in Jerusalem. Speaking in tongues reminds us of the spirit’s indwelling presence.



4 praying in tongues is praying in line with God’s perfect Will.

“Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which words cannot be uttered.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8:26-27 kjv

The bible made it clear here that the holygost maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So praying in tongues helps us pray in line with the will of God.


5 praying in tongues stimulates faith.


“but you dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holyspirit” jude 20

If the holy spirit gives us the utterance when we speak in tongues, when we say a word, we don’t know what the next word will be, so we need to Trust God to bring it and that is faith. Praying in tongues helps us to strengthen our faith in God.

6 speaking in tongues is a means of keeping free from worldly contamination.

“If anyone speaks in a tongue , two or at most three should speak, one at a time, and someone should interpret. If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God.” I cor 14:27-28

Paul said when you speak in tongues in the church and there is no interpreter then you should speak to yourself. Therefore we can speak to ourselves in tongues and it won’t disturb anybody. This helps us to keep free from worldly contamination. For example, when you are in the midst of people who are discussing things which can contaminate our spirit and you don’t want to be part of it, speak to yourself in tongues by that it helps you to stay free from the conversation.



7 praying in tongues enable us to pray for the unknown

The Holy Spirit who knows everything can pray through for things which our natural mind knows nothing about. The spirit intercedes for us for we know not what to pray for as we ought. (Romans 8: 26).

Praying in the spirit provides a way for things to be prayed for that we wouldn’t know anything about in the natural.



8 praying in tongues gives spiritual refreshing.

“With foreign lips and strange tongues, God will speak to this people, to whom he said, this is the resting place, let the weary rest” Isaiah 28:11-12.

The scripture above speaks of rest and refreshing which is in the talking in other tongues. These things are vital for our spirits and we can take it every day.



9 Tongues for giving thanks.

Praying in tongues provides the most perfect way to pray way to pray and give thanks, for the bible said that when we pray in tongues that we give thanks very well. (1 cor 14:15-17)

10 speaking in tongues brings the tongue under subjection.

Yielding the tongue to the Holy Spirit to speak with other tongues is a giant step towards fully yielding all of our members to God. For if we can yield this most unruly member, we can yield any member.

SOURCE : http://praisebars.com/10-reasons-why-every-believer-must-speak-in-tongues/

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by TRADELYN: 3:03am On Aug 13, 2017
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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by AwesomeDuru(m): 3:25am On Aug 13, 2017
Fools. Religious retards. With your spineless, cowardly Non Mighty God.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Skillz92: 3:39am On Aug 13, 2017
AwesomeDuru:
Fools. Religious retards. With your spineless, cowardly Non Mighty God.
I know your type. You think you can gain cheap popularity by talking against God.
Your views doesn't change who he is and who he will always be. He is God. Might God

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by AwesomeDuru(m): 3:47am On Aug 13, 2017
Skillz92:

I know your type. You think you can gain cheap popularity by talking against God.
Your views doesn't change who he is and who he will always be. He is God. Might God
Yeah well if he's God, then he has failed miserably in his duties and should be treated as thrash. Do you know how many innocent children go to sleep every night without food or shelter? What about the chaos all around the world? Your God is wicked, deal with it.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Skillz92: 3:55am On Aug 13, 2017
AwesomeDuru:
Yeah well if he's God, then he has failed miserably in his duties and should be treated as thrash. Do you know how many innocent children go to sleep every night without food or shelter? What about the chaos all around the world? Your God is wicked, deal with it.

Now I understand, you are in pain or probably frustrated, God is not responsible for any man's misfortune.
Why : because he has done his part of the deal. If you do well to understand him, you will have no reason to be frustrated

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by ipobarecriminals: 4:58am On Aug 13, 2017
sad sad sad
AwesomeDuru:
Fools. Religious retards. With your spineless, cowardly Non Mighty God.
undecided
AwesomeDuru:
Fools. Religious retards. With your spineless, cowardly Non Mighty God.
God is a merciful God.May u not ruin/destroy ur destiny. God can change/turn u to a snake/monkey

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by hopefulLandlord: 5:26am On Aug 13, 2017
ipobarecriminals:
sad sad sad undecidedGod is a merciful God.May u not ruin/destroy ur destiny. God can change/turn u to a snake/monkey
your post reeks of argumentum ad baculum: (Latin for "argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick"wink is the fallacy committed when one appeals to force or the threat of force to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by hopefulLandlord: 5:26am On Aug 13, 2017
another one
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nigeriadondie: 5:38am On Aug 13, 2017
undecidedTongues speaking was a gift of d holy spirit which enabled early christians back then to preach in a language(tongue) other than their own.

Before the birth of christianity, God had a covenant relationship with man but that was to change as the old Law was to be replaced with the new law enacted by d blood of Jesus and henwas no longer dealing with humans on d basis of the old law but thru d newly formed christian congregation after Christ's death and ressurection. To convince many that the congregation had His backing, he uses gifts of d spirit such as tongues- 1 Corinthians 14:22.

The gift of speaking served another purpose. During the time of Jesus there was no printing and broadcasting to relay messages to a mass audience as we ve now. Also, there was d issue of language barrier which wud hamper d spread of d gospel of God's will and purpose. To overcome these challenges, tongues speaking filled that need.

Please open ur Bible to read Acts 2:1-11 but with emphasis on verses 6-11 where you wud observe that the tongues spoken where in d real sense of it real languages that were understood by other people who spoke the language not some senseless and meaningless words spoken by ALL tongues speaking pentecostal churches. That way, people cud hear the message of God in their own native language. If u read Acts2:41 u would see that d result of tongues speaking was the 3,000 converts who would now carry witj them to whereever they went the message of goodnews or gospel fulfilling what Christ said in Acts1:8 and what Paul said in Colossians 1:23.

Again, lets examine tongue speaking in the time of early christians and the ones of our time which for me is mere rambling of meaningless words which is tantamount to noise which I recall in my High school class is an unpleasant noise.
Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 and 27-31 with emphasis on verse 30.
Read also 1 Corinthians 14:5-33,40 but lay emphasis on 5,11,12,13,19,26-28,31,33,40.
You would realise that when tongues are spoken then it must be interpreted. If no interpretation the tongue speaker has achieved nothing.
Also in verse 31, people cant speak in tongues simultaneously (at the same time) it would make d place rowdy/noisy/disorderly/chaotic as the gathering of barbarians. And the God true christians worship is a God or order as verse 33 shows and so christians must worship God in an orderly manner as verse 40 shows. Not the simultaneous noise making of all in the pentecostal churches we see today, people rambling making noise uttering words they nor their listeners understand and as such cannot interpret what the blabbed which is required.

Now in our time, we ve a well developed printing and broadcasting technology that has overcome the language barrier. The spread of d goodnews is no longer impeded by language barrier as the Bible is now printed in all the living languages spoken today. We even have d Braille for the blind and some bibles have sign language for d deaf. Beinh an ardent admirer of Jehovah's Witnesses the have their publications in about 800 languanges and have a mobile application called "JW LIBRARY" in about 800 languages. If u doubt me u can download it and u wud be amazed at its unique features. Even their website www.jw.org is in many languages as well so making tongues speaking obsolete.
Also , they ve many missionaries who ve taken up the challenge of leaening bew languages so they could reach people who speak that language with d gospel.

As Paul said in 1Corinthians 13:1-13, the gifts of speaking in tongues and other gifts of d holy spirit would pass away with time. This is because as d christian congregation was still in its baby or infant stage, extraordinary gifts of the spirit was needed to convince people of God's approval of the christian congregation but as time went by and it grew beyond the babe stage, the traits of babes has to be put way and as such these gifts are no longer required. They ve outlived their purpose.

Hence, we should not be arried away with all these fake pentecostal churches. Look at what d Bible says Matthew 7:21-23, 2Thessolonians 2:8-10

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by seunny4lif(m): 11:42am On Aug 13, 2017
Hausa tongue grin grin grin
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by wtfcoded: 11:42am On Aug 13, 2017
undecided
Where do i learn to speak in tongues?
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nobody: 11:44am On Aug 13, 2017
But the speaking in tongues we get to see today is nothing but a repetition of the same sounds nobody understands. Speaking in tongues should be of languages that other people can understand or relate to. Every Tom, Dick and Harry utter unreasonable sounds are say they are speaking in tongues.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Okoyiboz3: 11:44am On Aug 13, 2017
wtfcoded:
undecided
Where do i learn to speak in tongues?

Unilag.

Allow one of the girls to handle you.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nobody: 11:45am On Aug 13, 2017
Trash!!!
de nonsense people do today in de name of speaking in tongues..
repeatedly saying same thing every tym dey pray..
i can even recite wat my neighbor calls "speaking in tongue" wen she prays at night..

A friend of mine was invited to Christ embassy for d first tym.they preached.He "repented".
In follow-up fellowship he had wit em, they were forcing him nd other newcomers to speak in tongues to prove they were really born-again..
As others started sayin trash, he had to come up wit something to say so as nt to look strange or possessed..he started calling his granddad's name repeatedly.


speaking in tongues is a gift,the ability to speak other languages when truly filled with the holy spirit..so is interpretation of what is being said...
its not a must dat EVERY believer should speak in tongues.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by CAPSLOCKED: 11:47am On Aug 13, 2017

SPEAKING IN THE TONGUES THAT NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND? undecided

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Zeze06(m): 11:48am On Aug 13, 2017
cry

Anytime I see people speaking in tongues I think they are crazy I swear!

It makes no meaning to me... embarassed

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by ojimbo(m): 11:49am On Aug 13, 2017
Imagine where a Chinese is speaking in tongues. Chaiiii Religion is really a social madness

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by 0b100100111: 11:51am On Aug 13, 2017
grin grin grin



It shall never be well the first man that imported religion into Africa.


Even a drunkard and hard-drug addict speak in tongues!


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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by wtfcoded: 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
Okoyiboz3:


Unilag.

Allow one of the girls to handle you.
Abiiiiii
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Feranchek(m): 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
Okoyiboz3:

Unilag.
Allow one of the girls to handle you.
Nne ehn! That wan na strong tongue you go speak o!
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by otr1(m): 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
The issue of speaking in tongues as described in the Bible is the ability to communicate in different languages, and not gibberishes we hear in Churches today. How else do you think the Apostles were able to spread the gospel to places where the people speak different languages if not the gifts they received at Pentecost?

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nobody: 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
AwesomeDuru:
Yeah well if he's God, then he has failed miserably in his duties and should be treated as thrash. Do you know how many innocent children go to sleep every night without food or shelter? What about the chaos all around the world? Your God is wicked, deal with it.

I will advice people who know you to stay clear of you because when the wrath of God falls on you it will affect them. I have seen God take control of my life from many experience. And since you are bothered about the hungry children, you will find out that God has given them what they wanted but they refuse to reach it. Accept Christ now and you will find answers to your questions.
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by 0b100100111: 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
ojimbo:
Imagine where a Chinese is speaking in tongues. Chaiiii Religion is really a social madness

grin grin grin

It's outright madness and don't glorify it with "Social"

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by GodsMopol: 11:52am On Aug 13, 2017
here is a thread about testimonies of those who had the baptism of the Holy Ghost and how they spoke in tongues in details

https://www.nairaland.com/3942302/share-testimony-holy-ghost-baptism

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nobody: 11:55am On Aug 13, 2017
0b100100111:

grin grin grin



It shall never be well the first man that imported religion into Africa.


Even a drunkard and hard-drug addict speak in tongues!

On the last day and day of judgement you think God will ask you about the drunkard or drug addict?


Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by muller101(m): 11:56am On Aug 13, 2017
Another trash. Keep deceiving yourself

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Nobody: 11:57am On Aug 13, 2017
CAPSLOCKED:

SPEAKING IN THE TONGUES THAT NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND? undecided

When you speak in tongues it's not for anybody to understand because it's not man like yourself that will answer your prayers. It's God that understands that will answer your prayers. If you want to speak so that people will understand then pray to men

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by Rapmoney(m): 11:59am On Aug 13, 2017
Another loads of crap this Sunday! Does your Bible not tell you that there are different gifts given by the Spirit? Some this, and others that?

That's one problem with religious folks; always contradicting themselves.

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by bionixs: 11:59am On Aug 13, 2017
AwesomeDuru:
Fools. Religious retards. With your spineless, cowardly Non Mighty God.
oga,in all your atheist wanna be,who among the retards are you better than. If you dont understand tongue ;which is a mistery, kindly go to slay queen,topless top ,bum and boob section you know much about. No be by force to be everyhere like the sky. this section is not made for stack unbelievers. thanks
NB: meanwhile, Mr Duru , your own atheism na local one- copy copy

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Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by DatsAll1mSayin(m): 12:00pm On Aug 13, 2017
Hmmmn....
Re: 10 Reasons Why Every Believer Must Speak In Tongues by jaz(m): 12:02pm On Aug 13, 2017
May God continue to bless your wisdom and knowledge. Great insight unlike the lies being told by many so called Christians who quote the scriptures in parts and purposely mislead the church
Nigeriadondie:
undecidedTongues speaking was a gift of d holy spirit which enabled early christians back then to preach in a language(tongue) other than their own.

Before the birth of christianity, God had a covenant relationship with man but that was to change as the old Law was to be replaced with the new law enacted by d blood of Jesus and henwas no longer dealing with humans on d basis of the old law but thru d newly formed christian congregation after Christ's death and ressurection. To convince many that the congregation had His backing, he uses gifts of d spirit such as tongues- 1 Corinthians 14:22.

The gift of speaking served another purpose. During the time of Jesus there was no printing and broadcasting to relay messages to a mass audience as we ve now. Also, there was d issue of language barrier which wud hamper d spread of d gospel of God's will and purpose. To overcome these challenges, tongues speaking filled that need.

Please open ur Bible to read Acts 2:1-11 but with emphasis on verses 6-11 where you wud observe that the tongues spoken where in d real sense of it real languages that were understood by other people who spoke the language not some senseless and meaningless words spoken by ALL tongues speaking pentecostal churches. That way, people cud hear the message of God in their own native language. If u read Acts2:41 u would see that d result of tongues speaking was the 3,000 converts who would now carry witj them to whereever they went the message of goodnews or gospel fulfilling what Christ said in Acts1:8 and what Paul said in Colossians 1:23.

Again, lets examine tongue speaking in the time of early christians and the ones of our time which for me is mere rambling of meaningless words which is tantamount to noise which I recall in my High school class is an unpleasant noise.
Read 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 and 27-31 with emphasis on verse 30.
Read also 1 Corinthians 14:5-33,40 but lay emphasis on 5,11,12,13,19,26-28,31,33,40.
You would realise that when tongues are spoken then it must be interpreted. If no interpretation the tongue speaker has achieved nothing.
Also in verse 31, people cant speak in tongues simultaneously (at the same time) it would make d place rowdy/noisy/disorderly/chaotic as the gathering of barbarians. And the God true christians worship is a God or order as verse 33 shows and so christians must worship God in an orderly manner as verse 40 shows. Not the simultaneous noise making of all in the pentecostal churches we see today, people rambling making noise uttering words they nor their listeners understand and as such cannot interpret what the blabbed which is required.

Now in our time, we ve a well developed printing and broadcasting technology that has overcome the language barrier. The spread of d goodnews is no longer impeded by language barrier as the Bible is now printed in all the living languages spoken today. We even have d Braille for the blind and some bibles have sign language for d deaf. Beinh an ardent admirer of Jehovah's Witnesses the have their publications in about 800 languanges and have a mobile application called "JW LIBRARY" in about 800 languages. If u doubt me u can download it and u wud be amazed at its unique features. Even their website www.jw.org is in many languages as well so making tongues speaking obsolete.
Also , they ve many missionaries who ve taken up the challenge of leaening bew languages so they could reach people who speak that language with d gospel.

As Paul said in 1Corinthians 13:1-13, the gifts of speaking in tongues and other gifts of d holy spirit would pass away with time. This is because as d christian congregation was still in its baby or infant stage, extraordinary gifts of the spirit was needed to convince people of God's approval of the christian congregation but as time went by and it grew beyond the babe stage, the traits of babes has to be put way and as such these gifts are no longer required. They ve outlived their purpose.

Hence, we should not be arried away with all these fake pentecostal churches. Look at what d Bible says Matthew 7:21-23, 2Thessolonians 2:8-10


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