To another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. I Corinthians 12:10
The gift of tongues is much needed, but often overlooked as a valid and powerful tool in the body of Christ! Everyone when filled with the Holy Spirit can speak in a prayer language, a special supernatural heavenly communication between you and your heavenly Father.
This intimate language is only for you and God to empower you, encourage you, and to build your faith, and use it when you don't know what to pray! An example of tongues and interpretation is when the first church in Acts was all filled with the Holy Spirit and then went out into the streets praying in tongues and the people from out of town who came to celebrate Pentecost heard them praying and the Holy Spirit was interpreting their prayers for all those from other countries and 3000 were saved!
The apostle Paul taught the body of believers at Corinth that tongues are for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers, and for them not to all pray in tongues in the assembly in case an ungifted person comes in and thinks they are crazy! Because tongues have been abused in many cases throughout the years people have thought them to be strange and even excessive and so they have been neglected in the body!
"With men of other tongues and other lips, I will speak to this people; and yet, for all that, they will not hear Me." I Corinthians 14:21
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ