The 3 Types of Tongues in the Church

There are three types of tongues that I know of.

1. Tongues where the language is another countries language and another person of another country can hear it. One time a preacher was preaching about Jesus and then the Holy Spirit prompted him to speak in tongues. He did so and a women came weeping to the front. When he inquired what she wanted she said he had just said in Hebrew that Jesus was the Messiah and she need to come forward and accept him.

2 Tongues as a private language between the speaker and God.

This is a personal prayer language where only the Holy Spirit knows what is being said. This is very useful in intercessory prayer when you are praying for someone but you don't know what to pray for. The Holy Spirit prays though you. The foreign language tongues can be a persons private language tongues also.

3 Tongues as prophecy.

Tongues can be spoken out loud in prophecy and at this time there is most times a person that can interpret the tongues. I have been called on By God two times to interpret the tongues. It's like God uses two people to bring a prophecy to the church, the person who speaks the tongues and the person who interprets. The first time I went to a church that became my home for two years the head pastor spoke a prophecy in tongues and I had a lot of respect for him that he would do that in his own church.

Tongues can be used by the enemy, just as evil spirits can reside in Christians. We should not be afraid to embrace the Baptism of the Holy Spirit because we are scared of tongues. Jesus is a good God and he's in control of our life if we are submitted to him.

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