Translation of Kenneth Copeland's "Tongues" Prayer for Pope Francis

On the February 24th episode of Fighting for the Faith, I reviewed Bishop Tony Palmer's message which was delivered at Kenneth Copeland's 2014 Leadership Conference. The purpose of Tony Palmer's message was to introduce a short video message to the Word of Faith heretical leaders who were assembled in Texas, which was recorded by the Roman Catholic pontiff himself, Pope Francis.

If you'd like to listen to the entirety of my review of Bishop Palmer's message as well as Pope Francis' message, which both of them, by the way, call for unity between the Roman Catholic Church and the Word of Faith heretical charismatics, I've posted the link below.

You can find it right there in the video's description. However, one of the things I failed to properly address in my review was the fact that Pope Francis requested prayers from the charismatic Word of Faith heretical leaders, and of course, they happily obliged.

Tongues Prayer and the Demand for Interpretation

But upon further review of their prayer, I realized that the prayer that was offered by Kenneth Copeland was not only rude, it was flat out unbiblical. Let me explain. Pope Francis doesn't speak English very well at all, and as a result of this fact, he had no real choice but to record his message to Kenneth Copeland and the Word of Faith heretics in Italian.

But Bishop Tony Palmer was gentlemanly enough to provide subtitles to Pope Francis' message calling for miraculous unity. Kenneth Copeland, on the other hand, was very rude to the Roman pontiff. How was Kenneth Copeland rude, you might ask?

Simple. He prayed for the Pope in tongues without providing a translation of what he was saying in his prayer. Which, by the way, the Bible strictly forbids this. In 1 Corinthians chapter 14, verses 27 -28, it says this,.

If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, and each in turn, and then let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

Yes, that's right. The Bible forbids somebody speaking in church in a tongue without an interpreter. Therefore, in order to rectify Kenneth Copeland's sinful and rude behavior, we here at Fighting for the Faith have assembled our crack team of tongues interpreters who have analyzed Copeland's prayer for Pope Francis.

And they've carefully taken a hard look at Copeland's manifestation of the gift of tongues and have been able to come up with a translation of sorts. Yes, what follows is the culmination of their hard work.

Kenneth Copeland's Prayer for Pope Francis, Subtitled

Here now is Kenneth Copeland's prayer for Pope Francis with the appropriate subtitles provided so that everyone can know what was said in Copeland's prayer.

Tony, thank you, sir. Come on, the man asked us to pray for him.

Oh, Father.

Father, we answer his request. And since we know not how to pray for him as we ought other than to agree with him in his quest and in his heart for the unity of the body of Christ. We come together in the unity of our faith, hallelujah.

So Father, we just, all of us now, according to scripture, when we know not how to pray for him as we ought, we pray for him in the spirit. We receive utterance in the Holy Ghost. We receive prayers of faith.

We receive, sir, we receive words that are not our own.