One last point. Last time I checked, God understands English and every other language. We don’t need a ‘prayer language’.
We don’t need a ‘prayer language’.
I'll let y'all be the one to tell
ALMIGHTY
OMNISCIENT
OMNIPRESENT
GOD
that HE made a big mistake.
Maybe He'll be thrilled to be corrected by such superior wisdom.
1 Corinthians 14
Tongues and Prophecy
2 For if you have the ability to speak in tongues,[a] you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit,[b] but it will all be mysterious.
4 A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally, but one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church.
14 For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying.
15 Well then, what shall I do? I WILL PRAY IN THE SPIRIT,[e] and I will ALSO pray in words I understand. I WILL SING IN THE SPIRIT, and I will ALSO sing in words I understand.
16 For if you praise God only in the spirit, how can those who don’t understand you praise God along with you? How can they join you in giving thanks when they don’t understand what you are saying? 17 You will be giving thanks VERY WELL, but it won’t strengthen the people who hear you.
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you.
A Call to Orderly Worship
26 Well, my brothers and sisters, let’s summarize. When you meet together, one will sing, another will teach, another will tell some special revelation God has given, one WILL speak in tongues, and another will interpret what is said. But everything that is done must strengthen all of you.
39 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking in tongues.
Scriptures above Quixicated because some seem to have mentally ripped them out of their Bibles for so long, it is as though they are not there.
Or maybe they are soooooooo uncomfortable and intolerant of those verses and phrases that they have to take a valium when reading I Cor 14.
Or maybe they REALLY ARE CONVINCED that Apostle Paul needed to submit his manuscript to them for editing before it was included in the Canon.
Or maybe they REALLY ARE CONVINCED that God just got HIS wires crossed when He transmitted I Corinthians to Paul.
Or maybe they just can't handle or refuse to handle God's way of doing things and so they have to rationalize it all away 12 ways to Sunday so they can sleep more smugly.
Or maybe they're just plain wrong and are toooo stubborn, self-righteous and proud about tongues to submit themselves to God and admit it.
If such Christians allowed satan to rob them of other Biblical truths on the basis of clunky demonstrations of such other Biblical truths in the flawed lives of other believers--they wouldn't believe a word in the Bible at all.
May God have mercy.
Preach it, sister!!!
backatcha.....