God of EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION!

From: Jeff (ENCOURAGEMENT ONLINE™ aka 2¢ Worth Writing Ministries™)

Tongues ("God's Love Language") means: EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION (the worldwide heart of God. The presence of so many languages all over the world and the supernatural gifts of "tongues" given by the Holy Spirit, each serve as a reminder of God's heart to reach all people. God is a Communicator & He wishes to communicate His Son Jesus in each language, every language, to each municipality & region, worldwide. There is a desire made known by the supernatural Spirit that God is the God of EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION.

JEFF'S FAMILY, GOD'S WORLDWIDE FAMILY
Since I was saved in 1978/1979, the Lord has worked miraculous grace in me (the youngest in my family) and also the first to be saved and become a full-hearted disciple. Also, beginning in the early 1980's, the Lord gave grace that BOTH of my sisters, softening their hearts, also began to embrace the Lord revealing Himself and saving us all wonderfully! It is a great feeling to see God making Himself known in your family. Even my mother has softened some in recent years as she has gone through her late 60's and now approaches the golden age of 70. Yet my dad seems to stand afar off, yet the most stubborn, longer hold-out, in my family, apparently a more difficult longterm project needing the Lord's help & working. 

As much as I have prayed for the Lord to energize and reveal His truth in my family, I sometimes get the wind from the Spirit which says that God's heart is BIGGER. That GOD HAS A WORLDWIDE FAMILY! And Jesus is interested in EVERY tribe, people, language and nation.

I went to dinner the other evening with my flaming, "stark raving atheist" father (who is still typically smug in unbelief & boldly asserts rejection of truth, scoffing at God, still trapped by 70+ years of such hardness). My dad often curses Jesus in his attitude and wants nothing to do with Christianity. And will not hesitate to tell you so. He calls the Bible and Christian faith "stupid" and "nonsense." And even when he doesn't use those kinds of words, that is still his ATTITUDE. Usually.

So the other evening, I sat there politely across the dinner table from my dad, conversing (mostly on other subjects) and trying to enjoy the time, though weary from my own day's work. I couldn't help but think (about 10 times during the visit) about how my dad will die soon and (if things don't change) receive his CHOICE of eternal flames. What else could await if he does not repent of a lifetime of such lies? There is such a need for my father to turn and believe and embrace God's goodness, forgiveness and mercy.

Toward the end of the evening I stood alone for a couple minutes in the cafeteria lobby while waiting for my dad to get ready to leave. Just then a young Spanish woman got onto the pay phone and began chattering as fast and hard in Spanish as you've ever heard in your life (faster than a speeding bullet). I couldn't understand a word! But it all meant SOMETHING. I listened to the whole conversation standing nearby. Her Spanish words were filled with emotion. Some points were being made! Fervently.

Well, after a minute or so her first phone conversation ended. Then she placed another quarter in the pay phone.Someone else answered. She calmly and quietly began speaking to them in a slow, easy American English. I understood every word (but it hardly seemed like the same person speaking). Yet it was this very same Spanish woman doing the talking who had been chattering away a mile a minute in unintelligible Spanish just a few moments before. 

The obvious fact I was observing here is that in order for this young woman to communicate to different people, there was cause to need to use a variety of different languages. Her second phone conversation was English.

As I stood there pondering, I sensed the Lord beginning to open my eyes to understand a spiritual mystery. The Father pointed out to me that SPEAKING IN TONGUES (as given by the Spirit as a spiritual gift, i.e.Acts 2:4, 19:6) is a revelation of the ALL-NATIONALITY nature of God!

Though I had never thought of it this way, I suddenly realized that praying, worshipping God or communicating the gospel (naturally or supernaturally) in other languages (i.e. Acts 2, 1 Cor. 14, Jude 20) has always been meant of God as a quiet, daily reminder that Jesus desires to seek and save EVERY tribe, people, LANGUAGE and nation. Amazing grace! All people.

No wonder the devil fights against "tongues" as a gift, contradicts it, tries to misdirect even well-meaning Christians to think that tongues or other supernatural gifts are gone. Deceptive thoughts and reasonings persuade good Christian men to even form doctrines against the God of plural languages. Could this all be just one more clue that the devil hates the saving power of Jesus. And though speaking in tongues (as a gift to believing Christians) has NOTHING to do with qualifying one for being saved. It is still a gift (a means to communicate) which Jesus often gives to any who will ask, want, desire or receive. James 1:16-17, Mark 16:15-20 Tongues (praying to Jesus by the Spirit in a language beyond any you have mentally learned) has EVERYTHING to do with a sign that Jesus desires ALL NATIONS AND LANGUAGES to come to the wedding! Just as on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) MORE THAN ONE culture and people were being beckoned to COME TO THE LAMB!

For all I know that Spanish woman talking 70 MPH on the cafeteria pay phone may have been talking to her Spanish husband. Her bridegroom on the other end of the phone understood EVERY Spanish word! It wasn't meant for me to know her private communication to her husband. Her words were only for her husband. Worship and prayer in other languages, like this, is also usually a private conversation between you and Jesus! The Bride, the Spirit and the Bridegroom. The Spanish woman in the cafeteria was uttering "mysteries" (as far as I was concerned). I had no clue what she was saying. But every thought and feeling of hers was plain and open before the one for whom her words were intended! Worshipping Jesus in another language as given by the Spirit is JUST LIKE THAT!  

No, tongues doesn't have anything to do with being saved. But after you are saved, it sure is a great way to pour out your spirit and heart to the One Who loves you most! Psalm 62 has been a favorite Psalm of mine for years. There it tells us of the great privilege we have to POUR OUT OUR HEART to the Lord. What great catharsis! None better channel of blessing known to man! Communication though goes beyond words: it is feelings, emotions expressed, sounds, sighs, even tears. And when you run out of English, there ARE other languages in the world. And GOD, the Spirit, KNOWS THEM ALL! Where English, ends, tongues begins.

Now, no I don't go around speaking in tongues to the checkout girl at McDonalds. Why? She doesn't know the language. Besides freaking everybody out, it would serve no point. Languages are to communicate. The primary description of tongues given in 1 Cor. 12 & 14 & Acts 10:44-48 is that of intimate communication "quietly to yourself and God." It is an intimate bedchamber language, yet one more blessed way to communicate to the Lord of Heaven, a channel of understanding and connection between bride and BrideGroom. 

Jesus wants to hear from His kids. Pick any language you wish. But TALK TO GOD!

For years, I've watched on with great dismay as a number of brothers and sisters seem to speak against the Bible and resist God's Spirit. I hear them mistrust, accuse and disallow even legitimate, contemporary and wonderful, miraculous workings of God. They want to outlaw the supernatural - even in the lives of others. What kind of encouragement is that?!???

Seeming bent on doctrines of accusing mistrust, I have good friends (who though born again) almost seem to want to accuse Jesus of no longer giving good gifts. And when Jesus goes ahead and keeps giving gifts anyway, some dear ones say that prophecy or healing or tongues or other miracles God is doing are actually tricks, Beelzebub masquerading as Jesus. After 22 years of studying the Bible though I'm not sure you can rightly call tongues or other (obviously Biblical) workings of God's Spirit evil. I mean you can do it, but in the process, you are grieving Someone. I would rather not reject the Lord's gifts. "Every gift of God is GOOD & PERFECT." People are flawed but God's gifts are all good. James 1:16-17

Instead of picking and choosing gifts (as if we were God or in charge of Christmas), I've always felt God's Word was to be our guide. Everything in the Bible is still on the menu. The Father will choose what is best for you. And sometimes He will wait and let you pick yourself. Jesus taught that we are like sons who are free to ASK of a loving, generous Heavenly Father, Who delights to give and hear our cries. Do you lack a gift? Simply ask.

And be encouraged (beyond all man's religious confusion and controversy) that God's word is clear on gifts. God's gifts are good, they are from above and the gifts will never change. And God, the never changing gift giver, is generous in His provision!

Tongues specifically, the Bible tells me, can often be given as a means of private language between the bride and the Bridegroom). It is like having a private conversation with your wife in the bedroom, with the door closed and no one else around. There are things said there that NO ONE ELSE HEARS. And marriage is meant to be that way. Tongues is given as a Holy Spirit generated language which the believer sometimes taps into to talk and sing intimate words to the Beloved. Jesus understands every word. Others don't have too. And in the mysteries of God, even the person speaking does not need to really understand what he says most of the time, for the channel of language here is God the Spirit interceding through the believer to the throne of the Lamb. None of the limitations or interference of the human mind is needed.

Bedroom intimacy is not intended for others to eavesdrop on anyway. There are other intimate languages and ways to communicate with God (tongues is simply one more blessed way). For example, music, song, the praying of scripture in your understood language, pouring out your feelings with words and songs and tears, these are all good ways to talk to God. But tongues is a love language for God and God alone. No one else nearby can interrupt or profane the conversation.  

There is also a second, different intended use the Heavenly Bridegroom has in speaking to OTHERS through a foreign expression of language. This is to proclaim the gospel and reveal Jesus to other humans. One way is for there to be a supernaturally revealed, understood interpretation following. See parts of 1 Cor. 14. Sometimes though (as in Acts 2), no interpretation is needed, because the language is only foreign to the SPEAKER, not to the listeners! God knows ALL languages and has a heart for all people! EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION! 

The ways & workings of God often seek to remind us that God is the God of EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION! Privately understood words in a foreign language ("tongues") can be especially intimate (kind of like sending and receiving an encrypted email or a message of love by a messenger in a sealed envelope). Just imagine the thrill and joy the message brings when opened and received by your wife on the day of your wedding or anniversary. Worshipping Jesus in any of a thousand languages or ways is like that. It is WORSHIP TO HIS EARS. You are saying: "I love you God!" And tongues is more private than most other every day communications. Heavenly languages are like sending the same message of love, only in special veiled words, secretly given, each one so as to say: "Jesus, I love You. This message is from my heart, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY."

Don't little children delight in telling and keeping secrets? Scripture says (Deut. 29) that "the secret things belong to the Lord, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever." Hallelujah!

I've often baffled at those who feel a need to rage or scoff, or preach with a fuming mistrust toward some (any) of the gifts of God. (None are to be preached against. The Bible says to ENCOURAGE spiritual gifts.) And I wonder, don't we realize that ONLY THE GIFTGIVER is in charge of what gifts He gives to His children. At Christmastime, little ones may put in their requests (ask for what they feel they want) and requests are usually taken into fair or reasonable consideration. But only the Gift-giver Himself holds the power to ultimately choose. For each child. Other children (by their comfort zone, preferences or biases) are never allowed by the Father to force closed the Gift-giver's hand toward other children. Interfering with Christmas is not a child's place. Christmas is to be enjoyed by all. And the more gifts the BETTER!

Indeed if all gifts are truly focused on JESUS, the One Christmas is ALL about, then all the gifts can be properly received and brought forth to bless everyone. Just as the Magi brought their gifts humbly and laid them in worship before the newborn King, so every Christian is to offer his gifts and talents to honor and glorify God! 1 Cor. 10:31

And what would be said of anyone who wishes to interfere with the celebration of the Messiah or the joyous sharing of all His gifts! 1 Cor. 12 Any of us assuming a role of "Christian Scrooge" could not be THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. (Rejection of spiritual gifts or forbidding others any of Christ's gifts or blessings is one way to SCROOGE up the Church. Bah. Humbug! (Don't you do it, my dear brother or sister.) Welcome the gifts and workings of God, in all God's glory. Test and discern, yes. But ENCOURAGE Jesus, encourage GIFTS, encourage the seeking of God. Don't let anyone deceive you into tangents of misfocus. All the gifts are given to REVEAL Jesus. Christ is the Lamb, the One from Whom ALL blessings flow.

I recently saw a great irony in some of my fellow friend "evangelicals." Over the years, I have known some such dear friends who somehow wished to declare our need to embrace evangelism and the forgiveness of Jesus (true, a thousand times true), yet they also wanted to make sure we reject tongues (and other gifts and workings of God established by the same scriptures and Spirit). To the honest reading of the Bible, such contradictions can not hold long. 

At the cafeteria payphone, while listening to the empassioned Spanish communication of that woman in the lobby, I realized that we are to embrace the love language of "speaking in tongues" and know it to be one more needed, blessed and wonderful way to communicate with a loving Father. Tongues is a praying and worshipping direction of the Spirit which says Jesus is Lord, which declares your love for God, which says: "I yield my my most unruly member to the Spirit of the Lord." There, in love with Jesus, believers' hearts can no longer deny or discount the Spirit's motive in giving "tongues." Then you will find it no wonder that the new testament encourages the availability of all the gifts all the way up 'til we see Jesus face to face (at His Second Coming). 1 Cor. 13  

So we all come together and celebrate Christmas, every Jesus-day of the year. And we receive all the gifts. Because we are not the Father of Christmas. The gifts come from above, from the One Who changes not. "Do not be deceived, my dear brothers." James 1:16-18  

And suddenly we know that...

Tongues (for the everyday Christian) is a quiet, daily reminder that God is the God of all languages. God is the God of languages we don't understand, as well as ones that we do. Jesus is Lord of peoples who are FOREIGN to us. Whose ways are foreign, whose tongue is foreign, whose attitudes are foreign. God is FOR ALL PEOPLE. Jesus died on the cross for each one to come near!  

Foreign languages from the Spirit then are a means for hearts to call out, deep unto deep (Psalm 42), thirsting for God, worshipping Christ's Name, proclaiming the worldwide nature of the God to all peoples.

When a foreign language(s) is spoken, how does it make you feel? 

Whether you're standing at a phone booth listening to a woman rattle away Spanish faster than you've ever heard, or whether you are a Christian who hears the Holy Spirit bring a foreign language from your own lips? One you never learned flowing in praise and intercession from your very own lips, what does it all mean? As you worship Jesus by the Spirit's help in a language you never knew, or declare Him to another in words you were given but never learned in school, what is it about? It is about Jesus, the Lamb, Who died for our sins, Who is Lord, Who is above all, the God of EVERY nation. Tongues is about the Holy Spirit challenging our boundaries and prejudices, our doctrines and forbiddances. It is God saying: I am God. The God of ALL peoples. It is the Holy Spirit defying our soul's prejudice, national pride and ethnic feeling. Our preferred citizenship & walls of pride blow down as Heaven's Language speaks. And beyond the borders of our racism our cultural bias melts and all stand to hear the words of the Prince of Peace. And after the utterance fades away, the Spirit arises and says: "Go into ALL THE WORLD and preach the gospel to every person, every child, every language under the Son. Forbid no one. Hinder no one. Invite all to come. The Wedding Supper of the King is prepared. All languages, cultures and races are invited to be present. End your biases and rejection of others based on skincolor, interest, race or language." You are weary, come to Me. You Who have no money, come buy and eat. The wedding supper is prepared. And the throne of your Father will be heard. He will call out to each, in EVERY TONGUE, to every tribe, people, language and nation. The chosen of the Lord will come and the Lord will be enthroned above, over all. Receive the gifts and quench not the Spirit. Arise, My beloved. Come away with Me.

"God's Love Language" means: EVERY TRIBE PEOPLE LANGUAGE NATION (the worldwide heart of God, a reminder of God's heart to reach people, a means to communicate Jesus in each language, to each municipality & region, worldwide evangelism by a supernatural Spirit, the Spirit of God)

For a wonderful message on how you can personally speak in tongues to glorify Jesus, see...

Why Speaking in Tongues is Awesome, Wonderful and Good!

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