Is Speaking in Tongues a gift from God? Free PLR Article Speaking in Tongues as we see it today in Christian churches is a relatively new phenomenon dating back to the early 1900s. Why is this? And in fact is what we are seeing today the same same gift, why was it absent from the church for over 1800 years? Throughout the Bible it is seen that God gave His people gifts of the spirit to empower them to do what was required for a particular purpose at a particular time. It is easy to ...