My current Church, Boca Church of All Nations regularly has tongues and interpretations in worship services. There are two Sunday morning services and it happens more in the second service than the first. This may be becasue there are more visitors in the second service, second service people are more spiritual, or maybe that they are more awake. In any event, it happens.
I made reference to this in Chris’ blog a little while ago.
Well, it happened this Sunday with a funny twist. I usually attend the first service, work the visitor room and then minister to the middle school youth during the second service. If possible, I like to hit second service worship before heading to the youth. (Second service worship is normally better)
At the end of worship, while people were expressing their love for God a woman began yelling out a tongue. We waited for the interpretation and then it came . . . in Portugese! A good portion of my church is from Brazil and they speak Portugese as evidenced by the “amens” as the interpretation came forth. They wear little ear pieces to hear an english translation during the preaching but us English speakers don’t don’t get one as preparation for a tongue that is interpreted by a Portguese speaker. So after the tongue (I do not know the speaker’s native earthly language) and the Portugese interpretation, the Brazilian worship leader translated the interpretation into English. It was a good word and many were blessed by it.
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That is pretty funny…. I have the gift of interpretation of tongues as well. The funny thing about that is, that I am a german, but when I would receive the interpretation for words spoken in tongues I would get them in english very often. So understand what is spoken and “hear” it in english in my thoughts and then translate it into german for the congregation.
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Tom
That’s cool. I often get the word before the tongue is spoken though sometimes I am not supposed to give the interpretation (though it always comes). This time I did not have the interpretation. Actually, I thought it meant something else but I did not get that quickening that made me think I had the interpretation to be spoken.
When the interpretation came, there was confirmation that others had the same word so I was glad.
Hi,
If you are from Boca Raton Fla,
My wife and myself, evangelized that area, and would have tongues and interpretations, and prayed for revival in your area.
God Bless!!
I am actually from Delray but my church is in Boca.
When were you here?