I love that you are so free with your speech! My story is I was about 13/14 years old we were at a revival conference at a church in Georgia, they call all the youth up and have parents stand behind them, then a man came speaking in tongues and said “Fire” as he placed his hands on the youth, most of the children fell in the floor, and some were speaking in tongues, I on the other hand was like what is going on, so the man comes to me and says “Fire”(spitting as he says it) nothing happens, so then he puts his hands on my stomach and says burn Holy Spirit, nothing happens, then he puts his hands on my head again and I can feel the pressure of him trying to push me back, I hold my ground, so he says let this one marinate on the Spirit then moved on, A female comes up to me and takes me to a back room in the church and tries to teach me how to speak in tongues, “Repeat after me stuff” after about what seemed like eternity (30/45 mins) of me not doing as she says and questioning her, we come out of that room and I go back to my seat, thinking what a bunch of lunatics, this is not God, so started my journey for truth. I am thankful for the experience so I can tell my story, but the manipulation was crazy.
I had a "Prophetess" tell me publicly I was GOING to speak in tongues to receive my healing. When I asked in a more private whisper, in front of a congregation of 200 or more, "what if the Spirit doesn't lead me to speak in tongues?", her response was to lean in to my ear and say, "Just fake it, they'll never know!" I leaned into her microphone and shouted, "GET BEHIND ME SATAN!" She was never allowed back to our church.
Yes, the devil can speak in tongues. The devil can enter churches. More than anything, being able to speak in tongues means after we have the gift, we show fruit in our lives. If you want to know if tongues are real, trust in the Holy Spirit and ask Him.
I eventually want to be a psychologist. I plan on doing a research on the pressure to speak in tongues in Pentecostal churches that lead people to feeling guilty for not speaking in tongues.
Yup, it's soooo WICKED! Speaking in tongues has NEVER been part of the Gospel of SALVATION, as WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THROUGH FAITH. Only people, like to twist the Scriptures to make that a NECESSITY for being saved (NOT!), causing much CONFUSION, DOUBT & GUILT, in people! :/ GOD is soooo NOT the author of confusion but we KNOW who is...(the father of LIES) :( THIS is what the Word/Truth of GOD says about receiving SALVATION & what happens directly AFTER we receive salvation (Scripture below). So, I'd like to know where it says we receive the gift and/or ability to speak in tongues upon receiving salvation or else we have not really been saved ??? Note Ephesians 1:13 does NOT include/mention being able to speak in tongues upon receiving salvation OR the Holy Spirit. We are SEALED by the Holy Spirit as one of GOD'S born again & baptized, in the Spirit of GOD children (via our SPIRITUAL RE-BIRTH/BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST) & sealed until the day of redemption. We are adopted into the family of GOD at that time, as well. The WORD/TRUTH of GOD says NOTHING about receiving or speaking in tongues or as a REQUIREMENT to be able to receive salvation... Smh Note: Romans 8:16 says this...16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God [saved]: (NOT SPEAKING IN TONGUES). [brackets mine] Note: 1 John 4:13 says this...13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (NOT BECAUSE WE CAN SPEAK IN TONGUES)... be not deceived about this, my friends! :/ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) KJV 15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (Romans 10:8-11) KJV 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (2 Corinthians 7:10) KJV 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (Ephesians 1:12-14) KJV 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. (Romans 8:16-17) KJV 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
I'd love to know if you find that that is actually a causal factor in people leaving the church in general (ie. recouncing faith) , or just in leaving a denomination.
If you speak in tongues and no one understands you, it is better that you keep your silence, for we preach the message of the Holy Spirit, but if no one can understand the message, we preach in vain. - My Man Paul
Man they shouldn't be so quick to lay hands on you like that. They all up in your business and then they didn't even have enough discernment to know if it was real or not. Yikes lol.
You are right. 1 Corinthians 14:22 "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe."
@Forg1ven S1nner Scripture says there is no difference now. Because we are all one in Christ Jesus.. The only differences are the local customs of the various parts of the world. All gifts are given by the same Spirit. But not all have the same gifts. Sadly, there are many who put on a form of godliness, but deny the power of God. Now, many will claim to be Christian without ever receiving God. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to God but by Him.. Why? Because He is the one who makes possible for the curse of sin and death to be made void. He is the Spirit of Life, and is the Gateway into the Kingdom of God. Only by the filling of the Holy Ghost, He went to prepare a place for us, and came back again in the substance of the Holy Ghost: that where He is, His people may be also.. It is not that hard to understand, that He gathers His people unto Himself by the filling of the Holy Ghost.. Now, there are many bodies of believers, but only one body of Christ. As scripture says; " In my Father's house, are many mansions." So each body of believers, or church family, is one mansion. God is our Teacher, and our King.
@Forg1ven S1nner Sorry for you: because you are mistaken.. The true Sabbath for those who receive God, begins when we receive Him. Then, we enter into His rest in that we are no longer in bondage to sin, and everyday is our great day of the Lord. The wedding garment is our righteousness, and the feast is now. The man found without the wedding garment is the carnal man. The world is for the man of flesh: that is his portion.. But when he gives God his world: God will give him a portion of His Kingdom.
What I don't understand is people "speaking in tongues" during a worship service and then interpreting what they just said. Why didn't they just say it in English to begin with? Also, if the message was real, why was no one else in the congregation blessed with the gift of interpretation?
Lol, I did the same thing when I was around 11 or 12. I belonged to an apostolic church back then, and we weren't allowed to do anything until we were determined to be saved by speaking in tongues. We couldn't sing in the choir, play the tambourine, lead a song, nothing! I wanted to do all those things and more, but after constant weekly tarrying services and not being able to speak in tongues, I thought I wasn't good enough to be saved and that something was wrong with me. I later faked it, and was shocked how everyone was so happy for me and didn't even realize I was faking. It was at that point that I actually started doubting religion and christianity, but I never gave up on it. However, sometime not too long after that experience, something unexplainable did come over me, and even though it felt beautiful, it scared the heck out of me! It only happened a handful of times after that, and I'm now overgrown, lol. So, I know that speaking in tongues is real, but I don't believe that it happens all the time or as often as christians try to act like it does.
Oh boi. Let me just say... God will come to his children in his time...no one else's. I was touched by God and it was beautiful. It happened when i was alone and in prayer. God bless you all.
Bro you honor your father with that story I’m so glad for stories like that, your earthly dad obviously is a genuine man. I feel ya on that story though for real, been there, and I was instead the cast out bc I refused to conform... though I’m surrendered to Jesus.
Devin Jump Amazing. You are truly surrendered to Jesus for refusing to conform to faking spiritual gifts. May God show you more of Him and pour into you more to experience more of His glory, power, greatness, and grace. According to His will and purposes of course, may His will be done not mine.
Every time I meet someone who frequently ‘Speaks in tongues’ during routine prayers, or whatever, they turn out to be a narcissist. Every. single. time. I believe that there is such a thing as speaking in tongues that can come from actually being overcome, but that is not what is happening to the majority of people. Period.
Oh man this is good! I seriously had almost the EXACT scenario growing up in a Pentecostal church in Detroit. In addition to being a hilarious video, you do a great job validating that one bad experience with a Pentecostal church doesn’t mean the whole thing is no good. Great content brother!
This was awesome! I grew up Catholic and in the Charismatic movement. I was never forced like that to speak in tongues, but those people who laid hands on you were blasfeeming the Spirit, for sure. They only cared about tongues, nothing else, and that's horrible. Here is a story for you: Please note I'm visually impaired. I was going to a Pentecostal church for a while, and we were at a prayer meeting of sorts. This guy, who calls himself Apostle (name) was praying for everyone, and then of course he prayed over me for my vision to be restored. I had no issue with this because I believe in healing, and was prayed over all of my life. With this dude, I was half expecting him to pray over my eyes, which he did. However, he dug the palms/heals of his hands into my eyes, trying to push me backwards. Now, I was in a chair, so why he did that is beyond me. I was afraid he was going to pop my eyes out, and I have glaucoma as it is. Not only was he digging his almighty strength into my eyes, but he was also screaming at them to "Open in Jesus' Name!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Big huge "no-no" in my book. Now, I have no problem with people laying hands on my eyes, but for the love of God, is being gentle so difficult? Jesus certainly didn't do what this wacco did. Not only that, but screaming? Come on, dude, no amount of screaming, pushing, or exhorting will heal me. Ugh, I wanted to do the very thing to him to teach him a lesson. So there's my Pentecostal story. Oh, and someone else prayed that the demon of blindness would leave...🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️😲😲
Im an old catholic Jesus took me out of it because it blinds people more I hopenu left it Pray for God to lead u to a good assembly caus le there s a lotnof fake ones Ps 32:8
I really like your Dad. One time I felt a guest speaker push me- but no. I wasn't going to be pushed by a person. If I was going to fall it was going to be because of the Holy Spirit, not brute force.
Ironically, you were actually closer to speaking in tongues just then than anyone else! XD In the Bible, speaking in tongues was when the apostles began speaking *actual languages* understandable by *actual people*, just not known to the people speaking them. It's an insultingly easy "miracle" to fake, however, when an entire congregation has been brought up to believe that any old gibberish is a "Heavenly language"...
mrchuckmorris we aren’t even able to speak in tongues. That ability was only given to the apostles during that one circumstance through the Holy Spirit. The purpose was to save many different people. Today if you want proof of the Holy Spirit living in you, it will be in the way you act.
We took our students (who were raised Pentecostal) to a Youth Convention. One of our students bought 2 of her "never been to church" friends. so the "Holy Spirit" service when students started falling out in the Holy Spirit, the 2 girls who didnt know WHAT WAS GOING ON, went into full Paramedic mode & started trying to help & pick up all the students that were falling and screaming "HELP!" Those poor girls didnt speak for the rest of the night no matter how hard we tried to explain to them what just happened.
My wife and I once went forward for prayer at a Pentecostal church. The female pastor told my wife to "start saying hallelujah over and over, and just let the syllables start dropping in". That was how she defined a "prayer language". We were like, "nah, God understands English."
A friend of mine who grew up Baptist visited a Pentecostal church. Afterward she said that during prayer, she heard everyone speaking in English even though they were speaking in tongues. She is in her 30's and had absolutely no idea that she had the gift of interpreting the Spirit! She was totally freaked out lol.
Mary M, you and your friend are both LIARS and I'm challenging the both of you to provide evidence. Oh sorry, I forgot you never have any. Your "god" is the Khundaluni spirit that all pagan cults are infused with. Your "god" is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, your "god" has lost long ago and now only resorts to deception. Fake, you're all fake.
A friend of mine once went to a charismatic church. They tried to pray for an infilling of the Holy Spirit by legit pushing people over. When they came to him, they tried doing the same thing but he refused to be pushed over, coz that's just weird and unbiblical. So he just stood there awkwardly and eventually they moved on to the next person
Lol Same thing happened to me! xD That"faith healer" tried as hard as he could to push me backwards, after pounding on my lower back, while I was stooped over (so it could supposedly be healed). He was so angry because EVERYONE else in the line on each side of me fell backwards! You should've seen his eyes! He was literally GLARING at me because three times he tried to force me backwards & I did not fall! ;-) Finally, he just became frustrated & angrily moved on to the next person! What nonsense! Smh... The only reason I was there was to accompany my best friend, who was desperate to be healed from stage 4 ovarian cancer & she was told that this guy was awesome & she could be healed. Did she fall backwards? Yup! Was she healed after he laid hands on her, supposedly prayed over her & pushed her backwards? NOPE! She got worse & worse & passed away about a year after that. Smh again & again...
Wow! This is so honest! I appreciate this because nobody talks about the error they experienced! But I am so thankful you really do get the person of the Holy Spirit. As a covert in my early 20s. I immediately know something was wrong.
When I was really little I heard people speaking gibberish in church and was told that was the heavenly language called speaking in tongues and thought, I could do that...so I started jibber jabbering and was thinking about all the sounds I knew in the alphabet. The Lord spoke to me and said, "Hannah, whatcha doin'? " well, of course I said, speaking in tongues. He said, "whatcha thinkin' 'bout?" That's when I understood it was a heart thing not a sound thing.
Meaning it’s fake, there’s no reason for you to speak jibberish it’s all made up cult bs at this point I’m trolling but it’s just seeing it from the outside looking in looks bad when people feed into this.
I’ve been really down and searching truth in so much of the craziness in the world and in so many churches. Coming across your video... I’m still smiling. You made me laugh hard! Much needed! I’m 61 yrs old and you made me feel like a kid again!!! Thank you ❤️🙏😂😘😊
I went to a church that asked who hasn't spoken in tongues. It was me and one other kid. They said for us to go up. I didn't. The kid did. All these youth were surrounding him, speaking in tongues. Someone gestured for me to go up. I shook my head. I was like, "what in the (literal) Hell is this?" Another was, I was a teen and I went to this Pentecostal church. They pushed everyone to go down. Got to me and I didn't. People moved in and two people stood by me. Since I wouldn't go down, they stated praying demons out of me.🤦 My boyfriend, at the time, asked why I didn't just go down. I said, it's fake. I wasn't playing that game. All I wanted was prayer, not to be laid out on the floor.
I don't have a crazy story to tell but I loved your story!!! It helps me understand how my kids may see the things happening around them in church! Hilarious 🤣
OMG this is too funny. I also grew up in a Pentecostal church and they made us kids do the same thing, but needless to say, I actually received the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues for real now as an adult.
BS. You're making it up, just like everyone else since after the Apostalic times, when tongues were actually used for jump-starting the spread of the Gospel. You're only lying to yourself by lying to the internet, because the internet doesn't care and won't hold you accountable. Only you and God know what you're actually doing. Just let go of your need to prove you have the Holy Spirit by jabbering on in front of other people, as if you somehow need to prove to man in person what can be proven to God in silence. God won't think any less of you for admitting you don't speak in tongues... it's such a tiny, insignificant part of our walk with Christ that if it truly *does* matter too much to you to let it go, then perhaps it's become your idol. Let it go...
I grew up in Pentecostal Apostolic mexican spanish speaking and bilingual english too but i first got saved in UPC I GOT baptized in JESUS NAME then after truly repenting like 3 months latter i got filled with the holy spirit wow i spoke in tongues it was amazing it sounded like a foreign language it gussed out of my belly i felt like i was on fire of love for God Jesus my lord the speaking in tongues is real its a powerful gift if live for God get filled with the holy ghost obey ACTS. 2:38
@@mrchuckmorris being filled with the Holy Spirit is very real... something I recieved from God and I've seen growing up my whole life in a Pentecostal church. I'm surprised you're being rude here, this is supposed to be a safe Christian space.... please keep your negative opinions to yourself. Thank you and have a good rest of your day.
I love speaking in tongues and falling in The Spirit etc. But I really don't like it when people physically push without anointing and what happened to you here doesn't sound healthy at all. God bless you bro! :) I try to remember to speak in tongues every day because it's so powerful! 😃
I faked speaking in tongues when I was a kid but really somebody just told me sounds to say and that's all I was doing. I never really did it for real until last year. Prior to that I was always ashamed that I couldn't though it was inside of me, I just needed to submit to the Holy Spirit and get out of my head
@@jazzye_92 NO it is not! If you knew what speaking in the cloven tongues is!?... you would know that NOBODY speaks with cloven tongue now, and since Jesus' deciples!
@@czhappy3195 never heard of "cloven" tongues as that term isn't in the Bible but you're welcome to elaborate on what that means. I personally never said I spoke "cloven" tongues
oh my gosh, *shama* this was -hilarious-! i am showing this to my _youth_ _group_ tonight! I will comeback with the result after I show it to them. and by the way I don't a significant speaking in tongue story but I too have -faked- it for *not* pizza but for a _girl_ and _pizza_. I'm laughing so hard right now.
@@suekennedy8917 The Bible calls 'divers tongues' a gift of the Spirit in I Corinthians 12. In Acts 2, the apostles spoke in tongues. In Acts 10, Gentile Christians spoke in tongues. Other new Christians spoke in tongues in Acts 19. Remember Jesus warned those who attributed his casting out demons to the power of Beelzebub about committing the unpardonable sin. Be careful with your accusations.
@@SaudaraLink What is your 4 year degree in and university your graduated from. Tongues in not admissible for a judicial proceeding or on a police report. Tongues...LOL!!!!
CRAZY HOLY SPIRIT STORY so i was at this summer canp with my friend. Im just baptist, but this camp is a holiness church. And if youve ever heard those people pray, or preach... MAN THEY GET LOUD. So there was a prayer time and alter call. At my baptist church everyone prays quietly to themselves, but at that holiness camp..... if your prayer wasnt out loud then you weren’t praying. So i can barely hear myself think. Anyway, people started goin up to the alters and it seemed like EYERYONE in the camp went up. Well they prayed over many of the people individually. So we were already waaaay past the time it was supposed to be over. Anyway, after a majority of the people were finished praying, they started saying testimonies. Well, long story short, we were up till 12:30 because of that. The sermon started at like 9:00 to give ya some idea of the time. But i gotta give it to them. Everyone (including me) was so filled with the holy spirit we didnt even mind. This story was no where near as crazy as shamma’s, but i thought I would share 😉
A few months ago I was at a prayer meeting at church and the leaders of the meeting asked for those who wanted the gift if speaking in tongues to come up to be prayed for. I was told to move my mouth and make sounds and it would happen and develop with practice. This sounded off, but I put my trust in the process and started to form words. It was me forming the words...the prayer leader encouraged me to continue and I explained that I didn't think it was the Holy Spirit and was met with a blank response. Several weeks later I was alone in my room praying for the gift, much like I was instructed at the prayer meeting however this time all I did was begin by making sounds like "ba-ba, da-da" and within a few moments the Holy Spirit came upon me and took over and I was speaking in a tongue unbeknownst to me. It came so quickly and I almost felt as though I couldn't keep up with the fast pace the words were rushing out of my mouth. There was no doubt in my mind that this was the Holy Spirit. I haven't been able to reproduce this experience. However, the other night again I was following a prayer and even before I could open my mouth to make a sound the Holy Spirit took over and words came from my mouth that I have never heard. I was shocked and doubt crept in and I stopped. I believe that these were the only 2 times I have spoken in tongues but I can't even say that it was I speaking in tongues because it wasn't me but the Holy Spirit. I don't know that this is the same experience as other folks but it was amazing and I pray and trust God will develop (or not) this gift in me for His glory.
@@JasmineJeane no those were the only times. I stopped being so obsessed about it and no longer feel like I have to in order to be the right kind of Christian or something. If He leads me to again then of course I will trust Him.
I was at summer camp once, and we had our Holy Spirit night and I was being prayed over for speaking in tongues. I took Italian in high school, and of course I like to whip that out especially in church (Quello Che Dio Dice Di Me is a great song). So I was praying and being prayed over when I said "Grazie Dio" which translates to "Thank you God", but the person praying over me thought I recieved it and moved on. I didn't intend to sound like I spoke in tongues, but I forgot being multilingual is apparently a thing. Also, I do have a prayer language now that isn't Italian lol
I’m apostolic Pentecostal so I believe in getting the Holy Ghost but I can’t stand how some people try to force it. There was no one in the upper room pushing the disciples head back yelling in their ear. I’m fine with people praying with you And a little encouragement but people take it too far. They act like that’s the only way you can get it. I was 9 when I first got the Holy Ghost. No preacher was praying with me. We were in church and it was me, God, and my momma standing beside me with her hand on my back praying with me.
This dialogue is what we need to push the Pentecostal movement forward! 😂 we can hold on to who we are while still calling out some of the craziness… love this 🧡
Oh my gosh. This video is spot on. Im 39. Your new subscriber. I came here because I heard your video VeggieTales on K-Love radio station. So I came here to see that video then I said you know what let me see what this guy is all about let me go and see what he has on his page and so I came across this video and clicked it and oh my gosh I am blessed for seeing it. You're so honest. I will share with my son. He's 15. He needs a positive role model and I sense that in you. Im a little up tight like your dad because of the upbringing I had in Jamaica. My dad was like your dad when when it came to ensuring that we went to church but you know what the funny thing is he never went. My mom goes religiously so to win her love I went faithfully. Excelling is Family Training Hour where they quizzed us on what we studied in the Bible. Now at the age of 39n and being a recovering addict I now know that was nothing but ego (Easing God Out). So I don't want to be too strict on my children especially my son.Thanks for letting me share.👋🙏😎
I have been a die hard Southern Baptist Christian for about 30 years. About a year and a half ago I started speaking the Holy Language while praying. There are many Baptists that have this gift but they don't tell anyone because it is taboo in the Baptist church. I also am a member of a non-denom church that encourages the Holy Language for a person's prayer life. It is not practiced in a group setting because that is not biblical. The pastor grew up Baptist as well. I used to not believe in it until it happened to me and it really has taken me to a whole new level in my walk with God. Our pastor explains it like this. When we get saved we get completely filled with the Spirit. He illustrates it like this, you are a bottle filled with water. Baptism of the Spirit with tongues is like throwing the bottle into a swimming pool so that you are not only filled to the top on the inside but you are completely submerged on the outside as well. I love my prayer language. I don't like to call it speaking in tongues because that has such a negative connotation. I prefer to call it my prayer language.
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Let me ask you... Why did you have to type that? Would the Holy Spirit not have heard you if you just said a prayer in your mind? Why the need to display your piety for others to see? You've gotten 10 "thumbs up" already... is it enough? The entire Pentecostal/Nazarene/Holiness cult idea revolves around the idolization of the ego... being *seen* as holy and pious by others, for all the earthly rewards of self-love and pride... like the Pharisee proclaiming to God loudly that he is not like the lowly tax collector, or the one dropping his many coins loudly into the offering box in front of many worshippers while the widow quietly places her two pennies. Jesus had a lot to say about such people, and called them many things... snakes... hypocrites... whitewashed tombs. Bright and glorious in appearance on the outside, but rotten and dead on the inside. Just read the book. Your relationship with God is about repentance and obedience, not faking holiness for the approval of others.
mrchuckmorris dude I am not Pentecostal myself, but every Pentecostal I’ve befriended is the exact opposite of what you say they are. They aren’t self righteous, they aren’t hypocrites, and I can truly see Jesus in them. And dude, don’t assume that other people are talking about stuff for likes. I can understand why you would think that, but you can’t really know.
I suffer from the exact same problem everyday. I feel guilty when I do simple things because I picture God to be some angry person. But I know deep down that God is all loving and he doesn’t want to hear my dumb apology that’s driven by false guilt. I can’t say for sure because I haven’t got there yet, but the further you walk in your christian journey the closer you get to understanding who God is and our relationship with him. It’s a father and son relationship, we laugh, he laughs with us, we sin, we wants nothing more then to forgive us. And what the other guy said about being self righteous, you are being honest not self righteous. All of us need help and the more honest you are, the more help you will get.
@@mrchuckmorris , i not even saw your replay until now. I am not in a denomination and i haven't written for ,,likes". I just write depends of the case, what i know, what I feel, informations or insights....and so forth. If you are bitter about something, it's not my fault. Be blessed
I had a very similar experience except I was a teenager. We were told that if we were believers, true believers we could speak tongues, absolutely! So I wanted to learn how to speak tongues. They promised that we would be able to and they were several men who would help us. so after the room was nearly cleared out I decided to fake a few syllables just to get out of there! You guessed it my "teacher's" were ecstatic and welcomed me into the family.
It’s not really a funny story, but it’s a cool one. So this summer my youth group went to a camp in Glorietta and the very first night there was a power outage at worship. It was right in the middle of a really good worship song so everyone was kinda confused and bummed. There was a thunder storm outside, so that’s what caused it partly. The leader of the band that was playing, Brett Land, stopped everyone and got it completely silent and we started singing without any music and a single spotlight, How Great Thou Art. We got to the part that says “I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder...” and the thunder was so loud, it could be heard inside. Brett just kept saying “God is so amazing.” Everyone could feel the Holy Spirit. It wasn’t Satan that caused the power outage to stop us from praising God. It was the Holy Spirit because God wanted the hearts of His people without all the sounds and lights. It was awesome.
See, as a member of the Church of Christ, all of our singing is a capella, because we believe that's what the bible teaches about worship, and at a summer camp I go to, we have had our fair share of Storm Singings
Only God can give you that gift man or women can not teach you the power of tongues it's says so in the bible. Tongues is for the none-believer who do not know or love god, not for just blabbing words and thinking I'm talking to God in my heavenly language and that's called blasphemy! I don't play with the power of God like that!
A blessed day to everyone. I grow up in an apostolic church, and they use to do the same things to me. It was a torching event. Now, the holy spirit will lead you in to all thing. Firstly i want to address the word "TONGUES" which means langanges. God is not the author of confusion so therefore if he wants to send his people a message he will no give it in a tongue the people would not be able understand. I belive in the evidence of the holy spirit.
The Holy spirit indwelling in us when we believe that Jesus is our savior and died for us. It's that simple. We should act like it in our daily life and avoid sin. So easy. Bless us all. The speaking in tongues is a grand misunderstanding for those who don't understand the root of the word that means language in Latin and Greek.
I lived in the dorm for 4 years when I was in college. The cafeteria was closed on Sunday evenings so we were on our own to find something to eat. Some.of my buddies and I noticed a church in town that was offering a free meal every Sunday evening, all we had to do was come to the church service. I had never been in a Pentecostal church before, I figured it would be some.organ music and a short sermon. Those people were rockin and rollin right from the start! The preacher was making this weird growl/hiss at the end of every sentence, "AND THE LORT SAID COME UNTO ME, HAAAAAA!!! Then he got wild and came down the aisle while someone in the back was writhing around on the floor. I remember my mom talking about Holy Rollers and now I could see it in action. We had some nondescript food later and I figured that I could hit the the burger joint on Sunday evenings with much less drama.
I went to a church that said you go to hell if you don’t speak in tongues bc it meant you were not truly saved. I would pray to receive and go up like you said, and nothing happened. Or I would try to speak in tongues and it was just mimicking. Makes me despise it all now. So sad and manipulative. I hate that. Pentecostal churches are awful in my opinion and I speak from years of experience with Benny Hinn services attended as well. I am SO thankful that God allowed me to find my non denominational, biblical church. It’s changed my life. No more weird distractions, flags, dancers for attention, people praying false prophecies over me, spying on spirit, financial manipulation with zero practical biblical teaching. Obsessed with healing and prophecies and tongues. So awful. My mom is still in that and always blames her “lack of faith” bc she isn’t healed. I hate it terribly. It infuriates me. I have a lot of wounds from those people. I want God to heal me of that.
When I received the Holy Ghost I started crying and I felt this wind zip around me and BAM I hit the Floor no one pushed me didnt even lay hands and I am an over weight guy so I hit the floor and I hear my daughter who was like 5 years old at the time say Look Bubba Daddy's Belly just Jiggled lol
Receiving the Holy Ghost feels like your heart breathes in pure love.. There is no mistaking it.. You won't say I think I have the Holy Ghost.. Don't know about hitting the ground though.. Careful, you might hurt yourself..
When I recieved it, nothing happened, I just started acting differently. And it was a slow process, not a BAM. Rather then looking for a big experience to be saved by, look for God himself. Receiving the Holy Spirit is only a side affect of having a relationship with God. If you have a relationship with him, the Holy Spirit is a proof of it. The marking God places on you to say you are one of his own. :)
I am DYING. 😂😂 I grew up in a 'religious Community' ( that was really a cult for rich white ppl) this was so me😂 my first time seeing someone praying in toungues or being slayed in the spirit was really traumatizing, so I refused to give in. I totally faked it for YEARS. Glad I'm not the only one. #ibottahondabutshouldsboughtakia
I love my Church. We moved to a rural area with husband's job. 9 years later, I finally found a church I love. They ALL can speak in tongues. I will not fake it because it IS blasphemy! I'd rather people see me as not touched by God instead of Faking it. Thank you for this.
I agree. The pressure is real. When I went to a hispanic pentecostal church in Puerto Rico the preacher was touching everyone forehead and everyone was falling and when it was my turn I did fall just because of what was expected of me and not because I truly felt the holy spirit.
church folk put these power moves not just on kids but other adults too. a friend of mine actually said the words HONDA ACCORD three times rapidly repeatedly to give people pressuring him the illusion that he'd gotten it. I'm thankful to have re iecieved it without any pressure from anyone
Joshua Etheredge also if God chooses to give it to them during prayer then yes you can, who are we to try and control what God does and when. Not saying you are because I agree it’s a progressive thing but none of us know all the time what it is that God wants to do so He might do that if it is His will. And ONLY if it is HIS will. Not anybody else’s.
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@@stephaniecrews8011 First of all, Cut those caps. Secondly, speaking in tongues is a GIFT therefore not anyone can receive the true speaking in tongues.
I attended a Pentecostal church once, and a similar scenario ensued:. Major pressure for everyone to speak in tongues. This is not biblical and since I was already a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit (and did not feel prompted by the pressure to speak in tongues) I simply stood there praying in English, my native language. This did not go unnoticed, and soon I was surrounded by people laying hands on me and pretty much demanding I speak in tongues. I was annoyed at the unbiblical behaviour, but kept quiet until one lady told me to look upwards - she was prescribing how I should pray, as though there was a formula I must follow to receive the gift of tongues. I had in fact been enjoying a time of prayer, with my head down, and I thought to myself how awful & off-putting this experience would be for a non-believer. So I shrugged the people off, telling them i was already filled by the Spirit and please to leave me alone. To anyone confused about speaking in tongues, who has been told it is an essential part of being filled with the Holy Spirit, I encourage you to read the book of Acts and see for yourselves that this doctrine is false. I'm not saying speaking in tongues is always wrong, I'm saying it's not always right.
This was funny as hell. Don't feel bad, everyone fakes speaking in tongues. It's not real. It's something people learn from others. The bible does not back up this practice. I invite to check for yourself. Speaking in tongues in the bible means speaking other languages, not speaking nonsense. Beware my brother.
Yes, it is. But you are correct in a way. There are two types of speaking in tongues: glossolalia and zenoglossy. Glossolalia is found in 1 Corinth. 14, and this is the speaking in tongues via a prayer language. There is also the speaking in tongues where people understand you when you don't try, and that is called Zenoglossi. That is found in Acts 2 when Pentecost happened. It can get very confusing for sure.
I grew up in a United Methodist church where my grandfather was a pastor of 50 years. Never once heard someone speak in tongues. My grandfather told me he may have spoke in tongues once in his life, alone during prayer.
Big Smokes it’s a gift. Not everyone will receive this gift from God, I didn’t think I would because it took years. Even so, God has a perfect plan for you, so don’t be disappointed. Keep pursuing, but don’t make the same mistake I did, I kind of just wanted it because it was cool beforehand not because it would help bring others to God, advance my prayer life or add to my relationship with God!!
Chris Jackson well God is the Trinity: father, son and Holy Spirit. It is mentioned a lot in acts, when Paul and the entire room had flames over their heads and began speaking in tongues! Pretty crazy but incredible. Idk that exact verse off by heart tho sorry! I’ll find it & update the comment when I do
I had to take it once. We were visiting a church in DC and my parents were highly respected ministers in that circle of churches. Of course 12 year old me had to prove that I had the evidence and was well scripted in speaking in tongues. I got one sentence out that kinda sounded cool and kept rolling with that. From that day forward, I haven’t forgotten the word that rolled off of my tongue. Besides that time, my parents have never heard me say those words again and I’ve never had to prove myself in front of the church again I won!!!
I remember feeling the pressure to speak in tongues when I was a kid! I don’t have that much of a crazy story, more like just a few memories here and there. Once I was in a prayer circle with my family and they were all speaking in tongues. I think they were all adults and I was the youngest. No one asked me or demanded that I spoke in tongues but I didn’t want to feel left out so I faked it. I was maybe 5-7. There was another time where someone asked the youth if they wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues and I didn’t get up to get prayed for. I remember regretting it because the few kids who did get up did start speaking in tongues (though looking back I hope it was real!). The gift of speaking in tongues had been such a mysterious thing to me for a long time, which at first scared me, then later excited me. I was curious and as a teen, I wanted to know more. So I sought Him out, went to altar calls at church camp and the like, and the response I got was “the Holy Spirit is already working in you. Just keep going.” No tongues! Looking back I think that was a crucial time for me, as it showed me that I didn’t need to speak in tongues to have the Holy Spirit living within me. Eventually my curiosity and yearning for the gift of tongues dwindled. I figured if God wanted me to have the gift He would give it to me, I didn’t need to feel a pressure to have it. Low and behold, in college I’m in a small group meeting and the small group leader asks if anyone wants to stay behind and be baptized in the Holy Spirit. I figured she was referring to the gift of tongues. I was skeptical, but stayed back anyway because I was genuinely curious and figured there was nothing to lose. The small group leader put on music and told us to just pray. If we didn’t know what to pray, we could just give thanks to God for everything He’s done in our lives. I did. I prayed in Spanish. “Gracias, Gracias, Gracias…” that’s when I felt this warmth within my body and in my hands, and they started buzzing. I began uncontrollably speaking what to me sounded like gibberish, but I couldn’t stop even if I tried! I would say “Gra…” and the Holy Spirit would take over and tongues just came flowing out! It’s been over a year since then, and now I speak in tongues as part of my prayer almost every day. It is not something that can be forced, nor do I believe it’s a gift God has for everyone. If it is for you, He will give it to you according to His perfect timing :)
my youth group 5 years ago went to a giant conference in Tennessee where we were surrounded by about 5,000 other teenagers. I was asked by my friend to go down to the center to pray, where my girlfriend was also praying. My girlfriend started speaking in tongues, and so did my friend. then they both started praying for me to speak in tongues, and i panicked, so I faked speaking in tongues. thankfully, it was super loud with the thousands of kids in there, so it was hard to hear. they were so happy for me though. I felt terrible! But I guess it worked out, because her and I are getting married in 3 weeks, and we both run the student ministry at our church! hahahaha.
You can definitely be a actor or standup comedian, you are very natural, your family and church will be very proud of you. It doesn't matter if you are unable to speak in tongue.
BewareTheCarpenter You are so right, I hate the thought that their are people like that out there wearing Christ’s name and doing stuff like this man. (I don’t hate THEM, I hate what they’re doing in Christ’s name.) God does say that there are people like that out there though. Matthew 15:8-9 “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.”
I fell out in the spirit one time during church and everyone who was putting their hands on me to pray for me touches burned (my mom claimed it was because all of them had committed some form of sin like a couple of them had cheated on their spouses so yeah)
That shit is the biggest BULLSHIT....1st off no praying should have you rolling in the ground with your eyes in the back of your god damn head and second its bullshit
Hey Cesar, I used to believe like that too. Now I know that God was talking to the Jews about blasphemy being unforgiveable. We are now in the dispensation of grace. The Bible says Jesus gave Paul the mystery gospel which is 1 corinthians 1-4. There is no unforgiveable sin. ALL our sins were forgiven at the cross. Our only part is believing in the finished cross work. Doing works proves that we don't have faith that what Jesus did on the cross for us was enough.
That's what's up. Super dope video Shama. I was like 12 and this lady was like you need the holy spirit, so as she told me to put my hands out. I did and she was praying "Receive it" and I was trying but it won't working so then I was just speaking quietly and confused like "I am talking, I ain't suppose to be talking" and it was so quiet that she taught it was tongues and was like "yes come on" and in my head I was like "what are you talking about I'm just talking, I don't think tongues is just talking" end of the story she thought I had tongues and told my parents and they was happy but I was like "hehehe yeah I guess"
For me, when I read the bible I separate the 3 times when christians miraculously spoke in different languages in Acts which were signs of different groups receiving the Holy Spirit from 1 Corinthians. Acts talks about Jews, then Gentiles, then those who had the baptism of John being filled with the spirit and talking to people in their own languages. Acts I believe talks about the use of everyday languages in a multi-lingual church. Speaking in tongues or languages therefore is the enabling of people to accurately put the word of God across in another language. It takes the work of the Holy Spirit to convey the true meaning of scripture in another language and also takes a good theological foundation of the believer to know how to put certain concepts over in a way that the true meaning is understood. It also takes the work of the Holy Spirit to enable people to translate biblical text into another language. This I believe is the true gift of tongues...and those who have a good biblical foundation should seek to learn other languages in order to accurately speak the word of God when they speak to others in those languages.
When I was in youth group I was crying about not being a great Christian at the front of the church. The pastor and multiple adults were yelling in tongues around me and I kept 'feeling the holy spirit' tryin to over come me. I peeked and it was actually adult hands. I just stopped trying to fight being put on the floor by 'the holy spirit' and they were all so happy when I fell to the ground. I remember just sitting there thinking how none of them know that I in that moment thought they were all crazy. I just laid there and they were all so happy that Jesus had entered me. That was one of the last times I went to church.
I love that you are so free with your speech! My story is I was about 13/14 years old we were at a revival conference at a church in Georgia, they call all the youth up and have parents stand behind them, then a man came speaking in tongues and said “Fire” as he placed his hands on the youth, most of the children fell in the floor, and some were speaking in tongues, I on the other hand was like what is going on, so the man comes to me and says “Fire”(spitting as he says it) nothing happens, so then he puts his hands on my stomach and says burn Holy Spirit, nothing happens, then he puts his hands on my head again and I can feel the pressure of him trying to push me back, I hold my ground, so he says let this one marinate on the Spirit then moved on, A female comes up to me and takes me to a back room in the church and tries to teach me how to speak in tongues, “Repeat after me stuff” after about what seemed like eternity (30/45 mins) of me not doing as she says and questioning her, we come out of that room and I go back to my seat, thinking what a bunch of lunatics, this is not God, so started my journey for truth. I am thankful for the experience so I can tell my story, but the manipulation was crazy.
I had a "Prophetess" tell me publicly I was GOING to speak in tongues to receive my healing. When I asked in a more private whisper, in front of a congregation of 200 or more, "what if the Spirit doesn't lead me to speak in tongues?", her response was to lean in to my ear and say, "Just fake it, they'll never know!" I leaned into her microphone and shouted, "GET BEHIND ME SATAN!" She was never allowed back to our church.
Wow praise God 🔥🔥
So you still believe in it just not from her? It’s like you see how dumb it is but you continue to believe it. So odd.
That is wild!!! The nerve of some people. LOL!!!!
Wow 😮 that's crazy
Yes, the devil can speak in tongues. The devil can enter churches. More than anything, being able to speak in tongues means after we have the gift, we show fruit in our lives. If you want to know if tongues are real, trust in the Holy Spirit and ask Him.
I eventually want to be a psychologist. I plan on doing a research on the pressure to speak in tongues in Pentecostal churches that lead people to feeling guilty for not speaking in tongues.
Yup, it's soooo WICKED! Speaking in tongues has NEVER been part of the Gospel of SALVATION, as WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THROUGH FAITH. Only people, like to twist the Scriptures to make that a NECESSITY for being saved (NOT!), causing much CONFUSION, DOUBT & GUILT, in people! :/ GOD is soooo NOT the author of confusion but we KNOW who is...(the father of LIES) :(
THIS is what the Word/Truth of GOD says about receiving SALVATION & what happens directly AFTER we receive salvation (Scripture below). So, I'd like to know where it says we receive the gift and/or ability to speak in tongues upon receiving salvation or else we have not really been saved ???
Note Ephesians 1:13 does NOT include/mention being able to speak in tongues upon receiving salvation OR the Holy Spirit. We are SEALED by the Holy Spirit as one of GOD'S born again & baptized, in the Spirit of GOD children (via our SPIRITUAL RE-BIRTH/BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST) & sealed until the day of redemption. We are adopted into the family of GOD at that time, as well. The WORD/TRUTH of GOD says NOTHING about receiving or speaking in tongues or as a REQUIREMENT to be able to receive salvation... Smh
Note: Romans 8:16 says this...16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God [saved]: (NOT SPEAKING IN TONGUES). [brackets mine]
Note: 1 John 4:13 says this...13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. (NOT BECAUSE WE CAN SPEAK IN TONGUES)... be not deceived about this, my friends! :/
(1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
KJV
15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
(Romans 10:8-11)
KJV
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
(2 Corinthians 7:10)
KJV
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
(Ephesians 1:12-14)
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12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
(Romans 8:16-17)
KJV
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
How is the research going?
I have been gaslit and verbally attacked by parts of family and their pastor trying to go over what scripture says on it.
I'd love to know if you find that that is actually a causal factor in people leaving the church in general (ie. recouncing faith) , or just in leaving a denomination.
If you speak in tongues and no one understands you, it is better that you keep your silence, for we preach the message of the Holy Spirit, but if no one can understand the message, we preach in vain.
- My Man Paul
Amen brother Paul!
As a Baptist, I TOTALLY, 100%, agree with you!
Yes! Exactly.
what verse?
Speak it man
This is so how it is! Can 110% relate.
Don't drink the Koolaid.
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shouldve bought nissan shouldve bought a Hyundai
But Honda is so much better than Kia!! His ways are higher than our ways🤣
3:37 so funny 🤣🤣🤣
I died😂😂😂
Everybody is faking it; only a few are honest enough to admit it.
Man they shouldn't be so quick to lay hands on you like that. They all up in your business and then they didn't even have enough discernment to know if it was real or not. Yikes lol.
right!! discernment is key.
You are right. 1 Corinthians 14:22 "Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe."
@Forg1ven S1nner Not true: the gifts of the Spirit are still at work today. Just not everyone has the gift of tongues.
@Forg1ven S1nner Scripture says there is no difference now. Because we are all one in Christ Jesus.. The only differences are the local customs of the various parts of the world. All gifts are given by the same Spirit. But not all have the same gifts. Sadly, there are many who put on a form of godliness, but deny the power of God. Now, many will claim to be Christian without ever receiving God. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to God but by Him.. Why? Because He is the one who makes possible for the curse of sin and death to be made void. He is the Spirit of Life, and is the Gateway into the Kingdom of God. Only by the filling of the Holy Ghost, He went to prepare a place for us, and came back again in the substance of the Holy Ghost: that where He is, His people may be also.. It is not that hard to understand, that He gathers His people unto Himself by the filling of the Holy Ghost.. Now, there are many bodies of believers, but only one body of Christ. As scripture says; " In my Father's house, are many mansions." So each body of believers, or church family, is one mansion. God is our Teacher, and our King.
@Forg1ven S1nner Sorry for you: because you are mistaken.. The true Sabbath for those who receive God, begins when we receive Him. Then, we enter into His rest in that we are no longer in bondage to sin, and everyday is our great day of the Lord. The wedding garment is our righteousness, and the feast is now. The man found without the wedding garment is the carnal man. The world is for the man of flesh: that is his portion.. But when he gives God his world: God will give him a portion of His Kingdom.
What I don't understand is people "speaking in tongues" during a worship service and then interpreting what they just said. Why didn't they just say it in English to begin with? Also, if the message was real, why was no one else in the congregation blessed with the gift of interpretation?
Lol, I did the same thing when I was around 11 or 12. I belonged to an apostolic church back then, and we weren't allowed to do anything until we were determined to be saved by speaking in tongues. We couldn't sing in the choir, play the tambourine, lead a song, nothing! I wanted to do all those things and more, but after constant weekly tarrying services and not being able to speak in tongues, I thought I wasn't good enough to be saved and that something was wrong with me. I later faked it, and was shocked how everyone was so happy for me and didn't even realize I was faking. It was at that point that I actually started doubting religion and christianity, but I never gave up on it. However, sometime not too long after that experience, something unexplainable did come over me, and even though it felt beautiful, it scared the heck out of me! It only happened a handful of times after that, and I'm now overgrown, lol. So, I know that speaking in tongues is real, but I don't believe that it happens all the time or as often as christians try to act like it does.
Oh boi. Let me just say... God will come to his children in his time...no one else's. I was touched by God and it was beautiful. It happened when i was alone and in prayer. God bless you all.
LOL. Were did you get your 'god toucher' from? I want to order one too
I love how your dad knew instantly!!
Bro you honor your father with that story I’m so glad for stories like that, your earthly dad obviously is a genuine man. I feel ya on that story though for real, been there, and I was instead the cast out bc I refused to conform... though I’m surrendered to Jesus.
Devin Jump Amazing. You are truly surrendered to Jesus for refusing to conform to faking spiritual gifts. May God show you more of Him and pour into you more to experience more of His glory, power, greatness, and grace. According to His will and purposes of course, may His will be done not mine.
Every time I meet someone who frequently ‘Speaks in tongues’ during routine prayers, or whatever, they turn out to be a narcissist. Every. single. time. I believe that there is such a thing as speaking in tongues that can come from actually being overcome, but that is not what is happening to the majority of people. Period.
Trump speaks in tongues? Well, that cinches why he picked Barrett for the Supreme Court.
Because speaking in tongues isn’t real, it’s just something narcissists do to look cool.
I know some people who are like that, but luckily, not many. Most of people who I know that pray in tongues are humble people
@@SouledOutToChrist lol there a lot of other things out here todo to look cool
@@lastchocoltatedrop492 Tell that to the people speaking in tongues
you deserve so many more subscribers and views than you actually have.
he didn't commit to it. I remember when he was on a UA-cam show, the other UA-camrs got big bec they committed. he unfortunately didn't.
Agreed
@@mike21599 Sir this is a Wendy's, if you're not going to order anything I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
Coen Fontenot 😂👌
It’s a new thing to have subscribers? Like, you’re doing something and you deserve subscribers? Like a dollar bill or smthng?
Oh man this is good! I seriously had almost the EXACT scenario growing up in a Pentecostal church in Detroit. In addition to being a hilarious video, you do a great job validating that one bad experience with a Pentecostal church doesn’t mean the whole thing is no good. Great content brother!
This was awesome! I grew up Catholic and in the Charismatic movement. I was never forced like that to speak in tongues, but those people who laid hands on you were blasfeeming the Spirit, for sure. They only cared about tongues, nothing else, and that's horrible.
Here is a story for you: Please note I'm visually impaired. I was going to a Pentecostal church for a while, and we were at a prayer meeting of sorts. This guy, who calls himself Apostle (name) was praying for everyone, and then of course he prayed over me for my vision to be restored. I had no issue with this because I believe in healing, and was prayed over all of my life. With this dude, I was half expecting him to pray over my eyes, which he did. However, he dug the palms/heals of his hands into my eyes, trying to push me backwards. Now, I was in a chair, so why he did that is beyond me. I was afraid he was going to pop my eyes out, and I have glaucoma as it is.
Not only was he digging his almighty strength into my eyes, but he was also screaming at them to "Open in Jesus' Name!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Big huge "no-no" in my book. Now, I have no problem with people laying hands on my eyes, but for the love of God, is being gentle so difficult? Jesus certainly didn't do what this wacco did. Not only that, but screaming? Come on, dude, no amount of screaming, pushing, or exhorting will heal me. Ugh, I wanted to do the very thing to him to teach him a lesson. So there's my Pentecostal story. Oh, and someone else prayed that the demon of blindness would leave...🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️😲😲
👀🤔🤔😕🤤🤐WOW
Im an old catholic
Jesus took me out of it because it blinds people more
I hopenu left it
Pray for God to lead u to a good assembly caus le there s a lotnof fake ones
Ps 32:8
I know I'm 2 years late to this comment- but man! I'm so sorry this happened. That is traumatising.
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Man your jokes are so good. It sucks you get so little views. You could be a real comedian
MrNatantantan he is a real comedian, don’t worry he will be blessed
Devin Jump amen
I really like your Dad. One time I felt a guest speaker push me- but no. I wasn't going to be pushed by a person. If I was going to fall it
was going to be because of the Holy Spirit, not brute force.
4:30 “does a bear poop in the woods?”
I’m dying over here
Realest brother ever.
I was once forced to speak in tongues once, yo boi straight up spoke spanish Eminem Rap God fast.
Ironically, you were actually closer to speaking in tongues just then than anyone else! XD In the Bible, speaking in tongues was when the apostles began speaking *actual languages* understandable by *actual people*, just not known to the people speaking them. It's an insultingly easy "miracle" to fake, however, when an entire congregation has been brought up to believe that any old gibberish is a "Heavenly language"...
@@mrchuckmorris It is sad cus I am part of one such congregation :(
mrchuckmorris we aren’t even able to speak in tongues. That ability was only given to the apostles during that one circumstance through the Holy Spirit. The purpose was to save many different people. Today if you want proof of the Holy Spirit living in you, it will be in the way you act.
We took our students (who were raised Pentecostal) to a Youth Convention. One of our students bought 2 of her "never been to church" friends. so the "Holy Spirit" service when students started falling out in the Holy Spirit, the 2 girls who didnt know WHAT WAS GOING ON, went into full Paramedic mode & started trying to help & pick up all the students that were falling and screaming "HELP!" Those poor girls didnt speak for the rest of the night no matter how hard we tried to explain to them what just happened.
Oh wow!
The fact that your dad bought you a pizza after faking tongues 🤣🤣🤣 he probably was disappointed by the experience at that church.
Your underrated asfff my guy. Holyyy fam😂😂😂 “I bought a Honda but I should’ve bought a Kia”
2:14. You're right - that is evil. I'm glad you were honest about how you felt that day, about how you felt.
My wife and I once went forward for prayer at a Pentecostal church. The female pastor told my wife to "start saying hallelujah over and over, and just let the syllables start dropping in". That was how she defined a "prayer language". We were like, "nah, God understands English."
A friend of mine who grew up Baptist visited a Pentecostal church. Afterward she said that during prayer, she heard everyone speaking in English even though they were speaking in tongues.
She is in her 30's and had absolutely no idea that she had the gift of interpreting the Spirit! She was totally freaked out lol.
Mary M this literally happened to me
I would love to know her!
Mary M, you and your friend are both LIARS and I'm challenging the both of you to provide evidence. Oh sorry, I forgot you never have any. Your "god" is the Khundaluni spirit that all pagan cults are infused with. Your "god" is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, your "god" has lost long ago and now only resorts to deception. Fake, you're all fake.
Correction, Kundalini spirit, look it up.
Wow!
A friend of mine once went to a charismatic church. They tried to pray for an infilling of the Holy Spirit by legit pushing people over. When they came to him, they tried doing the same thing but he refused to be pushed over, coz that's just weird and unbiblical. So he just stood there awkwardly and eventually they moved on to the next person
Lol Same thing happened to me! xD That"faith healer" tried as hard as he could to push me backwards, after pounding on my lower back, while I was stooped over (so it could supposedly be healed). He was so angry because EVERYONE else in the line on each side of me fell backwards! You should've seen his eyes! He was literally GLARING at me because three times he tried to force me backwards & I did not fall! ;-) Finally, he just became frustrated & angrily moved on to the next person! What nonsense! Smh...
The only reason I was there was to accompany my best friend, who was desperate to be healed from stage 4 ovarian cancer & she was told that this guy was awesome & she could be healed. Did she fall backwards? Yup! Was she healed after he laid hands on her, supposedly prayed over her & pushed her backwards? NOPE! She got worse & worse & passed away about a year after that. Smh again & again...
"I'm here cuz my dad said there was gonna be pizza!" relatable! lol
Wow! This is so honest! I appreciate this because nobody talks about the error they experienced! But I am so thankful you really do get the person of the Holy Spirit. As a covert in my early 20s. I immediately know something was wrong.
When I was really little I heard people speaking gibberish in church and was told that was the heavenly language called speaking in tongues and thought, I could do that...so I started jibber jabbering and was thinking about all the sounds I knew in the alphabet. The Lord spoke to me and said, "Hannah, whatcha doin'? " well, of course I said, speaking in tongues. He said, "whatcha thinkin' 'bout?" That's when I understood it was a heart thing not a sound thing.
Wow God is so loving and so true.
hannah starr fAX!!!
Meaning it’s fake, there’s no reason for you to speak jibberish it’s all made up cult bs at this point I’m trolling but it’s just seeing it from the outside looking in looks bad when people feed into this.
@@ReggieShelton you ain t got no bible
Well said
I’ve been really down and searching truth in so much of the craziness in the world and in so many churches. Coming across your video... I’m still smiling. You made me laugh hard!
Much needed!
I’m 61 yrs old and you made me feel like a kid again!!!
Thank you ❤️🙏😂😘😊
Amen!
I am dying laughing, when I should be asleep right now. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Well Done, young man. 😆
I had a very similar experience at Lakewood church (Houston, TX) when I was a teenager.
😂 wow, every part of this story had me cracking up. I needed that, thank you. Lol
The only ministry ive seen to get people filled with holy spirit without manipulating someone is streetministry seven....authentic
My friend sent me his video and I subscribed, I love his calm and chill approach to people!
Brother, you need to take this on the road, and do some stand-up, because you're a natural! Thanks so much for making me laugh so hard! :)
I went to a church that asked who hasn't spoken in tongues. It was me and one other kid. They said for us to go up. I didn't. The kid did. All these youth were surrounding him, speaking in tongues. Someone gestured for me to go up. I shook my head.
I was like, "what in the (literal) Hell is this?"
Another was, I was a teen and I went to this Pentecostal church. They pushed everyone to go down. Got to me and I didn't. People moved in and two people stood by me. Since I wouldn't go down, they stated praying demons out of me.🤦
My boyfriend, at the time, asked why I didn't just go down. I said, it's fake. I wasn't playing that game.
All I wanted was prayer, not to be laid out on the floor.
I don't have a crazy story to tell but I loved your story!!! It helps me understand how my kids may see the things happening around them in church! Hilarious 🤣
God is watching..
I Don't speak in tongues and no human being will force me to speak one. they have tried and they failed.
Blasphemy as you call it.
He said “ain’t nobody got time for that”😂😂😂😂
Man your comedy lands so well! Loved watching this, you’re quite talented at editing as well
OMG this is too funny. I also grew up in a Pentecostal church and they made us kids do the same thing, but needless to say, I actually received the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues for real now as an adult.
BS. You're making it up, just like everyone else since after the Apostalic times, when tongues were actually used for jump-starting the spread of the Gospel. You're only lying to yourself by lying to the internet, because the internet doesn't care and won't hold you accountable. Only you and God know what you're actually doing. Just let go of your need to prove you have the Holy Spirit by jabbering on in front of other people, as if you somehow need to prove to man in person what can be proven to God in silence. God won't think any less of you for admitting you don't speak in tongues... it's such a tiny, insignificant part of our walk with Christ that if it truly *does* matter too much to you to let it go, then perhaps it's become your idol. Let it go...
Does your OMG mean goodness or the slang
@@Coopdesoop probably oh my goodness that's what i use it for
I grew up in Pentecostal Apostolic mexican spanish speaking and bilingual english too but i first got saved in UPC I GOT baptized in JESUS NAME then after truly repenting like 3 months latter i got filled with the holy spirit wow i spoke in tongues it was amazing it sounded like a foreign language it gussed out of my belly i felt like i was on fire of love for God Jesus my lord the speaking in tongues is real its a powerful gift if live for God get filled with the holy ghost obey ACTS. 2:38
@@mrchuckmorris being filled with the Holy Spirit is very real... something I recieved from God and I've seen growing up my whole life in a Pentecostal church. I'm surprised you're being rude here, this is supposed to be a safe Christian space.... please keep your negative opinions to yourself. Thank you and have a good rest of your day.
I love speaking in tongues and falling in The Spirit etc. But I really don't like it when people physically push without anointing and what happened to you here doesn't sound healthy at all.
God bless you bro! :)
I try to remember to speak in tongues every day because it's so powerful! 😃
I faked speaking in tongues when I was a kid but really somebody just told me sounds to say and that's all I was doing. I never really did it for real until last year. Prior to that I was always ashamed that I couldn't though it was inside of me, I just needed to submit to the Holy Spirit and get out of my head
me too i faked after hearing from my church.I seek forgiveness from the lord and holy spirit for faking unknown tongue.
Tongues aren’t a gift that’s given anymore. Sorry to say you just felt emotional and just blurted I hurt gibberish lol
@@sizzle846 being filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues is as available a gift as salvation is.
@@jazzye_92 NO it is not! If you knew what speaking in the cloven tongues is!?... you would know that NOBODY speaks with cloven tongue now, and since Jesus' deciples!
@@czhappy3195 never heard of "cloven" tongues as that term isn't in the Bible but you're welcome to elaborate on what that means. I personally never said I spoke "cloven" tongues
oh my gosh, *shama* this was -hilarious-! i am showing this to my
_youth_ _group_ tonight! I will comeback with the result after I show it to them. and by the way I don't a significant speaking in tongue story but I too have -faked- it for *not* pizza but for a _girl_ and _pizza_. I'm laughing so hard right now.
We need to use a lot of reverence when we talk about the Holy Spirit.
Amen
Tongues is blasphemy from satan himself. Mombo bobbo hohoho.
@@suekennedy8917 The Bible calls 'divers tongues' a gift of the Spirit in I Corinthians 12. In Acts 2, the apostles spoke in tongues. In Acts 10, Gentile Christians spoke in tongues. Other new Christians spoke in tongues in Acts 19.
Remember Jesus warned those who attributed his casting out demons to the power of Beelzebub about committing the unpardonable sin. Be careful with your accusations.
Why? Do you feel 'he' doesn't have a sense of humor?
@@SaudaraLink What is your 4 year degree in and university your graduated from. Tongues in not admissible for a judicial proceeding or on a police report. Tongues...LOL!!!!
CRAZY HOLY SPIRIT STORY
so i was at this summer canp with my friend. Im just baptist, but this camp is a holiness church. And if youve ever heard those people pray, or preach... MAN THEY GET LOUD. So there was a prayer time and alter call. At my baptist church everyone prays quietly to themselves, but at that holiness camp..... if your prayer wasnt out loud then you weren’t praying. So i can barely hear myself think. Anyway, people started goin up to the alters and it seemed like EYERYONE in the camp went up. Well they prayed over many of the people individually. So we were already waaaay past the time it was supposed to be over. Anyway, after a majority of the people were finished praying, they started saying testimonies. Well, long story short, we were up till 12:30 because of that. The sermon started at like 9:00 to give ya some idea of the time. But i gotta give it to them. Everyone (including me) was so filled with the holy spirit we didnt even mind. This story was no where near as crazy as shamma’s, but i thought I would share 😉
Fear and emotions are powerful tools in the wrong hands.
A few months ago I was at a prayer meeting at church and the leaders of the meeting asked for those who wanted the gift if speaking in tongues to come up to be prayed for. I was told to move my mouth and make sounds and it would happen and develop with practice. This sounded off, but I put my trust in the process and started to form words. It was me forming the words...the prayer leader encouraged me to continue and I explained that I didn't think it was the Holy Spirit and was met with a blank response.
Several weeks later I was alone in my room praying for the gift, much like I was instructed at the prayer meeting however this time all I did was begin by making sounds like "ba-ba, da-da" and within a few moments the Holy Spirit came upon me and took over and I was speaking in a tongue unbeknownst to me. It came so quickly and I almost felt as though I couldn't keep up with the fast pace the words were rushing out of my mouth. There was no doubt in my mind that this was the Holy Spirit. I haven't been able to reproduce this experience. However, the other night again I was following a prayer and even before I could open my mouth to make a sound the Holy Spirit took over and words came from my mouth that I have never heard. I was shocked and doubt crept in and I stopped. I believe that these were the only 2 times I have spoken in tongues but I can't even say that it was I speaking in tongues because it wasn't me but the Holy Spirit. I don't know that this is the same experience as other folks but it was amazing and I pray and trust God will develop (or not) this gift in me for His glory.
Do you speak in tounges regularly now?
Same friend. I think that it’s real. People try to diss it- because it’s really weird- but I know it was Him.
@@JasmineJeane no those were the only times. I stopped being so obsessed about it and no longer feel like I have to in order to be the right kind of Christian or something. If He leads me to again then of course I will trust Him.
You are HILARIOUS lol!! You're a natural story teller/comedian, well said sir!! God bless :)
I was at summer camp once, and we had our Holy Spirit night and I was being prayed over for speaking in tongues. I took Italian in high school, and of course I like to whip that out especially in church (Quello Che Dio Dice Di Me is a great song). So I was praying and being prayed over when I said "Grazie Dio" which translates to "Thank you God", but the person praying over me thought I recieved it and moved on.
I didn't intend to sound like I spoke in tongues, but I forgot being multilingual is apparently a thing. Also, I do have a prayer language now that isn't Italian lol
I’m apostolic Pentecostal so I believe in getting the Holy Ghost but I can’t stand how some people try to force it. There was no one in the upper room pushing the disciples head back yelling in their ear. I’m fine with people praying with you
And a little encouragement but people take it too far. They act like that’s the only way you can get it. I was 9 when I first got the Holy Ghost. No preacher was praying with me. We were in church and it was me, God, and my momma standing beside me with her hand on my back praying with me.
This dialogue is what we need to push the Pentecostal movement forward! 😂 we can hold on to who we are while still calling out some of the craziness… love this 🧡
Oh my gosh. This video is spot on. Im 39. Your new subscriber. I came here because I heard your video VeggieTales on K-Love radio station. So I came here to see that video then I said you know what let me see what this guy is all about let me go and see what he has on his page and so I came across this video and clicked it and oh my gosh I am blessed for seeing it. You're so honest. I will share with my son. He's 15. He needs a positive role model and I sense that in you. Im a little up tight like your dad because of the upbringing I had in Jamaica. My dad was like your dad when when it came to ensuring that we went to church but you know what the funny thing is he never went. My mom goes religiously so to win her love I went faithfully. Excelling is Family Training Hour where they quizzed us on what we studied in the Bible. Now at the age of 39n and being a recovering addict I now know that was nothing but ego (Easing God Out). So I don't want to be too strict on my children especially my son.Thanks for letting me share.👋🙏😎
I love how animated you are. You’re pretty funny.
I have been a die hard Southern Baptist Christian for about 30 years. About a year and a half ago I started speaking the Holy Language while praying. There are many Baptists that have this gift but they don't tell anyone because it is taboo in the Baptist church. I also am a member of a non-denom church that encourages the Holy Language for a person's prayer life. It is not practiced in a group setting because that is not biblical. The pastor grew up Baptist as well. I used to not believe in it until it happened to me and it really has taken me to a whole new level in my walk with God. Our pastor explains it like this. When we get saved we get completely filled with the Spirit. He illustrates it like this, you are a bottle filled with water. Baptism of the Spirit with tongues is like throwing the bottle into a swimming pool so that you are not only filled to the top on the inside but you are completely submerged on the outside as well. I love my prayer language. I don't like to call it speaking in tongues because that has such a negative connotation. I prefer to call it my prayer language.
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God, Holy Spirit, i apologize and i repent for laughing but it was funny! Please forgive me, i don't want to offend you, Holy Spirit!
God has a sense of humor. This is funny stuff!
Let me ask you... Why did you have to type that? Would the Holy Spirit not have heard you if you just said a prayer in your mind? Why the need to display your piety for others to see? You've gotten 10 "thumbs up" already... is it enough?
The entire Pentecostal/Nazarene/Holiness cult idea revolves around the idolization of the ego... being *seen* as holy and pious by others, for all the earthly rewards of self-love and pride... like the Pharisee proclaiming to God loudly that he is not like the lowly tax collector, or the one dropping his many coins loudly into the offering box in front of many worshippers while the widow quietly places her two pennies. Jesus had a lot to say about such people, and called them many things... snakes... hypocrites... whitewashed tombs. Bright and glorious in appearance on the outside, but rotten and dead on the inside.
Just read the book. Your relationship with God is about repentance and obedience, not faking holiness for the approval of others.
mrchuckmorris dude I am not Pentecostal myself, but every Pentecostal I’ve befriended is the exact opposite of what you say they are. They aren’t self righteous, they aren’t hypocrites, and I can truly see Jesus in them. And dude, don’t assume that other people are talking about stuff for likes. I can understand why you would think that, but you can’t really know.
I suffer from the exact same problem everyday. I feel guilty when I do simple things because I picture God to be some angry person. But I know deep down that God is all loving and he doesn’t want to hear my dumb apology that’s driven by false guilt. I can’t say for sure because I haven’t got there yet, but the further you walk in your christian journey the closer you get to understanding who God is and our relationship with him. It’s a father and son relationship, we laugh, he laughs with us, we sin, we wants nothing more then to forgive us. And what the other guy said about being self righteous, you are being honest not self righteous. All of us need help and the more honest you are, the more help you will get.
@@mrchuckmorris , i not even saw your replay until now. I am not in a denomination and i haven't written for ,,likes". I just write depends of the case, what i know, what I feel, informations or insights....and so forth. If you are bitter about something, it's not my fault.
Be blessed
I had a very similar experience except I was a teenager. We were told that if we were believers, true believers we could speak tongues, absolutely! So I wanted to learn how to speak tongues. They promised that we would be able to and they were several men who would help us. so after the room was nearly cleared out I decided to fake a few syllables just to get out of there!
You guessed it my "teacher's" were ecstatic and welcomed me into the family.
It’s not really a funny story, but it’s a cool one.
So this summer my youth group went to a camp in Glorietta and the very first night there was a power outage at worship. It was right in the middle of a really good worship song so everyone was kinda confused and bummed. There was a thunder storm outside, so that’s what caused it partly. The leader of the band that was playing, Brett Land, stopped everyone and got it completely silent and we started singing without any music and a single spotlight, How Great Thou Art. We got to the part that says “I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder...” and the thunder was so loud, it could be heard inside. Brett just kept saying “God is so amazing.” Everyone could feel the Holy Spirit.
It wasn’t Satan that caused the power outage to stop us from praising God. It was the Holy Spirit because God wanted the hearts of His people without all the sounds and lights. It was awesome.
Amen👏👏
This is so awesome, these experiences are the ones you never forget
Wow glory to God
Legit the same thing happens at Camp Chetek, Chetek Wi. This summer.
See, as a member of the Church of Christ, all of our singing is a capella, because we believe that's what the bible teaches about worship, and at a summer camp I go to, we have had our fair share of Storm Singings
I've watched this over and over. SO funny. SO well told!! And oh my goodness, the questions it raises..
Only God can give you that gift man or women can not teach you the power of tongues it's says so in the bible. Tongues is for the none-believer who do not know or love god, not for just blabbing words and thinking I'm talking to God in my heavenly language and that's called blasphemy! I don't play with the power of God like that!
mil-town 414. if someone teaches u its satanic tongues or divination only God can teach so in your case i agree
Yes
Well said!!!!
A blessed day to everyone. I grow up in an apostolic church, and they use to do the same things to me. It was a torching event. Now, the holy spirit will lead you in to all thing. Firstly i want to address the word "TONGUES" which means langanges. God is not the author of confusion so therefore if he wants to send his people a message he will no give it in a tongue the people would not be able understand. I belive in the evidence of the holy spirit.
Yep I never spoke in tongues so I was told I didn’t receive the Holy Ghost
The Holy spirit indwelling in us when we believe that Jesus is our savior and died for us. It's that simple. We should act like it in our daily life and avoid sin. So easy. Bless us all. The speaking in tongues is a grand misunderstanding for those who don't understand the root of the word that means language in Latin and Greek.
I lived in the dorm for 4 years when I was in college. The cafeteria was closed on Sunday evenings so we were on our own to find something to eat. Some.of my buddies and I noticed a church in town that was offering a free meal every Sunday evening, all we had to do was come to the church service.
I had never been in a Pentecostal church before, I figured it would be some.organ music and a short sermon.
Those people were rockin and rollin right from the start! The preacher was making this weird growl/hiss at the end of every sentence, "AND THE LORT SAID COME UNTO ME, HAAAAAA!!! Then he got wild and came down the aisle while someone in the back was writhing around on the floor. I remember my mom talking about Holy Rollers and now I could see it in action.
We had some nondescript food later and I figured that I could hit the the burger joint on Sunday evenings with much less drama.
don't have any holy ghost stories but this was a great story!! :D
I went to a church that said you go to hell if you don’t speak in tongues bc it meant you were not truly saved. I would pray to receive and go up like you said, and nothing happened. Or I would try to speak in tongues and it was just mimicking. Makes me despise it all now. So sad and manipulative. I hate that. Pentecostal churches are awful in my opinion and I speak from years of experience with Benny Hinn services attended as well. I am SO thankful that God allowed me to find my non denominational, biblical church. It’s changed my life. No more weird distractions, flags, dancers for attention, people praying false prophecies over me, spying on spirit, financial manipulation with zero practical biblical teaching. Obsessed with healing and prophecies and tongues. So awful. My mom is still in that and always blames her “lack of faith” bc she isn’t healed. I hate it terribly. It infuriates me. I have a lot of wounds from those people. I want God to heal me of that.
When I received the Holy Ghost I started crying and I felt this wind zip around me and BAM I hit the Floor no one pushed me didnt even lay hands and I am an over weight guy so I hit the floor and I hear my daughter who was like 5 years old at the time say Look Bubba Daddy's Belly just Jiggled lol
The part about your daughter makes this that much enjoyable...Praise God!
Receiving the Holy Ghost feels like your heart breathes in pure love.. There is no mistaking it.. You won't say I think I have the Holy Ghost.. Don't know about hitting the ground though.. Careful, you might hurt yourself..
@@hhholmes714 sorry just now seen this yes it did!
@@nancyflores843 There were people to catch me but the truth is even though I fell I never once got hurt was a great experience
When I recieved it, nothing happened, I just started acting differently. And it was a slow process, not a BAM. Rather then looking for a big experience to be saved by, look for God himself. Receiving the Holy Spirit is only a side affect of having a relationship with God. If you have a relationship with him, the Holy Spirit is a proof of it. The marking God places on you to say you are one of his own. :)
once i prayed for a guys back who had surgery and he got better.
Amen!
the person behind you was like: "I thought he was SCATTIN to the music!"
This is probably the funniest video I’ve ever watched on UA-cam 😂😂😂 this dude is hilarious
I am DYING. 😂😂 I grew up in a 'religious Community' ( that was really a cult for rich white ppl) this was so me😂 my first time seeing someone praying in toungues or being slayed in the spirit was really traumatizing, so I refused to give in. I totally faked it for YEARS. Glad I'm not the only one. #ibottahondabutshouldsboughtakia
I love my Church. We moved to a rural area with husband's job. 9 years later, I finally found a church I love. They ALL can speak in tongues. I will not fake it because it IS blasphemy! I'd rather people see me as not touched by God instead of Faking it. Thank you for this.
How do you know they aren't faking it?
Tongues means LANGUAGE. It's a misunderstanding by those who don't understand.
My aunt pretends to speak in tongues by speaking in Hebrew and then falling when someone walks by her... she fell on me!
WHAT
That's hilarious 😂 "Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech Ha' Olam... Oh my word I'm speaking in tongues!"
I heart her!!!!
Unnnnfortunately I can’t leave a comment or story because this pretty much summed up everything for me. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This made my day!!!!! Can totally relate to this😂😂😂
I agree. The pressure is real. When I went to a hispanic pentecostal church in Puerto Rico the preacher was touching everyone forehead and everyone was falling and when it was my turn I did fall just because of what was expected of me and not because I truly felt the holy spirit.
"Eyes half open like I'm Asian" XD
HAHAHAHAHA I loved your energy. You are good storyteller Man.
Man, I hate disingenuous churches like that 😣😣😣
Thank you! That's exactly the right word for it.
church folk put these power moves not just on kids but other adults too. a friend of mine actually said the words HONDA ACCORD three times rapidly repeatedly to give people pressuring him the illusion that he'd gotten it.
I'm thankful to have re iecieved it without any pressure from anyone
No one can just pray for a while and get the holy ghost it is a progressive thing
Joshua Etheredge also if God chooses to give it to them during prayer then yes you can, who are we to try and control what God does and when. Not saying you are because I agree it’s a progressive thing but none of us know all the time what it is that God wants to do so He might do that if it is His will. And ONLY if it is HIS will. Not anybody else’s.
THAT'S HOW THE REAL MOTHER'S OF ZION DID THEY KEEP PRAYING NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TOOK NOW PEOPLE ALWAYS WATCHING THE CLOCK THEY DON'T HAVE TIME ANYMORE GO TO UA-cam LOOK UP MOTHER ESTELLA BOYD REAL ANOINTING GO LOOK IT UP AND RESPOND BACK TO ME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I BETCHA YOU'LL BE BLESSING REMEMBER HAVE FAITH AND JUST KNOW THAT THE LORD GOD WILL DO JUST WANT HE AS HE WILL DO OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND ASK HIM. GOD BLESS
@@stephaniecrews8011 First of all, Cut those caps. Secondly, speaking in tongues is a GIFT therefore not anyone can receive the true speaking in tongues.
@@spets234 DEVIL I KNOW ITS YOU NO WEAPONS FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER IN JESUS NAME.
I attended a Pentecostal church once, and a similar scenario ensued:. Major pressure for everyone to speak in tongues. This is not biblical and since I was already a Christian indwelt by the Holy Spirit (and did not feel prompted by the pressure to speak in tongues) I simply stood there praying in English, my native language. This did not go unnoticed, and soon I was surrounded by people laying hands on me and pretty much demanding I speak in tongues. I was annoyed at the unbiblical behaviour, but kept quiet until one lady told me to look upwards - she was prescribing how I should pray, as though there was a formula I must follow to receive the gift of tongues. I had in fact been enjoying a time of prayer, with my head down, and I thought to myself how awful & off-putting this experience would be for a non-believer. So I shrugged the people off, telling them i was already filled by the Spirit and please to leave me alone. To anyone confused about speaking in tongues, who has been told it is an essential part of being filled with the Holy Spirit, I encourage you to read the book of Acts and see for yourselves that this doctrine is false. I'm not saying speaking in tongues is always wrong, I'm saying it's not always right.
Never knew you were Pentecostal. Do you still attend a Pentecostal church?
Shama you are hilarious!!!! l appreciated hearing your experience, can't wait to hear more!!
This was funny as hell. Don't feel bad, everyone fakes speaking in tongues. It's not real. It's something people learn from others. The bible does not back up this practice. I invite to check for yourself. Speaking in tongues in the bible means speaking other languages, not speaking nonsense. Beware my brother.
Yes, it is. But you are correct in a way. There are two types of speaking in tongues: glossolalia and zenoglossy. Glossolalia is found in 1 Corinth. 14, and this is the speaking in tongues via a prayer language. There is also the speaking in tongues where people understand you when you don't try, and that is called Zenoglossi. That is found in Acts 2 when Pentecost happened. It can get very confusing for sure.
You are an excellent story teller and comedian!
that was such a funny story! but....don't you feel bad you did that? I know I did!
He was 11
I grew up in a United Methodist church where my grandfather was a pastor of 50 years. Never once heard someone speak in tongues. My grandfather told me he may have spoke in tongues once in his life, alone during prayer.
I grew up in a Pentecostal church and I was filled with the Holy Spirit 5 days ago at a fall retreat!! It was incredible❤
Exciting!!!!!!
Big Smokes it’s a gift. Not everyone will receive this gift from God, I didn’t think I would because it took years. Even so, God has a perfect plan for you, so don’t be disappointed. Keep pursuing, but don’t make the same mistake I did, I kind of just wanted it because it was cool beforehand not because it would help bring others to God, advance my prayer life or add to my relationship with God!!
Chris Jackson well God is the Trinity: father, son and Holy Spirit. It is mentioned a lot in acts, when Paul and the entire room had flames over their heads and began speaking in tongues! Pretty crazy but incredible. Idk that exact verse off by heart tho sorry! I’ll find it & update the comment when I do
I had to take it once. We were visiting a church in DC and my parents were highly respected ministers in that circle of churches. Of course 12 year old me had to prove that I had the evidence and was well scripted in speaking in tongues. I got one sentence out that kinda sounded cool and kept rolling with that. From that day forward, I haven’t forgotten the word that rolled off of my tongue. Besides that time, my parents have never heard me say those words again and I’ve never had to prove myself in front of the church again I won!!!
You gotta love them “Christians”
I remember feeling the pressure to speak in tongues when I was a kid! I don’t have that much of a crazy story, more like just a few memories here and there. Once I was in a prayer circle with my family and they were all speaking in tongues. I think they were all adults and I was the youngest. No one asked me or demanded that I spoke in tongues but I didn’t want to feel left out so I faked it. I was maybe 5-7.
There was another time where someone asked the youth if they wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues and I didn’t get up to get prayed for. I remember regretting it because the few kids who did get up did start speaking in tongues (though looking back I hope it was real!).
The gift of speaking in tongues had been such a mysterious thing to me for a long time, which at first scared me, then later excited me. I was curious and as a teen, I wanted to know more. So I sought Him out, went to altar calls at church camp and the like, and the response I got was “the Holy Spirit is already working in you. Just keep going.” No tongues! Looking back I think that was a crucial time for me, as it showed me that I didn’t need to speak in tongues to have the Holy Spirit living within me. Eventually my curiosity and yearning for the gift of tongues dwindled. I figured if God wanted me to have the gift He would give it to me, I didn’t need to feel a pressure to have it.
Low and behold, in college I’m in a small group meeting and the small group leader asks if anyone wants to stay behind and be baptized in the Holy Spirit. I figured she was referring to the gift of tongues. I was skeptical, but stayed back anyway because I was genuinely curious and figured there was nothing to lose. The small group leader put on music and told us to just pray. If we didn’t know what to pray, we could just give thanks to God for everything He’s done in our lives. I did. I prayed in Spanish. “Gracias, Gracias, Gracias…” that’s when I felt this warmth within my body and in my hands, and they started buzzing. I began uncontrollably speaking what to me sounded like gibberish, but I couldn’t stop even if I tried! I would say “Gra…” and the Holy Spirit would take over and tongues just came flowing out! It’s been over a year since then, and now I speak in tongues as part of my prayer almost every day.
It is not something that can be forced, nor do I believe it’s a gift God has for everyone. If it is for you, He will give it to you according to His perfect timing :)
my youth group 5 years ago went to a giant conference in Tennessee where we were surrounded by about 5,000 other teenagers. I was asked by my friend to go down to the center to pray, where my girlfriend was also praying. My girlfriend started speaking in tongues, and so did my friend. then they both started praying for me to speak in tongues, and i panicked, so I faked speaking in tongues. thankfully, it was super loud with the thousands of kids in there, so it was hard to hear. they were so happy for me though. I felt terrible! But I guess it worked out, because her and I are getting married in 3 weeks, and we both run the student ministry at our church! hahahaha.
This is scary and sad... hopefully you came clean about that story...
I know this is a bit late, but congratulations on the marriage!!!
You can definitely be a actor or standup comedian, you are very natural, your family and church will be very proud of you. It doesn't matter if you are unable to speak in tongue.
Churches like this give Christianity a bad name. :(
BewareTheCarpenter You are so right, I hate the thought that their are people like that out there wearing Christ’s name and doing stuff like this man. (I don’t hate THEM, I hate what they’re doing in Christ’s name.) God does say that there are people like that out there though.
Matthew 15:8-9
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.”
I fell out in the spirit one time during church and everyone who was putting their hands on me to pray for me touches burned (my mom claimed it was because all of them had committed some form of sin like a couple of them had cheated on their spouses so yeah)
I will be careful of how you speak about the Holy Ghost. Is two things God doesn't forgive blasphemy to the Holy Ghost and not forgive others.
idiot ...
That shit is the biggest BULLSHIT....1st off no praying should have you rolling in the ground with your eyes in the back of your god damn head and second its bullshit
Hey Cesar, I used to believe like that too. Now I know that God was talking to the Jews about blasphemy being unforgiveable. We are now in the dispensation of grace. The Bible says Jesus gave Paul the mystery gospel which is 1 corinthians 1-4. There is no unforgiveable sin. ALL our sins were forgiven at the cross. Our only part is believing in the finished cross work. Doing works proves that we don't have faith that what Jesus did on the cross for us was enough.
That's what's up. Super dope video Shama. I was like 12 and this lady was like you need the holy spirit, so as she told me to put my hands out. I did and she was praying "Receive it" and I was trying but it won't working so then I was just speaking quietly and confused like "I am talking, I ain't suppose to be talking" and it was so quiet that she taught it was tongues and was like "yes come on" and in my head I was like "what are you talking about I'm just talking, I don't think tongues is just talking" end of the story she thought I had tongues and told my parents and they was happy but I was like "hehehe yeah I guess"
For me, when I read the bible I separate the 3 times when christians miraculously spoke in different languages in Acts which were signs of different groups receiving the Holy Spirit from 1 Corinthians. Acts talks about Jews, then Gentiles, then those who had the baptism of John being filled with the spirit and talking to people in their own languages. Acts I believe talks about the use of everyday languages in a multi-lingual church. Speaking in tongues or languages therefore is the enabling of people to accurately put the word of God across in another language. It takes the work of the Holy Spirit to convey the true meaning of scripture in another language and also takes a good theological foundation of the believer to know how to put certain concepts over in a way that the true meaning is understood. It also takes the work of the Holy Spirit to enable people to translate biblical text into another language. This I believe is the true gift of tongues...and those who have a good biblical foundation should seek to learn other languages in order to accurately speak the word of God when they speak to others in those languages.
When I was in youth group I was crying about not being a great Christian at the front of the church. The pastor and multiple adults were yelling in tongues around me and I kept 'feeling the holy spirit' tryin to over come me. I peeked and it was actually adult hands. I just stopped trying to fight being put on the floor by 'the holy spirit' and they were all so happy when I fell to the ground. I remember just sitting there thinking how none of them know that I in that moment thought they were all crazy. I just laid there and they were all so happy that Jesus had entered me. That was one of the last times I went to church.