No I do not believe it when a man of God or a prayer warrior opens his mouth and says; “Let’s speak in tongues”
And immediately the whole congregation breaks into it. I will stand there and shake my head in disbelief!
I was watching metro TV recently when a man of God was on the TGIF show saying, he is a longstanding man of God but he gets uncomfortable when people speak tongues into a speaker and there is nobody to translate.
For him, it must be translated by somebody otherwise it is controversial. Well, that’s his special opinion too which many people will argue and counter.
Now let’s talk about my own experience with churches who literally force you to speak in tongues or feel like a devil. I call it the great deception.
One fine Sunday I followed a Nigerian friend to his church that he had been inviting me to for awhile. I will leave out the name of the church but believe me, it is a very popular church. My experience with many charismatic churches has been varied but this particularly pertains to speaking in tongues.
I loved their praise and worship, sermon and everything else was just really good. So good I made a mental note to go back. Then came the end of the service when they asked new members to stand up. I did…
Then after some formalities, they asked us to meet a team in the back of the church. I again followed. They registered us for several classes during the week, spoke to us about being faithful to the church, and then explained why we need to speak in tongues.
They said sometimes, we may need to pray about specific situations which we are physically unaware of so God permits our spirit to pray. And our spirit prays about these things in tongues. So our spirit directly speaks to God on our behalf and for unseen things which we do need but we do not know. Hmmph! Lovely explanation.
It made much sense to me. But after this explanation we were all told to start praying. We prayed for very long and everybody started praying in tongues. The leader of the group kept shouting; “speak in tongues! Speak in tongues!” so everybody, both new and old started speaking in tongues.
Ei Jesus, my tongue did not bring forth this strange language. So they noticed it and assigned me 3 prayer warriors-a woman and two young men. They laid their hands on me and prayed in heavy tongues. Then they said I should open my mouth and speak. “Speak sister, it is in you, do not refuse to let it out, you are blocking it. Open your mouth and let it come out!”
All this while, I was utterly confused. I swear to you Jesus did not give me any tongues that day. Maybe I know the wrong Jesus? Because everybody else in the church spoke in tongues that day. Finally, they got tired of waiting for me to speak in tongues and let me go.
I run home, never to go back. And since then, regardless of the explanations and observations, my faith in tongues has been seriously weakened.
What’s your experience with tongues? Do you speak it, how and why? Do you believe in it?
When you are speaking in tongue, you are speaking directly to God, it is a language that makes the devil confused, because he does not understand your prayer to God. Let me share mine own experience with you, I was staying with an old woman, and a friend invited me to a church, because it was a vigil, I told the old woman that a friend invited me to his church, she allowed me to go, the vigil was seriously with powerful prayers, when I told her the following day, that I wanted to go to that same church, she is started asking me, where is that church located, I told her, she said I shouldn't go, and I asked her why, she said nothing, she does not want me to go to that church again, I obeyed her but I knew something was wrong, I decided to hold a vigil in my room that same day, I started praying in tongue, when the house was spiritual burning, she went out the house at nid-night, after day break, she nocked at my door, asking, where did I get such power from, who taught me how to use the tongue, that what I have been sending by tongue to her, if she decided to sent it back to me, I will regret it for rest of my life, and I told her, I am a child of God, no weapon fashioned. agaist me she prospered.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, speaking In tongue Is a spiritual warfare to all christians.