Praying 'in tongue'

As you are a Christian I think it is much more likely that the Lord saved her by sending you the wisdom and presence of mind to use her Epipen
Thee is an old story to that effect which I shall now try to find.
Be reassured you are definitely Christian enough and as I do not wish to insult your friend I will keep my views on “praying in tongues” especially in place of sensible action, to myself.

truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man

I think this is the one.

Thank you MawBroon - I read the link, a very good story. I do wonder though what might have happened if i wasn't there at the time.

Newathis, I am a practising Christian , I gave my life to God many years ago. I continue to fail him every day but I still try every day.

God knows you and your friend, it’s what is in your heart not what or how you or your friend pray. Christ taught us The Lords Prayer, says it all, praises God, asks for our needs .
You did the sensible thing , and the epipen was invented to save lives so for me it was God given , you used a gift from God.

Please do not doubt x

Quite right Maw the Lord moves in mysterious ways. Thank goodness you were able to help Newatthis.
People pray and express their faith in different ways, speaking in tongues is mentioned in the Bible but that method of prayer is not for me. If its a comfort and helps then I won't be critical.

Newatthis fundamental religious folk of any faith who fail to address their children's welfare needs and rely only on the belief that a deity will intervene to help can be, and have been, prosecuted for neglect.
I understand that, as humans, God gave us choice! Choice to use the skills, abilities, brains we have to do either good or bad. If I were around on a judgement day I rather think your actions would be recognised as a good choice!

If all we had to do was pray and we get the answer we want that is a pretty poor religion to me! And we all know that is not how it works! It is too fatalistic and means that whatever we do is God's will and we are just ditching our responsibility to try to live a good life. God willing is all well and good but it might be God's will that we all actually do something!

The New Testament is very clear the praying in tongues is a gift that God chooses to give, to some but not everyone. He has many gifts to bestow and I’m sure that to you as a believer he has given you other gifts equally as valuable if not more.

One of which seems to be the ability to act decisively in an emergency!

Speaking in tongues is in no way a mark or measure of Christianity. Only belief in Jesus. That is all Jesus required of his followers.

Actually I am not a believer but I do know the Bible.

How fortunate that you had an epi-pen in your bathroom.

I think it reads as if OP, the friend and her daughter were at their own house, doesn’t it?

Ah yes. I've read it again. Thanks.

As I understand the story in the book of Acts, the apostles were given the ability to speak in other languages, so that all the people from wherever they came, found that they could understand the message which was being given. I get really annoyed by the sort of prayer-addicts who think that it means speaking gobbledy-gook. What on earth use is that to anyone? (I am a church-goer.)

Well done, Newatthis for acting so quickly and probably saving your friend's daughter's life. I just hope that if/when my allergic DGC is ever in trouble again, that it is you and not your friend who is around to help!

I am rather uncomfortable with over devout religious behaviour of any type, thankfully you were there with your level head and sensible approach to potentially save the girl's life. Praying is all well and good, but an epi-pen was better! I wish no disrespect to anyone who finds comfort in religion but feel sorry that anyone should feel they are not 'Christian enough', this is the kind of belief that gets not 'Islamic enough' people killed in the Middle East.

I did not think that praying in tongues was something you could 'just do' - as Eglantine says, it is a gift from God.

Many years ago I had a friend who could speak in tongues (not that I ever heard her) but she said that 'it just came to her'.

Well done Newatthis for having the presence of mind to find the EpiPen and inject the girl - and it was lucky that you knew she was allergic and needed that treatment.

What does it mean? (praying in tongues.)

fennel I was just going to ask the same. I consider myself a Christian (albeit not a good one) and I always thought it meant being able to pray in other languages so that many from different parts of the world could understand the word of God. If it is to speak in a language no one can understand I can't see the point ?

I think it's speaking in tongues, sorry!

Apparently it means reaching a state of ecstasy where a person starts babbling in a language unknown to them - not necessarily a proper language as such.

Yes. I always thought it was speaking in tongues. Gibberish!

Atlantian?

I have heard speaking in tongues, it is not a language it is as Jalima has just posted , for me shared prayer means in a shared language , unless you are in a country where you do not speak the language

Thank you for all your support and comments. This has helped restore my faith in my faith and how I choose to believe.

Some of the girls I taught in East Africa were 7th Day Adventists who had prayer meetings when they spoke in tongues. Apparently morning chapel wasn't enough so they were having meetings instead of lunch. When the head heard about this, she made it quite clear that God meant them to have lunch in order to make use of their God-given education. It worked.

anno there's a video doing the rounds at the moment of an American pastor preaching for Donald Trump and he "speaks in tongues" - seemingly at will, and it sounds like a take-off of an African language. Well it did to me anyway!

I think they often faint all fall as well don’t they or am I muddling that up with g else All seems very strange and overt to me

Meant to say over the top to me Such shame we can’t edit