Is Once Enough? Question about Glossolalia

[Kutless]

Originally Posted by chseeads

Paul, while not one of the 12 obviously, but an apostle anyways, did write about his speaking in tongues.

The tongues here were not talking about the infilling of the HG

[deltaguitar]

Originally Posted by chseeads

I'm not coming at you negatively or making light of what you said. I didn't mean to sound trite.

It's not always easy to get beyond our feelings with this kind of thing. Try not to focus on what you think other people's expected response out of you if they pray for you, etc. is. You're not responding or answering to them, you're responding to God. Keep your communication with God as your main focus and allow Him to just bless your soul.

I also don't think there is anything wrong with you personally just outright asking God to let you speak in tongues again because you want to know how it feels and experience it again.

When someone initially is seeking the Holy Ghost the focus should not be on getting tongues, but surrendering to the Lord (and that always applies throughout life for that matter), but if you've spoken before and you, in your time between just you and God, want to feel that again, I don't think that's anything displeasing to Him.

When I first got the Holy Ghost I didn't speak in tongues too long the first time, and then for a while after that I didn't anymore either. (Not a real long time, but a while though....) And I just wanted to 'pray through' again and speak in tongues, and I prayed to that end. And I did. Since then that has come much easier to me and is very commonplace for me. I don't ALWAYS speak in tongues, but I do a lot....

I think maybe some of it just has to do with learning how to let go of ourselves and be more receptive to the flow of the Spirit.

It is my goal to be able to be sensitive to the spirit and feel the presence of God once again. I have had faith in God for almost twenty years but in the last couple of years I have started to wonder and question because of this.

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by Kutless

The tongues here were not talking about the infilling of the HG

I don't think he was necessarily only speaking about giving messages in tongues to be interpreted in what he wrote about himself there....


But nevertheless, the question was did any of them speak in tongues again....so obviously they did, in one form or another.

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by deltaguitar

It is my goal to be able to be sensitive to the spirit and feel the presence of God once again. I have had faith in God for almost twenty years but in the last couple of years I have started to wonder and question because of this.

God doesn't want you to have to struggle with doubt. He's for you, not agin' you.


There's nothing wrong with going back to the well for a refill.

[Kutless]

Originally Posted by chseeads

I don't think he was necessarily only speaking about giving messages in tongues to be interpreted in what he wrote about himself there....


But nevertheless, the question was did any of them speak in tongues again....so obviously they did, in one form or another.

The question was pertaining to the apostles.

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by deltaguitar

It is my goal to be able to be sensitive to the spirit and feel the presence of God once again. I have had faith in God for almost twenty years but in the last couple of years I have started to wonder and question because of this.

Get alone with God and pour your heart out to him about this. No one will be around but you and God.

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by Kutless

The question was pertaining to the apostles.

So was the answer. Paul were one.

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by Kutless

how are you connecting the Corithians tongues to initial infilling?

I am not, his question was about his brother's failure to have an ongoing or subsequential refilling of the spirit.

[Scott Hutchinson]

If tongues are indeed , an initial sign of being baptized with the Holy Ghost , then it seems that one would speak in tongues beyond that initial experience as a sign along with the fruit of the Spirit as a sign of being Spirit Filled.
Maybe I'm off -base but if a beginning stage of receiving The Holy Spirit a believer will speak in tongues ,it would seem that tongues would remain as the Spirit abides in the live of a believer.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Maybe I'm off base but it seems that if tongues are indeed an initial or beginning or physical evidence of The Holy Ghost ,then it would seem that one would speak in tongues beyond that initial experience as a sign of the abiding of The Holy Ghost along with the fruit of the Spirit.