Speaking in Tongues and Prayer Ministry
Friday, April 6, 2007 13:41The Spiritual gift of speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is an important part of the believers arsenal in listening to and obeying the voice of God. It is extremely useful in healing and prayer ministry. However, a great deal of the available teaching is misleading, and sometimes deceptive. There is a strong focus on the dangers, prompting believers to live in fear rather than faith, with almost no teaching on the uses of this gift.
Prompted by a comment by Mal Austin about my old article on speaking in tongues: Tongues - making it happen, on the Healing Prayer Ministries Network website, I’ve writen the first of a series on this topic on my Speaking-in-Tongues blog. The first of these new articles is called Tongues five years on.
I will be covering many aspects of the nature, purpose and exercise of the gift, including its usefulness in spiritual discernment, hearing God’s voice, addressing demons, and ministering into the spirit of a person.
Stuart says:
October 4th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Speaking in tongues is false teaching. It is taught by modern False prophets. Hebrews says that Jesus is the last word.
Ed Steffens says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
The misunderstanding of this very true and biblical principal is astounding. The critiques of speaking in tounges are simply afraid of what they do not understand or control… so has gone the church for 2 thousand years. Vast proponents of tounges often are well versed in bible detail and doctrine rarely speak with first hand knowledge. Please read the bible as your guide and stop listening to secondhand nay sayers and story tellers. Ask and you shall recieve. Both wisdom and gifts are yours if you only “believe”.
In His Loving Service
Mal says:
November 25th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Stuart, what makes you say that? Was it Jesus who said it or the writer to the Hebrews saying that Jesus said it? In the later case your argument would not allow us to accept your own statement. You’d look like a false prophet yourself. Perhaps some evidence is needed!
Mal says:
November 25th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Ed, you are right about that - only those who actually have experience of something, either positive or negative are likely to have reliable knowledge about it. There are far too many armchair theologians around. The key to anything ’spiritual’ has to be experience. Even receiving so called ‘knowledge’ of it will be a spiritual experience. It’s the difference between knowing about God and actually knowing God. As far as my being a proponent of tongues is concerned, it is with a great deal of first hand knowledge. I certainly ‘believe’, as you put it, and it was hard won belief. Blessings, Mal.
Stuart says:
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Mal, You are misguided. The writer of Hebrews is the same authority as Jesus Christ.
In the past he spoke through the prophets, in these later times he has spoken through the son. here we have the grammar of present perfect: has spoken. A recent event for the Hebrew writer in AD 63: an event that has finished.
Doctrine over experience are the words of Calvin.
Regards
Stuart
Stuart says:
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Mal, anybody can get the tongues. It’s too easy.
Regards
Stuart
Stuart says:
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Prayer Ministries is spiritist: You Channel demonic spirits.
You need to be reformed.
You are dangerous.
You preach a false Gospel
Regards
Stuart