my deep, dark secret
The other day, my daughter, Lacey, asked me to tell her about "speaking in tongues", apparently, her class at church had discussed it.
"What a good question!" I told her.
I went on to explain exactly how it is used, then and now, and that sometimes people call it their "prayer language" and I told her that her dad and I have been involved with worship times when it was done and it was beautiful.
The first church that we attended together after getting married was a Calvary Chapel, which is a very charismatic church.
We loved it!
We grew spiritually and grew in bonds of fellowship.
I told Lacey that the reason we left was because we wanted to have a great childen's program for our kids and that was not a big priority at this particular church, so we left and went to RBC, which is my home church, a very conservative Southern Baptist church.
What a change indeed, but, one I don't regret, however, there are times when I miss a lively worship experience and we have, at times, gone back to get a taste, but, for the most part, we love where we are at.
We were led here for a reason.....
I do have a deep, dark secret, I told Lacey, no one knows this about me:
God gave me a prayer language!
I was driving home from an "Afterglow" ( not what you think...), which was a special worship time after evening worship for the use of the gifts of the Spirit, anyway, it was awesome......
On the way home, I asked God to tell me if I had the gift of tongues........(I knew I did, it just freaked me...) and He gave it and I started praising Him and it was very cool......but, like I said, it freaked me and so I hid it under a bushel, where it's been for 10 years!!!
I told my secret......now tell me yours.....
"What a good question!" I told her.
I went on to explain exactly how it is used, then and now, and that sometimes people call it their "prayer language" and I told her that her dad and I have been involved with worship times when it was done and it was beautiful.
The first church that we attended together after getting married was a Calvary Chapel, which is a very charismatic church.
We loved it!
We grew spiritually and grew in bonds of fellowship.
I told Lacey that the reason we left was because we wanted to have a great childen's program for our kids and that was not a big priority at this particular church, so we left and went to RBC, which is my home church, a very conservative Southern Baptist church.
What a change indeed, but, one I don't regret, however, there are times when I miss a lively worship experience and we have, at times, gone back to get a taste, but, for the most part, we love where we are at.
We were led here for a reason.....
I do have a deep, dark secret, I told Lacey, no one knows this about me:
God gave me a prayer language!
I was driving home from an "Afterglow" ( not what you think...), which was a special worship time after evening worship for the use of the gifts of the Spirit, anyway, it was awesome......
On the way home, I asked God to tell me if I had the gift of tongues........(I knew I did, it just freaked me...) and He gave it and I started praising Him and it was very cool......but, like I said, it freaked me and so I hid it under a bushel, where it's been for 10 years!!!
I told my secret......now tell me yours.....
posted by Lori's World @ 4:17 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:20 AM,
Anonymous said…
You shared that with me a few years ago, (one of our late, late, late night talks) and I remember wishing I could have been in the car with you to hear it, be a part of it. But I imagine my presence would have changed the experience entirely and maybe you would not have worshipped as fully and without restraint. I've never heard someone speaking in tongues where I wasn't distracted by it - or I'm ashamed to say, even questioning it. But would like to be so moved by the Spirit.
Do you think you will experience that again?
At 9:08 AM,
Lori's World said…
ya know, probably not just cuz we are not in that same worship genre and that's ok. it was strange...but, cool.
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