My Testimony: How I Received the Gift of Tongues 

I just prayed that prayer with you because the gift of tongues gives power. In these last days, we need more power to serve God, to witness. I know i don't want to go to heaven alone. I want to bring someone with me. At any time He may call me home. I want to please Him with however many days I have left on this earth. Especially now, because our society is confused in so many ways. They need the gospel more than ever before. None of us know what exacty is ahead, but we need His power to be his witness. I know I need it. I am 80 years old. Thank you for your message.

Before i first spoke in tongues i had been praying for the Lords presence( Holy Spirit) to be in me in an apostolic prayer room. Two altar workers were praying quietly for me and laying hands on me but i don't even remember hearing them speak in tongues. They just told me to ask the Lord for what i wanted. So i fervently began to. After a few minutes i heard footsteps and then the pastors voice telling me to stand up and recieve the Holy Spirit. I stood up and lifted my arms while still keeping my eyes closed expecting to recieve. Immediately i saw this window appear to my upper right. It had what looked like those old fashioned shutters on the outside ends of the window and they were wide open. I looked in the window and saw this beautiful blue sky. Then a bright light appeared at the far left corner inside of the window and started to move across my field of vision. When it reached the center point it stopped and shined on me. Then i felt a warm rising up ny legs starting at my ankles. It continued rising up my body as it approached my head. I felt like my body was being filled with a warm oil. I was rejoicing and thanking the Lord for answering my prayer when i heard the pastors voice in front of me telling me to surrender my tongue to the Holy Spirit. So i stopped thanking the Lord, opened my mouth and starred relaxing my tongue as a way of surrendering it. Suddenly i felt control of my tongue seized and i began to fluently speak in tongues. The effect was staggering. I felt " beside" myself i was so full of joy. Now i knew why the church people were shouting in the service, dancing and running the aisles. I led the way out of the prayer room and stopped and faced the seated congregation. Suddenly i felt such love for these people and really didn't know any of them this being my first visit to the church. I felt like i had a small sun in my head and i could feel its rays shooting out from around my head and face.

Am a believer from last 8 years but I don't have gift of tongues. Whenever I saw people speaking in tongues in there prayers.I always thought God why I don't have this supernatural gift ?? And I start praying for it continously. One day, am cleaning my room and I just say to god tell me what should I do for you? Holy spirit spoke to me🙂 He ask me to forgive my two friends with whom I have a fight from a year. I don't spoke to them atleast for a year. And said no god I can't do this. This is impossible. But holyspirit say this to me again and again. After an hour I said okay lord but I don't know how I can do this. And god himself make a way so that I can apologize to them. After this will happen I feel so frustrated because I don't feel good. But when I came into my prayer I received the gift of tongues 😃. This is the power of forgiveness or I would say obeying holyspirit 😄🔥

Sis. Please pray for me, I also want to receive the power of the Holy Spirit with the gift of tongue. Praise the Lord for your testimony

Thank you for your testimony Ash I remember I was in a living room I began to pray and it felt like water flowing from my belly and I spoke in tongues my pastor wasn’t happy it was a baptist church he didn’t teach about this so I prayed and ended up in a Pentecostal church

Beautiful Ahsey 🤗 Thanks for this obedience in sharing your testimony Bro jacobus. :)

Beautiful testimony, I share a similar testimony. I wanted to add that when you pray in tongues the Holy Spirit is interceding on your behalf. Thank you Holy Spirit!

Thanks for sharing your testimony about two months ago I felt a good burning in my chest and felt the Lords presence and began singing and speaking in tongues.But since then I’ve struggled with depression would u please pray for me

Thank you for sharing, finaly a sincere testimony on receiving the gift of tounges without being forced or prompted to say abracadabra sylables. You receive the Gift by FAITH. 🙌

Thanks for sharing this, Ashley. My dad used to have the gift of tongues (he’s now with the Lord), and back then I didn’t desire the gift. Now I do. More and more each day. Thanks again for sharing.

thank you for this video

For me I received the gift of tongues last year. I had already turned back to God and repented of all my sins a year before and was really seeking God. So I starting praying every day the same prayer to receive tongues for 30 days straight before I received it. Now that I have had it for almost a year I have starting receiving the interpretation of the tongues pretty often. Apostle Paul says to seek all the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Thank you for sharing, I just received the gift and had a lot of Christians bashing me about this. It’s refreshing to hear you experience!

Amen!--I rejoice with you sister in Him--Praise Jesus!

God bless you Ashley! Awesome testimony 👏🏽 The Lord be praised !

Thank you, the last part was for me, may he bless you

Thank you for your wonderful testemony ❤

Please pray for me, Mary, that I will receive the gift of tongues, I believe with all my heart. Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience it has helped me immensely

Thank you!

God bless you sister. I just subscribed

I’m 2 years late but thank you for sharing. I grew up in a church that spoke tongues but if didn’t know if it was legit. I went to a different church and they said noo it’s false. Then I did my own research a few months ago and found out no it’s legit. I have been praying for the gift of tongues once I learned the truth through the word of God.

Glory to God I received gift of tongues now while watching this video!!

You are so calm and beautiful and mature when talking. 😊😊😊😊

Thanks for the prayer and yes, your cat scared me too 😂😂😂

God bless you! And thanks for sharing your story. I'm praying that I will also receive this gift and at the same time get my wrist healed. The doctors failed me and ruined my wrist with surgery for a minor sports injury. Now it just won't heal and they have no answers.

Speaking in tongues is beautiful 🙌

Sincerely I desire this gift

When I received the gift I was scare because I thought that I wouldn't have control of my tongue

Thank you for sharing your testimony. I am currently looking for more clarity and desire to receive the gift of speaking in tongues. I'm guessing that other videos I've watched shared the same algorithm as yours. It's a beautiful story and thank you for being a willing vessel through prayer at the end. God Bless you!

THANK YOU🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 AMEN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Exactly

Thanks for your testimony and I want Christians to understand that those Christians who are not led by the Holy Spirit and thinking of speaking in tongues is just coming from a person,s mind,l can remind you that you won't go in deeper things of God that are hidden by God Himself,1corinthians,14,2, comment from the county, PNG,

Thank you Sis for your prayer.❤ I needed this 🙌. God bless you more abundantly in Jesus name❤

Amen!

You are blessed. Speaking in tongues is a supernatural direct communication with God - 1 Cor.14:2

Luke 18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

I was Baptist by mother and Father,I move to Texas,I met new friends,They believe in speaking in tongues ,I work with them,They said I was not save,I attended different church trying to find out what they're talking about,I found a church in Houston,pastor was saying just open your mouth,every person around us was doing that,one day I started doing what I was I heard,my father said I taught you about Grace and mercy in Jesus, my daddy because sick,and I prayed in tongue,over him,had my oil,anointed him, and played my hands on my daddy,something was trying to come in my hand, I pulled my hand back,next day he was in hospital,my sister work there,she said two doves stay at the window,she would run them away,the would come a minute later back.my sister and I was last to be with him,next morning half of sleep,I heard the doves two of them, sounding like a dove,and then I would hear them in English,telling my father it's time to Go,my dad will say I hate to leave Alma,my my mother,come on everybody is waiting on you, my sister didn't hear the conversation, Doctors rush in, we had to leave,I got in my car and went for ten minute drive to my old house, neighbors said your Daddy just died.

Thank you, Ashley, for sharing your experience with speaking in tongues. Your testimony will help so many of God's people who are hungering and thirsting for a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit!

Hi ashly how i wish that i have a gift of speaking in tongues

Thank you for your testimony 🙏🏿

Ashley I don't know how often you read comments or if you'll see this, but what verses back up the gift of tongues? I am trying to find what I think about it, fully scripture-based. Thank you so much, and thank you for sharing your testimony!

This is so very encouraging and helpful to me! 💕Thank you sweet sister for sharing! I’ve been desiring this for so long . There are lots of testimonies and these help me to see the similarities and yet differences in each. experience. I have struggled feeling frustrated and wondering if God’s hearing me but this gives me faith and excited anticipation!! Blessings be multiplied to you! And others who listen and are seeking!

Your voice & the way you talk sounds just like my sister-in-law that I love dearly. She struggles to not live in the world. She says she believes in Jesus but her life never changed and she hasn’t yet read the Bible… I’m not sure if she prays or not? If she does it’s not much…so if anyone is willing to help me pray for her, I’d appreciate it… very much so! Thank you:) I just wanted to say to you, sister, how wonderful of a person you seem. I don’t know you but if it’s anything like my sister-in-law… a beautiful person:) I’m so thankful you got to receive the gift of tongues from the Lord! I wanted to cry hearing your earnest desire for it & when you said you had received it, I just had to praise the Lord in joy for you & gratefulness to God! God bless you sister and keep you always!❤Much love to you!

Praise the Lord thank you for this video. Beautifully explained.

Lovely heartwarming testimony! 🍑

Yess I believe 💯 I received my gift a week ago after Bible study. The best moment ever💯

Please pray for me to manifest the gift of tongue.

I’ve seen a lot of people receive the gift of speaking in tongues

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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very encouraging testimony sister.God bless you

Your dad spoke in tongues over you ? How many tongues ( language's ) was he praying over you ? Did he interpret ?

Very well explained

Evidence of Acts 2 type tongues today ??

Beside the instant healing for your ankle how else has God used it in your personal life in worship. I am not denying it I am just curious. How do you experience the Lord differently compared to a prayer for the FILLING of the Holy Spirit?in English? Where does scripture differentiate between the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Filling Of the Holy Spirit? ( Galatians 5:22-23) I am not saying it doesnt I would just like to know Thanks Ashley. Your heart for the Lord is such a blessing. I cannot you dont have more subsrcribers. I am older so cant think of others to share with. Our church is very small. As you continue to pray in faith like you are God WILL bring the right man in your life. You are never too old (You dont look old) Age is just a number Gods number is perfect (Hebrews 11:1)

What an amazing testimony! I love how personable you are in your videos. There is a genuineness that just radiates off of you. I was not raised in the church, and actually used to make fun of Christians, but that all changed three years ago. God had to really humble me and take everything from me to get me to see the error of my ways and I’m so glad he did. I received the gift of tongues about 6 months after coming to faith. After about 3 months of believing I started seeing videos of people doing it and I wanted to know if it was real and still active. Well I tried to do it for a few months, but I would always stumble over my own efforts and couldn’t think up syllables fast enough. I would make it like 3-4 seconds and then stop because I knew it was my own effort and not the Holy Spirit. Then one night, I watched a teaching online telling me that you have to just step out in faith and let the Holy Spirit give you the utterance. Within a few minutes, I was speaking in tongues. I went for about 5 minutes and was just amazed because I knew that while the sounds were coming from my mouth, I wasn’t thinking them or choosing them. So amazing!

Would you not feel HIS presence when your dad wasnt praying in tongues?

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AMEN AMEN AMEN 🙌🏾

We receive the Holy Spirit when we’re saved. Otherwise if it was receiving tongues as “proof” it means the rest of us aren’t saved. I am saved and I don’t speak in tongues.

Praise the lord God bless you and your ministry of my dear respected madam hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah In the name of lord Jesus Christ 🙏♥️ Amen

you were sealed with the spirit of promise when you were saved. Eph 1

I identify with your experience. I am the most logical person in the world. That said, a lot of logical things are being taught, stuff that I would consider IF, my experience had never happened. So my experiences of speaking in tongues is the only legitimate way that I know that my walk as a believer is real. I can say without doubt that what happened and continues to happen is of no actions or desires of my own. Reassurance that scripture is right.

Can u please pray for me I’ve asked and the gift hasn’t been unlocked in me.

God Bless You! ❤️🐑 Please pray for me to receive. Ricco Culberson. God bless you🙏🏾

Hi Ashley I am Bob the one that sent you the LONG comment about physical illnesses my wife and I deal with now. 2 points First Question Do you attend an Assembly of God or Penticostal church where speaking in tongues is very much spoken about in scripture Unfortunately I attend a Baptist Church (very conservative) where it is NOT for today and I forget the passage they use. I believe 1 Corinthians 14:10I will look it up. If it it is done and imterprited I totally accept and attended a church ( The Chicago Tabernacle ) Of course in Chicago where it models the Brooklyn Tab in New York City They have just an awesome choir . Dont know if you are in to choral/ Gospel clap hands with music. TBH now I am not sure you are the one that wasd talking about Tounges If not very very sorry 2) Since I have a brain injury I talk lot which means also type a lot Sorry Point #2 When my wife and I got married of course our wedding vows were "In Sickness and In Health" You just dont really think about lt just say it. I was a very analytical man just like you as a woman to make sure this was Gods women as my wife We had a great marriage for 15 yrs traveled where involved together musically. Our personalities and our temperments were an awesome match in about every way. Then all these HEALTH ISSUES near fatal and then the words in those vows really come to life when you have 2 people with disabilities . Because ours are both neurological it has had a negative impact on our marriage Thankfully our marriage was strong enough to these challenges we STILL deal with 10 yrs later. My wife has tried every treatment possible and I still have some neurological issues. Romans 8:28 is what we live on All that to say you can have the "perfect for you husband" for you but you never know what challenges God allows to really challenge your commitment and faith. I hope what I share with you is helpful in some way Even this post is 2 years old I hope you will see it as a new comment. Yes NOW I see from your title this IS the video you talked about tongues.1 Corinthians 14:10-12. I have listened to so many will listen again 😀 I know every denomination interprets different For sure I know what is spoken has to be interpreted Posted 6/15/2023

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It has nothing to do with your salvation if you believe in Jesus and what he did

why not the gift of healing? the gift of prophecy? speaking in unknown language?, unless there is an interpreter it is in vain.

I love you if you wish to talk to me about you can

Why do ppl seem to always get the gift of speaking tongues but not prophecy, or holding snakes or drinking poison like mark 16 says. It's always the easiest one to fake.

Glad you love Jesus but beware of the teaching of gibberish as tongues. Speaking in tongues is a spiritual gift mentioned in the New Testament, particularly in the book of Acts and the writings of the Apostle Paul. The gift of tongues is often referred to as a form of ecstatic utterance or a supernatural language given by the Holy Spirit to a believer. In the Bible, the first instance of speaking in tongues occurs on the day of Pentecost, as described in Acts 2:1-13. On that day, the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and they began to speak in languages they had not previously known. This allowed them to communicate the Gospel to people from various nations who were present in Jerusalem. Acts 2:4 (ESV) says, "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." The Apostle Paul also addresses the gift of tongues in his letters. In 1 Corinthians 14, Paul provides instructions for the use of tongues within the context of the Christian assembly. He emphasizes the importance of interpretation so that the entire body can be edified. Paul also states that tongues can be a sign for unbelievers (1 Corinthians 14:22). 1 Corinthians 14:13-14 (ESV) says, "Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful." It is important to note that the biblical concept of speaking in tongues involves the utterance of real languages that the speaker has not learned. This is distinct from some modern practices where individuals may engage in unintelligible sounds or "gibberish" and claim it as speaking in tongues. Such practices can be misleading and may not align with the biblical understanding of the gift. If you have concerns about how speaking in tongues is being practiced in your church, it may be beneficial to engage in open and respectful dialogue with your church leaders and fellow believers. Sharing your understanding of the biblical principles can lead to a more accurate and edifying use of this spiritual gift in your community of faith.

How do you know your gift is authentic and you are not making words up, or that your brain is improvising meaningless words? I can do the same gibberish, it is not a phonetic tongue.

Praise the lord God bless you and your ministry of my dear respected madam hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in the name of lord Jesus Christ 🙏♥️ Amen