My Testimony Of The Gift of Tongues

Hello! My name is Jessica Rain Senn and I have a very long miraculous testimony that you can read on my Facebook timeline, or I can share with you personally if you message me. I’m from Ponca City, Oklahoma. I wanted to share my testimony of the gift of tongues today, because it has helped me in so many crazy awesome ways and I am a witness of how under credited it is among the brethren!

I sought out the gift of tongues when I was about 27 years old because I started struggling with addiction, relationships, identity, etc. To be honest with you, I sought the gift because I was a witness to my grandmother going from death to life when I was a teenager, and the Lord did so much change in her and she went from being an angry, doomed, dead and uninspired old woman with no influence to a bright, alive, hopeful changed and very influential woman (my grandpa also, they were transformed together).

I was in foster care during the time of her transformation, so I wasn’t there to see how Jesus brought her to life and made her a new woman. So, when I turned 18 and came back home from foster care, I saw her and I saw that she was speaking in tongues, and I unconsciously assumed that it was the gift of tongues that saved her. From my carnal mind, it was the only thing that I could actually SEE that I could contribute her difference to.

So, at age 27 I started seeking this gift and the first few times I tried to receive it, I didn’t directly even ask the Lord for it, I just went to church, and they prayed and I hoped that it would start coming out of my mouth. I was hoping God would just throw it at me and open the gift for me pretty much. After a few months of that, my desire for the gift had grown enough to where I became serious about receiving it. I had left my husband for a short time and then went back home to him with my children and I remember that night I could feel something spiritual going on around me like spiritual construction or something and I understood that I was where the Lord wanted me to be.

So, Saturday night, I wrote the Lord a letter asking him for this gift because Matthew 7:11-12 says,

“If you then, being evil know how to give your children good things, how much more does GOD know how to give his children good things when they ASK him?”

Sunday morning, the following day, I found a church to go to with me and my family, and the pastor asked if there was anyone who needed prayer to come up to the front and he would pray with them. So, I went up to the front, and he put his hand on my back and whispered, “How can I pray with you?”

I answered, “I want to receive the holy ghost, the gift of tongues.” (I was confident that if there was truly a gift for me with that name on it, I would receive it.) So, he began praying and I opened my mouth and silently started praising the Lord I just kept saying, “Thank you God for everything you do for me”, because I knew I had to be speaking for any words to start coming out of my mouth.

He finished praying and I told him thank you and went back to the pew with my husband. I remember leaning my head over on him and I felt like I wasn’t finished with what God wanted to do. So I quietly went to the alter right in front of us because we were in the first pew and kneeled down and started praying and suddenly a bunch of syllables started coming out of my mouth that were new and I started speaking sentences of gibberish and I started sobbing and a woman came up behind me and whispered in my ear, “rejoice”… it was a beautiful experience.

I went home after service and experimented with the gift and after seeing that it wasn’t really giving any immediate change to anything nor did it change me or cause me to be fulfilled neither did it fill in the emptiness, I was hoping that it would have filled. Neither did it do for me what I saw in my grandma. (I didn’t realize it was JESUS who gave life to my grandparents, not his gifts.) However it did confirm to me along with my own spirit that I was his child, because I knew the verse said he had gifts for HIS children.

So ultimately for the first 8 years of having this gift, I only used it when there was an opportunity to show off to people and make myself look like someone special. Then after 8 years the Lord spoke to my spirit and told me to start using this gift. So, I did. The first day I spoke in tongues for 8 hours straight. When I reached exactly one hour of praying in the spirit, I felt the Lord say “This is how much I want you to use this everyday”, and then I thought of the time when Jesus was with his disciples and he was praying and the disciples kept falling asleep and Jesus said, “Can you not pray with me ONE HOUR? watch out that you don’t fall into temptation!”

After 8 hours of praying, I was overwhelmed with all the things that I noticed different in me. I wrote a list of over 40 things new I experienced that first day. that night, my gay neighbor came walking into our backyard with a flashlight yelling “What is going on over here? something is going on over here I can feel it!” and I believe his demons were being threatened by my praying. This was our neighbor for years and this had never happened, and we were very aware he suffered with many demons.

This gift began making changes in my entire neighborhood. At one point I was in a very unhealthy codependent relationship and had backslid into meth addiction. The lord does not leave his children nor does he take his gifts back from us. The bible says “the gifts and callings of the Lord are without repentance”. I knew God didn’t want me with this guy. Even I didn’t want to be with him. I had just lost everything including my husband and children (which is why this was a perfect time to start using this gift consistently because the bible says it strengthens you in the inner man).

I kept trying to leave this man and went back again and again and again it was like the guy had some kind of weird hold on me but later the Lord helped me understand that sex is a powerful thing and it binds people together that is what its created to do and when in a godly covenant, its a beautiful blessing from the Lord that helps us stay together through better or worse.

The bible compares fools with dogs several times so there are so many lessons to be learned from watching our dogs. Everything true about dogs is true about fools. study this! You have two dogs stuck together, can’t figure out why they cant get apart (sex) both of them looking different directions and it usually takes intervention from a higher source to help them break away from each other. God warns us about these things and tells us how to live in the narrow lines of perfection we just have to believe him. I sure wish I would have chose to do that instead of have to learn the hard way.

So I went to a motel room one night and was crying and out loud I said, “GOD I CANT DO THIS I’M NOT STRONG ENOUGH! I said God I literally want to go back to the guy right now even! I knew in my heart that I had done all I could to get away from him and that I truly needed the Lords help. I was afraid he wouldn’t show up, but he was right on time as always. I heard him, clearly from my spirit, say, ‘”Do you want me to make you strong enough?”

I took my attention to the place in my heart where I was connected with him and I said, Yes God, I want you to, and immediately tongues started coming out of my mouth effortlessly like water flowing and it was for about 3 to 4 hours for 3 days. So ever since then I have done that everyday for 3 to 6 hours. Within a week, my love for this man turned into a brotherly love and has never gone backwards even though I am still around this man very often because of family reasons. The Lord is so good.

Thank you for sticking to the end of this with me, may the Lord bless you and keep you and may this testimony uplift your precious soul. Here is a list of some of the other benefits that I get from the gift of tongues: makes me look and feel younger, takes away fear, gives boldness and confidence, I am given words for people and prophecy often, all my abilities and talents are enhanced I can even sing much better after using this gift. I wake in middle of the night sometimes and am heavy burdened for someone and after praying for some time, I have a release in my spirit and am aware that the prayer has been answered, I have direct communication with God.

I pray in tongues, then pray in English out loud right after (this is how the bible says to use it) and I find myself praying things that didn’t come from me like the other day I said God help me abhor my sins I had to look that up. The bible says that we have the mind of Christ and that our spirit knows all things but our mind is limited so when we pray in tongues its like using a bucket to draw out the waters of knowledge and wisdom and dumping it into our limited minds and suddenly we become aware of things we didn’t know just seconds ago.

Also, power to witness. literally this gift cause me to witness everywhere I go I have a burning desire to speak the word and I will find myself saying things that I learn at the same time I am saying them! its the spirit of God speaking through me! The bible says these signs shall follow them that believe, they will speak with new tongues and cast out devils.

Many times, after I use this gift, I will see demons in people and get a sudden boldness to cast it out and the other person usually feels it too and many people have taken off walking away from me because their demons knew what was up. This gift cause me to be sensitive to my own and other people’s needs and causes me to see the things I’m doing wrong and shines light on everything so I can see and understand more and more and more and continuously grow. This gift greatly strengthens my health, causes me to feel divinely protected and so much closer to God. Emotional stability is one of the biggest things I’ve noticed. Also, when I pray in tongues, I sense deep waters inside of me getting deeper and deeper and the word says,

“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

This gift causes all past and present emotional wounds to be healed back to complete wholeness as if they never happened, causes all my inner unasked questions to be answered and I find myself completely silenced inside my inner man. Causes me to feel taller and bigger literally and strengthened in my inner man which helps me so much in overcoming my current struggles.

This gift causes everything to look brighter and shinier, as if my soul is being cleansed. The bible says “the eyes are the window to the soul.” after praying for several hours, I’ll find myself saying phrases that I used to say years ago and calling people names of people from my past all the sudden and it’s like my soul is being restored to a place it was once at in the past which is what causes me to do that.

Lastly, this gift causes me to be uncomfortable wearing tight jeans all the sudden and ill suddenly be uncomfortable with my wardrobe and desire a new one of more modesty. People, this gift is no joke. Millions of people worldwide are paying thousands of dollars on counseling and prescriptions and activities that may bring them peace and joy and innersilence. This gift is absolute royal and holy and divine and the gift of tongues waiting for you has been created specifically for you and designed for your personal satisfaction.

Call me selfish, but now is the time to get this gift! It’s called least of the gifts because it is designed as an encourager for the person that owns it when the rest of the gifts are for the entire church. Don’t be deceived into thinking that it’s any less powerful or useful. There have been times I have used this gift in a church service and the pastor or someone in the congregation has interpreted, but ultimately this gift is made with pure love selfishly for the one that owns it. There are many more benefits of this gift.

I am so different from who I was at the beginning before I started walking with the Lord. When I run from him, he chases me. He catches me, He is so good. and if you are my brother or sister in Christ (or desire to be) your welcome to reach out to me on Facebook! The bible says you know you have passed from death to life when you have a love for the brethren. I love you guys so much and soon we will be together forever. Jesus is so excited about seeing us face to face!!! Keep your head up my love! Study the gospel! the bible says when we pray in tongues we are praying for the saints so I can confidently say to every brother or sister, I’m praying for you and have been praying for you!

Remember when you feel overlooked by God that, God has gone before you and behind you and if his spirit dwells with you than he is beside you and within you! How in the heck could we ever desire to have experienced jesus face to face like the disciples do when we literally have him inside of us personally every moment of the day!! Jesus said, it better for us that he goes away so the comforter can come to us! Dont be deceived into thinking they had something more than you do now because the truth is its them that wish they had what we have now because now we can experience Jesus in his fullest in all his glory and we can please him with our faith in what he accomplished for us on the cross!

Pray and ask that Lord to open your eyes to the good things. Job said he would have fainted had he not seen the good in his situation! And the word says, whatever is good, whatever is true, whatever is lovely think on these things! Don’t you dare be SIN focused!

“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Jesus was sin focused for us and he died for sin once so that we could LIVE.

The bible says as HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD! We are righteous! We are holy! We are a chosen generation! We must worship him in spirit and in truth in other words we must approach him from the identity of our new man by faith. The new man was created in righteousness! The old man is dead, we are a new creation now, we are the new man and we are who Jesus says we are and it takes great boldness and a mustard seed of faith to walk in the new man as we continue to put off the old man with the renewing of our mind!

If you have a “sin” problem it’s because you need to renew your mind in the word and it will set you free and if you are truly a child of GOD you will remain in his word. The bible says that Jeus died for sin so when you are born again all things re new the old is dead and gone and cannot be brought to life you’re a new creation the sin nature that you had that compelled you to sin is gone and now you are a slave to righteousness and you have a constant desire to live by faith because you now have GODS nature inside of you. A sinner cannot live by faith or please GOD or live in a perpetual desire to walk by faith.

If you are born again, you are one spirit with the Lord and you have borrowed his name and identity until you get to heaven and that’s how we are to approach the LORD. the bible says one who is born of GOD CANNOT sin because he has GOD’S seed in him you are no longer under the law of sin but the law of grace that’s why Jesus died!

Now, in the new man, we can walk in complete healing and peace and victory as we send the enemy packing when he lies to us and tells us anything at all that is set up above the words of GOD. You are not a sinner saved by grace. You WERE a sinner but now you are a brand new creation your old man is buried with Christ! Now you are the righteousness of GOD and the lord sees you as if you are perfect like Jesus!! I apologize for speaking so much of the word without specifically adding the exact verse its in im on a laptop and when I open another window to do that and come back it sends me back to the beginning of my writing and I have to use the arrow to get back to where i left off!

I encourage you to do your research and look these things up and see that this is true and this is for you. Thanks to my friends who stuck to the end with me! One last thing, remember that the lord personally painted your reality from blink to blink according to his foreknowledge of what you would choose for your life. Thats how involved he is in your life. He knows when you sit down and when you rise up. He is familiar with all your ways. His thoughts towards you are countless as all the sand on the seashore and they are all precious!

Don’t think you have to be perfect and without issues to receive the gift of tongues. I struggled with meth and other addictions including sex and pride for 9 years while still having and using this gift. The bible says in Romans 2 that those who judge are guilty of the very thing they are judging the other person for. If you judge me and don’t like this truth, this is perfect for you because it means you need it as much as I do. The bible says even our judgement of our own selves is not accurate. We are not judges by any means. Even Christ is not doing any judging yet. A man is appointed to live once, after that, judgement. You only get one chance to live to the fullest. I really encourage you if you don’t already have this blessing to reach out in humility and receive it! Love always, Jessica,